PowerPC processors are not well known for their sobriety. Most people willing to add these boards to their servers should seriously think about upgrading their power supplies too, especially if they also use RAID disks or whatever.
If you are concerned about power consumption, the G3 and G4 chips dissipate under 10 W. The Pentium III Xeon dissipates an ungodly 30 W or more. Your AMD is higher still. Worrying about adding Power Supplies is less than troubling.
Please show us any information you have to back up your claim. It's interesting, but I believe it is completely off-base. Obj. C will be good for Cocoa in Mac OS X, but they are developing Office 2001 for Carbon. Where did you get this information, and why should we believe it?
If the Amiga is trying to jump back in as a viable OS, I think this might be a better time than any to come into the game with a translucent OS designed to get along with everyone and everything. The Internet is making cross-platform more of a necessity than ever before. Go for it Amiga. The more competition in the OS market the better.
The last part of the article talks of a Tiqit Matchbox PC priced at $1,495. Imagine a matchbox sized MP3 player with 1 GB storage. The price might not be there, but the idea of 1 Gig of music stored in a space smaller than your wallet is quite attractive. Maybe the future of wearable computers is coming closer...
not the fastest chips mind you, but the best hw in terms of life of svc.
The processor speeds are NOT meassured by Mhz. Comparing PowerPC 750 and Intel chips on a Mhz basis is not even close to adequate. There is much more involved in the "speed" tests.
Check this for information regarding Processor comparisons.
Actually, the fanless iMacs also use G3 processors. The G3 uses considerably less power than any of the Intel/AMD chips. The G3's use around 5 watts while an Intel mobile Pentium III consumes around 7.5 watts. The G4's are only slightly higher than the G3s. I believe (this part I'm not sure of) that they consume 6-7 watts. Motorolla and IBM have done an excellent job with the PowerPC family.
I don't think anyone needs to do any "parroting." Look at the history that is well documented throughout the industry. Do you hear from *any* of the companies MS has enveloped? I haven't...
But many "marketdroids" buy things with brand names for piece of mind. Would you buy a hard disk off the street corner, or do you go to someone like Seagate for the piece of mind afforded by the name brand? Just food for thought...
"They are hoping that the installation, connected to the Internet by high-speed microwave and satellite links, will become a refuge from governments increasingly trying to tame and regulate the Internet."
They have other links to the internet that are even safer from legislative blocking.
My question is, how are you raising capital for such a "different" idea.
Isn't the equation E = m C^2, where C is speed of light, m mass, and E energy of the particle/body. This relationship is used for speeds approaching the speed of light where C is taken as 1. So if m = E/(1.1)^2 (1.1 being faster than light), would this not mean that it would get less massive if the speed increased? Or if E is directly proportional to C, then the mass wouldn't change. This is my understanding, but I am not a physicist.
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Actually, I believe you first said PowerPC.
Power for Power
PC for Personal Computer
You said, and I quote:
PowerPC processors are not well known for their sobriety. Most people willing to add these boards to their servers should seriously think about upgrading their power supplies too, especially if they also use RAID disks or whatever.
Now, what was that about ARM?
If you are concerned about power consumption, the G3 and G4 chips dissipate under 10 W. The Pentium III Xeon dissipates an ungodly 30 W or more. Your AMD is higher still. Worrying about adding Power Supplies is less than troubling.
Please show us any information you have to back up your claim. It's interesting, but I believe it is completely off-base. Obj. C will be good for Cocoa in Mac OS X, but they are developing Office 2001 for Carbon. Where did you get this information, and why should we believe it?
If the Amiga is trying to jump back in as a viable OS, I think this might be a better time than any to come into the game with a translucent OS designed to get along with everyone and everything. The Internet is making cross-platform more of a necessity than ever before. Go for it Amiga. The more competition in the OS market the better.
The last part of the article talks of a Tiqit Matchbox PC priced at $1,495. Imagine a matchbox sized MP3 player with 1 GB storage. The price might not be there, but the idea of 1 Gig of music stored in a space smaller than your wallet is quite attractive. Maybe the future of wearable computers is coming closer...
not the fastest chips mind you, but the best hw in terms of life of svc.
The processor speeds are NOT meassured by Mhz. Comparing PowerPC 750 and Intel chips on a Mhz basis is not even close to adequate. There is much more involved in the "speed" tests.
Check this for information regarding Processor comparisons.
Actually, the fanless iMacs also use G3 processors. The G3 uses considerably less power than any of the Intel/AMD chips. The G3's use around 5 watts while an Intel mobile Pentium III consumes around 7.5 watts. The G4's are only slightly higher than the G3s. I believe (this part I'm not sure of) that they consume 6-7 watts. Motorolla and IBM have done an excellent job with the PowerPC family.
I don't think anyone needs to do any "parroting." Look at the history that is well documented throughout the industry. Do you hear from *any* of the companies MS has enveloped? I haven't...
not kill off Bungie's identity. This article:_ page_912_1.html
http://www.dailyradar.com/features/game_feature
over at DailyRadar.com shows a little light at the end of the tunnel for PC/Mac gamers who liked the independent and creative Bungie.
But many "marketdroids" buy things with brand names for piece of mind. Would you buy a hard disk off the street corner, or do you go to someone like Seagate for the piece of mind afforded by the name brand? Just food for thought...
Read the NYT article:
"They are hoping that the installation, connected to the Internet by high-speed microwave and satellite links, will become a refuge from governments increasingly trying to tame and regulate the Internet."
They have other links to the internet that are even safer from legislative blocking.
My question is, how are you raising capital for such a "different" idea.
Isn't the equation E = m C^2, where C is speed of light, m mass, and E energy of the particle/body. This relationship is used for speeds approaching the speed of light where C is taken as 1. So if m = E/(1.1)^2 (1.1 being faster than light), would this not mean that it would get less massive if the speed increased? Or if E is directly proportional to C, then the mass wouldn't change. This is my understanding, but I am not a physicist.