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Re: Wierd Stuff
From: Matt Simerson
Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998
Time: 9:26:37 am
Blech! You do have good hardware components but how can you say you've
got all high end components on it when in the same sentence you mention
NT? I'm betting that if you drop BSDI or even Slowlaris on there you'd
have a rock solid platform. Even your favorite version of Linux is more
stable than NT.
Also, your Mac is not one of Apple's finer products. The 6200/6300/6360
macs are all seriously cheapened versions of a mac. They use IDE drives
and the really poky 603e processor. A 601 at the same MHz is nearly 50%
faster. I've got a 7200/120 with a 601 that will dance circles around our
6360/160 that uses a 603e. The 603e is a cheaper processor designed for
the laptops that uses a lot less current, less cache, and has some of the
performance enhancing subsystems of the CPU removed. Frankly, there isn't
one 603 cpu that's worth having, IMNSHO.
That being said, I'd still take the 603e in a desktop over a comparably
priced Pentium system any day. If your tight on cash and can live with the
15" monitor get the iMac. It runs the G3 CPU and there isn't a finer CPU
anywhere. Want a kicking cheap system? Buy a used 8500/8600 version for
$800. Spend another $250 to bump the RAM up to 256K Megs. Make a RAM disk
of 128MB and put your system folder on it. Reboot. :) Keep a backup of
your RAM disk based files for when the power goes out. Put a few of your
favorite apps on there (Marathon, Carmageddon, Quake). Don't forget to
have your web browser put it's cache on the RAM disk. It really speeds up
cache hits. :) Can your <insert OS here> computer do this?
The 8500/8600 includes S-video and composite video in/out. You can just
plug your VCR in and watch TV. :) Because they come with video capture
facilities they have faster drives (Seagate Barracuda's) capable of saving
video at 32fps (standard VHS quality). They have two SCSI buses capable of
supporting 6 devices each. It has 8 DIMM slots, the CPU is on a
daughtercard so you just pop out the old one and in the new one. When you
get a few extra dollars to soup it up you buy a 300MHz G3 upgrade. A year
ago I bought the 184MHz 604e upgrade and a 1MB L2 cache. Wow! Today the
400MHz PowerPC 750 CPU's are out so you can snag a 233MHz 604e for under
$200. This will compare favorably with a 300MHz Pentium II.
Some praise the DEC Alpha but it's handicapped by availability of
software. You can only run NT or DEC's *nix on it. Even then, you can only
run Alpha-specific software on NT for the Alpha CPU. I used one of these
for running Pro E on. We hardly ever touched it because it sucked moose
genitalia compared to the SGI Indy we had. What a foolish move by
Microsoft. If a little company like Apple can make Motorola 680x0 code run
on the PowerPC chip, why can't Microshaft get 80X86 code running on the
more powerful Alpha chip? I'll give you a hint, it has nothing to do with
technical feasibility.
Matt
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Shawn Hogan wrote:
> Matt Simerson wrote:
>
> >My point in all this is: Good Intel hardware is as good as Mac hardware.
> >It's just very rare which is why you are right and that it will not end up
> >being seamless.
>
> I dunno... my Quake 2 computer running NT is all "high-end" equipment,
> and it never seems to work right... It has the following in it:
>
> Tyan Thunder 2 Motherboard
> 2 Pentium II 300s
> On-board Adaptec SCSI
> 9.1GB Seagate Cheetah UW
> 3Com 100/10 Ethernet
> Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro (8MB)
>
> And all I know is that I have without a DOUBT more problems with it than
> even my 75Mhz 603e 6200... {shrug}
>
> - Shawn
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