Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

[Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:54:52PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> >
> > > takes to compile a kernel on my 200MHz 604e is long enough to
> > > watch an entire movie.  On TV.  With commercials.
> >
> >Hmmm... Apple system with crippled slow memory bus? My LongTrail
> >has the same CPU, but compiling a kernel doesn't take that long.
> 
> *Mumble grumble*  Almost all commodity computers come with crippled
> memory buses, some more crippled (like the old ibooks*) than others.
> You get what you pay for, machines with uncrippled buses, even a
> measly Samsung Alpha box (256 bit with 100 MHz DDR-RAM), cost an arm
> and a leg.

Also, as in the case of the logntrail, only a happy few could buy it back
then, and it is no more produced .

Friendly,

Sven Luther