[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[Andrew Weiss]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hedemark" <chris at yonderway.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Apple vs. Sun


> > But where is the Blade 150 a better use of $2,000?
>
> I mean, just a short comparison:
>
> Sun has one slower CPU.  Apple has two faster CPU's.
> Sun has IDE HDD.  Apple has SCSI.
> Sun has 100Mbps ethernet.  Apple has 1Gbps.
>
I can only think of one Sun advantage that will probably be invalidated with
the next-gen Apple architecture (the single CPU on die POWER4 derivative).

64 bit addressing versus 32.

Andrew