[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 42, Issue 9

[Michael Dombrowski]

> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:08:57PM +0000, Peter
> Corlett wrote:
> > Aaron Finley <aaronfinley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > [...] a $200 dual Xeon,
> > 
> > ... doesn't exist, surely?
> 
> You might be able to find such a beast in the
> 5-700mhz range.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
> jdboyd at jdboyd.net

What about an amd64 system then? For ~$350+tax you can
get a 1.8ghz AMD64 w/2.5gb ram(4gb max), 100gb disk,
cd, etc. Platform snobbery aside, is there really
*any* (used/new/etc*) system for the same price that
can touch it performance-wise?

Mike

*Within reason here, ie, once in a lifetime deals
don't really count. Also, power-draw should factor
into the price. IE, an O2k rack for $200 that draws
5kw continually should have its "compare price" bumped
up to reflect that it will cost a lot more to run over
a year than the above machine with 200W max PSU.

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