Intel's Itanium too hot for Eric

[dantheman]

Couldn't see this posted already - Google explains why they won't move to Intel's Itanium processor:

[xbitlabs.com...]

And original story here:

[geek.com...]

[Brett_Tabke]

As far as pc's have advanced even in just the last two years, I'd think G would be just as interested in raw horse power as heat and manageability. Wouldn't you'd think they'd want to reduce the number of boards first? I'd think a 3 fold increase (800->2400mhz) in processor speed combined with ddr ram speed perks and significant increases in disk through put (rpm, cache, dma100) would stand to replace atleast two boxes - maybe three - with one without performance degradation.

btw: my neice needed a cheap college computer. So I got her one of those MicroTels from Walmart [walmart.com] ($300) and bought two for network terminals myself. Amazing tech for that price.