"...effectively breaking the old rule that says the performance of market computers should double every 18 months."
That's because there never was any such "rule". IIRC, Moore was talking about the density of inegrated circuits doubling about every year at the time that he said it (in the sixties; it was upped to 18 months later). Some idiot somewhere decided that this was a "law" that applied to all technology everywhere for all time, and now everyone is confused.
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Cartman
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Doesn't matter anyway. The current method of CPU R&D has maybe a decade in it left before the laws of quantum mechanics prevent any further growth in IC density... by which time either optical or quantum computing will take over and allow a paradigm shift to take place.
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i have an ibm thinkpad r31 with a 1.6mhz celeron and windows xp pro and wireless LAN thing and i can usually squeeze out 3 hrs if i use it like i do back home (aim, internet, music, etc)
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