I'd love to know what you put in your 5 PCI slots? And why on earth
would you consider a floppy drive to be useful - except if you want to
boot MSDOS :-P
You sure offend easily. The only use there is for optical media is
loading programs, or for bootlegging copyright material. If you have a
250Gb hard drive how many DVD roms will it take to back that up?
Extra hard drive bays I agree with. But then I use a Quadra 950 (to go
back on-topic :-) with the 5 drive shelf. And yes, I have six drives in
the machine, one for booting and one for a RAID 5 array :-)
John
On Jul 2, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Joey Sager wrote:
Really? Not sure where you're coming from, there. I built a PC for
myself and used all 5 PCI slots, 3 CD bays, 3 hard drive bays, and a
floppy drive bay.
One thing that offends me about the Power Macintosh's right now is
that there is only 1 CD bay and 3 PCI ports. I mean, 1 CD drive?
With optical media standards changing as fast as they have in the past
3 years, you will need to upgrade and then what? Throw out the old
drive?
Joe
John Niven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you looked at the way the PC motherboard market is going? Most
have onboard ethernet, sound, and RAID interfaces. Many have basic
video, and I think more of that is coming. I built PC's for my gaming
sons that only have one expansion card slot used - for the fancy video
card. More is being integrated on one motherboard so I think less
expansion slots are needed.
In fact the pc market, seems to me to be becoming more like those
Performa 6360 era Apples.
John
On Jul 2, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Manuel Marques wrote:
Apple should rethink, because one of the main reasons people don't
buy
a Mac
is because it isn't expandable (even the G5 has only 3 PCI slots,
with
a GF
6800 in the PCI-X it only has 2). What happened to expansion slots?
PDS?
Hah!
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