23 Dec
2004
23 Dec
'04
3:43 p.m.
==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] cheap Compaq at Staples; Gary Hanley <gary@hanley.net> adds: gary> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
Those are Hyperthreading Pentium 4's,
gary> Yea, but Hyperthreading is a nice idea that is still somewhat gary> irrelevant at this stage. Even with dual-cores on the horizon there gary> has is lots of optimizations to do before any of this power is gary> utilized. I wouldn't call HT irrelevant. It really depends on your workload. gary> More relevant now is Hypertransport, which for some reason AMD gary> doesn't brag about as must as Intel does for Hyperthreading. As always, it depends. What is the price point? What is the machine actually going to be used for? -Jeff