

Army will upgrade all its computers to Vista by December









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RE: Missing the point
By DeGhost on 5/24/2009 4:33:21 AM , Rating: 3
“Considering that fact and the fact that the average home user could get away with a minimalistic OS that uses under 4 gb of RAM (because email, twitter, etc doesn't consume gigabytes of RAM...), the expansion to 64-bit is a lot less important than some techies (most of whom don't know what they are talking about) would like you to believe.”

By your usage the “average” home user could use 512 ram and a 800mhz p3 with 20 gig of space on hard disk. That might be you?

“SSD (omg those expensive things... yes) support would be far more important to the average user than 64-bit support. The 450$ SSD in my computer has improved boot time more than any other device I own. (my computer is getting towards needing an update... but being a college student working a university [low paying] job, I have to pick and choose...)”

From all the benchmarks and uses for ssd I read over the year. Ssd doesn’t seem to be that great to boot with, its real strength is nonexistent search time for out of order data like a database. It might be better to raid your drives for faster boot. And for budgeting “student”. I don’t see why you need a ssd, raid solution is way cheaper and have comparable speed

“How many true 64-bit processors are on the market now? Lots right? Wrong. Itanium is the ONLY true 64-bit processor. The rest are 80x86-64 processors (or "extended 32-bit" processors). Just as an aside, AMD claims to own that instruction set... I wonder how that will play out in court when/if intel tries to claim AMD is breaking the rules with the x86 instruction set... That's really way beyond the point..”

This makes no sense to me. Actually, x86 is owned by intel and amd made the extended instruction set for 64bit which was so widely popular becuase of backward compatibility that intel adopted. Pulling from my head(might be wrong) all current mainstream processors, except the atom have amd’s x64 instruction set.


That again made no sense to me. What are you playing back with that requires ssd(which you seem to think is the end all solution),if your doing raw video editing raid would work better because of thruput vs price(you can probably raid 10 drives for the price of a ssd). And dx11 in this scenario made no sense. Direct x is an api for computer generated graphics. And video processing I would think means encoding, which is more cpu bound then anything else.

“I've always been slow to adopt OSs because most of them are buggy from day 1 (XP hasn't crashed on me in over 1.5 years... no viruses or headaches either). I will probably upgrade to Vista soon (or just wait 3 more years for Win 7 SP2).”
Personal preferences, do whatever you want.

“There is no need for the average consumer to use Vista or any other OS except MS wants to sell copies of it's OS to them so they force you to buy it for things like DX10 (which isn't even required yet...)”
Not true, vista is actually a lot more user friendly then xp. Your “average” consumer is computer illiterate, they just want something that works, since they are average I don’t think they will install a new thing every week, and a popup that ask are you sure is not that annoying to them. Vista is way more secure then xp when you click every link that pops up. And no one is forcing you to buy dx10, just like no one is making you use a computer. But dx 10 is an evolutionary upgrade.
“Eh, that's probably a lot of useless information.”

Well yes it was because all it seems to be is a rant on Microsoft and getting everyone to buy a ssd.

RE: Missing the point


Other than that, yeah, this guy is seriously misinformed.

