[rescue] Mac Appliance

[Ken Hansen]

To make an SMP machine is an incemental cost increase over a uni-processor
machine, and that incremental cost is less than 50%, maybe under 25% (gut
feeling, haven't looked up real comparisons)...

Why have multiple CPUs in *any* machine, well, maybe you want your machine
to do more than one thing at a time - like play MP3s while you work on a
Word document, and occasionally peek out to the Internet for some piece of
information... Wouldn't it be nice to remove GUI processing from the one CPU
in the box to a second CPU?

I *strongly* suspect that if a Dell or an IBM were to decide that every
machine will be SMP, the price differential would drop to about 10% over a
similar uniprocessor design - the cost of a new PC is in the video card (if
not integrated), the HD/CD/DVD/RW drive and then the CPU...

SMP is a Good Thing (c)

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Mac Appliance


> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:34:45AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On August 3, Mike Dombrowski wrote:
> > > Home PC's don't need SMP.
> >
> >   Wow, thanks for deciding that for the rest of the world.
> >
> >   *I* will decide what my computing needs are, thank you.
>
> Somehow I don't think that anyone is ever going to start calling Crays and
> PDPs home PCs anytime soon.  Even if that is what we need.



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