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'White Box' Makers Take Up The Slack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dude-you're-getting-a-house-brand dept.

n3hat writes: "This story in the business section of the Baltimore Sun points out that the 'pooter bidness isn't as bad as the publicly-traded companies report. Seems that as much as 45% of systems are assembled by screwdriver shops and other white-box makers, not the big guys." No huge surprises here.

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  1. Author is not very knowledgeable... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:

    "Plexus built 20 machines, each with 2 gigabytes of processing speed and the ability to run the thousand-dollar video card needed for the engineering program"

    I wonder if he put 900MHz or memory into the machine?

    1. Re:Author is not very knowledgeable... by PacoTaco · · Score: 2, Funny
      2 gigabytes of processing speed

      Actually, that sucks. It's only 500 MHz on a 32-bit processor. :)

  2. Sweet Lord! by zombiepopper · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Plexus built 20 machines, each with 2 gigabytes of processing speed and the ability to run the thousand-dollar video card needed for the engineering program."
    I have always dreamed of a machine with such processing power.
    --
    remember, no matter where you go, there you are
  3. i have a different definition of "white box" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    when this article talked about "white box" makers, i thought they were talking about dtmf tone boxes:

    http://www.kontek.net/pi/boxes/white.gz

    makes me feel old.

  4. Newz for Nurdz? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    'pooter bidness
    No huge surprizes

    What's with this new ghetto Slashdot?

    I think this story takes the cake for worst spelling. And it's not even by Taco. :)

  5. Speed!! by jag164 · · Score: 4, Funny

    2 gigabytes of processing speed

    This is not a typo. It's a new technology. Humans have had speed for a while. Take some and it's speeds up the heart rate and some other things.

    CPU's are now taking advantage of digital speed. These new white boxes have 2 GB of processing speed. You just need to set up a cron job to realease a couple bytes of speed into the CPU every few hours. It'll give it a wonder boost in processing power. Be careful, give the CPU too much at once though and you'll fry it.

  6. Re:Yes... by brooks_talley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn, most pierced, painted goths have better taste in beer. Pass me a bud, and I'll install Windows 2.0 on your system.

    Or, did you mean the *other* kind of bud?

    Cheers
    -b

  7. News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No huge surprises here.

    So why bother telling us?