Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:45:00PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:53:57PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:56:05AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:00:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > > But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box
> > > > instead of a few hundred pounds on a random i386 desktop box?
> > > Because you don't want a 100+W dissipating screaming monster on your desk ?
> >
> > You can get low power x86 systems that have much better performance (> 1
> > GHz).
>
> They would be too slow for autobuilder work though.
No more so than the 600 MHz ARM in the Iyonix desktop.
Hamish
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