Michael wrote: > And a couple of historical questions... > How many of these were made? Somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000, I believe. Only one full production run was completed. It was a very minor twist on the S900 -- not different or evolved enough to be a proper replacement for the S910.
> Do they hold value as well as an S900?; better than an S900? About the same, partly because (1) they're not sufficiently different from the S910 to command any premium beyond the rarity factor and (2) a lot of people don't even know they existed, so they're not much more in demand. The 1MB L2 cache made them a little bit faster than the S900, but anyone looking for maximum speed would upgrade to at least a G3 anyway, at which point that L2 cache essentially becomes inert. And even a 250MHz G3 is going to give better overall performance than a dual 604e configuration.... > What industry clamors for them? Does any industry clamor for SuperMacs anymore? Any company able to turn a profit in anything the S910 was intended for would have upgraded to Apple G4 towers years ago. The S910 configurations were specifically targetted to multi-card digital video setups. The RAID feature provided an extremely fast scratch disk space for Photoshop file editing, video capture & playback from analog (and therefore higher data rate) sources, especially with Radius VideoVision PCI, or as audio workstations for Digidesign ProTools rigs. The latter was not optimized for multiple processors, unlike Premiere, After Effects, Radius Edit, and Photoshop, but they was still an ideal use for the S910. (Why a system specifically geared towards these functions and applications? Because a bunch of us worked at Radius and Digidesign before going to Umax, and Adobe was a bunch of cool people about five miles away.) -Kennedy -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
