Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or Cray's new cousin the SGI workstation with a couple gigs of memory and four Pentium III 500 MHz processors. (For about $11,000). Interesting you should mention that Eric......I priced that setup..... and a Dell and a Gateway Dual Processor system.....A bit expensive for the quad systems..... about triple the dual systems.... and probably faster, but....a lot faster than my 166 MHZ Pentium system..... For image procesing use, the Dual Pentium III with about a gig or RAM is about right..... The processor sweet spot right now is 450 MHZ.... most bang for the buck ( going to 500 ups the ante by another $1500)... With only 256MB or Ram, and a "regular" graphics card, and two 27GB Drives, the system is about $2500..... By Christmas, maybe RAM will come down enough to break the magic $2K Ceiling..... And the Processor will be 500 MHZ without further cost... Frank