On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Simon Mushi wrote: > 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.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/workstations/43p_150_specs.html One. > > 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.
