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Basic questions

After reading many threads about cMP, I have some basic questions:

- Why are you using Intel-CPU and Chipset? For a really quiet machine (without any fans!) I thought (up to now :-)) a much more energy-friendly version is an AMD 35 or 45 W CPU and AMD/ATI-Chipset. We don't need high power-CPUs...

- Why are you using XP? The normal version "sounds" incredible in comparison with Win6 or Win7. Win6 has a complete new and modern Audio processing architecture and could also be optimized:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Windows_Vista

- The deep way of optimizing XP (reading AOB-PDF...) seems to me, that an old and very unstable horse should be converted to a young race horse. If a system is so sensitive - something must be wrong :-)

Regards
Thomas


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