[geeks] Itanium 32 bit performace.... hahahaha

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:31:14AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > Either XP is a lot, lot, lot more bloated than I gave it credit
> > for, or there's only an incrementfl increase in speed between my
> > Athlon (almost three years old) and a Pentium 4 system built this
> > year.  Either way, you'd think customers would be -screaming- for
> > change, rather than whining that their favorite games will run
> > slower on the next crop of Itaniums.
> 
> I don't notice a difference between a P3-733 desktop system and a P4
> 2.8Ghz laptop.

First off, the PIII is a nice chip, esp. at 1 GHz (my laptop speed) - I
prefer a PIII to a P4 laptop, but preferences vary (esp. on this
list!)...

Second, XP *is* bloated - it does everything all the time, lots of
little things running in the background...

Finally, while processor speed has shot up to 3.x GHz, the supporting
hardware (disk, network, etc.) are evolving at a slower pace... 


=====
Lionel

"I am not into examining other peoples' dumps..." - Sheldon T. Hall

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