Oh, now see, there's your problem. It's not that the puny couple of megabits per second is any burden on even an old clunker, it's that all of a sudden you'll be downloading huge multimedia files. If you get cable broadband your cable company's going to try to force video down your throat by the gigabyte. And then you'll find out that a 3GHz Pentium with two gigs of RAM still drops frames and gets the jerkies and the stutters. And trust me, 160 gigabytes of disk space is just not enough once you start using your computer as a high-end TV set. That's just 40 hours of video, bunkie. It goes by like that! [snaps fingers]
Robert's Law of Computing Power: The appetite for it will always grow just faster than its realization. Forever and ever, amen.
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"Now, if I could just get Broadband."
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- Need a new CAD computer. Big question: 32 or 64 bit?
- AMD all the way
- just make sure it's not a 2-bit dud
- An ode for the era of pencil and paper.
- Technology isn't the problem
- Yes, by all means, let us return to using quills.
- re: the era of pencil and paper. You can have it.
- Problem solved....
- Just saw this on /.
- CAD
- Tyan Thunder K8WE motherboard with a couple of Opteron dual-core 285s?
- When the time comes...
- Just for kicks...
- Wait just a little bit longer.....
- 64 bit~!