On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Travis Martin wrote:
The reason that I have so many G3's is that, well...they're so dang CHEAP! But that means that I can let one (actually three in my case) be dedicated to the playing of music; this allows the others to be completely free of that task and thus never get bogged down as you describe. Since I do 90% of my surfing and email on my clamshell iBook, and it is on the network by way of Airport, I don't have to wag an audio cable around either. I control the G3's with Timbuktu from the iBook; their audio outputs are direct to power amps/speakers in a couple of rooms. 10.2.6 and iTunes 4 on everything means any computer on my network can play any other computer's music library...this allows me to keep doowop on one and classical on the other (they don't mix well...) but yet play whichever suits my mood from whichever room I'm in. It's decadent...
And the whole shebang cost less than a G4...
Distributed computing in it's simplest for I believe :)
No, I hear ya totally, I used to use my ibook for MP3s while I worked on my G3. The trouble was I needed brute force, and more to the point Altivec, in order to carry out a singular task (Running Adobe Apps mainly) so that wouldn't have worked for me. Sure the 800MHz iMac isn't the fastest G4 out of the blocks but it's 2x the MHz and at least 4x the horsepower of my G3 for CPU intensive tasks. If you want numbers - G3/400 = 286kFlops Fractal Generation vs. G4/800 = 1.083MFlops Fractal Genreation. My source is Altivec Fractal Carbon run on both machines in 10.2.
Speaking of which - I wonder if anyone has figures for that running on a G5 yet :D
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