Well, this settles it for me

Posted Sep 7, 2009 12:46 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
In reply to: Well, this settles it for me by endecotp
Parent article: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

Maybe you're living on a different planet. The only time I've ever spent anything like that much was my first PC back in 1994 - a 66MHz 486.

Indeed. Although there can be good reasons for paying 1000 (or £1000) for a system, it's been a long time since anyone really had to. It reminds me of the "Killer PCs for £1500" idiocy the UK computing press used to run on the cover of their magazines every month back in the early-to-mid 1990s, and even at that time such dull retail summaries served the advertisers far more than they did the actual readership.