On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:19:20 -0500 Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cotty 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. > > It's all bullshit, Cotty. If lollyhead was actually employed by Genesi > back in 2002, he wouldn't have just made a really stupid mistake in his > post. Spelling errors of that nature, especially with people who worked > on the project, simply would not occur. I seriously doubt lollyhead is > much more than 14 or 15. Had he actually experienced what Genesi and > bPlan did to their contractors, he wouldn't be bashing Apple quite so > much. He's a name dropping nincompoop. Nothing more. try 29. And you think i'm bad, heh, deal with Neko sometime. And which contractors would that be? IBM, they are STILL working with IBM and Freescale. Still not sure if I'm sold on the Efika. > > > >> I'll also never forgive apple for what they did to the clones, greedy > >> bastards. > > Whatever. > > > -- > Scott Loveless > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > 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.
