I cant beleive this!!!
>PaceBlade Technology is proud to present the >first Tablet Notebook computer: the PaceBook .
Um. Not the first guys, and im sure it's not the first time they didnt understand the market they were going for.
The IBM 730T, and the rest of the tablet PCs in that series were quite nice, and well above the competition from Compaq.
Take a look at the Fujitsu Stylistic series of both CE and Win2000 tablet PCs. These are CURRENT!
The Casio Fiva is also a nice tablet PC, that runs Windows 98.
"Walkabout Computers" makes a very rugged machine like this with a detachable keyboard.
FYI: Who uses HP workstations? HP seems to be the bottom end when it comes to software. I know they have some serious CAD stuff ported to it; other than that, I havent seen much. It seems that machine targets a very different market.
My friend, go grab a nice Sun machine. Dont put Linux on it. Grab Solaris 8. If Linux is the best thing to happen to you, it will be like taking a self improvement class several times over. You will be amazed. It's like giving a pair of shoes to someone sally struthers has sponsored in a nasty part of the east. "Do you want to use a real operating system, sure we all do"
Better yet, you could also grab yourself a cheap Irix machine. They have much lower resale values than Suns. An old Irix machine with a big graphics card is a wierd thing. Usually the processor isnt too great, but the graphics card is amazing. Dont expect to get the same effect from finding a way to put a FireGL or some other phat card into a 386.
Ahh Hemm! Did someone say Solaris? Didnt I hear someone say Solaris? Hmm. I thought I did. Im sure that person never realized Solaris is a choice ahead of AIX. Our systemadmin laughs when you say "AIX" or "Let's go with IBM." He's had 30+ years of experience, most of you arent out of high school.
Apple at this moment, beleive it or not--at least in terms of price/performance. They have a 128 bit vector processing unit attached to their processors, that provides many software programs with now 7 gigaglop performance. They are banned from export because they are classified as supercomputers, unlike intel crapola. Their OS was way behind until OS-X, which is a UNIX operating system.
As far as brute force, Sun is way ahead of SGI. Check out their Elite3D graphics attached to their SunBLADE 1000 (not the 100). Expect to pay over $10,000 for this beast, but you get to have an UltraSparcIII processor that has been in development for many long years. All Sun's stuff is 64 bit, and has been for a long time. Sun had a lead over PC performance with their 400mhz 63 bit Ultrasparc processor, which outruns 1ghz Intel Crapola. Now their stuff runs at 900mhz. Sun has special on chip instructions that are similar, but superior to MMX and for the 64 bit world.
Im sure you really dont give a crap, you're not worried about the best "Graphics Workstation" Im sure all you want to do is play games. In that case, Wintel is certianly superior with its vast array of games.
I cannot beleive they are doing something so half-minded as switching their origin servers over to Linux! I find it incredibly hilarous how the writer of this article states "...proprietary Irix operating system..." HAHAHA! IRIX IS A UNIX VARIANT! It is not anything like the highly limited, and quirky Linux operatintg system. Irix is a powerful, beautiful, and slick OS that most of you have never even used before! Get with it! Dont reply to this unless you HAVE used Irix, and know what you are talking about.
I want you all to watch as SGI's stock goes to crap yet again(it's already way down). Everyone didnt want to buy SGIs anymore because they started going intel. People who have a passion for SGIs hate Intel even more than Mac Lovers. Intel is not the answer, there are much much better processors out there. The rest of the industry understands this. Origin has been their lead over Sun for a while, now I expect them to lag behind considerably. Irix is amazing, Linux is a joke.
What a Joke this is! 1600mhz Athlon. Hmm. Fastest desktop.
You mean it's faster than a SunBlade1000 Desktop with a 64 Bit UltraSparcIII?
You mean it's faster than a IBM Power4 Desktop with the 64 bit version of the PowerPC(multiple processor versions of which are beaten out by the single processor configuration of the SunBlade)
You mean it's faster than a Mac G4 with a 128 Bit Vector Processing Engine? (DVD encoding in 4 hours, nice)
It's funny you're all worrying about if your machines will crash if they get any faster. Not everyone runs Windows. I do, I run Windows 2000 on an Althon machine, and laugh every time the Sun workstation sitting next to it totally beats it out on simple tasks. It's funny that they both cost the same.
