The main advantage of a pre-loaded OS...

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 25 19:19:20 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:18:55PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > Yes.  I thought Walter meant 'config-2.6.38' file.
> > 
> > One reasone I want to try AMD/ATI is that NVidia is on the way out.
> > They're being squeezed by AMD and Intel from the bottom, so NVidia
> > is concentrating on higher end.  But, this is typical route that
> > many other business went, before pricing themselves right out of the
> > market.
> 
> Nvidia is doing just fine.  They are getting very involved in the
> mobile market with arm based devices.  Also, unlike ATI/AMD, Nvidia
> writes reliable drivers.  Nvidia is also doing quite well in the super
> computer market with their Tesla cards (which are of course based on
> the same chip design as their graphics cards).  I am not at all
> worried about Nvidia.

Those super computers... well, I think you can count the number of sales
on your hand.

> 
> You will be seeing a lot of Nvidia Tegra devices this year.

But, none of those will be motherboard that I can play with.  I'm not
going to pay $700 for a device with 32MB ram.
-- 
William
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