Thread: Upgrade fatigue?
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Old 10-31-2012, 11:35 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
Hrm... maybe I'm sitting here waiting 20 minutes for this distributed computing job that is currently running on 72 CPUs for a total of 190 GHz of processing power for no reason. Maybe I should downgrade! Maybe that computing task that I started at 11:30 am which finished at 5:30 pm, also distributed to about 70 CPUs was also slow because I have "too fast" computers.
Ok, now go and tell me, that it was an "average user" case of use .
Honestly the last time I've seen a mass case of increased need of computing power among average users was mp3 becoming popular.
The last time I experienced such a need in a way which could be expected to happen among non-techies was compressing my ScummVM playable game data.
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