Question concerning any interest
Oct 18, 2010 6:38:25 GMT
Post by CharlieChomper on Oct 18, 2010 6:38:25 GMT
I was actually thinking of this as I was originally typing up a response to another thread, but wanted to know if there was any actual interest in it.
Namely, I was thinking of posting a list of hardware companies (not to be confused with system building companies such as Dell, Gateway, Siemans-Fujitsu, Apple, HP, Lenovo, etc.) along with which ones were good/reliable versus those to be avoided, etc.
However, I do not plan on including either Intel vs AMD on the CPU/processor side nor AMD (formally ATI) versus nVidia on the GPU/graphics (video) card side--they're both rivalries that have been argued to death and both of the major companies in those respective markets fluctuate too frequently between good/bad or better/worse that it can sometimes just be a matter of opinion in terms of testing results, to where it's a moot point.
Plus, they both are categories that also more often than not seem to lead to tiresome debates/arguments and flame wars to where just mentioning either of those debates has been actually banned on a number of forums because most people are just tired of seeing it (in hardware and tech/techie circles, it's the equivalent of politics and religion--along with Apple vs Windows/PCs, Vi vs Emacs, and countless other notorious topics out there...).
On a side note, I actually had worked for a company whose mail server literally crashed because of just the Vi vs Emacs debate (as well as an entire day of nothing actually getting done because of the back and forth arguing between both sides--it took until after working hours to get the mail server back up again....).
Anyway, getting back to the subject of this thread, I was curious to know if there was any interest (by type of component) for such a list or not?
Namely, I was thinking of posting a list of hardware companies (not to be confused with system building companies such as Dell, Gateway, Siemans-Fujitsu, Apple, HP, Lenovo, etc.) along with which ones were good/reliable versus those to be avoided, etc.
However, I do not plan on including either Intel vs AMD on the CPU/processor side nor AMD (formally ATI) versus nVidia on the GPU/graphics (video) card side--they're both rivalries that have been argued to death and both of the major companies in those respective markets fluctuate too frequently between good/bad or better/worse that it can sometimes just be a matter of opinion in terms of testing results, to where it's a moot point.
Plus, they both are categories that also more often than not seem to lead to tiresome debates/arguments and flame wars to where just mentioning either of those debates has been actually banned on a number of forums because most people are just tired of seeing it (in hardware and tech/techie circles, it's the equivalent of politics and religion--along with Apple vs Windows/PCs, Vi vs Emacs, and countless other notorious topics out there...).
On a side note, I actually had worked for a company whose mail server literally crashed because of just the Vi vs Emacs debate (as well as an entire day of nothing actually getting done because of the back and forth arguing between both sides--it took until after working hours to get the mail server back up again....).
Anyway, getting back to the subject of this thread, I was curious to know if there was any interest (by type of component) for such a list or not?
