Le samedi 06 Mai 2006 16:11, Fernando Gonzalez Gentile a écrit :
> on 6/05/2006 01:01, Manuel Viet at oly@xxxxxxxxxx, wrote:
> > In my
> > opinion, Macintosh are a huge pile of junk cobbled together just able to
> > run MacOS ; which they do alright, I won't deny it.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Nevertheless, I've read that it's now easier to boot linux
> > on Mac, but still I don't see the point.
>
> Thanks Manuel for your valuable opinion.
> I'll read your post as many times as necessary so as to understand your
> reasoning, since you're providing a lot of experience to answer my
> question. Any thoughts on that pile of junk (that is 'hardware') which
> price is usd 850?
It's very difficult to give a good advice on those matters ; parameters vary
wildly depending on local market and prices (dell is not quoted the same
between France and USA, for instance), street availability, and intended use.
850 USD seems to be a bit high, but the system looks balanced, and the fact
that it has run for 1,5 year is becoming a good point nowdays (as quality
drops, a burn-in machine is less prone to sudden failure than a new one !).
Personnaly, I don't like nvidia video cards (and generaly I don't like shiny
3D cards because they're poor at 2D where photo editing takes place -
currently, I'm doing photo work on a PCI matrox millenium II, dead slow but
crystal clear and razor sharp on my CRT, while my geforce2-MX400 makes the
same monitor look hazy and fuzzy).
All in all, modern computers are more akin to powerful playstations than
workstations. I, personaly, resist as much as I can the temptation to buy new
overhyped hardware, and much prefer working on old, even 'slow' professional
workstations, because I think they are more fit to real job than any modern
PC. Bright side, I generaly pick them up from dumps, dirt cheap. Bad side,
they require more arcane knowledge to manage than a point'n drool windows XP
PC. But as far as I've got over 30 GB of disk, 500 Mo RAM, a scsi chain,
1280x1024x16M display, and 100Mbit ethernet, I feel right home[*].
So I'm certainly not the best advice you can have on your question ; I
consider myself part of the 'obsolyte' crowd, comparable to a car collector.
You can rightly argue that modern cars are more everything to a Rolls Royce
Silver shadow owner, he'll certainly raise an eyebrow, make a faint smile and
nod his head...
[*] Those have existed on pro workstations (Sun, DECalpha, SGI...) since
1995 ; those machines do not compete with a modern PC on speed, but they have
trumendous IO capabilities a PC would be hard pressed to reach, and have
overall better 'balance' and 'feeling'.
--
Manuel Viet
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