Let me share my view of the Intel Platform:
1. It's terribly slow and broken.
2. It's terribly popular
3. People are arrogant about the hardware, and dont like Windows. They boast high mhz ratings that really mean absolutly nothing.
4. People who dont like windows use Linux, because they are too stubborn, arrogant, or misinformed to buy a real UNIX machine. It's like someone on a race track with a honda civic and a racing stripe, next to an Audi Rally car.
5. People who use Linux say it's UNIX because they think that's cool. They can easily run a real UNIX variant such as Solaris/Intel on their machines that can actually run Linux, and Solaris/Intel software. People think Linux is the most solid operating system in the world. It's actually the most quirky piece of crap I've ever run into.
6. Everyone thinks 64 bit is something incredibly new. It isnt. I dont mean graphics cards to play quake on, people. I mean honest to goodness 64 bit processing. Intel didnt invent the 64 bit processor with IA-64. It's like you gave a GEO Metro a hubcap and watch the owner race around thinking "I am da bomb"
7. Windows is actually a pretty decent home user operating system. The notion that you can run a business with Microsoft SQL server is hilarous. Good luck. Perhaps Microsoft can run a campaign to sell their software as "Server software for the undereducated"
I have Macs, PCs, Suns, etc. in my house. I use them all. Windows isnt bad, it's actually got some good points to it--but it has to contend with the sh*t hardware underneath it all. Linux has appeared as a fungal growth. I encourage all Linux users to use Solaris and LxRun, you'll get so much more out of it, and have the ability to run cool (free for personal use) commercal software products made for the Solaris/Intel platform. Linux, and X-Window variants that run on it are terribly non-standard. It's just like Windows server software, which is terribly non standard. You're not part of the answer at all, you're part of the same problem.
Linux users get Solaris/Intel
People who think their Intel machines are fast and cost efficent, get a clue
Those looking to buy a server, dont touch Intel unless it's a server appliance
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I cant beleive this!!! >PaceBlade Technology is proud to present the >first Tablet Notebook computer: the PaceBook . Um. Not the first guys, and im sure it's not the first time they didnt understand the market they were going for. The IBM 730T, and the rest of the tablet PCs in that series were quite nice, and well above the competition from Compaq. Take a look at the Fujitsu Stylistic series of both CE and Win2000 tablet PCs. These are CURRENT! The Casio Fiva is also a nice tablet PC, that runs Windows 98. "Walkabout Computers" makes a very rugged machine like this with a detachable keyboard.
FYI: Who uses HP workstations? HP seems to be the bottom end when it comes to software. I know they have some serious CAD stuff ported to it; other than that, I havent seen much. It seems that machine targets a very different market.
My friend, go grab a nice Sun machine. Dont put Linux on it. Grab Solaris 8. If Linux is the best thing to happen to you, it will be like taking a self improvement class several times over. You will be amazed. It's like giving a pair of shoes to someone sally struthers has sponsored in a nasty part of the east. "Do you want to use a real operating system, sure we all do"
Better yet, you could also grab yourself a cheap Irix machine. They have much lower resale values than Suns. An old Irix machine with a big graphics card is a wierd thing. Usually the processor isnt too great, but the graphics card is amazing. Dont expect to get the same effect from finding a way to put a FireGL or some other phat card into a 386.
Ahh Hemm! Did someone say Solaris? Didnt I hear someone say Solaris? Hmm. I thought I did. Im sure that person never realized Solaris is a choice ahead of AIX. Our systemadmin laughs when you say "AIX" or "Let's go with IBM." He's had 30+ years of experience, most of you arent out of high school.
