Ok, sure, but the P4 was built for RDRAM, NOT DDR! How many times do I have to yell at my monitor with that fact! Every benchmark I have read (Check ) has placed the 3000+ "way below" what the latest P4 can do with PC1066 RIMMS. However, in lines with my AMD vs Intel Rant, this places another "mark" in the "hate AMD column." WAIT! Do you know why? Trust me, I will tell you:Īccording to this benchmark published by AMD, using DDR memory, the 3000+ beats out the P4 3.06 with an i845 chipset. It would be interesting to compile a comparison between "Virtual PC 5.0 of today" and "tomorrows MS VPC solution" (read "bloatware").ĪMD recently announced the addition of the Athlon XP 3000+ CPU. Several months (ok, maybe a year or so) ago, I tried them, but I enjoyed Virtual PC / Connectix’s solution more, and the price was right. I am looking at " the other guy," VMWARE’s virtual solution. I fell that everyone should "run, do not walk" to purchase the product, however, according to the release, Connectix support will quit after "the six-month transition period." Will Microsoft "really" continue to support the product and NOT bloat it up with Microsoft hype and instability? I am afraid to guess.
Good hands? Commitment to the Mac platform? Does this guy know who Bill Gates is? The final straw was in this snippet: We’re glad to see Virtual PC go into such good hands." "For years, Virtual PC has helped people who want to own a Mac but need to run legacy PC applications. "Adding Virtual PC to its product portfolio is yet another example of Microsoft’s continued commitment to the Mac platform," said Ron Okamoto, vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple Computer Inc. The press release continues with a quote from an Apple Computer Spokesperson:
today announced it has acquired the virtual machine solutions of privately held Connectix Corp., a leading provider of virtualization software for Windows®- and Macintosh-based computing. In a press release dated 19FEB2003, Connectix state that: I recently reviewed an outstanding "geek tool," Virtual PC 5.0 for Windows. I will never purchase another WD drive… ever again. Against my better judgment includes the fact that I have had 3 of 4 WD drives fail (well, now 4 of 6). The Maxtor drives, however, work flawlessly. I was thinking I had a bad controller card. After taking both of the hard drives back to the store (14 day policy) and getting my money back, I picked up, at a different store, two Maxtor 120 GB drives and attached them to the RAID controller that "refused" to work with the WD drives. I banged my head against the wall for 4 hours trying to prove that "the Western Digital Drives I purchased against my better judgment actually still work after 14 days…" I finally concluded that I was living in dream land and instead, proved that one of the two new drives was not functioning properly. Now, I guess I am going to make up for it: I have not posted a " Quick Rant" in some time, nor have I updated the "News" section (because of Number 1, below).