3 Oct
2010
3 Oct
'10
11:36 a.m.
Overall, I'd agree. For mass-market consumer kit,
I think it might be
good. Cheaper, faster computers are a good thing. Also, for the random
Playinghte devil's advocate for a moment, Cheaper -> less likely to be
econmical to repair, and thus more waste sent to landfill, fewer jobs for
repairers. entirely-working reasonable-spec PCs out of skips
before now. Thrown
because they were too slow & the owners too lazy and stupid to find a
way to give them to charity or recycle them.
I wonder why I never fidn useful bits like this...
punter,
*simpler* computers are a good thing.
Not _ncessarily_ a good thing.
Again, if oyu're not careful, you end up with a machine that makes simple
tasks trivial, but which can't be used for difficult tasks (or at least
makes htem a lot harder than they should be). Somehting that really
annoys me is the lack of a propper command language in many modern
window-based OSes. Computeras are good at doing the same thing over and
over agian, I should be able to tell them to do that. That is a good point, but there are heatpipes and
other ways of moving
heat over relatively short distances, no? Not good enough? I am
genuinely curious here...
I susepct the problms are then mechancial. Getting the heatpipes where
you want them with the CPU, grpahics processor, RAM, etc where they have
to be, A fan amy well be tge simplest and best solution.
Problem is, the fans you find in consumer PCs are horrible. I've had
enoguh of them cross my bench. I also remember real fans that are sill
running and still quiet afet over 25 years. Of cource those have decent
bearings and probably cost ratehr more when they were new.
-tony