[geeks] Apple/Intel another (pre | per )ceptive article

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:22:44PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> IMHO, the Cell was WAY overhyped.  Good for games, vector processing, etc,
> but bad for general-purpose computing from what I can tell.
> 
> Too many people acted like Cell was the second coming of Christ.

It's just that simple math does not work in this case. 2 times 500 mHz
does not equal 1gHz. 

Someone on a local mailing list is trying to sell a Dell 2x500mHz PIII
computer for over $300. It's not very well equiped, it has a 9 gig Ultra
SCSI drive and a 40 gig slow IDE drive. It dosen't even have a DVD reader
or a high end video card (why would it, it was designed to be a server?).

Just try to play "Call of Duty" or watch an mpeg-4 video on it. :-)
(would do fine on a 1ghz machine)

Geoff.

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