Thank you for including that multitasking part, and for letting us be a part of it. That indeed gives the best representation of "real world" performance and will help with my next upgrade decision. I was a little surprised to see that large of a performance boost with multitasking in a real world scenario.
I'm also pleased to notice that you included Norton Ghost as part of your roundup and that I was the only one whom suggested such an app. I actually feel like I had some importance in contributing to this article (I hope you don't mind if I feel like it is collectively "our" article - meaning everyone that gave suggestions).
Again, thanks for the article. Can't wait for part II.
I do not know should I be crying laughing or what when it comes to some comments and the Inquirer rant about the multitasking article(s).
These people seem to have same 'authoritative' source of knowledge as a guy I saw today saying that "Longhorn/next windows only supports 64-bit platforms". I can only guess the WMD information was from the same source!
I could go on and debunk all their "arguments" against going dual but I have a feeling you are going to do it for me, so Good luck!
Great article so far. I've enjoyed reading it - it's good to read about some potentially exciting "next generation" technology. :)
So far, two thoughts spring into my mind, which Part 2 may address for all I know, but...
1. Will it become reasonable to play a game whilst recording TV (e.g. recording in MMC on a Radeon AIW), (re-)encoding video or archiving files.
2. As dual core processors hit the desktop, do you think that the roll of NCQ/TCQ in hard disks will become more important?
Saying that, I start to wonder what other parts (the hard disk, of course, being the most obvious one) of the system stand to bottleneck multithreading/multitasking performance?
Hmmmm.
Oh well, I've spent too much time reading and thinking, and as usual when I get caught up on Anandtech my lunch hour has come and gone in the blink of an eye.
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Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - link
OzzFanIt is "our" article, you're quite right about that. I've always called AnandTech your (as in the readers') site :)
Take care,
Anand
OzzFan - Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - link
Thank you for including that multitasking part, and for letting us be a part of it. That indeed gives the best representation of "real world" performance and will help with my next upgrade decision. I was a little surprised to see that large of a performance boost with multitasking in a real world scenario.I'm also pleased to notice that you included Norton Ghost as part of your roundup and that I was the only one whom suggested such an app. I actually feel like I had some importance in contributing to this article (I hope you don't mind if I feel like it is collectively "our" article - meaning everyone that gave suggestions).
Again, thanks for the article. Can't wait for part II.
sixpak - Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - link
Good article on multitasking.I do not know should I be crying laughing or what when it comes to some comments and the Inquirer rant about the multitasking article(s).
These people seem to have same 'authoritative' source of knowledge as a guy I saw today saying that "Longhorn/next windows only supports 64-bit platforms". I can only guess the WMD information was from the same source!
I could go on and debunk all their "arguments" against going dual but I have a feeling you are going to do it for me, so Good luck!
Demo24 - Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - link
That was a great read! Much better than the other 2 I read which I just stopped because they were boring.Heron Kusanagi - Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - link
Have some rest. It's been great at anandtech, you guys put good reviews.Turnip - Tuesday, April 5, 2005 - link
Great article so far. I've enjoyed reading it - it's good to read about some potentially exciting "next generation" technology. :)So far, two thoughts spring into my mind, which Part 2 may address for all I know, but...
1. Will it become reasonable to play a game whilst recording TV (e.g. recording in MMC on a Radeon AIW), (re-)encoding video or archiving files.
2. As dual core processors hit the desktop, do you think that the roll of NCQ/TCQ in hard disks will become more important?
Saying that, I start to wonder what other parts (the hard disk, of course, being the most obvious one) of the system stand to bottleneck multithreading/multitasking performance?
Hmmmm.
Oh well, I've spent too much time reading and thinking, and as usual when I get caught up on Anandtech my lunch hour has come and gone in the blink of an eye.
Busy busy.
Have fun :)