Cheapest source of compact flash memory
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tvrforever said:
They'll be giving them away soon!
>> Edited by Thumper on Thursday 10th July 17:18
Well actually Canon already are!
When you register you 10D and fill in a question sheet they send you a 64Mb CF for free....
what?!
I brought a new Canon IXUS digi camera last week and have no info about that deal!
Please tell me more......
not sure if it applies to all Canon cameras... But when I went online to register my EOS 10D the other day it asked my to answer 40 questions and they've posted my a free 64Mb CF card for doing so...
The www site was here www.cps.canon-europe.com/index.jsp and it asked me mid way through registration...
The www site was here www.cps.canon-europe.com/index.jsp and it asked me mid way through registration...
Robertuk said:
Thats how the market works.
They do that with Processors as well.
The factory produces 1000MHz (1 GHZ) cpu's.
then underclock them (say to 600Mhz) and sell these in May for £X . Next in June they up the speed a bit to say 750Mhz and sell them for £y. Finally after a couple more months they release the full 1 GHZ CPU for £Z . Its this sliding scale that a lot of hardware producers have to use. This creates low,mid and high (corporate and affluent personal users) market sectors.
Hmm things have changed then, in the olden days they used to see what clock speed the processor would run reliably at then make that the clock speed. Thats why it was so easy to overclock. Mind you it still is (nerd, geek that I am).
D.
tvrforever said:
not sure if it applies to all Canon cameras... But when I went online to register my EOS 10D the other day it asked my to answer 40 questions and they've posted my a free 64Mb CF card for doing so...
The www site was here www.cps.canon-europe.com/index.jsp and it asked me mid way through registration...
Will give it a whirl.
Maybe it was in all the leaflets and stuff that I threw away when I opened the box!
I have to agree with Davidd.
Due to the variances in Silicon quality, the yield quality of high end chips is low until they revise the design to squeeze more transistors on to the chip in a different format.
The chips that do not make the grade get sold at a lower reliable speed, so they make a return on as much of the kit as is produced.
Due to the variances in Silicon quality, the yield quality of high end chips is low until they revise the design to squeeze more transistors on to the chip in a different format.
The chips that do not make the grade get sold at a lower reliable speed, so they make a return on as much of the kit as is produced.
*Techies enjoy*
yep in the old days processor speeds were bigger leaps
Going from a 20MHZ 386DX to a 40 MHZ 386DX is
a 200% (x2) increase in processor speed.
But nowadays jumps are relativly smaller. ?
1GHZ AMD Athlon to 1.1 GHZ Athlon
thats a 10 percent increase !
Not such a *Quantum* leap as before
200 % leaps dont really exist.
Thats why you have varients of the same architecture.
XP - MP AMD Athlon's e.t.c
rather than a leap in MHZ/GHZ/Processor speed
you *leap* to the next type of CPU
-which will give you better performance for the same
chip speed.
>> Edited by Robertuk on Saturday 12th July 19:41
yep in the old days processor speeds were bigger leaps
Going from a 20MHZ 386DX to a 40 MHZ 386DX is
a 200% (x2) increase in processor speed.
But nowadays jumps are relativly smaller. ?
1GHZ AMD Athlon to 1.1 GHZ Athlon
thats a 10 percent increase !
Not such a *Quantum* leap as before
200 % leaps dont really exist.
Thats why you have varients of the same architecture.
XP - MP AMD Athlon's e.t.c
rather than a leap in MHZ/GHZ/Processor speed
you *leap* to the next type of CPU
-which will give you better performance for the same
chip speed.
>> Edited by Robertuk on Saturday 12th July 19:41
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