Kougar | 26th March 2008 13:15 | Quote:
Originally Posted by thorgal
(Post 166663)
I'm quite sure that Sidney wasn't personal Kougar, just speaking "in general". I for one am a bit like you : interested in progress because I like it, and to have some fun benchmarking and competing against others... the amount of money I spend having this fun however... :redface: | Well, to be frank there was nothing in his post to indicate if it was a overly broad, general statement, or if it was directed at my past comments. Given the highly facetious/mocking tone of his post and that due to my replies up to that point only seemed to indicate the later.
I would agree whether the performance increase is worthwhile enough to justify an upgrade is a important consideration to any review. However I also think being able to get higher performance for the same $1 spent towards a new system or new mainframe is also important.
Sure, it won't affect Excel that much, but with that logic all anyone needs is a Pentium 4, which is true. However not all consumers cannot make use of all four cores, and not all businesses cannot make use of the extra CPU power. Solely focusing on business computers that run Office products all day is just another small portion of the market. |