On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:16, duncan brown wrote: > Matthew Miller said: > > Yeah, sure would suck to have software designed to take capabilities of > > what sounds like a pretty average machine three years from now. Oh, the > > humanity. > > listen, buddy, on what side of the linux fanboy line do you live? > > someone find a strong branch and a rope, we're going to have a lynchin'! > > and computers that are around now are overpowered, people don't need more > than 3ghz, hell, most people don't need more than 700mhz (given enough > ram). the new direction in chip fabrication needs to be slower, more > efficient, smaller and less power hungry. Depends on what you mean by "need". Some people say they don't "need" a computer full stop. They don't "need" to check their email, view web pages or any of that stuff. However, you feel you "need" nothing more then a 700mhz machine to do the things you listed. How about we replace "need" with "want"? In which case I DO "want" to be able to play the latest greatest games at higher resolutions (I was playing quake 2 at above average resolution for many years). I like having all the graphics switched on, I like the fact that on my 21" monitor I can play at a resolution above 640*480. I "need" the latest greatest machines to be able to do what I "want" to do. Which is play those games. However I don't "need" that specced machine to run linux to do the browsing etc. Just because you don't want/need some thing, please don't assume that every one else is clueless, we may just have different desires. Doug
