The Nonsense Network - Nonsense about Computing Technology

Not so long ago it was very easy to know which processor was the fastest one, the one that had the bigger number for its name, a 386 was faster than a 286 and a 486 beat them all. But what happens now? There's the Pentium Centrino, the Pentium 3 Xeon, the Pentium Itanium 2, the Intel Core 2 DUO, the AMD Turion 64, the AMD Athlon 64, the AMD Sempron, The Pentium Centrino Core 2 Duo. Why are there so many processors you might ask? Each of them is made for a different task and different markets.

Computers now a days are used for many different things and each different application has very specific needs, very specific processor needs. The Xeon technology is made to be able to handle repetitive tasks at amazing speeds so its used on Servers, that one competes with AMD Operton, but both of them would be kind of useless in a PC since there is hardly anything one single person can do that would fill those processors up. But to get to those processors you need to go through the other ones first. You think the BRAND NEW Intel Core 2 Duo is amazing, check out the Xeon specs, it laughs at any Core 2 since this one has 4 CORES! Hell chances are Core 2 and the Core 2 Duo where invented about 5 years ago and I wouldn't even be surprised that they are both pretty much the same darn thing. Do you think Intel would have upgraded their Core 2 processors to Core 2 Duo in less than a year? It barely got any money out of the Core 2 processors, hell they probably not that far away from the normal centrino processors. Word has it that the only reason they released something with a 2 in the name was cause their 64bit Pentium 4 went through the market practically unheard of.

Intel has lots of years of research, they had the 64bit processors before AMD the difference was AMD released it first while Intel sold them only for high performance mostly scientific needs party because they where lazy to try and make a backward compatible 64 bit processor so they had the actual processor before any commercial 64bit operating system was out there. But what now? Intel is vomiting out new processors, I even heard from an insider that the company isn't hiring anymore. That portraits lack of growth. They have a bunch of hidden aces and they are not even waiting to get the most out of them. The best example is my computer, I bought my computer about a year and a half ago and it was brand new with the latest processor out there pretty fast and everything, a year later IM TWO PROCESSORS BEHIND, I have a centrino, later came the dual core then the core 2 duo, and I skipped some irrelevant updates such as centrino dual core and the like. Pentium 4 lasted at least 3 or 4 years out as the newest processor out there.

I have the theory that they are shooting blanks. My computer is still fast enough for all the applications I run and I have my operating system optimized for speed so there is no problem there either, I bet my computer runs at pretty much the same speed as any brand new computer with WINDOSE VISTA installed. Just think of this, isn't it strange that whenever Pentium changed the number of the name they simply increased the MHZ of the processors? Pentium 3 processors where produced until they got to 850 or even 1000MHZ while Pentium 4 processors STARTED at precisely 1GHZ and above. So what is the main difference between them? The pentium 4 has more hertz than the pentium 3, other than that I bet they included a bunch of stuff nobody really uses or knows about anyways.

So I bet that different applications actually need fast processing like servers and the like, but those are not the guys you get the most money from, the more expensive the components the less people buy from you, the shittiest and cheaper your components are the more money your going to win because you get to sell to the masses. Lets see Ford for example, while the Germans and Italians where making aluminum cars since the 1920s Ford went for the cheap and bulky hardened steel making shittier but cheaper cars, Ford made a lot of money, while most car companies in Europe ended up selling to somebody else. Now the Japanese figured out a way to make cars just as cheap as ford's but not that shitty wow now ford along with the rest of the car companies in the US are going out of business cause they can only make shitty cheap cars. Its the same thing with processors, Intel was making great processors but AMD was cheaper quality is always the second priority so what is Intel doing now, lowering its prices like crazy and trying to push technology to a point where AMD cannot reach but its taking everyone along with it. My computer devalued what a computer would usually devalue in 5 years except it happened in a year and a half, worst of all I payed the same amount of money for a computer with the processor that came afterwards except I bought it two months before or so. I don't really care cause I'm the type of guy that actually keeps a computer for a long while(I still have my old Pentium MMX computer set up as a router) but what about the rest of the world.

In fact people still see the processor as the main part of the computer so they tend to buy the best they can find but they don't realize that now a days processors are so fast that they have become rather irrelevant. Pentium 4 processors can do the stuff most people do with their computers. Now that processors are so fast people should focus on other details, like RAM memory or video memory but they don't. They still think everything is running on the processor, maybe one of the main reasons my computer runs as fast as many new computers is because Ive set up my operating system to use the most it can from the video memory since I have a pretty cool Nvidia graphic card with 256mb memory while most new computers are being shipped with 64mb shitty graphic card that don't do much. But even so, I use my computer more than many other people would usually use theirs so I'm not an example to follow, most people out there are perfectly fine with a pentium 4 computer. But then software comes in.

