From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 21 09:32:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02014 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA01953 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dylan.visint.co.uk (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23088; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 17:31:43 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 17:32:06 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What computer to buy ? In-Reply-To: <199708211559.KAA06052@compound.east.sun.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Tony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Stephen Roome on Thu, 21 August: > : futureproof (ish) without buying an excessively overpriced Pentium II. > > Pentium II is just about the opposite of futureproof -- it is planned > obsolescence: Slot 1 has a very short lifetime plan. Sorry, I didn't mean it like that! I meant I wan't something futureproof in that I won't need much more performance, not that I won't be able to run Windoze 97 or install a Descutes or whatever intel plans for.. Maybe "slot two" will be more reasonable, but from the specs I keep seeing, there's no good reason to be buying a Pentium II (apart from inability to get hold of any other Intel processors expect 486's!) -- Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/