Re: Emulation Issues

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick DuVall wrote:
> I can't wait to get that dual quad core with 16gig and a mirrored terabyte on my desktop...  
Well, I haven't completely abandoned Wintel yet: I got a E3180 (a 1.8GHz 
dual-core Pentium) on a Gigabyte motherboard (pretty decent onboard 
graphics that easily supports 1920x1200), with 1GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM 
installed and a 120GB 10K Raptor SATA drive.  With XP installed it was 
about 700 bucks.  I added another 2GB of RAM for $40 and then 
overclocked the chip to 3GHz (and the memory up to 900MHz).  I have an 
absolutely screaming machine for under $750.

This machine is faster than anything I've ever used.  The only quibble 
(and trust me, it's a quibble) is that it  only has 1MB of L2 cache, and 
it doesn't play Call of Duty. But I can live with it.  It's under a 
second from the time I load WDSC to when it prompts for the workspace.  
I hit OK on that dialog and it's 3 seconds to workbench.  And that's 
with Thunderbird, about ten Firefox sessions, a Client Access session 
and an sshd session to my mail server.  AND (get this) RBD 7.1 beta.  
So, two full-blown Eclipse IDEs side-by-side, and the thing doesn't even 
breath hard.

Joe