* Posts by Peter Nield

2 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2007

AMD sued: Number of Bulldozer cores in its chips is a lie, allegedly

Peter Nield

Caveat Emptor

Someone expecting floating point performance should confirm the performance of what they are buying.

Buying individual CPUs (not computers with those CPUs in them) indicates a certain level of ability that the general public doesn't have (at the very least, replace a CPU in a motherboard) - to replace or match a CPU with a motherboard is not something I would expect the general public to be able to do. And to make his position worse, he bought two CPUs - he MUST have been certain about what he's buying.

I'd also relate this too buying packaged food - if you want to know what is in an item you buy at the store, the only relevant information on the packaging is the ingredients and nutrition information - everything else is marketing to induce you to pick that specific product over a competing product. Buying a food item and expecting it to have X in it (or more commonly now a days, not have X in it), and not reading the ingredients to confirm that X is present (or not present) is caveat emptor in action.

When I have a specific application in mind, I review relevant benchmarking information prior to making a purchase. I wouldn't expect that of someone who's going to do their e-mail, web browse and play farmville, though.

Microsoft hawks Home Server

Peter Nield
Boffin

Before you post...

...make sure you have your facts right.

WHS is based on Windows Server 2003.

Which supports Idle disk spin down and CPU power saving modes.

And judging by the Windows Server 2003 box I have with seven HDD, WHS will spin down any extra disks and enter CPU power saving modes just fine. The OS disk, alas, won't spin down - well, my box has a software mirror for the OS, which may be preventing that from happening *sigh*