Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw

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Re: TI-H: OT: The Ad I saw


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> >A) I have never, ever heard of a Sun laptop, and
>
>I suppose you are the kind of people who only look at MHz numbers.  :)
>
>Hear things more often, they're often good.
>
>https://statler.hmstore.com/tadpole/
>
>Ok, they were like 130 MIPS and are apparently out of production.

That specific model is...old.  You also can't compare MIPS between a SUN
and other platforms.  Suns are just nasty fast.

>
> >B) There is NO way I'm going to throw away over $2000 for a machine with a
> >300MHz processor.  Uh-uh, no way.
>
>You get what you pay for.  :)
>
>Grant.
>I don't need an enormous screen.  I know PowerBooks are famous for their
>big, gorgeous screens.  Yes.  I've seen them before.  They're terrific!
>Don't need it.
>I don't want to use a computer that's incompatible with what all my friends
>are using.

Emulate.

>I don't want a computer that has the Mac OS on it, and I'm certainly not
>going to put Linux on the only machine I have in Dublin.

NetBSD.

>I DO want a computer that supports all the software I already have (withOUT
>slow-ass emulation, thank you)

Not slow!  I run Protel and MISE all the time.

>I DO want a computer that is at least marginally better than the desktop I
>have now (a PII/400 w/ an 8MB i740 gfx card) and
>I DO want a computer I can play the games I have on.

I want a computer I can love.

>Listen, I really have nothing personal against the Mac.  If Jobs would wisen
>up and license the hardware tech out to clone companies, the Mac platform
>would get a shot of adrenaline in the ass and quite possibly knock Wintel
>for a loop.  Hardware development would be stimulated and they might just
>become good enough to effortlessly emulate Win98 and scream through their
>own applications, AT A PRICE I CAN AFFORD.

If you want to afford it, get an old one.

>You know what?  Great!  Let's
>see 'em do it!  But it hasn't happened, and it's not likely to happen, so I
>ain't going to buy a Mac.

Other people are, so its going to be a long lasting tradition for the next
29k years.  Then we get to throw away our macs.

> >And that ability to clock down the proc has only recently come to laptops,
> >so that's not true.  And it CERTAINLY doesn't happen on the fly!
>
>Its been there in the -good- processors for a while.  It does happen on the
>fly.  The onboard temp sensor has trip points for when it shuts off totally
>and when to clock down.
>
>Define -good- processors.

My IBM 586 DX 100 and other well built processors.  When you get an intel
and in the middle of quake, the screen gets trashed and it starts making
funny noises, you know its not keeping track of the temperature.

Thats happened before on my Intel 486 DX 120.  I've never had that problem
with an old AMD.  The new ones are more sensitive to heat...which is why I
can't use one for my mpeg player.  The thing would meltdown in the dash of
a car unless I put fans all over it.

Grant
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