From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 21 11:34:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10903 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA10893 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0x1c1s-0002ig-00; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:32:20 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:32:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM cc: steve@visint.co.uk, 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. But all Intel CPUs have planned obsolescence. There is only so much you can do with CPU development and keep the connector the same. Besides a typical CPU costs almost twice as much a the motherboard, so who cares about whether the connector is going to change? In a year, the mb isn't going to be worth anything, anyhow. BTW, don't get screwed on PII 266 prices. Prices have already dropped, but some are still selling at old prices. Tom