2009/3/25 Matt Jones <m...@mattjones.me.uk>: > In the past, that opinion was fairly valid. Now, the celerons are > actually quite speedy little chips, espescially for an Ubuntu box that > is going to run web/openoffice/music all day. As for recommending a > Via over the current (Dual core) celerons, they are quite a long way > behind in performance terms, and not really any cheaper.
I am aware that the Via Nano is not as powerful, although it compares very well to the Intel Atom, but then, the Nano uses a *lot* less power than a Celeron so the overall running cost would be somewhat lower. But still, seriously object to the pricing model of producing crippled chips with tiny L2 caches and selling them cheap. If they can make a profit on the crippled model, they could make one on selling the "premium" product with the full-sized cache for a lot less. There is a balance to be had, and that balancing point is called "a fair price". Instead, we get cheap crippled chips - the Celerons, "Pentium" chips, AMD's old Durons and so on - and price-inflated "professional" or "performance" chips for "power users". This is a deliberate pricing model; in the industry, it's called something like segmented marketing and catching the low end. I call it "screwing your customers". Which is one reason I prefer to deal with companies who don't play those games. The AMD tactic of selling last year's model cheap and calling it a "Sempron" or something was much more honest and fair, and indeed I am typing on an AMD Athlon box now. Alas, since their 64-bit leap, AMD have no new tricks to pull and the CPU high end now belongs completely to Intel. It's a damned shame. > I think that the option should be offered to have either LTS or the > most current release as an option. For a consumer use, the new > software available in a non LTS release does offer benefits over the > staid reliability of the LTS. I suspect that anyone who would know the difference would probably build or buy a bargain-basement PC themselves and download & install their own copy. But I'd be happy to be proved wrong. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
