Tony Duell wrote:
Here is my short review of the power cord
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/MP_F/PS_Audio.htm
I took it home and hooked it up to my new custom case computer which also
cost me about $550. It is a modern 3 GHz Pentium that looks like a 1975
SWTPC 6800.
Ah, but does it make the machine run any faster, or crash less often, or...
[ :-) in case you're humour-impaired ]
-tony
We have to get way more sophisticated about this:
"Use the SMIMS SX-5000 power cord with your computer monitor to improve the
display. Eliminated noise cleans up the high-frequency artifacts in the display
and so clarifies fine picture resolution. Computer gamers especially will
appreciate the smoother on-screen motion. The high-speed motion typical of
computer games - technically described as the dynamic characteristics of
frame-to-frame transfer - requires energy on demand to handle the screen
changes when drawing a new frame. The SMIMS SX-5000 power cord delivers that
energy with it's large-gauge conductors - conductors capable of 4 times the
energy transfer of ordinary power cords."
..could devise a whole marketing scam (whoops, I mean 'plan'), applying
audiophile hyperbole to the video end of things where theres lots of room for
subjective interpretation and there's even an analog aspect to play with.
Note that while taken as a whole it's a bunch of silly techno-babble irrelevant
to the product, each sentence taken in isolation can be argued to be
technically "true".
Lame attempt to make this on-topic: As far as silly marketing hyperbole goes, I
remember in the late 70s when "Turbo PASCAL" and "Turbo BASIC" were
released
and thinking "Oh, geez, the stupidity of macho car marketing comes to the world
of computing". Then there were those insipid "Turbo Mode" switches on
late-80-early-90s PCs. And the attached numeric LED clock rate displays, which
were nothing but numerals hard-wired to the switch.