[taxed2death]

Good news for the 1% who need that processing power

[conservativehusker]

But this should also help lower cost for the existing systems and allow us poor slobs have a little more speed and power for less green!!!!!

[Red Badger]

I need it just for writing e-mails in answer to all those I get from Nigeria!.........

[Right Wing Assault]

Good news for the 1% who need that processing power

Isn't is a blast to cruise Freerepublic, read your email, and do word processing on the fastest PC in the world! Hey, it looks the same as on my 700 MHz machine!

[finnman69]

Good news for the 1% who need that processing power I'm in the market for a dual processor with twin 3 gig Xeon dual core chips, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphic card, 24" flatscreen monitor. I do high end renderings and 3D modeling.

[TruthFactor]

Everyone needs that kind of processing power. Because, in the background your high-performance machine can be doing something extremely useful, like curing cancer and genetic diseases.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

[FastCoyote]

"Good news for the 1% who need that processing power"

That would be me!
Big database, heavy crunching kind of guy.

[untrained skeptic]

It's good news for everyone. Competition in the processor market is keeping advances in technology moving. Not that long ago Intel had become a bit complacent. AMD and Cyrix were following Intel's lead and finding niche markets, but Intel dominated the PC market and set the pace.

Over a relatively short period of time, AMD went from niche players who could only really compete on price, to technology leaders who were able to push the market and even lead in many ways.

Intel has had to work hard to get back on top, and while they appear to be taking the lead again, the question of how long they can maintain that lead is a serious one in most people's minds.

Most people, myself included don't need to processing power these newest chips provide, but the somewhat slower processors they do need keep dropping in price and becoming more affordable.

[null and void]

Good news for the 1% who need that processing power

On anyone planning on running the next bloated windoze OS...

[litehaus]

A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)

Sounds like that guy(dem) from Illinois...Whose shoebox contained 'How Much Cash' when he died?..LOL....