Oh dear, I have been biting my tongue for days on this one. And if only the thread would stop, I'd have succeeded in keeping quiet!
Look, here is what I don't get: the combination of poor organizations, running Rev, and Minis. In fact, it seems positively grotesque. If what you want is to run Rev cheaply, as my poor charitable organization needs to, an old PIII Compaq runs it very snappily. We paid probably 5% of what a Mini would cost, and we spend the rest on the objectives of the organization, a stance I have great respect for. Its a critical application by the way, its just not spending any more than we have to on computing. If what you want is performance at a price, as we once did for our office machine, where we needed an Office application, you buy a whitebox Intel at a quarter the price of an equipped Mini, and put Linux on it. And you spend the money you saved on your clients. Now, if what you want is an elegant box you can put in your handbag or jacket pocket, and run MS Office on, fine. The Mini is for you. And if you have the money. But for poor educational or charitable sector organizations to buy Minis just seems to me a totally disordered sense of priorities. Still more if a prime purpose is to run Rev, which is (one of its pleasures) so remarkably forgiving of low end hardware. I have had absolutely no, zero, complaints about responsiveness on our 500Mhz machine running the Rev app. Its instant. If we were teaching programming on it, using Rev, I think it would be perfectly fine and at least as responsive as a Mini. The graphics are of the same generation anyway. So at least for the charitable sector, if it goes, it really looks like no loss at all. In fact, a boon, if it stops them wasting their money. I am not criticizing anyone who spends their own money on the thing. There is no accounting for tastes. If however its money that is devoted to a purpose that is being spent, and one is administering the funds, buying Minis strikes me as fiscally irresponsible to the point of immorality. Well, got it off my chest at last! Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution