Re: Emulation Issues

Hello Joe,

Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 8:09:07 PM, you wrote:

Rick DuVall wrote:

I can't wait to get that dual quad core with 16gig and a mirrored terabyte on my
desktop...

Well, I haven't completely abandoned Wintel yet: I got a E3180 (a 1.8GHz
dual-core Pentium) on a Gigabyte motherboard (pretty decent onboard
graphics that easily supports 1920x1200), with 1GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM
installed and a 120GB 10K Raptor SATA drive. With XP installed it was
about 700 bucks. I added another 2GB of RAM for $40 and then
overclocked the chip to 3GHz (and the memory up to 900MHz). I have an
absolutely screaming machine for under $750.

This machine is faster than anything I've ever used. The only quibble
(and trust me, it's a quibble) is that it only has 1MB of L2 cache, and
it doesn't play Call of Duty. But I can live with it. It's under a
second from the time I load WDSC to when it prompts for the workspace.
I hit OK on that dialog and it's 3 seconds to workbench. And that's
with Thunderbird, about ten Firefox sessions, a Client Access session
and an sshd session to my mail server. AND (get this) RBD 7.1 beta.
So, two full-blown Eclipse IDEs side-by-side, and the thing doesn't even
breath hard.

Joe

It is really a blast to Not have to wait! I've often said that I spend
half my life waiting on a machine... It's nice to have one that waits
on me for a change. ;-) I still haven't gotten to use it much - it's
sitting on my credenza till I get the unbelievably immense number of
programs installed and setup that I use. !Dang! where did all those
programs come from and do I really use the ALL??? <sheesh>

Oh well, it is probably going to last me a long time before I have to
do it again. And, maybe on this new box xp will be stable enough that
I won't have to reload it every other year...

It's really a lot like moving - you always wonder 'where did all this
stuff come from?' But it's obvious that you can't do without any of
it... ;-)