should this make me worry?

"Sandy Bridge is the Biggest Disappointment of the Year"
SemiAccurate :: Sandy Bridge is the biggest disapointment of the year


I don't use linux, should I even care?

 

Wah wah wah. Somebody call this author a wahbulence. Another BS article about some non-name author trying to get noticed.

 

"Sandy Bridge is the Biggest Disappointment of the Year"

the year is only 74hours old (in my paart of the world) so it probably is...

 

Many question Semi-Accurate as a reliable news/information/opinion source.

I however, do feel they have some backing for some of the things they say. Let's be honest, Sandy Bridge is not like Nehalem was to Core 2. It's a smaller (in my opinion) update to Intel's computing products.

Is Sandy Bridge a disappointment? In my opinion no, no one expected it to be a true successor to Nehalem so calling it disappointing is a bit dumb considering no one really expected it to be all that great compared to Nehalem in the first place.

So no, it shouldn't make you worry, Sandy Bridge brings good performance, lower power usage and less heat output and a few new things for good measure. But it's definitely not the significant jump that was Nehalem in terms of personal computing power.

 

Let's actually read the article, shall we?

SemiAccurate= butt clowns.

 

Although, you must admit that SemiAccurate was pretty much on point with regards to Nvidia's "Fermi" from the get go.

 

haha lovely. i don't care much about linux, but those do more harm than good for the very nice community.

really really stupid article

interestingly, sandybridge performs very badly with all drivers removed from windows, too.. omg! the shock, the horror!

 

they gave him source code for the drivers ... that's about as close to "immanent support forthcoming" as it gets in the linux world .. he had a good chance of just doing a "cd foo && make && sudo make install", reboot, and being up with the drivers.

But to get the install working, he would have to replace those drivers in the install image, and that's a pain luckily for him, it's not his pain, it's the distro volunteers. Charlie's very new to linux that's all.

 

what he described is a typical issue of any new thing in linux. linux excel at old hardware but new one is always a pain as the drivers will always lag. This has been the case since day 1 of linux.

It is the same like trying to install XP on today's hardware.

 

that author is also known for writing articles against windows/nvidia, and now intel

 

Hey, we have a thread about that article!

http://forum.notebookreview.com/lin...est-disapointment-year-linux.html#post7019299

Does that sum it up?

 

i can't even install linux on my laptop properly and that's a core2 model that's been out since 2008

let alone instaling it on SB

 

Even Nehalem is enough for me, but I just said to myself why not wait Sandy Bridge. Also I heard that Sandy Bridge platform will accept Ivy Bridge.

Actually my question isn't specifically about Linux. But, yes, the answer seems to be that it only should worry those who want Linux.


Thanks for responds.

 

Most unusual. What are the particulars of your situation?

 

Well, you would have gotten that just from reading the article. Don't let vague headlines fool you.

 

Actually, it shouldn't even worry people who want Linux unless they're completely new to it -- the article is just plain silly. I've worked with Linux for a while and when new hardware comes out, you always need to either wait a bit or get the latest and greatest distribution and take your chances. What Charlie did was idiotic: he took an old distribution and tried to run it on new hardware. It's surprising that it works at all.

Sandy Bridge will work with Linux -- there are too many major clients (scientific labs, the Russian government, etc.) for Intel to ignore it -- but you'll need to get the latest distribution for it.