Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 18:40:48 11/30/99
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On November 30, 1999 at 20:27:50, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On November 30, 1999 at 19:37:15, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>On November 30, 1999 at 18:37:10, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>On November 30, 1999 at 17:18:16, Peter Kappler wrote: >>> >>>>On November 30, 1999 at 16:39:23, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>>> >>>>>On November 30, 1999 at 13:35:04, Peter Kappler wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On November 30, 1999 at 12:57:21, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On November 30, 1999 at 01:48:49, Peter Kappler wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On November 30, 1999 at 00:00:17, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>On November 29, 1999 at 23:08:30, Dennis A. Bourgerie wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>I am thinking about buying a notebook computer. There are different kinds of >>>>>>>>>>processors on the market, for example, Celeron, K6-2, K6-3, Pentium, Pentium II, >>>>>>>>>>Pentium III. I would like to get a notebook that can efficiently run Rebel 10 >>>>>>>>>>or Fritz or other chess programs. >>>>>>>>>> My question is: If the processors were to be ranked from best to worst how >>>>>>>>>>would the list go? Also what other factors (maybe RAM or secondary cache) are >>>>>>>>>>the most important for getting good results from a chess program? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>Dennis, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>Wait till Jan 19, 2000 when the Crusoe processor from Transmeta is released. >>>>>>>>>You will be able to run both Mac and PC applications on the same machine. In >>>>>>>>>addition, the speed will be much improved. For further info see their site at >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>http://www.transmeta.com >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>Tim Frohlick >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>This seems like dubious advice. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>How can this be dubious advice? He is advising to "Wait till Jan 19, 2000", not >>>>>>>necessarily to buy it. >>>>>> >>>>>>It's dubious advice because Crusoe won't be available on Jan 19, or even >>>>>>anywhere close to that date. >>>>>> >>>>>>--Peter >>>>> >>>>>What is this? You clipped off from my message an important reason why waiting >>>>>until January is a good idea without indicating having done so. It makes a >>>>>significant difference here. Nice move. >>>> >>>> >>>>Why are you being so defensive? I clipped it because it was irrelevant to my >>>>point, i.e. that Tim's advice to Dennis was dubious. >>>> >>>>Maybe you should go back and read my original response to Tim's post. Tim told >>>>Dennis not to buy a system before Jan 19, since that is the date Crusoe will be >>>>"released". The fact is that Jan 19 is the day Crusoe is being *announced*. >>>>We're still a *long* way from seeing this technology in consumer systems. >>>> >>>>Dennis will be disappointed if he takes Tim's advice and waits till Jan 19 >>>>*just* so he can get a Crusoe-based system. >>>> >>>>You posted a different reason why it might make sense to wait until January or >>>>February, which is fine, but it has nothing to do with my original point. Hope >>>>that's clear... >>>> >>>>--Peter >>> >>>The point is: waiting until January is good advice irrespective of the existence >>>of crusoe, so how can waiting be dubious? >> >> >>We never established that waiting until January is good advice irrespective of >>Crusoe. Maybe price isn't an issue for him and he won't want to wait 2 more >>months to save an extra 5-10%. Maybe today's systems offer everything he needs, >>and waiting for new product announcements in January isn't appealing to him. >>Who knows? Nobody asked him. > >OK, I'll concede all the above. How does that make his advice, to wait, >dubious? Just because he confused the announcement date with the release date >does not make the advice dubious. Ricardo, I think you are unnecessarily splitting hairs at this point. I never took issue with the technology, just the date. > It only makes the reason to wait dubious. >Concluding the advice to be dubious, because the reason he gave was not correct, >is a non sequitur. > Little hair fibers all over the floor... :-) >> >>The *only* point I have been trying (repeatedly) to make is that he should not >>wait until January *just* to try to get a Crusoe system, because they won't be >>shipping anytime remotely close to that time frame. > >This is the first time you make that point. Before your point was the advice was >dubious. > As I said above, I think it's obvious that I was taking issue with the date and not the technology. --Peter
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