On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Marechiare wrote:

>> 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).
>
> I'm almost sure you are trolling, you were told that reinstalling all
> the software would take a day work. That's not cheap and it could be
> rather tricky for the compatibility issues

You know, I can see both sides of this pretty easily; On the one hand,  
upgrading hardware isn't that easy, especially if you're talking  
multiple users in a corporate environment with a large "other"  
applications portfolio.  This is the scope of IT departments, and I  
think I recall seeing studies that IT departments have NOT shrunk much  
since the mainframe days, despite each user having their own machine.

On the other hand, you see people struggling with ANCIENT computer  
setups, somehow thinking that struggling to run modern software on  
their aging Pentium 3 systems is saving them money vs dropping $500 on  
a new Dell (or whatever.)

Still, it'll be nice when Cadsoft comes out with the multi-core aware  
version of EAGLE and its autorouter.  It'd be a nice carrot for the  
commercial versions, too...  (although frankly I'm not convinced that  
some SW changes wouldn't help more.)

BillW

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