Re: Emulation Issues

[Rick DuVall <R_C_DUVALL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Joe,

Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 8:09:07 PM, you wrote:

> 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

It is really a blast to Not have to wait! I've often said that I spend
half my life waiting on a machine...  It's nice to have one that waits
on me for a change. ;-)  I still haven't gotten to use it much - it's
sitting on my credenza till I get the unbelievably immense number of
programs installed and setup that I use. !Dang! where did all those
programs come from and do I really use the ALL??? <sheesh>

Oh well, it is probably going to last me a long time before I have to
do it again.  And, maybe on this new box xp will be stable enough that
I won't have to reload it every other year...

It's really a lot like moving - you always wonder 'where did all this
stuff come from?'  But it's obvious that you can't do without any of
it... ;-)