I've been reading reviews on newegg and amazon. The price is still a bit of a concern - it sounds like when they get to around a Gb/dollar, sales will improve. The overall size of the thing apparently affects the overall read/write speed. I don't see why this would be. There were lots of buggy controller chips, the garbage collection of unused file fragments - requiring TRIM, and the change from SATA II to SATA III. I'd love to get rid of all the hard drives in my world because they do predictably fail after some time. There are hybrids that have a smallish SSD in the same case as the mechanical hard drive. Tom's hardware has been running ads for the company putting that out. I'm getting a little concerned that Tom's is selling his address book to companies. I digress. I'd like to try one. But, I'll wait until they get popular enough to make it worthwhile. I boot the computer as I heat the coffee water. I can still wait out the minute or so.
Yeah, I think it seems a bit weird too, it "feels" like Win7 should be given some more time before a new version comes out, but whatever.
Vista and 7 were kind of evolutionary... not too much different really from XP when you get down to it. Yeah 7 is faster, looks nicer, works better, is more stable, etc., but fundamentally XP/Vista/7 is pretty much the same.
That being said 8 coming out soon would make more sense if it had some more revolutionary changes, which it SOUNDS like it might have, but we'll see.
What you have now is crap.. The AMD Llano series you talked about above would be fine for everything but intense gaming. The thing that makes systems using then so cheap is the lack of a video card. The APU included with the A8-3800 is great. As far as the A6-3600 being faster, it may be a typo. It's the A6-3650 which is faster, because it's clocked higher. The graphics of the 3800 are faster than either of the A6's.
The Intel name alone makes the prices higher than AMD systems. What surprises me is that the Apple name equals higher prices than PC systems, even now with Apple using Intel processors. I don't see why these mooks are paying nearly twice as much just to get iCrap
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I digress.
I'd like to try one. But, I'll wait until they get popular enough to make it worthwhile. I boot the computer as I heat the coffee water. I can still wait out the minute or so.
Vista and 7 were kind of evolutionary... not too much different really from XP when you get down to it. Yeah 7 is faster, looks nicer, works better, is more stable, etc., but fundamentally XP/Vista/7 is pretty much the same.
That being said 8 coming out soon would make more sense if it had some more revolutionary changes, which it SOUNDS like it might have, but we'll see.
Apple makes really nice looking hardware though. For example, the Mac Mini -- that thing is sexy and really cool. As are their aluminum keyboards.