Hi, I would surely imagine that teh RS/6000 is tons more scaleable than the powerMac or Athlon and would have fewer I/O bottlenecks. Tell me something how many 604e's are included in that $9K price.
Best, simon On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have here a PowerMac 7300/200. It's CPU is, according to the kernel, a > PPC 604e at 200 Mhz. > > It's CPU performance is nothing flash, my Athlon beats it hands down as > I'd expect. > > Then I see this: > http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/workstations/ > > > RS/6000 43P Model 150 > from $8,805.00 IBM Web price* > Monitor not included > Power, performance and expandability to fit your budget. > · Choice of 250 or 375MHz PowerPC 604e > processors > · Starting with 128MB and growing to 1GB of > memory > · Ultra2 SCSI disk support/SSA RAID disk support > · Supports GXT135P and GXT4500P graphics > > > Now, 250 Mhz isn't a lot more than 200 Mhz. Sure its disk is faster, and > its a more-nicely specced machine, but it still has basically the same > CPU as is in my six-year-old Powermac. about the same age as my Pentium > II-233 system. > > What's special about this IBM kit to justify its price? > > > > -- > > Cheers > John Summerfield > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only > from Debian addresses. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
