[BNM] [OT] ish - which cpu?

[Jason Bailey]

--- On Mon, 5/1/09, Alessandro De Maria > 
> On 5 Jan 2009, at 12:44, Sevan / Venture37
> <venture37 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > if you're planning on running something other then
> windows I'd steer
> > clear of AMD CPU based systems, 

Gosh! I was kind of expecting people to say go for AMD; so now you've got me. As for Ubuntu and AMD; never had a problem. I'm using ubuntu on my amd64 (athlon??? I think); although probably still the 32 bit version. got all that 3d beryl thing to work fine but perhaps not too much gfx processing.

David wrote:
>>who uses applets these days? 

Well that would be me (or us) too. The University has some business apps written in oracle forms which uses jinitiator/jvm. Oracle has previewed forms 11g I think but I don't think the plan is to stay with forms; not my decision really. 

Thanks for all the information now I've got to think again but sounds like I'm not risking too much in trying the intel. I just wanted to hit the 3Ghz mark without spending too much.

Jas