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Subject: Re: Dreamin about speed

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:28:21 06/15/05

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On June 14, 2005 at 15:59:58, Steven Edwards wrote:

>Apple's high end desktop:

The apple desktop is exactly 2 times slower than a dual core dual opteron 2.4Ghz

If you build for the same price you can easily get it 1.8 times faster with a
dual core dual opteron 1.8Ghz or so.

Vincent

>• Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5
>• 4GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x512
>• 2x400GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
>• ATI Radeon 9650 w/256MB DDR SDRAM
>• 16x SuperDrive double-layer (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
>• Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English
>• Mac OS X - U.S. English
>
>US$4,524
>
>Rather cheaper if you buy the extra memory yourself.  Oh, and sorry, no built-in
>floppy drive.
>
>http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html



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