Re: [ST] OT: geek Q - amd numbers

["Rod Brown" <rodneybrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Oh, just to learn more about it so I can be a bit more effective at
> shopping for cpu's to upgrade some machines at home with.  Why pay big
> bucks to be on the bleeding edge of tech when for less than a bill you can
> have a cpu that's darn near enough to the cutting edge.

Bill,
Better watch out, your making noises like you have common sense.  If you do
primarily word processing, moderate size spread sheets, or mainly web
searches, I could make a good case for a 486 being good enough for
government work, if it weren't for Windows and modern code being so
inefficient.  That chase for the bleeding edge is rough on the pocket book
and in my opinion the perfect demonstration of the "Law of Deminishing
Returns."
Rod


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