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  1. $1000 for a computer that runs a 1.8GHz AMD dual core? ...................... I've got an $400 mATX PC that costed $400 using a sandybridge i3. One physical core from that thing has more processing power that entire unit, never mind hyper threads and the other core.
  2. .................. AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAA!! And now we see just how much thought actually went into this law:
  3. ....and people wonder why I find New York distasteful.
  4. ...Again with the post PC era stuff?
  5. A pity that Enterprise is is being retired now. Although apparently CVN-80's been confirmed to be her successor as the next Enterprise.
  6. I've worked with ESXI now and then (and the full blown vSphere briefly). Installation is pretty easy. BUT and this is really important: You need another computer handy with the vsphere client installed on it in order to configure and manage the ESXI server, AFAIK you can't configure the machine locally, it has to be completely remote managed. Other notes: VMware lets you install ESXI into a VM with fairly respectable performance. This allows you to mess around with a esxi server without blowing things up first. Might also help to get your dhcp server and reserve a known address for the box you're going to install to; by default esxi pulls a dhcp address and I don't know how to set a static address at this point. And there is a way of virtualizing physical machines to VM's but I haven't played with it too much. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html Sorry can't be more help. I like vmware a lot but my company forces us to use virtualbox a lot (which is really really sad... when you run more then one vbox at the same time the whole system starts to choke.... gotten to the point where I just bought workstation on my own and just use it whenever the bosses aren't looking).
  7. That's cause they cheated a bit with the boot times. Initial boot's only marginally faster then your typical windows 7 install but microsoft decided to be a bit clever and then store some of the system state into the hiber.sys file when you shut down, not much different then using the hibernation state of windows 7. So it's not so much booting 'faster', you've just never really shut off your computer, rather you've just hibernated it. To be fair, it's quite a clever way of accelerating boot times. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx
  8. We use DLink 4 ports at my current workplace. Other then being ugly no real complaints.
  9. I'm tempted to go for the dev preview, I can think of many useful productivity applications as well as entertainment. But with the number of people pledging for the SDK and hardware, will they really be okay? There's over 3000 pledgers for hardware, I don't know if they have the infrastructure or time to be able to put all those things together. :S Might be shooting themselves in the foot there.
  10. I've come up with an even worse use; making and throwing away VM's at a ridiculous rate. The fact that you more or less don't have to worry about write performance anymore on a ram disk means more or less I'm building VMs from scratch in half the time it used to take, even just copying them. I think in the time I've had this I've made and discarded hundreds of linux and bsd vms, including one or two build VM's that are copied from HD to RD... sda ....at the rate I'm going 24gb really ISN'T going to be enough. :s I've already begun pricing out a 128gb xeon system to house all this shit... it's no longer a question on why I would ever use 128gb, it's become a question, how the hell am I going to be able to afford it (needing a redundant PSU, UPS, dual processor system that takes FBRDIMMs...) . I recommend no one ever go ram disks.... They make SSDs look cheap and are ever MORE addicting.
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    ...which confirms what I was saying. There is no 10 core desktop model, The Vishara FX 8350 is an 8 core model. Edit: the 10 core desktop model you're thinking of was Komodo which they announced in CES 2011 and then subsequently canceled in favor for Vishera. There was some speculation that the silicon yields would've been too low on 10 cores to make the venture profitable and in the end still can't compete with intel in the high end enthusiast segment. IIRC AMD is now focusing more on energy efficient processors to compete more in mobile computing rather then keep loosing money in the enthusiest market. In fact AMD just announced a fairly large license agreement with ARM.
  12. warzer0

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    Sorry to burst your bubble but AMD canceled Komodo last year along with Seprang and Terramar. The current Vishera roadmap points to 8 cores maximum for desktops. Only the Abu Dahbi in the G34 socket will have more then 10.
  13. Looks like I might be right here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-extends-windows-7-vista-support-10-years Windows 7 and vista will have a 10 year support cycle even though windows 8 is around the corner.
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