I have here a PowerMac 7300/200. It's CPU is, according to the kernel, a PPC 604e at 200 Mhz.
It's CPU performance is nothing flash, my Athlon beats it hands down as I'd expect. Then I see this: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/workstations/ RS/6000 43P Model 150 from $8,805.00 IBM Web price* Monitor not included Power, performance and expandability to fit your budget. � Choice of 250 or 375MHz PowerPC 604e processors � Starting with 128MB and growing to 1GB of memory � Ultra2 SCSI disk support/SSA RAID disk support � Supports GXT135P and GXT4500P graphics Now, 250 Mhz isn't a lot more than 200 Mhz. Sure its disk is faster, and its a more-nicely specced machine, but it still has basically the same CPU as is in my six-year-old Powermac. about the same age as my Pentium II-233 system. What's special about this IBM kit to justify its price? -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian addresses.
