In 2002 Apple was shipping systems a heck of a lot faster than a 500MHz G3. You also had the advantage of much faster silicon for your north bridges as well, since you were comparing against circa-1999 designs (Plus the fact that the B&W G3 had Apple's worst MB design, non-DMA Firewire and all).
And who cares if your board sold for half the price of a used G3. It was a board only, that Used G3 had a whole lot more hardware. Also you could actually FIND a used Apple G3. I looked into the Pegasus back then. It effectively wasn't available. Bought a B&W G3 instead, which is happily still running well. Should upgrade the HDD's one of these days. -Adam On 12/22/07, Polyhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:28:13 +0000 > Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> I'll get a Mac. They're designed for idiots. > > > > On 22/12/07, Polyhead, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > > > > >Well .. they are, in a way... but uhh... designed for idiots that buy > > >hype over performance. > > > > Not only do I admit to being an idiot, but I also enjoy hype over > > performance. > > > > My iPhone is absolute crap. > > > > My MacBook Pro is poor with Final Cut Studio, but oddly enough I get > > paid to edit video, can't figure that one out. > > > > My Powerbook G3 (2000 vintage) is absolute rubbish, lasts only 9 hours > > on two batteries, but I can hook up with my 3G card in most places in > > the UK and get my email. > > > > I'm really pisspoor in not realising what insane purchasing decisions I > > have made. > > > > I should be flagelated with the business end of a cattle prod. > > > > Poly wanna cracker? > > In 2002 I was working with a company called genesi on their then new Pegasus > board. It was a standard MATX form PPC board with an open firmware system. > During benchmarking, we found that our 500mhz g3 machine was 30% faster than > apples g3 machines, all of them, and on top of that, ours sold new for the > half the price of a used g3 machine! Apple boards are of poor design, with > poor performing north bridges and a questionable dma controller. The pci bus > is high in latency, so high, you can loose 10% of your performance just by > using a pci card of any sort in one. > > I'll also never forgive apple for what they did to the clones, greedy > bastards. > > > > > -- > > > > > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > > > > > ___/\__ > > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > > _____________________________ > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > -- > Ben 'Polyhead' Smith > KE7GAL > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
