So I'm someone of the "no-one (you know what I mean)" ;)

I like desktops (3 of them) - I can dig easy inside, something difficult with laptops
(but my daughters (students) have laptops for mobility, I find laptops are mostly unusable for crunching as this makes them very hot).

I like CRT monitors, I hate LCD (you have to keep your head in the right angle all the time to have "proper" brightness and colors).

I like to play games (installed local games, not flash).

I care about specs (manufacturer/model) of every computer component.


Only because a few (100) people around you buy laptops and have no interest in games (and find µTorrent very complicated - Ha! :D )
don't give you enough clue to make worldwide conclusions.

The "newcomer" don't need to know what (CPU, GPU) will be used to do the computation (but it really helps if he is tech savvy (to deal with any hardware/software problems that may arise))
- if the project supports it BOINC will automatically use the CPU and GPU.
And if the "newcomer" is not tech savvy there are only 2 steps needed for the start:
1. Install BOINC
2. Add/Attach to project

And in fact SETI@home currently is overloaded with too much fast computers (GPUs)
so I don't think SETI@home needs for now to invite many "newcomers" (especially the computer-absolute-beginners which never install any program)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

And in fact SETI@home currently is overloaded with too much fast computers (GPUs)
so I don't think SETI@home needs for now to invite many "newcomers"

Now there's the answer that would have shut me up straight away. I had no idea Seti was "overloaded". I guess that's a good thing...

Overloaded network to/from SETI servers:
http://fragment1.berkeley.edu/newcricket/grapher.cgi?target=%2Frouter-interfaces%2Finr-250%2Fgigabitethernet2_3;ranges=d;view=octets

Blue: Upload (from us to SETI servers)
Green: Download (from SETI servers to us)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

Ah, my mistake! The bandwidth is what everybody is talking about these days, so I know about the infamous cricket graph and the bandwidth saturation... But that's "fixable". Sort of. Maybe.

1) Swarm of shorties is bound to end some day

2) Matt will eventually find whatever it is that "isn't adding up"
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=64493&nowrap=true#1117406

3) Seti banwidth will (one day) eventually increase 10x (hopefully)

I thought you meant Seti had more crunchers (ie processing power) than actual data (to analyze). Sorry for the mix-up!

Live long and prosper, neighbor:)

PS I'm no-one too: I still buy vinyl records and since I'm a video/sound editor I know exactly what you mean about CRTs vs TFTs. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...