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4.7GHz IBM Power6 Spotted
Ilgaz notes that The Register has posted benchmark results from Oracle 11i running on four 4.7GHz Power6 chips. Quoting: "The speedy chips confirm IBM's boasting that Power6 would arrive near 5GHz. They also show that IBM's customers have a lot to look forward to in terms of raw performance." Rumor has it that the Power6 chips will be announced on Tuesday.
A Core2 Duo would also work great in a Mini.
Apple now has tons of options with Intel, yet they still refuse to produce competitive hardware; whichever chips they are using is irrelevant. The future looks like more of the same: insanely priced outdated hardware, so that they can maintain their obscene margins.
I have no problem paying more for Apple hardware, but right now, they are simply gouging customers. What's worse is that none of that revenue is being used to further the Mac platform, as is evidenced by their almost nonexistent R&D investments. (Which work out to far less per machine than it costs for any PC OEM to bundle a copy of Windows.)
Especially once you go into businesses. The difference in price between Apple and Microsoft starts getting huge once you spec out an environment for >50 people. With Apple you know your clients cost you $129, your server $999, Remote Desktop for $499, no limits, everything integrated with Kerberos + LDAP. With Microsoft you got that and then you have to start calculating CAL's for Exchange, CAL's for your Terminal Server, CAL's and server licenses for your SMS and WUS, and each little piece that will make life easier as the admin costs you an extra CAL which is all included in the Server+Client+RemoteDesktop licenses on Mac.
Of course, the Windows environment you've just described (Exchange, Terminal Server, etc) is _vastly_ more functional than the OS X environment you described, so it's not surprising in the least it would cost more.
Next to that, the average Windows machine lasts 3 years before it get's old and slow. I've seen G3's running OS X 10.4 without a hitch, G4's are mainstream in many companies and most haven't even gone to Intel yet.
If someone is happy with a G3 or G4 running OS X, they'll be just as happy with a P2, P3 or P4 running Windows XP. It's *far* kinder to older hardware than OS X is.
This, of course, is where you say (the lack of capitalization within the quotes is intended) "hey! language evolves with cultural influences and whatnot" ... I also say:
Well, to that I say: "BUSH". Do you call that culture?
Oh how I loathe that which the Internet has done to our language, and the care with which we speak and write it. We've gone from Shakespeare's Hamlet et al, to "omgd00dwtf!?! i so roxz0rd you're azz, im so much leeter!1! lolroflbbq" It's because of this disgraceful and careless attitude towards literacy that I have believed, and still believe that we will end up slowly degenerating (or reverting, call it what you will) back to a state of cavemen-like communication. Grunting at each other to communicate, all because grunting is so much easier to do. Over the generations, people will have become lazier and lazier with keeping literacy intact; going from long eloquent stanzas of beautiful poetry to express a simple but elegant thought, removing, combining, and abbreviating words throughout the years, until finally we can fit entire thoughts into acronyms and canonical abbreviations (like NASA or IANAL(...)). Eventually we'll get bored of speaking and typing in acronyms and such, instead using more verbose facial expressions and pointing at things with our fingers, and grunting happily or growling when the other person guessed right or wrong what we meant.
Remind you of (m)any animals?
how is babby formed?