I think that the desktop replacement laptops have a very serious advantage over the smaller ones in one regard - the ability to get work done. I don't know about anyone else, but the keyboards on most laptops are abysmally small. Only the desktop replacement ones have a keyboard anywhere close to usable. From the power consumption standpoint, you could see it as "If I have to type something three times instead of once due to my freakishly small keyboard, the fact that the thin/lite laptop uses 1/2 the electricity of the desktop replacement laptop is nullified - everything takes 3 times longer to do"
wait, nevermind - their website situation has improved immensely, rather than the shopping cart software throwing up script errors directly onto the webpage, they now are simply saying that the page is down, but please try later! Looking up their domain shows it is hosted by iPowerweb, which offers $7.95/mo hosting. Question of the day - would you buy computer hardware from an organization that doesn't even run their own webserver, but chooses instead to go with bargain basement webhosting from a podunk ISP? What does this indicate about the quality of the hardware they use?
Buying a piece of hardware from a company whose website currently displays -
1226 - User 'elementc_ms2' has exceeded the 'max_updates' resource (current value: 10000)
delete from whos_online where time_last_click '1070380061'
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leaves me a little cold. Too bad, I would have liked to look at the tablet.
Yes, the G5 should be capable of more than a little better performance than "a Xeon", but what I find interesting is that it is a Xeon which was initially released well over a year ago by Intel. What I am curious about is if someone could build an equally "cost-efficient" super computer based on more recent intel hardware. The differences in speed, cache, front side bus, etc. that Intel has made in the past year would no doubt lead to higher numbers. If I were comparing a Xeon Cluster to a G4 cluster, people would scream that it's apples and oranges - why does the same not hold true for intel CPUs?
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I break out some of my old text games and try to avoid being eaten by a grue.
It seems to be just about the simplest phone out there - Details here: http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=us&lc=en&ve r=4000&template=pip1&zone=pp&pid=10350 You can get a refurbed one on the Cingular website for $9.99 with one of their pay as you go plans. Don't know how much simpler you can get than that.
I think that the desktop replacement laptops have a very serious advantage over the smaller ones in one regard - the ability to get work done. I don't know about anyone else, but the keyboards on most laptops are abysmally small. Only the desktop replacement ones have a keyboard anywhere close to usable. From the power consumption standpoint, you could see it as "If I have to type something three times instead of once due to my freakishly small keyboard, the fact that the thin/lite laptop uses 1/2 the electricity of the desktop replacement laptop is nullified - everything takes 3 times longer to do"
wait, nevermind - their website situation has improved immensely, rather than the shopping cart software throwing up script errors directly onto the webpage, they now are simply saying that the page is down, but please try later! Looking up their domain shows it is hosted by iPowerweb, which offers $7.95/mo hosting. Question of the day - would you buy computer hardware from an organization that doesn't even run their own webserver, but chooses instead to go with bargain basement webhosting from a podunk ISP? What does this indicate about the quality of the hardware they use?
Buying a piece of hardware from a company whose website currently displays - 1226 - User 'elementc_ms2' has exceeded the 'max_updates' resource (current value: 10000) delete from whos_online where time_last_click '1070380061' [TEP STOP] leaves me a little cold. Too bad, I would have liked to look at the tablet.
Yes, the G5 should be capable of more than a little better performance than "a Xeon", but what I find interesting is that it is a Xeon which was initially released well over a year ago by Intel. What I am curious about is if someone could build an equally "cost-efficient" super computer based on more recent intel hardware. The differences in speed, cache, front side bus, etc. that Intel has made in the past year would no doubt lead to higher numbers. If I were comparing a Xeon Cluster to a G4 cluster, people would scream that it's apples and oranges - why does the same not hold true for intel CPUs?