Re: TI-H: USB Link
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Re: TI-H: USB Link
>>Grant, you can't realistically tell me that this wasn't HEAVILY biased
>>towards the mac. If that single mac did something faster than 1,500
>>PC's, then it simply meant that the operation that they were trying to
>>perform either *couldn't* be parallel processed, or the mor0ns didn't
>>write the program correctly and the bottleneck became the
>>communication between the PC's as opposed to the PC's processing
>>capability. Anyone who believes that a single mac can outperform
>>1,500 PC's in a parallelizeable application is smoking a big phatty.
>
>They use 10Base-T, so it was the network at fualt also.
Uhh, not "also," you mean "only."
>But you have to
>think about a computer with a beta bus of 200MHz. It screams. it also
>crashes.
Screams, crashes, and also costs UP THE ASS compared to the typical
desktop pentium comp.
>>>The G3s processor can do operations 2 to 4x faster than the fastest Pent,
>>>and its bus is only 80MHz. :)
>>Where are you getting these benchmarks grant? Can you point me to an
>>online article that backs up these claims?
>>
>>I'd like to see a G3 that's 4x faster than my p400. For as much as
>>you'd PAY for a loaded G3, you'd surely EXPECT it to be 4x faster :).
>
>The processor bare sold directly from IBM is about (300MHz) $789 so Apple
>realy does have cheep prices when you look at the prices of the processor.
The processor was never the price bottleneck when it came to macs...
Apple always has jacked up pricing because of their choice of
components, which is also one reason why no one with a brain buys them
:).
-Mel
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