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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:58:32
Message-Id: 5010A3E2.5040306@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm by walt
1 walt wrote:
2 > On 07/25/2012 05:21 PM, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> The point made about producing less heat with the smaller nm sounds
5 >> reasonable tho.
6 > >From the chip maker's point of view, everything is about battery life
7 > and small size these days. I wonder how many college kids are using
8 > desktops these days. Desktops are only for us dinosaurs who are glued
9 > to our computer chairs. (What fool would try to text from a desktop
10 > machine while driving to school during rush hour on a busy street?)
11
12 For a laptop, this could matter. I'm always thinking desktop tho.
13
14 >> I'm trying to picture a nm. o-o Hmmmm, maybe this is better. O-O
15 >> Nope, still can't picture a nm. lol
16 > Have you tried sci-calculators/units? Very useful utility. It defines
17 > 1 nm as 1000 times the distance between a campaign promise and a damned
18 > lie.
19 >
20
21 LOL As Mater says on the movie Cars, 'That's funny right there'. ;-)
22
23 Dale
24
25 :-) :-)
26
27 --
28 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!