Re: Apple vs IBM
Hi,
I would surely imagine that teh RS/6000 is tons more scaleable than the
powerMac or Athlon and would have fewer I/O bottlenecks. Tell me something
how many 604e's are included in that $9K price.
Best,
simon
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote:
> I have here a PowerMac 7300/200. It's CPU is, according to the kernel, a
> PPC 604e at 200 Mhz.
>
> It's CPU performance is nothing flash, my Athlon beats it hands down as
> I'd expect.
>
> Then I see this:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/workstations/
>
>
> RS/6000 43P Model 150
> from $8,805.00 IBM Web price*
> Monitor not included
> Power, performance and expandability to fit your budget.
> · Choice of 250 or 375MHz PowerPC 604e
> processors
> · Starting with 128MB and growing to 1GB of
> memory
> · Ultra2 SCSI disk support/SSA RAID disk support
> · Supports GXT135P and GXT4500P graphics
>
>
> Now, 250 Mhz isn't a lot more than 200 Mhz. Sure its disk is faster, and
> its a more-nicely specced machine, but it still has basically the same
> CPU as is in my six-year-old Powermac. about the same age as my Pentium
> II-233 system.
>
> What's special about this IBM kit to justify its price?
>
>
>
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