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-original message- Subject: Re: [LUG] wowsa four cores for £76 From: Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 18/09/2009 13.00 On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, tom wrote: >>> I only buy Intel if there is NO other choice. >> >> I buy what suits the system at the time. Currently AMD are lagging in terms >> of performace per watt - and that's something that very important right >> now. (with the exception of the Geode, but they didn't design that >> initially) > I you want performance per watt then surely ARM is the only way to go! There's a trade-off between bang per buck/bang per watt and usability. Right now there isn't a server solution based on ARM or I'd be using it today.... However, it's coming: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/16/1527209 2GHz ARM ... But what I want is a good solid processor with good software support and no overloaded/bloated graphics hardware! Your average LAMP server doesn't use much CPU at all - it's mostly IO - stupid CPU usage like decoding SQL instructions is about the most it's going to do - until the muppets decide that resizing icons on the fly is a good idea though )-: Had a server crippled by that recently until they installed some caching. Weenies who never did any computer science - "Oh, it's slow, lets throw more hardware at it". <mutter> And get off my lawn while yer at it! Gordon ---- That's the Windows way of thinking. Whack a nice GUI on there (or even a horrid GUI) just to run a web server. I gather with Windows Server 2008 it is possible to run Windows without the GUI and manage it from a remote machine (although I gather the management tools still use a GUI). I'm hoping they bring out a cheap Mini ITX sized motherboard with this ARM chip on and enough graphics oompth to run HD video so I can finally have a low power media box which will hopefully not cost the earth. Rob Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html