Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:38:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Cc: conrads@neosoft.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What computer to buy ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970821113324.10438B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199708211747.MAA06419@compound.east.sun.com>
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Tony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Conrad Sabatier on Thu, 21 August: > : > : On 21-Aug-97 Tony Kimball wrote: > : > > : >Pentium II is just about the opposite of futureproof -- it is planned > : >obsolescence: Slot 1 has a very short lifetime plan. > : > : Could you possibly elaborate on this a bit? A friend of mine is > : considering purchasing a Pentium II (266 MHz) system, and I'd like to know > : if I should warn him off of it. > > It's just that the P2 form factor is unique to the P2. As I > understand it, there will be Slot 2 modules within a year. > I don't know that any other manufacturer will be producing > Slot 1 modules. So, if you get a P2, you have to discard your > motherboard when you upgrade. Since the P2 is selling at such > a large premium, this may not be terribly large proportion of Large premium? Over what? The only equiv processor is the PPro, and PII is cheaper than a PPro with the same sized L2 cache. > the cost, actually. My personal habit is to buy the most > *cost-effective* hardware. Thus I strongly prefer Socket 7 > processors which have a future upgrade path, commodity > motherboards, etc. The PII 266 is faster than anything that will go into a socket 7. Socket 7 is dead. It days were numbered when socket 8 came out. Tom
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