On 5/28/05, Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> wrote:
On Saturday 28 May 2005 23:44, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
On 5/28/05, Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> wrote:
As long as OS X is tied to an overly expensive hardware platform it will never be more than a niche player, no matter how good it is. For the same reason you will always see more Toyotas and Hondas than Ferraris or BMWs on the streets
FUD
How is that FUD? FUD stands for Fear, uncertainty and doubt. The price of the POWER platform is out there for anyone to see. While the price tag does scare me, there is no uncertainty or doubt about it. It is bloody expensive
FUD in this sense equals bullshit. A comparable Dual AMD 64 is as expensive or more expensive the a Dual G5 of the same power so again... the cost buy in argument is crap. And when you have the Mini, iBook, iMac and eMac out there.. again for what you get .. it's not expensive. But then again I don't give a shit... let people use what they want but don't use that niche market shit... it's the same argument that Windows user use against Linux .. "well, until grandma can use it.. it's a niche player". And I use the term correctly... fear = of cost uncertainty = of cost doubt = if it's really that expensive do I want to buy it.
If IBM would price the POWER platform more reasonably though, I would leap at it. Those chips really are nice
Cell
huh?
PPC Cell Processor.. ie. XBox 360 and Playstation 3 as well as the new server blades that IBM showed at E3. There is also talk that these will power Apple laptops and Desktops in the very near future. They top out at 3.8ghz now but IBM says they will be running at 4.6Ghz within 18 months. -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."