I've never been religious about processor choice. It just has no meaning.
However, this whole debacle is indicative, in my opinion, of the problems and culture at Intel. This is the same kind of weirdness that caused the 10nm debacle. Intel has in fact been chasing others to catch up for a long...
Sorry for the long quote but I wanted the whole post intact.
I've been wanting to start a thread about these issues- but since we don't have a "General CPU" forum it seems dangerous to put it on it's own in the Intel processor forum.
But the issue that the above post points out is very...
Well... I'll make an assumption here:
We are of a generation of gamers who were there for the genesis of both the games and the industry. It was exciting for us wasn't it? My god the number of computers and upgrades I did to play the latest game is not really countable.
And back then- many of...
I still have one of these. I've held onto it for the day I want to play the original Unreal.
Pretty sure that day isn't going to happen. But just in case.
It's the same reason I hold onto a couple of Dakota based PPC MAC prototypes.
For me I think this is a great product. I keep some machines going as long as a decade. So they have to be maintained every year or two and sometimes they need to be repasted for whatever reason.
It's an easy clean method that eliminates a pain in the backside.