> > Hardware is cheap, software isn't.  A PC is a few of hours of your
> > hourly rate.  How much auto-router code does that buy?
> 
> I'm not sure if you're just trolling or somehow really didn't get the
point,
> so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.  I was using the Eagle
autorouter
> merely as a example of something that consumes a lot of CPU time on
current
> machines because you claimed no such programs existed.
> 
> As for your side point, show me a machine for $2000 that can complete any
of
> the Eagle auto routes I've done in under a minute and I'll buy it.  In the
> mean time I'll keep upgrading my PC occasionally.  I'm not going to run
out
> and get a new PC every 6 months though just because it would 25% faster.
> Even ignoring the purchase price, there is a cost in down time of
installing
> all the software getting everything set up just the way I like, etc.  It
> usually takes a day or even more just to switch to a new computer.
Anyway,
> this is irrelevant to the point at hand.


Getting a 25% speed increase by doing something trivial as buying a new PC
sounds good to me, beats waiting for the next software release (which is
very unlikely to be that good).

You complain something is slow when there's an easy solution at hand?

Disk cloning programs are pretty good these days.  Why build from scratch?

Tony

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