Re: TI-H: USB Link


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Re: TI-H: USB Link




>>>Grant, you can't realistically tell me that this wasn't HEAVILY biased
>>>towards the mac.  If that single mac did something faster than 1,500
>>>PC's, then it simply meant that the operation that they were trying to
>>>perform either *couldn't* be parallel processed, or the mor0ns didn't
>>>write the program correctly and the bottleneck became the
>>>communication between the PC's as opposed to the PC's processing
>>>capability.  Anyone who believes that a single mac can outperform
>>>1,500 PC's in a parallelizeable application is smoking a big phatty.
>>
>>They use 10Base-T, so it was the network at fualt also.
>
>Uhh, not "also," you mean "only."
>
>>But you have to
>>think about a computer with a beta bus of 200MHz.  It screams.  it also
>>crashes.
>
>Screams, crashes, and also costs UP THE ASS compared to the typical
>desktop pentium comp.

Does intel show their 1GHz computer to anyone?  :)

>The processor was never the price bottleneck when it came to macs...
>Apple always has jacked up pricing because of their choice of
>components, which is also one reason why no one with a brain buys them
>:).

yeah...  I just hate the dual UltraWide SCSI drives, IX3D video card, and
all of the other components that came with my computer.  :P



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