I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac Cluster (1100 G5/Dual 2ghz with(4*1100) Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac cluster, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Mac clusters, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac cluster that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this ((2*2)*1100)Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
An obvious advantage of FW800 or other high bandwidth ports such as USB 2.0 is that you can use a multitude of lower bandwidth devices on the one port without saturating the port's bandwidth.
Agreed. I use fibre optic cable at work and it's not at all expensive, further more it's easier to make the plugs and connectors for optical than wire based stuff.
[quote] Also, like Hyundai, they realized that the visual design department can make up for mediocre product. Both companies realize that people will buy crap if it looks good.
IMO Hyundai make some of the fugliest cars on this planet, they're down there with proton, yugo and lada
Just as seriously man, I spent the last 3 days installing Windows on a PC at work, watching 'plug and play' consistently screw up the installation of an ethernet card, a graphics card and a sound card. Plug and play my ass - erm no I didn't mean that last sentence literally;)
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No they really are drive you up the wall loud, and if you use em for work I personally don't think it's a moneybags thing to buy a quieter model.
ahum... I was poking fun at the freelance gig troll... - duh.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac Cluster (1100 G5/Dual 2ghz with(4*1100) Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac cluster, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Mac clusters, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac cluster that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this ((2*2)*1100)Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine. I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Special equipment perhaps, but training? i think we're back to the 2 braincells thing you mentioned here.
Well you can see why they never got as far as Rectium.
An obvious advantage of FW800 or other high bandwidth ports such as USB 2.0 is that you can use a multitude of lower bandwidth devices on the one port without saturating the port's bandwidth.
Agreed. I use fibre optic cable at work and it's not at all expensive, further more it's easier to make the plugs and connectors for optical than wire based stuff.
I live in the UK too, but I wouldn't mind buying a few tracks off 'em to be honest - it all looks pretty impressive to me.
Ahaaa.. I believe that the previews are encoded at a lower bitrate than the actual downloads, I read it on Kuro5hin's review.
[quote] Also, like Hyundai, they realized that the visual design department can make up for mediocre product. Both companies realize that people will buy crap if it looks good. IMO Hyundai make some of the fugliest cars on this planet, they're down there with proton, yugo and lada
Just as seriously man, I spent the last 3 days installing Windows on a PC at work, watching 'plug and play' consistently screw up the installation of an ethernet card, a graphics card and a sound card. Plug and play my ass - erm no I didn't mean that last sentence literally ;)
Your tutorial only shows you how to set up a download using shareza. I was hoping for something more generic.