Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:47:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Not sure if i can respond at this time about this, since G5 supply may be
> > constrained by the will of IBM and/or Apple, it may be an unhealthy place to
> > be for an alternative powerpc motherboard manufacturer.
> There's embedded G5 boards already, the IBM reference design is
> supported by current 2.6 kernels.
I think you can get several PegasosII boards for the same amount of one
single IBM reference board. ;)
> > We will have boards
> > based on the next gen Freescale CPUs though (single and dual core with
> > integrated northbridge), which should be a serious performance bump, but
> > staying with 32bit cpus. You don't _really_ need 64bitness anyway.
> It's pretty nice actually as soon as you have more than a Gigabyte of
> main memory..
Although it's always nice to have as much memory as possible/affordable, it
depends on the purpose how much memory actually is required. Same for other
components of the machine.
A database server will have other requirements than my desktop machine. At
home I prefer a silent machine with low power consumption. My Peg2s serve
this purpose pretty well. :-)
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Ingo \X/
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