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| Re: Another Mac post..hey James........ [message #81925 is a reply to message #81895] |
Wed, 21 March 2007 19:57   |
Steve Helm
Messages: 37 Registered: April 2006
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to use without a PCIe expansion chassis anyway....and this will need to
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>>>be 64=20
>>>bit eventually so there's a $2k expense, no matter how you cut it. So =
>>>why=20
>>>upgrade PCI cards to PCIe if I can get a PCIe chassis that will =
>>>hold all my=20
>>>PCI cards and allow them to interface PCIe anyway?</FONT></P>
>>><P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The reason I'm tempted to make the move
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>>>now (besides=20
>>>wanting the horsepower) is that although the prices of the CPU's =
>>>will be=20
>>>coming down over the next few months, so will the price I'll be able to
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>>>get for=20
>>>my Magma's since they are 32 bit units (although 2 x of them are capable
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>>>integrating the PCIe host card so this gives them a little added value
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>>>EBay).</FONT></P>
>>><P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Any thoughts?</FONT></P>
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>I wouldn't think it's like you to buy a Mac... I mean, for starters they're
reliable...
....and secondly, there's a point of view from which you could say that a
Mac is "the easy way" to run Linux. ;o) And since when did you start doing
things the easy way? ;o)
Cheers,
Kim.
"DJ" <www.aarrrrggghhh!!!.com> wrote:
>Not now silly.........later when I know how evil it really is so I can
>appreciate, take full responsibility for and properly savor the grief that
>it will cause in my life when I intentionally, and with aforethought, make
>the transition.................however, from what I'm hearing, there may
be
>some *real* advantages to Vista as far as performance of multicore CPU's.
>Win XP multicore support is more of a kludge, or so I'm hearing (though
>Vista itself may be a kludge too). The ability to run lots of RAM is always
>a good thing and if Vista is better at supporting multicore CPU's perhaps
it
>would be preferable to XP-64.
>
>God forbid I should buy a Mac.
>
>;oD
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>"Kim" <hiddensounds@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4629399a@linux...
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>> Yeh I'm not sure why you'd want
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