Microsoft is constantly updating its software so that you need a new computer, people would actually rate the age of the computer depending on the software it has because as far as windows goes, they reach a certain point where they cannot be installed to older computer, for instance windows xp needs at least 128mb of ram to run while vista needs at least 512mb(and that's without the eyecandy). But as I said before, most people only use their computers for a word processor, a browser for the internet and an IM program to chat, well here's the big news YOU DONT NEED AN INTEL CORE 2 DUO WITH WINDOSE VISTA TO DO THAT. You can do that with a pentium 3 computer. So whats the big problem with having a pentium 3 computer now? Microsoft is not updating the old versions of windows so installing windows 2000 would mean giving up support for many new technologies like wireless LAN and bluetooth, sure they work but they barely work. Hell even windose XP has a lot of problems with wireless LAN, that's the only main advantage vista has, that they actually got out there and used a wireless LAN software that worked as it should, even if it took them 5 years to do that. So people are being forced to update their computers because of windows.

Now what happens if I install linux? I can set it up just the way I like it to work with the newest technologies and be lightweight so that it can actually work with the old computers. But most of you are not going to do that so your stuck with windose and even though many are whining about vista being an expensive piece of crap your going to have to change in less than a year or two cause wimax is going to come out soon and there is not going to be any support for windows xp and since wimax is going to replace wireless LAN cause its cheaper and faster your going to have to change to vista unless you don't want wireless internet anymore and therefore your going to need a new computer to be able to run vista properly. That's the sad marketing computer world.

By the end of the day Intel is making a lot of money selling processors they invented 10 years ago to you, so that they can keep doing a great job with their state of the art processors for servers and scientific applications that most people don't eve know they exist cause they are expensive and nobody sells them so people who actually need them order them directly.

My surprise is that even though we live in a world where quality is the second priority and price is the first, where companies like mabe who focus on making great quality appliances go bankrupt and are bought by companies like whirlpool who makes shitty cheap components but makes a hell of a lot money, still microsoft can sell shitty programs and sell it for a lot of money.

The only commercial program that requires more than 512MB of RAM out there is Windows Vista. When you think about it, an operating system is supposed to be the bridge between your computer and the programs you want it to run, but what if the operating system itself is using all of your computer's specs to run? How are you going to run programs efficiently? Lets buy more RAM, lets buy faster processors so that we can run windows nicely and then you can keep on doing exactly the same you where doing with your old computer but now you have the new version of windows.

Technology today has surpassed users expectations, companies don't know how to implement the new stuff they come up with in the real world so that people actually buy it they came up with a cycle of constant forced innovation to keep making money selling you things you don't need and your part of it.

And its not only with computers, cars are going faster than 300km/hr now but law will never permit you from going faster than 120km/hr or so. Mp3 players are becoming smaller and smaller, but what happened to those medium size mp3 players that have the same amount of memory than the ones today?

Some companies are doing something about it. Cheaper functional versions of things are coming out, Asus just announced its going to launch a 199dls laptop with 2GB of hard drive, many people don't need more than that. Dell started offering laptops with linux, its 50 cheaper but it also means you can buy less ram and a shittier processor and its going to work the same. Some other laptop companies are still selling their laptops with XP even though microsoft is trying to get everyone to put vista on all of them and not give them the choice.

But still marketing will prevent those computers from getting to the right hands cause the new sony computer that's a piece of shit but has double the processor is better even though who ever buys it only uses it to chat.

Sure this might all sound like a conspiracy theory but you have to admit, I have good arguments.

Where did this come from? I spent my weekend setting up windows 2000 in a pentium 3 computer and after I finished installing it I realized that windows 2000 doesn't work with the internet connection the computer was going to use because windows 2000 isn't very compatible with pppoe and you have to install a third party application that you can only get from an internet provider and mine comes with a bunch of stuff that slows down your computer. I never could get the wireless card to work cause they never bothered to make drivers for windows 2000. Why did I install windows 2000 on the first place? cause one of the RAM chips it had died and since its a really old computer and the RAM prices work by the Offer and Demand law, since nobody really wants old RAM chips they are more expensive than the new ones and harder to find so XP now runs very slow. I gave up with windows and installed linux works great now.