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Originally Posted by renormalised
Sheesh, Marcus, that's bigger than most desktops!!!!.
It's crazy...it's only because MS just want to make bloatware OSes that run bloatware apps, that everything is getting bigger and bigger, more overly complicated, but the actual productivity (speed etc) isn't really increasing. You've got computers and software now that are 5-10 times the size that do exactly the same amount of processing, relatively speaking, that simpler computers and software were doing just as well 5-10 years ago.
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Bigger than most desktops?!! Same amount of processing?! Hardly! More than the OS, it is nice to be able to process 20 x 20Mb sub-exposures in CCDStack without it falling over and not wait for 10 minutes for a single 50 iteration deconvolution! 64 bit CS5 just screams along now too! I.e. I can do 5-10 times
more processing than my old WinXP single core lappy or desktop! My old lappy was starting to groan handling everything that goes on during an observing session too. Anyway, bigger and faster computers are a fact of life like death and taxes!