On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:07:06 +0000 Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/12/07, Polyhead, apparently very discombobulated, unleashed: > > >In 2002 I was working with a company called genesi on their then new > >Pegasus board. It was a standard MATX form PPC board with an open > >firmware system. During benchmarking, we found that our 500mhz g3 > >machine was 30% faster than apples g3 machines, all of them, and on top > >of that, ours sold new for the half the price of a used g3 machine! > >Apple boards are of poor design, with poor performing north bridges and > >a questionable dma controller. The pci bus is high in latency, so high, > >you can loose 10% of your performance just by using a pci card of any > >sort in one. > > That's all very nice but what was the tea like? > > I don't know anything about benchmarking and boards, I'm a cameraman. > All I know is that the Apple stuff seems to work okay, and I can afford > it, so I'm a happy (if lunatic) bunny.
I'm the evil lil bun bun :D > > > >I'll also never forgive apple for what they did to the clones, greedy > >bastards. > > Even during those days, I never would have considered a clone. Maybe an > ice cleam clone. The Power Computing clones were far superior to ANYTHING apple ever made. > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Ben 'Polyhead' Smith KE7GAL -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
