I like the metaphore about dick-sizes, because that's just what it is. I remember when i first got into computing, all that mattered to me was the size of this and the speed of that...
When you work with computers everyday you soon get tired of it all...
But coming back to the dick-size issue, it like porno magz or those car magazines, you just find some childish pleasure to look, just to see, just to know...
I have a good benchmark on thjis though, the more the guy who posted thrashes the other systems, and says things like "intel suxx" or "amd rules" and so on, the less they know. at the end of the day it's what you have produced that counts. I get so sick of all these tests, yeah, win 98 SE with a super ultra mega what ever prepherial it is 4% faster. I mean really, we are talking seconds here. is your image / video / email / program going to make a world of difference to you if it isproduced 1 minute sooner or later ? Are you charged by the second to use your computer ?
I am running win2k on a celeron 500, and you know what, I still get paid, i still produce what ever I intended to get done. and my system costed under $700. I have the same amount of movies / mp3's / programs and [-peep-] like that on my system like you do.
If i wanna game, I buy a video game console.
I would like to know what all you guys who post all these dick contest materiell REALLY do with your putters, and when you have flamed me about how many 3drenderings and versions of quake III and god knows what you NEED the faster speed for, at the end of the day if you sort out all your [-peep-] and put what you produced in a pile, you are going to find that me and my little volkswagen system could do all the things you could.
Ofcourse there are the heavy weight guys who really DO need these systems, but they have a machine at work, and they are pro's they don't really care what systems they use, they are more interested in what their systems produce, and probably sit with a SGI bigger than life system anyway.
// Jo
my signature? I have the cheapest piece of crap one can find, and still produce kick ass materiell