MS Vista Who Cares?

[Jim]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Torn, it isn't 64 bit dual processors... the recommended business setup is a P4 HT (hyper thread) processor, which is much more than a year old already... and that is the recommended level. That means that there will likely be reasonable performance down to P4 2.4 or so.

http://www.intel.com/business/bss/pr...ns/desktop.htm

it isn't much different from when we went from Windows 3.1 / 3.11 to XP. The cutoff at that point was about 400mhz, which at the time put a ton of PCs into the junk pile.

Alex

I remember buying my first Pentium and wanted to be ready for Windows 98 so I paid an extra $1200 for 24 more megs of ram That was the processor that had the math problems. Intel first said they would only replace the bad processor if it was needed in your work. Since I was in Construction Engineering at the time, I qualified. I still had to give intel a $600 deposit for the new chip. Later, intel said they would replace all bad processors. I think that was back in 1994 or 1995.

I was just looking at some new PCs and I just can't believe how cheap they are. I paid over $5k for that first Pentium. Take a look at what $5k will buy you today

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by Jim

I remember buying my first Pentium and wanted to be ready for Windows 98 so I paid an extra $1200 for 24 more megs of ram That was the processor that had the math problems. Intel first said they would only replace the bad processor if it was needed in your work. Since I was in Construction Engineering at the time, I qualified. I still had to give intel a $600 deposit for the new chip. Later, intel said they would replace all bad processors. I think that was back in 1994 or 1995.

I was just looking at some new PCs and I just can't believe how cheap they are. I paid over $5k for that first Pentium. Take a look at what $5k will buy you today

For the first decade of PCs all usable systems cost $5k. Kaypro 10 cost about $5K. IBM XT was about $5k. IBM AT was about $5k. Every 2 years that $5k purchased twice or even more performance then it did before so it was needed. PCs didn't become home friendly until they went below $2k and once that happened, well now we all have them.

[emmanuelle]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

Every 2 years that $5k purchased twice or even more performance then it did before so it was needed.

Moore's Law

Originally Posted by SirMoby

PCs didn't become home friendly until they went below $2k and once that happened, well now we all have them.

Like most things, computer hardware is priced by what the market will bear, not a % based on costs.