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The saddest part? 

Posted Monday 29th December 2008 23:21 GMT

IT Angle

Vista?

Link to price list 

Posted Tuesday 30th December 2008 08:03 GMT

Why link to files.shareholders.com for the price list ? It is on Intel's own website: http://www.intc.com/priceList.cfm

They used to put it somewhere under intel.com. I always used to google for "site:intel.com price list" to find it because it was just impossible to find it in their menus. But I found a couple months ago about this investor-oriented intc.com site...

Acer? 

Posted Tuesday 30th December 2008 19:06 GMT

Flame

Seriously Acer? WTF? Who cares about a shit company. I would rather have a Dell then an Acer seeing as 99% of what they put out is trash. Not to mention the blatent lies in the spec they released.

Idiots

Acer? 

Posted Tuesday 30th December 2008 19:34 GMT

Stop

Seriously Acer? WTF? Who cares about a shit company. I would rather have a Dell then an Acer seeing as 99% of what they put out is trash. Not to mention the blatent lies in the spec they released.

Idiots

er, why? 

Posted Wednesday 31st December 2008 14:35 GMT

Stop

great, looks good on paper..

..but what will the four cores be used for?

what apps can multi-thread?

is this laptop meant for movie directors on the go?

imo, POINTLESS. what even uses a dual core properly?

laptops need to use less power, not more processing power. they should be concentrating on the reduction in the consumption of electricity and extending battery lives.

silly 'top trumps' product development leads nowhere. "i've got better specs than you! :P'

for sure, maybe with W7 or even a W7M, or something beyond that the OS will multi-thread, but looking at M$'s record in producing good clean small OS's that work a treat, what's the chances of that happening?

must be bored..

cheers,

bill

p.s. stuff and nonsense: http://www.eupeople.net/forum

Bince 

Posted Friday 2nd January 2009 15:37 GMT

Joke

ACER sucks BIG-TIME! I see by the posts that I'm not the only one whom feels the same way about this either. Anyone think that MAYBE AMD will buy out Acer?

LOL!

Use the Cores! 

Posted Friday 2nd January 2009 22:12 GMT

Thumb Up

Most programs do not use the varying cores but what would be better is that if the several threads that make up each program were dedicated to different cores. Then the interference between differing programs would not occur; ie spam/virus/worm/spyware trackers could use a dedicated core, browser, email & messenger programs on another, multimedia on another, many of the OS stuff that isn't required for program interaction could be on the other.

This way streaming data wouldn't be interfered with, programs would run the way they are supposed to run, in an unbroken form & the utility programs that protect & operate the system would run efficiently.

This doesn't happen now & breaking programs into slices of cpu makes for a disintegrating OS. Stuff gets lost along the way. Just run a defrag & there's things not working properly afterwards. Slicing can be done but every now & then the slicing backs up too overflow & then things happen that you don't want to happen. Increase the cores, assign specific progs to set cores & these overflow problems should stop.

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