Apple Wins VT in Cost. vs. Performance

Posted by pudge on Monday September 8, 2003 @05:27AM from the i-knew-it-all-along dept.

danigiri writes "Detailed notes about a presentation at Virginia Tech are posted by by an attending student. copied most of the slides of the facts presentation and wrote down their comments. He wrote some insightful notes and info snippets, like the fact that Apple gave the cheapest deal of machines with chassis, beating Dell, IBM, HP. They are definitely going to use some in-house fault-tolerance software to prevent the odd memory-bit error on such a bunch of non-error-tolerant RAM and any other hard or soft glitches. The G5 cluster will be accepting first apps around-November." mfago adds, "Apple beat Dell, IBM and others based on Cost vs. Performance alone, and it will run Mac OS X because 'there is not enough support for Linux.'"

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Darl says: Revenge! by Mr.+Darl+McBride · 2003-09-08 05:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This FIRST POST! brought to you by the GNAA.

This is for upping the iPod 10g two weeks after I got mine, Apple beeyotches! Thank you very much.
VT? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-08 06:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I first read this as "Apple wins in Vermont" and though that someone was recycling *really* old news. Didn't Apple have a big contract with the Vermont School system?
Maybe by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-08 09:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

it'll help VaTech's Hokies break in to the current BCS standings. http://espn.go.com/abcsports/bcs/ What the hell is PENN STATE doing in there?
pet supplies by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-09 03:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Dog Crates, Bird Cages, Bird Cage