WoW Experience with SSD

    I recently bought a Sony Vaio (VGN-AW21Z) with a 64GB Solid State Drive and it is just amazing.
For those who does not know what it is, it is a hard drive made with flash chips which improves read/write performance and battery durability.

    What I noted more are tarball extractions, system load, compile times and it is definitely worth, but there is a huge problem: its price.

    Even with that high price, I would recommend almost anyone to buy one, but NOT for massive storage use, only buy one 'small' to store the system and programs installed and other HDD for storage of data, that way one can save much money while enjoying the speedup :)

Tecnologic Jump

    Since 1978, we have had the first x86 architecture (8086 CPU), and it kept changing since then. The question is: ¿why don't start a new CPU from scratch with the nowadays aknowledge?

    I can't see the point of keep adding new instructions for that much time. I agree that SSE instructions and similar are really a good idea to have, but nowadays we have several aditions to a standard x86 CPU (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, MMX, ...), so maybe it is worth making a new CPU from scratch with those functions built in, and even more. And possibly replacing the x86 paradigm having into account current computering experiences.

    I think it will be good to have a talk with intel, amd, gcc developers, assembler programmers, and so on, to have a really good base for a new starting architecture, instead of keep adding new instructions to a deprecated (in my opinion) CPU type, and if possible, to keep backwards compatibility with x86 (just like AMD did with its x86_64 proccessors).

    Of course, I am not an expert in this materia, but I think that they should simply drop the x86 plattform.. Any opinion to this will be really apreciated.