I'm holding out for the quad-core Opteron as it will have the same power requirements of the dual core (which had the same as the single core). Yes, a quad core is a nice thing :) A simple Fedora or Ubuntu disk can exorcise that vista virus off the drive. Of course quad core with 3 GB RAM is about the minimum needed to have a Vista box run as fast as a 5 year old W2K machine :) (or a 10 year old Mac!) On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 17:36 -0700, Joel Kahn wrote: > Recently, my father-in-law got himself a new computer. > The machine has--among *many* other goodies--a quad-core > processor and three gigabytes of RAM. Yes, you read that > correctly. The box came preloaded with Windows Vista > Ultimate. I'm thinking that this monster PC would have > a great deal of potential for FLOSS experimentation, > and he seems to be prepared to at least discuss this. > I'm open to suggestions from any interested parties. > > Joel > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search > that gives answers, not web links. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC > -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 http://www.localnetsolutions.com GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
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