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The_C
From The Netherlands
Who joined Oct. 13, 2003, 12:45 p.m.
Wrote on the subject of How did you get into SGI? at April 9, 2005, 4:45 a.m...
*YETANOTHERIRIXUSER*

What were you expectations ? and what hardware were you using ? and what for ?

If you were gonna surf the web with an indy, yeah than it is slow, ever ran a small webserver on a indy :) much better !!!

greetz...

happy sgi user :D

(challenge S, O2, and......)
The_C
From The Netherlands
Who joined Oct. 13, 2003, 12:45 p.m.
Wrote on the subject of How did you get into SGI? at April 9, 2005, 5:22 a.m...
What were you running on those Octanes that didn't make you happy ?
if it was gfx related, what gfx board did you use ?


Could you explain your quote in a little more detail ?
/* Reason was IRIX, which is not as flexible and modern and not well maintained , as Solaris is these days. */

What do you mean by flexible, and why is it not maintained well ? Actually, I think, IRIX is one of the better OS there is and it is very scalable.

greetz !
The_C
From The Netherlands
Who joined Oct. 13, 2003, 12:45 p.m.
Wrote on the subject of Intel iMac at Jan. 25, 2006, 3:17 a.m...
Hey,

The iMac G5 also comes with iLife06. Actually all mac's do as of feb06. it will take a while before a lot of apps are avalliable in universal binary. Running apps with Rosetta uses a LOTS of RAM ;-) and is slow.

nice machine though :)

The_C

sunverilog wrote: Reasons why I bought the Intel iMac

1. already have a few G5 Macs and it's the only Intel Mac in my local area
2. the G5 iMac in shop does not come with iLife 6
3. CPU consumes much less power, basicall a laptop in iMac's case
4. Better graphics card for similar amount of money
5. Apple has gone "all-in" with the Intel migration, as far as I know they would be lucky to make 100 dollars per iMac sold therefore I think they will try to make as many universal binaries avaliable as soon as possible
6. I was out of my mind.....

Pop into your local Apple center and try the Intel Mac before you make the decision, at the moment I don't feel the "Core Duo" CPU helps the iMac so much, at least I can't tell the speed increase compare to my G5s, Firefox and Thunderbird take as much time to start as my mini, but maybe this will change when I get more RAM.