Ehh a reply to my own post Just looking at the mac website
The $2000 version doesn't come with the following features offering on the much more expensive models: No PCI - X this means the claims of high bandwidth are not so on the advertised model Supports up to 4 gigs of ram - once again not the same as the advertised page The front side bus is dropped from 1ghz to only 800 mhz not as advertised And the ram speed is lower than the $3000 model What this amounts to is about only 1/2 or maybe 2/3 of the speed they claim And if you base a $2000 pc vs the new $2000 mac I think you will find that the new mac is not as much of a speed king as they claim But the 64-bit bus is cool though really cool To bad the $2000 model can't really take advantage of it because the motherboard in the cheaper model is different and only allows up to 4 gigs of ram so basically a 64-bit architecture is nearly useless when the chipset governing the computer doesn't allow for the full potential Seems as though mac is pulling the same old tricks as it did with the release of the G4 and more importantly G3 processors cyrillius -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
