So said some semi-famous movie figure. Darned if I can remember who. Case in point, look at the speed of microprocessors in personal computers. Several years ago, arguably, the speed of the microprocessor surpassed what was required for most computer users.
Memory is the bottleneck now in the personal computer.
Little wonder then that a few years ago we saw Intel, Cyrix and AMD begin to court the game industry so aggressively. They knew they were close to taping out the need for CPU power in the business computer and had to find a way to continue pushing the consumers insatiable need for upgrades. I admit, I fall for it all the time. I love to build computers, taking a collection of the latest parts and assemble together some sort of new Frankensteinish computer that I ll use for a few months before needing to tweak it or worse yet build a new one. I m going to talk about one of my computers at home.