rob...@cirrillian.com wrote:
Well, my trusty Dell laptop HD has probebly died giving me an
opportunity to upgrade to the next best thing. The next best thing
must still be a laptop, runs Apache, MySQL and PHP, GIMP and screams,
for minimum bucks, for all round office use and web development. Is it
a MacOSX, Windows XP/Vista or Linux? Any thoughts to put in my note
to Santa would be greatly appreciated.
To address the `screams' part of the question, perhaps in a somewhat
obscure way..
There's this effort to introduce external PCI Express 2.0 ports and cabling:
http://ati.amd.com/technology/xgp/index.html
There aren't many laptops yet with it, though..
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Fujitsu-Siemens-Amilo-Sa-3650-Gets-Listed-93211.shtml
Besides providing high-end graphics to laptops, it could also facilitate
hybrid computing where one has a general purpose processor (the laptop)
connected to an accelerator blade/box and the two can share memory (@
4Gbytes/sec!) via a programmable direct memory access controller.
Marcus
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