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Mark W · #9 (**permalink**) 10-12-2006, 10:16 PM

Speaking only for myself, and meaning to cause no personal offence....

GTWCMT - I think it is unscientific of you to attempt to devalue someone's personal expirience in the light of your own. Your expirience is no more valuable than anyone else's, to claim otherwise appears rather grandiose.

To give advice based on your expirience in the guise of an expert when that advice and purported facts quoted to support said advice has often contained factual errors and questionable suggestions is unhelpfull and misleading.

I am sure you do not mean to mislead or misinform but it may be unhelpfull to others to present yourself as an 'expert' when the knowledge base of that expertise may be less then sound.

Case in point - in claiming cpu performance 10% better than the best at 1/6 of the cost and to fail to back up this claim in any way or to place this observation in a sensible context you risk painting yourself as some latter day silicon miracle worker who can achieve unheard of levels of performance that have eluded intel / amd / and ibm.

I am sure you have a great deal of knowledge about computers but here we need usefull advice on real world systems. Very few real world systems in use today are little more than carefully made 'ordinary' PCs, all this talk of editing systems needing 8 gig of ram and 2 xeons is nothing more than idle fantasising; even our local bbc is getting rid of it's huge avid system and having journalists edit their stories on 'ordinary' desktop PCs. I know this because I have been around the newsroom and talked to one of the editors.

With respect I suggest qualifying your advice and distinguishing between fact and uninformed opinion more.

Truly I am not making a personal comment about you but am concerned about the veracity and helpfullness of some of your advice.