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Well - there's more to it than that. I've bought 2 new computers
in the last month. And the first time around - we came home with a
Compaq (which is the main brand with AMD chips). The speakers
hummed. So I took the system back - and got a replacement. The
speakers in that system hummed too. So I called Compaq technical
support - and they told me there was a known defect in the sound
card - and they'd send me a new one when the problem was fixed. I
figured that any company that put a known defective product on the
market wasn't worth dealing with - so I returned the Compaq - and
bought a HP. It's been fine - so when I needed to buy another
computer this weekend - I bought another HP. I didn't rely on what
the salespeople told me. I think the HP box is somewhat better
than the Compaq - but I think Compaq technical support is better
than what you find at HP.
Most of the math errors aren't too relevant to what I program. I
haven't had a floating point error for a while. And - when I have
them - it's usually because I have a corrupted data file in one of
my programs - or because I've tried to do something dumb like
divide by zero. Moreover - a lot of my programs - like SuperCharts
2.1 - are really old now - and they sometimes do strange things.
For example - there's something called the Expert Analyst on SC. I
never paid for it - never had the module. When I installed the
program on my new machine - it suddenly appeared - out of the
blue. Took a quick look - and it seems like it's worth what I paid
for it <g>. Robyn
Chris Norrie wrote:
> > I was shopping for a new computer this weekend - and I was
> > told by various salespeople that the AMD chips had more
> > problems with advanced math calculations than the Intel
> > chips (i.e., you got more floating point errors, etc.).
>
> With an answer like that, I understand why they're sales people
> and not engineers. Always beware of a non-technical person
> giving you a technical answer, especially when they sound
> authorative!
>
> I wonder if this is true for trading systems sales people too?
>
> Chris Norrie
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