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Hi all,
i know there where some very old thready about this already, but today it really seems more than ever important to discuss i think:

every PC or MAC, even small notebooks have dualcore chips inside, even my sons imac, and my "mother in law"s 500€ mini dell notebook.

Still Maxwell uses 2(!) licenses for a normal modern PC. with all respect i dont find this fair, also potential maxwell buyers complain about this fact.
Intel claims to have 90% of all sold chips at least2cores in 2006.

the current system is also not fair because when you upgrade your machine you loose half of your licenses. (next year there are 4 cores and then 8 etc...)

so i really would beg NL to think about this again, and to charge per socket no per core, the same way as winxp does it and most other apps today.

respectfull,
cheers
Stefan

lllab wrote:Hi all,
i know there where some very old thready about this already, but today it really seems more than ever important to discuss i think:

every PC or MAC, even small notebooks have dualcore chips inside, even my sons imac, and my "mother in law"s 500€ mini dell notebook.

Still Maxwell uses 2(!) licenses for a normal modern PC. with all respect i dont find this fair, also potential maxwell buyers complain about this fact.
Intel claims to have 90% of all sold chips at least2cores in 2006.

the current system is also not fair because when you upgrade your machine you loose half of your licenses. (next year there are 4 cores and then 8 etc...)

so i really would beg NL to think about this again, and to charge per socket no per core, the same way as winxp does it and most other apps today.

respectfull,
cheers
Stefan

Well, I have a 2 chip (read 2 socket) system and use 1 licence. Both chips are functioning.
As far as i know, 1 Maxwell licence gives a 4 core functionality, either 4 single, or 2 dual, or 1 quad (or combinations of above).
Maybe i'm mistaken?

no you're correct.

no boris,
if you use one machine that has onecpu that has 2 cores,

-->> this one machine uses 2of 4 license nodes!

if you have one machine with 2 cpus(dual) with each 2cores(xeons,opterons)

--> this dual cpu machine uses 4 of 4 kicense nodes.

so actally maxwell costs 900.- per modern machine
(dual xeon or dual opteron system)

thats what i mean. i think the problem is obvious.

cheers
stefan

lllab wrote:no boris,
if you use one machine that has onecpu that has 2 cores,

-->> this one machine uses 2of 4 license nodes!

if you have one machine with 2 cpus(dual) with each 2cores(xeons,opterons)

--> this dual cpu machine uses 4 of 4 kicense nodes.

so actally maxwell costs 900.- per modern machine
(dual xeon or dual opteron system)

thats what i mean. i think the problem is obvious.

cheers
stefan

That is what i meant, I thought you was talking about number of licences, not licence nodes!
If we have a per socket number system then, it would be great!
Sorry for misunderstanding!

no problem, i said it wrong...
cheers
stefan