The only downside I see is that the namebrands tend to have some hardware issues if you try to change the OS from whatever they ship with. Seems as if the sound card/ video card is proprietary in some fasion, and even switching from the Millenium OS to Win 98 can be a chore since the manufacturers don't supply drivers for the other equiptment.
In some cases this can be true. More often with the Home machines than business models.
Usually, by simply going to the vendors web site you can download drivers for most versions of Windows and sometimes even Linux.
Back in 1999 I bought a Toshiba laptop with an S3 chipset. You could run dual monitors under Windows 98 with it. You could have them display the same image, or you could have 2 different screens. But, the system only had something like 4 MB of video RAM so you could run 800x600 on the laptop LCD, and then only up to 1024x768 on the external monitor.
Depending on what you're using. CAD, Photoshop, and 3D Animation guys might not find this a good solution. But for many tasks it works great.
Security is an issue here, you don't want people from all over the Internet just hopping on your computer.
I actually just set up a PC in the back room, and I can connect via laptop or a users desktop to that machine and do my work from there. Works pretty well.
I can even use it over the Internet, but over a 56K it's a little slow.
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There's 10X the PC's, and a more available, cheaper Linux solution.
It's VERY nice to have, but it's not going to inspire a renaissance of coding.
But if it gets just a couple more people into the industry... I guess its a good thing
Time warp back into 1984 where people typed in BASIC code from computer magazines to play APPLE II games
2240 DATA 3,3,2,,1,3,2,3,5,,,2,,2,,2,,2
2250 DATA 3,2,2,3,,4,,5,,,2,,2,,2,,2
2260 DATA 3,5,,,2,,2,,2,,4,3,4,2,1,2
Those were the days!
Right now:
Encryption
Security
Data Recovery
Backup/Disaster Recovery
Colocation
Whenever the jocks threw balls at the geeks at school, they never caught them either
Robots have taken countless assembly/factory jobs
Robots are supposed to kill us all anyway
When he comes to work at 8:00 am and has 30 pieces of spam in his mailbox....
Seems like we won't know until it comes out. In THEORY if we have the source we can remove all the limitations....
The other posts I'm reading say that you'll be denied this low-level hardware access you speak of.
So which is it?
Shielded by a HAL, or knee-deep in the emotion engine (tm)??
Throw in a Playstation, and you've hit $500
You can build a badass PC for that cost, and you'll be able to run Windows on it. And, it'd be WAY faster than your 32MB ram (or whatever) PS2
I'm sure there's tons of cool things you can do with Linux on a PS2, but why bother with games?
It would make ports real easy to do, but you'd be missing the potential of the console.
Anyone got any idea of what you'd lose, performance wise, for say a raw game vs a linux based game on a PS2?
First, I should probably explain a little about myself. I'm 15 and have been an avid Mac evangelist since 1993, when I got my first Mac.
According to that, he was a Mac evangelist since he was about 6?
C'mon! I bet he's a smart kid, but this is nuts.
CDW just sent me a catalog full of Sun hardware. Thats all that was in it. On page 16 and 17 there's StarOffice 5.2, $446.67 for a 10 user license.
Many places still don't have DSL or Cable, or if they do, there's pricing/access snafus that muck it up.
The only downside I see is that the namebrands tend to have some hardware issues if you try to change the OS from whatever they ship with. Seems as if the sound card/ video card is proprietary in some fasion, and even switching from the Millenium OS to Win 98 can be a chore since the manufacturers don't supply drivers for the other equiptment.
In some cases this can be true. More often with the Home machines than business models.
Usually, by simply going to the vendors web site you can download drivers for most versions of Windows and sometimes even Linux.
It pays to check this out beforeyou buy a system
And all this time, I was thinking it stood for "QuickTime" !
Back in 1999 I bought a Toshiba laptop with an S3 chipset. You could run dual monitors under Windows 98 with it. You could have them display the same image, or you could have 2 different screens. But, the system only had something like 4 MB of video RAM so you could run 800x600 on the laptop LCD, and then only up to 1024x768 on the external monitor.
Canon makes the Printer engines for HP's products
Just like Apple used to sell printers under the apple brand, they are just the Canon/HP printers with apple badges
Depending on what you're using. CAD, Photoshop, and 3D Animation guys might not find this a good solution. But for many tasks it works great.
Security is an issue here, you don't want people from all over the Internet just hopping on your computer.
I actually just set up a PC in the back room, and I can connect via laptop or a users desktop to that machine and do my work from there. Works pretty well.
I can even use it over the Internet, but over a 56K it's a little slow.
The building has a backup power generator thus we didn't see the need for a UPS.
Anyone else find that funny?
We have actually been setting up some Sun Enterprise 280R's this week to solve this problem...
The thing is, EVERYONE here knew this was going to happen, but office politics are to blame.
I've got 12 printers, all on JetDirects. I've got 60 users printing to them, NEVER had an issue with more than one person printing at a time....
The Tetronix Phaser 850 we have, will take a shit under multiple print jobs however.
In 1995 I bought a Trigem (now eMachines) Pentium 133 with 16MB ram and a 850MB HD, and 33.6k modem for $1299
The same reason why everyone doesn't "get along fine" with a Pentium 233 is the same reason everyone doesn't get along driving an econobox.
America, my country tis of thee. Land of the free, home of the SUV!
Sorry buddy, nothing is up to date about a text based UI
Personally, I don't mind it, but I'm a geek. Anyone who's not a geek is GOING to mind it.
Last time I checked a 5 year POS was:
(Time flashes back to 1997)
A kid at school bought a $1999 Pentium II 300, 64MB and an 8GB HD, along with a 4MB video card and 17" monitor. Beating another kids 233mhz Compaq.
Not hardly what I'd call a POS, I use a 400mhz machine EVERY DAY for 8 hours. I find it fine. I've got 192MB, could use 256 or maybe more though.
C'mon people. Let go of the past.
Low-end now is considered...300-400mhz, where the latest RedHat distros run great.
You can get a brand name, 1.6ghz, 256mb, 60gb, WITH a flat screen for $999
That should be low end, but it's not