I heard traffic is just horrible in parts of San Francisco now. After that fiery explosion from a tanker truck, it practically melted part of an overpass causing it to fall to the ground.
On the other hand, the restaurants in Chinatown are pretty good (and Chinatown itself). Golden Gate bridge, Alcatraz, and the weather are great there.
Looks like AMD will demonstrate Barcelona in San Francisco.
Will we see any benchmark numbers? I certainly hope so. I just hope for AMD that Barcelona is as good as AMD fanboys hope it is, or we might go back to the dark age of Intel dominance ... as being alone on the market.
Isn't it funny that we'd been told last year that K10 was cancelled, then that Barcelona was just the first step to a real product line redrawing... and today Barcelona is finally K10 :? . Did they just brought back K10 to give it more importance facing C2D/Q architecture or was it just to keep their card close to their chest? :?: :?: :?:
As long as the new Phenom delivers on performances, I don't really care, but...
Naw, it's not that San Francisco would be a bad place to go. It's the almost 2000-mile trip to get there that would be. It's a non-trivial haul from central Missouri on over to the west coast, and I don't particularly want to pay double rates in renting a car since I'm not 25 yet, so flying would be a PITA. (Yeah, you CAN rent a car if you're over 21 but not 25, it'll just cost ya double.) Maybe if AMD decided to debut it in STL, KC, or even Chicago I'd bite, but California is a bit too far to go unless I had a real reason to go there.
Baron: I'd let them have beer and pigs in a blanket in my backyard as long as one of the execs would be willing to go inside and swap out my X2 4200+ for a Barcelona. Oh, and the city ordinances would prohibit more than 10 people plus alcohol in one location if there's much noise, so they'd need to give my neighbors new computers too to keep them quiet.
let me see they can make 1 or 2 so they can "demonstrate "
it counts when i see them on newegg!
Right - so far, it has been all "barc" and no byte .
Will be nice to see them finally out but I'll wait until they're on Newegg and at a good price/performance ratio before I get seriously interested. I might drive a hundred miles out of my way to see the world's biggest ball of string or tin foil, but not for a new CPU demo, whether it's AMD or Intel. Unless as Baron mentioned, there's free beer and wieners in a bun
... as being alone on the market.
