[plug] P4 1.4

[Steve Boak]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:08, you wrote:
> In message <200312160908.03621.derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk>
>
> > http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1927&p=1
>
> I always fail to understand phrases like "decent upgrades for aging
> systems (e.g. the P3-800 that is barely chugging along)". Barely

Makes me feel positively underpowered. I do allmost everything nowadays on my 
fanless Via C3 500Mhz machine as it is very quiet, low cost to run all day 
and so convenient to walk past and type a few words when I think of them. My 
'big gun' is a P3 800, only fired up when I need to run windoze because it is 
so noisy (since I live out in the bush, it's 'noisy' when the fridge starts 
up, or when one of the two or three cars a day drives past, or a dog barks in 
the distance). No way do I want an Athlon with a cyclonic cooling tower - it 
would annoy the neighbours!

Now if only I could find a way to make debian leave my hard drive alone long 
enough for it to spin down when it is not really needed...

And just quickly on the anandtech web page - don't you just *hate* those 
pages with only one usefull paragraph embedded in piles of advertising?

Steve