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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Jayayess1190, May 24, 2011.

  1. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Jayayess1190, May 24, 2011
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  2. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    a noob being POed that his old laptop crashed and he has to buy a new one...
     
    whitrzac, May 24, 2011
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    DavyGT Overclocker

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    Wow. It's a piece of literary diarrhea. Half of it doesn't address the topic (speculating on Windows 8) and the other half is not true ("Your RAM for your XP" ?, non-4k drives are still available). His reasoning is inadequate (why should I get DDR3 RAM? Because it's 2 generations ahead? What are the benefits?) and he shows he doesn't know his stuff (judging an incomplete and unreleased OS).

    Just a wannabe.
     
    DavyGT, May 25, 2011
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  4. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    haha 128bit is fun. lets one easily filter out people who have no clue. (and yes there are rumours about microsoft working on a 128bit version. rumours always exist).

    fact is, with 64bit, there was not a doubling of something (2x32bit), there was a squaring of something (4gb x 4gb = 16 billion gb).

    and till we get systems to need 4 billion times the ram they more or less need now (~4gb), that'll take some time.

    but with one thing he's right: get rid of xp. (was he pro or contra that, actually? i couldn't decipher from all the crap he posted :))
     
    davepermen, May 25, 2011
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  5. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Yeah 128-bit? What? Ribbon taskbar? Whatever. If MS botches Windows 8 it'll be Vista all over again.

    But yeah, time for XP to go.
     
    HTWingNut, May 25, 2011
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