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Author:  pcernie [ Sat Jan 07, 2012 2:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Cheap broadband could be a thing of the past
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... st-1051372

Thoughts? I seriously doubt it, I know of a few people who have stopped their net access already, and the ISPs are going all out advertising download speeds - their margins would take a kicking overall I reckon as I'd have thought most are on the basic package.

Also, Intel have had the CPU market to themselves for ages far as I can tell, and ARM will probably only ever be a hindrance rather than a proper rival in the medium term...
Author:  big_D [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Cheap broadband could be a thing of the past
That seems kind of expensive for broadband. We get quasi unlimited* for around 9.99€ a month.

* It is unlimited, in the sense, that if you exceed 500GB a month regularly, they might start to throttle your connection.
Author:  belchingmatt [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Cheap broadband could be a thing of the past
A typical cost of broadband in Oz would be 70 euro for 300GB. :lol:
Author:  phantombudgie [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Cheap broadband could be a thing of the past
So there's one thing we aren't being totally ripped off for. Good times.

What I found more interesting was the stuff about Intel:
Quote:
Tucked away in Intel's marketing material was an image of Sandy E's processor die, and it was immediately obvious that this was in fact an eight-core chip with two of the cores fused off.

When we asked some Intel suits for an explanation, they rolled out some guff about balancing clockspeeds with cores and doing what was right for customers. Funny thing is, when AMD was more competitive, turning off cores didn't seem like the right thing to do.


Looks like Intel's R&D guys can have next year off.
Author:  davrosG5 [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cheap broadband could be a thing of the past
phantombudgie wrote:
So there's one thing we aren't being totally ripped off for. Good times.

What I found more interesting was the stuff about Intel:
Quote:
Tucked away in Intel's marketing material was an image of Sandy E's processor die, and it was immediately obvious that this was in fact an eight-core chip with two of the cores fused off.

When we asked some Intel suits for an explanation, they rolled out some guff about balancing clockspeeds with cores and doing what was right for customers. Funny thing is, when AMD was more competitive, turning off cores didn't seem like the right thing to do.


Looks like Intel's R&D guys can have next year off.


Well, Sandy Bridge-E is basically a Xeon E5-1600 with bits disabled so it's hardly a surprise is it.
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