the technology have improving lots since the first generation of desktop
what can we do with old stuff? rejects, recycle etc??????
anyway, I like it
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited February 2009
Having watched the fast march of computer technology, we would become accustomed to its high rate of advance, or so it would seem. 32nm, already? That merits one of my ever so articulate comments - WOW! Really now, it wasn't that long ago we were smuggly chugging away with our high-speed, 130nm Athlon Thunderbirds. What was the original Pentium, 180nm interconnects? It wasn't that long ago, was it?
what can we do with old stuff? rejects, recycle etc??????
You sell it when it's aging, but before it's considered "ancient." When it's ancient, the owner (fortunately not you) then tries to unload it on Craigslist for two or three times its real value, gives up, and gives it to a relative, who then in turn tries to unload it....
Eventually it becomes part of an earthen damn spanning *11 rivers in rural Butkrakostan. Some old items though, may have more specific uses. For example, the US Air Force is experimenting with dropping 21" CRT monitors out of C-130 aircraft. They've had some success demolishing stout mockups of concrete structures.
* Actually, there is only one river in Butkrakostan. It has 11 different names, owing to the 11 different tribes in that area all making claims to the banks of the river.
Interesting. Man that is a small CPU cooler on that thing. I have to give it to intel. They are really hammering them out. Also it's interesting they are moving away from triple channel and back to dual channel.
Thankfully, they didn't go the route of some really exotic memory like they did with Rambus on the I7's. Was that a disaster. I remember my stepfather wanting to buy some more rambus memory for his aging pc and I ended up building a completely faster system for him at nearly the same cost.
Thrax
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I like it.
what can we do with old stuff? rejects, recycle etc??????
anyway, I like it
You sell it when it's aging, but before it's considered "ancient." When it's ancient, the owner (fortunately not you) then tries to unload it on Craigslist for two or three times its real value, gives up, and gives it to a relative, who then in turn tries to unload it....
Eventually it becomes part of an earthen damn spanning *11 rivers in rural Butkrakostan. Some old items though, may have more specific uses. For example, the US Air Force is experimenting with dropping 21" CRT monitors out of C-130 aircraft. They've had some success demolishing stout mockups of concrete structures.
* Actually, there is only one river in Butkrakostan. It has 11 different names, owing to the 11 different tribes in that area all making claims to the banks of the river.
Random fact: When RDRAM was first available in retail, it was more expensive than crack cocaine ounce for ounce.
I personally wouldn't want to inject either into my computer. :P
32nm sounds very exciting and I can't wait to see what kind of new advances this will encourage. Thanks for sharing!