Two years tops for most of the emerging technology to float or fail. SATA is promising, Bluetooth isn't going anywhere, PCI Express will be a reality by mid next year. 64 bit on the desktop is at least a 2 year revolution but it will happen. Wether or not they keep the AGP bus will be interesting too. FYI, I've built an Opteron machine already. For what it cost I would've shaved nearly $500 off the system by going with a 3Ghz P4 and some really fast RAM. The performance increase isn't noticeable to the end user at this point.
--- john fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been reading about the 64 bit processors coming out to > target > desktop > computing and have resigned myself to putting off any new > technology > till pci express comes out. > What do you folks think the value of 64 bit for home > computing is going > to be and is it realistic that 64bit and pci express will both > be > workably implemented in the next year? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
