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Summary and some issues+questions
Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier In Response To: Summary and some issues+questions (Chuck Bower)
Date: Tuesday, 30 September 2008, at 9:30 p.m.
A general rule of thumb is that if you're willing to wait about 6 months you are ALWAYS going to get a faster computer for the current cost. And that will be true when the Nehalem is released, just as it seems to be the case today. IMO this won't be a quantum leap in computing power, just another 10-20% incremental improvement (and that may depend upon what application one wants to run).
True enough, but it's not often that a new socket gets released. The current Intel socket has been around since 2000. I'm not sure how it will affect GNU. I don't think floating point and integer ops seem to get much of a boost from Nehalem (10%-20% or less), but multithreaded apps are showing as much as a 30-50% increase, according to the previews. Snowie rollouts will likely run at about the same speed on Core 2s, maybe slightly faster. So I don't think Perry will get much out of Nehalem. GNU might or might not; I would think it would show a significant increase if you ran multithreaded rollouts.
One thing I'm unsure of (although maybe dc-ohio has allayed some fears) is depending upon Vista. Unlike 2000 and XP, Vista has not been well received, and it's been over a year now (I think) since it was first released.
Well, my experience is that Vista 32 is perfectly fine, I just don't like Vista 64. 64-bit doesn't really get you much anyway unless you have more than 4GB of RAM--and having more than 4GB of RAM is excessive for most anyway.
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