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Apple at this moment, beleive it or not--at least in terms of price/performance. They have a 128 bit vector processing unit attached to their processors, that provides many software programs with now 7 gigaglop performance. They are banned from export because they are classified as supercomputers, unlike intel crapola. Their OS was way behind until OS-X, which is a UNIX operating system. As far as brute force, Sun is way ahead of SGI. Check out their Elite3D graphics attached to their SunBLADE 1000 (not the 100). Expect to pay over $10,000 for this beast, but you get to have an UltraSparcIII processor that has been in development for many long years. All Sun's stuff is 64 bit, and has been for a long time. Sun had a lead over PC performance with their 400mhz 63 bit Ultrasparc processor, which outruns 1ghz Intel Crapola. Now their stuff runs at 900mhz. Sun has special on chip instructions that are similar, but superior to MMX and for the 64 bit world. Im sure you really dont give a crap, you're not worried about the best "Graphics Workstation" Im sure all you want to do is play games. In that case, Wintel is certianly superior with its vast array of games.
I cannot beleive they are doing something so half-minded as switching their origin servers over to Linux! I find it incredibly hilarous how the writer of this article states "...proprietary Irix operating system..." HAHAHA! IRIX IS A UNIX VARIANT! It is not anything like the highly limited, and quirky Linux operatintg system. Irix is a powerful, beautiful, and slick OS that most of you have never even used before! Get with it! Dont reply to this unless you HAVE used Irix, and know what you are talking about.
I want you all to watch as SGI's stock goes to crap yet again(it's already way down). Everyone didnt want to buy SGIs anymore because they started going intel. People who have a passion for SGIs hate Intel even more than Mac Lovers. Intel is not the answer, there are much much better processors out there. The rest of the industry understands this. Origin has been their lead over Sun for a while, now I expect them to lag behind considerably. Irix is amazing, Linux is a joke.
What a Joke this is! 1600mhz Athlon. Hmm. Fastest desktop.
You mean it's faster than a SunBlade1000 Desktop with a 64 Bit UltraSparcIII?
You mean it's faster than a IBM Power4 Desktop with the 64 bit version of the PowerPC(multiple processor versions of which are beaten out by the single processor configuration of the SunBlade)
You mean it's faster than a Mac G4 with a 128 Bit Vector Processing Engine? (DVD encoding in 4 hours, nice)
It's funny you're all worrying about if your machines will crash if they get any faster. Not everyone runs Windows. I do, I run Windows 2000 on an Althon machine, and laugh every time the Sun workstation sitting next to it totally beats it out on simple tasks. It's funny that they both cost the same.
Let me share my view of the Intel Platform:
1. It's terribly slow and broken.
2. It's terribly popular
3. People are arrogant about the hardware, and dont like Windows. They boast high mhz ratings that really mean absolutly nothing.
4. People who dont like windows use Linux, because they are too stubborn, arrogant, or misinformed to buy a real UNIX machine. It's like someone on a race track with a honda civic and a racing stripe, next to an Audi Rally car.
5. People who use Linux say it's UNIX because they think that's cool. They can easily run a real UNIX variant such as Solaris/Intel on their machines that can actually run Linux, and Solaris/Intel software. People think Linux is the most solid operating system in the world. It's actually the most quirky piece of crap I've ever run into.
6. Everyone thinks 64 bit is something incredibly new. It isnt. I dont mean graphics cards to play quake on, people. I mean honest to goodness 64 bit processing. Intel didnt invent the 64 bit processor with IA-64. It's like you gave a GEO Metro a hubcap and watch the owner race around thinking "I am da bomb"
7. Windows is actually a pretty decent home user operating system. The notion that you can run a business with Microsoft SQL server is hilarous. Good luck. Perhaps Microsoft can run a campaign to sell their software as "Server software for the undereducated"
I have Macs, PCs, Suns, etc. in my house. I use them all. Windows isnt bad, it's actually got some good points to it--but it has to contend with the sh*t hardware underneath it all. Linux has appeared as a fungal growth. I encourage all Linux users to use Solaris and LxRun, you'll get so much more out of it, and have the ability to run cool (free for personal use) commercal software products made for the Solaris/Intel platform. Linux, and X-Window variants that run on it are terribly non-standard. It's just like Windows server software, which is terribly non standard. You're not part of the answer at all, you're part of the same problem.
Linux users get Solaris/Intel
People who think their Intel machines are fast and cost efficent, get a clue
Those looking to buy a server, dont touch Intel unless it's a server appliance
And for god sakes, kill that damn penguin!