People can say all they want about these slick, new mobile phones in the market. Not interested.
They can plan their Christmas gifts around the latest Internet-ready hand-held computers. Not interested. They can even praise the Tablet PC from here to Redmond, Washington. Get a life.
The bottom line is the bells and whistles touted by the makers of those machines do not amount to a hill of beans compared to what the awesome power of supercomputers deliver.
For the hardcore computing aficionado, bigger is better. Thankfully, these bad boys were in the news again last week.
Supercomputers - the world superheavyweight wrestling champions of data-crunching - are typically used for scientific and engineering applications that involve handling large databases and processing information at incredible speed.
Last week, a system developed by NEC again topped the twice-a-year ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.