One is Electorlux's model, selling for ~1000-2000 $, i think,
the other is Roomba, with 200/230/250 for Roomba/Roomba Pro/Roomba Pro Elite, made by iRobot.
The Geforce4 card clearly beat the Matrox card using 3D Mark 2001 SE Vertex shader test, but the matrox card wins by a mile when using the "Sharkmark", which is written by matrox. What a suprise.
Just look at the benchmarks at HotHardware; you will see that in NVIDIA's own benchmarks Parhelia it's aprox. 6% behind GF4.
And remember that P's drivers are far from mature,
compared to NVIDIAs...
Well that's what I got from Santa & Co.:
1xDVD: Cranberries, Beneath the Skin, live in Paris (nice cover: iceberg with a mainboard under the ice:))
1xDVD: U2, Rattle and Hum
3x audio CD's
1x William Grant's Whisky from my boss,
and most of all I'm spending Christmas with my
folks, as every year, with the most delicious
traditional food.
Yeah, no junk food for a couple of days...
Well..for those of us who can read. Redhat is offering to stick Linux on these systems and provide unlimited support for the hardware MS buys
I knew that, but maybe I didn't made myself clear:
If the RH installation is similar with SuSE's, and works well, then I think it's OK to have RH on those computers (there are many similarities between RH and SuSE).
[...]It isn't like the schools have to admin the boxes themselves anyways.
I totally agree!. They just have somebody install the OS (with RH support, if needed) and then put the root password one a piece of paper, wrap it in an envelope and store it in the prinicipal's office:)...
Anyway, after they get the pc's (?), they can install whatever other OS they like (debian - free, SuSE - pay, *BSD - maybe not for everybody).
I'm not very familiar with RedHat, but SuSE 7.3 has a complete graphical install, that's very easy to use (next/back buttons, auto detection etc.),
with KDE default, more packages than you'll need,
etc. And It works well, with a pc with pre-installed Windows (shrinks partition, etc).
If this would work flawlessly if you don't accept every default option, it could be even easier to install than Windows (all drivers included, applications already installed.
Bugs on the installation procedure it's not something you wanna have.
P.S. Please don't flame me on this, it's just my
opinion.
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One is Electorlux's model, selling for ~1000-2000 $, i think, the other is Roomba, with 200/230/250 for Roomba/Roomba Pro/Roomba Pro Elite, made by iRobot.
If I remember correctly from highscool, he also invented the light bulb, there's a highscool named after him, and he was nicknamed 'Teclu Becu'
Of course I have; and also about Nicolae Teclu, but that's another story... I wonder if only .ro people recognize them as what they were...
You forgot to mention 4400 RPMs for laptops...
Anyway, they're not thieves just informative.
Now, upset some poster here, and get slashdotted, or even better, get slashdotted twice :^)
Just look at the benchmarks at HotHardware; you will see that in NVIDIA's own benchmarks Parhelia it's aprox. 6% behind GF4. And remember that P's drivers are far from mature, compared to NVIDIAs...
What about G200MMS(quadhead) or G450MMS ?
Well that's what I got from Santa & Co.: :))
1xDVD: Cranberries, Beneath the Skin, live in Paris (nice cover: iceberg with a mainboard under the ice
1xDVD: U2, Rattle and Hum
3x audio CD's
1x William Grant's Whisky from my boss,
and most of all I'm spending Christmas with my
folks, as every year, with the most delicious
traditional food.
Yeah, no junk food for a couple of days...
Well..for those of us who can read. Redhat is offering to stick Linux on these systems and provide unlimited support for the hardware MS buys
I knew that, but maybe I didn't made myself clear: If the RH installation is similar with SuSE's, and works well, then I think it's OK to have RH on those computers (there are many similarities between RH and SuSE).
[...]It isn't like the schools have to admin the boxes themselves anyways.
I totally agree!. They just have somebody install the OS (with RH support, if needed) and then put the root password one a piece of paper, wrap it in an envelope and store it in the prinicipal's office :) ...
Anyway, after they get the pc's (?), they can install whatever other OS they like (debian - free, SuSE - pay, *BSD - maybe not for everybody).
I'm not very familiar with RedHat, but SuSE 7.3 has a complete graphical install, that's very easy to use (next/back buttons, auto detection etc.), with KDE default, more packages than you'll need, etc. And It works well, with a pc with pre-installed Windows (shrinks partition, etc).
If this would work flawlessly if you don't accept every default option, it could be even easier to install than Windows (all drivers included, applications already installed. Bugs on the installation procedure it's not something you wanna have.
P.S. Please don't flame me on this, it's just my opinion.