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28 Jul 2024 20:27:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Euclideon Geoverse  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 15 May 2014 20:35:55
Message: <53755d6b$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 15 May 2014 18:25:58 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 15/05/2014 05:29 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:21:51 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>>> All the PCs at work actually *have* these.
>>
>> Nonsense.  SSD drives are incomprehensibly expensive, and only the most
>> well-off geeks have them because they're incredibly rare "in the wild".
>> They must cost billions of dollars to purchase, most certainly. ;)
> 
> Well *I* certainly couldn't afford one. But then, I'm not the one
> paying, so... ;-)

Only the top 1% could possibly afford them.  Even then, it's little more 
than a curiosity, the only ones who really benefit from them surely are 
the top 0.1%.

> As I say, there's not much real-world observable performance difference,
> to be honest.

You obviously aren't using the ones that I'm talking about.  ;)

Jim



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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