anon (spam.delete.delete@this.this.spam.com) on April 27, 2017 12:28 pm wrote:
>
> Are you taking the piss?
>
> Or do you actually live in a world where
> cheaper = cheap
> and
> only option = cheap
> no matter the price?

I'm living in a world where "cheap" is not some absolute number.

Look around you. I picked the dish washer and coffee cup examples not entirely randomly. It turns out that the price ranges for those two things are actually not completely irrelevant to CPU's of different classes.

You can get cheap low-performance embedded CPUs in the coffee cup price range (25c to a couple of dollars). Within that envelope, a $100 CPU would be ridiculously expensive (although you'll certainly find them in specialty market, like space-grade rad-hard controllers etc).

And high-performance CPU's really do end up being in that "dishwasher" price range. Within that market, $100 isn't all that expensive.

And your idiotic "only option" thing only made sense because you literally edited out the other option that I explicitly mentioned, you illiterate troglodyte.

There have been several other options. They have been bad, and they have failed, and people don't sell them any more, because OoO was "cheaper".

How f*cking stupid or intellectually dishonest can you be?

Linus