Recent content by cjcox

I wonder now that "thermonuclear" 12th+ gen is constrained, that maybe air cooling will become a bigger thing??

I get it, you think I'm lying. That's on you really though. I mean, the question was asked, and, though not to your expectations, I answered it. When you cuss out people or slam them without knowledge, what is that called? I watched as the costs rose 10x, then 20x, etc. With that said, I...

Just saying. My guess is most have never had an all Mac shop, so you're used to "whatever" with regards to operational expense. I lived "the migration". I've seen the result.

I'm talking operational expense per employee, amount spent per month. Has zero to do with machine cost, which, while bigger on the Apple side, it's not that big of a difference (nothing in the high multiplier difference anyhow, especially not over the past 5 years or so).

The whole Microsoft "required" eco-system and 3rd party products (including a ton of "security" products unique to MS) that suddenly become "required" when making the switch. It's maddening. Same business, same amount of work being done, same amount of revenue being produced, but with a 40x...

No. Trust me, it's not even close to the same. Not even close. And the dozens of "extras" outside that are "required" now as well. It's insane.

Again, not my idea. Going from minimal Windows (simple AD DC + backup DC just for ids, groups, DNS, DHCP) to full o365, ATP, E5, all the bells and whistles, which, our secops team says is completely necessary to stave off "attacks" (etc.) and for full feature functionality. IMHO, it's a lot...

40x what it cost per employee when we were Mac only.

Having worked for a "full kool-aid" Micorosoft shop, they'd say that after you add all the extras to your MS business env, it's pretty dang costly. So, can you run Windows on the cheap? I'd say "yes", but the "experts" tell a different story about how much it really costs to have a "good"...

Perhaps just a "poor person's" perspective, but the "class" of user that can afford $1500 is the same as one that can afford $2500 (to me).

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While I like techpowerup, it's not complete. So, still not the silver bullet. So, I'd say use a curator like UFD for fuller coverage... and I like it because I can play it in my ear while doing other things (usually at 1.7 speed).

Correct.... so visit a whole bunch of different sites, many, because you don't know which ones will have have "this or that". But, since you "went there", list the sites you use please.

I listen to UFD Hot News. IMHO, probably one of the shortest tech news summaries. However, if you all know of something better, I'm always willing to move on to something better.

Yeah, they do have "something" with their iGPU/QSV and their memory controllers, but compute wise, they gave up with the super hot + clock work and utilizing "crap cores". Reminds me a whole lot of the Netburst era. Warning: Intel recovered from their last big mistake (P4 Netburst era) in a...