Recent content by Robbertson

Now if only geekom/kamrui/acemagic put decent parts in their minipcs and didn't prevent real buyers from reviewing them on amazon. Until a few get through, they delete the listing and start over with a fresh one? And if they didn't tell me that they wouldn't take a return until I deleted the...

I get "purchasing luck" routinely from amazon. Usually a case lot or two of something I only ordered one of. I have a lifetime supply of box cutters, stuffed grape leaves and combination locks. I got two electric lawnmowers instead of one. Not really isolated at all. And nope, he won't get in...

At no point, ever, did I authorize any app or web site to scrutinize my software configuration of my personal device.

If only there were a terrific solution, let's say it'd be called smart tube? Someone look into that! Related story. Around 20 years, Sam's Club let you have 5 other people on your membership card, and they didn't even care if they were related to or lived with you. A management genius decided...

I worked for Intel for a long time and couldn't shake being a Homer. I even held my nose and bought 8th and 11th gen cpus. Sank big $ into a 13900K rig and I hate it now with a passion. When I push it, I feel like I'm walking on eggshells. That it's continued to go on tells me that the company...

Former Intel exec here. Craig is right. The reason why Intel fell in a hole was 3 bad CEO's in a row with a hail mary back to Pat, who left because the board wouldn't hand things over to him. Of course, the continued stepping on their own dicks continued. Many good employees left quite a while...

The server business isn't what we were talking about here though, it was general purpose computing. The server end of things was pretty well covered by existing products. Driving 64 bit to the enormous desktop market was a complete waste of time due to the fact that the primary operating systems...

I'd think that it'd be pretty easy to understand that if someone says they'll give you $ to create US manufacturing jobs and you dump 15K+ people while your business is collapsing and you're trying to dump assets and entire product lines, after missing the AI and GPU booms...that they might...

LOL. I was there too, and that's not at all what happened. Very few computers of that era had more than 4GB of ram, and frankly 64 bit doesn't necessarily buy you much other than addressibility of 4+GB of memory without using page mapping tricks. It was literally something that nobody needed...

As I understand it, it may cost as much to move as it did to buy it, and the monthly costs in electricity are something like $90K. Lots of big heavy cabinets, special room requirements, and you're getting a bunch of ~6th gen intel cpus.