IceWalkers "Useful" Poll: do you agree?

johpower · Post by **johpower** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 2:20 am

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* ICEWALKERS POLL *
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There is nothing more useful than...

o Paper & Pen: 1707 Votes [55%]

o Notebooks: 610 Votes [20%]

o PDAs: 443 Votes [14%]

o Wearable computers: 176 Votes [06%]

o Tablet PC: 153 Votes [05%]

[ Total Votes : 3089 ]

Cast your vote here: http://www.icewalkers.com/vbooth.php
Previous poll results: http://www.icewalkers.com/polls.php

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:02 pm

I'd go with P&P, myself.

johpower · Post by **johpower** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:29 am

Another Icewalkers poll of interest:

Favorite CPU:

o AMD: 6167 Votes [60%]

o Intel: 2124 Votes [21%]

o PowerPC: 754 Votes [07%]

o UltraSparc: 471 Votes [05%]

o Alpha: 375 Votes [04%]

o Transmeta: 256 Votes [02%]

o Others: 199 Votes [02%]

[ Total Votes : 10346 ]

Cast your vote here: http://www.icewalkers.com/vbooth.php
Previous poll results: http://www.icewalkers.com/polls.php

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:27 pm

AMD. Reportedly, Intel is actually going to start losing money big time soon unless they can come out with a new breakthrough, most of the stockholders are losing faith, especially considering the popularity of AMD.

johpower · Post by **johpower** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 5:19 am

And AMD doesn't have as much a vested interest in MS's OS hierachy. Linux/Unix runs on just about everything, much to Wintel's annoyance.

Splodginator · Post by **Splodginator** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 6:41 am

Especially now that Microsoft hired AMD to make the GPU/CPU for XB2.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:42 pm

Well my AMD machine runs twice as fast as a pentium 4 that's supposed to be 3 times faster... 6 times more efficient overall.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:28 pm

my pII runs fasetr than my dads AMD 1.8ghz.

johpower · Post by **johpower** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 3:59 am

As much as I'd love to say "A runs rings round I", there are so many variables of hard and software that it shakes out a dead heat overall. AMD does do really well on a fifth the investment of Intel and hurrah for them

. I just enjoy the fact there are alternatives, and very good ones, to the status quo. We all win from this competition and get cool stuff to run our software. That's the real point.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:39 am

Agreed, the competition is good... it inspires the companies to make more efficient hardware for less money. If it didn't exist... well, MS hasn't had real competition in a while, and look at the road it's heading down...

Splodginator · Post by **Splodginator** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 12:46 am

Well, In consoles and games it has competition, almost unmatched in Office programs, it has slight competition in OS's, Web Browser's it has some competition.

Office seems to be getting better, however Windows worse.