Re: Emulation Issues -- PCTECH

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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

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