<div dir="ltr">We're also talking about a *massive* increase in power usage compared to the VIA setup.<br><br>If the hardware is already in his possession that's one thing, but if this is a new investment there has to be money and, more importantly, energy to save in a more conservative chip.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:49 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">>> Also, not that it's any of my business of course, but isn't that CPU<br>
>> overkill for a backend-only system? It's the frontend duties that<br>
>> require horsepower...<br>
><br>
> True, unless you want to run commflagging and transcode jobs quickly.<br>
><br>
</div>Also we are talking about a $60 US chip here.<br>
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