[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 02:21 PM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
>>> Sun has 100Mbps ethernet.  Apple has 1Gbps.
>>
>>   Irrelevant.  No current desktop applications will get anywhere near 
>> that.
>
> 1) NLE

   Never heard of it.  Can you provide a readers' digest version?

> 2) Render farming

   On DESKTOPS?  Umm, no.

> 3) NFS

   If your files are really so big that you need that much bandwidth to 
move them in a reasonable amount of time, it's time to think about a 
SAN.

> 4) X11

   Bullshit.  X is far from lightweight, but if you need more than 
100Mbps for X traffic into your workstation, you're doing something 
horribly wrong.

> 5) ftp within LAN

   See response to point #3.

> At my last job, individual users were able to saturate 100Mbps pipes 
> easily with three of the five applications mentioned above.  I can 
> personally do one of the remaining two right now.  No render farm for 
> me (yet).

   Yes, highly technical people like us can easily tax a 100Mbps 
link...or even a 55-60Mbps "100Mbps" ethernet.  But we are the minority.

        -Dave

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