From: Gary Britt 

When the 80 core CPU laptops sell for $1,000 I'll take it back.  For the
next few years however (which is what I'm much more concerned with) Vista
sucks the performance out of machines, moves further to lock one into a
windows only world and Vista has put me over the top that this is not where
I ever want to go (a windows only world).  Vista's sucking performance and
4 times non-monopoly pricing and ridiculous layers of "choices"
solely designed to help obscure their monopoly pricing, imho is enough.

I tired of being forced to relearn operating systems that cost too much,
suck the performance out of current hardware, and offer little to nothing
at all in features that make my use of a computer easier or more reliable.

Finally, by the time an 80 core cpu laptop selling for $1,000 is available,
Microsoft will be selling "Vista - Up Yours With A Red Hot Poker"
and it will make those 80 cores run like a 486 with a couple megs of ram. 
When that happens it won't have any effect on me because I'll be running
Linux, Win2K/XP.

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> news:45d142f4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Its not just a matter of using DRM content or not with Vista because
>> Vista wastes a lot of CPU power making sure the DRM is not messed
>> with.  Things like Vista requiring a video card without a GPU and that
>> video processing that used to be done by the GPU on the video card is
>> now done by the CPU. These kind of downgrades affect the total system
>> performance for everything from powerpoint to non DRM'd content to
>> whatever.  It affects the whole system and that's what can't be refused.
>
> Name one version of windows that wasn't a pig when it was released?
>
>> If Vista didn't suck the performance down of the whole machine and
>> didn't require poor performing hardware and drivers then it would be
>> just a matter of DRM take it or leave it, and I wouldn't mind that.
>> Its the degradation of hardware performance that's the issue.  Having
>> the CPU do video processing instead of offloading to a GPU is what...
>> going backwards 20 years?
>
> Intel is about to show an 80 core Teraflop cpu. Your argument is like
> those guys who told me NT would never be a desktop OS because it
> required 16mb of ram, 16mb, today my cel phone has 1024mb..
>
> Geo.

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