Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:19 PM 9/11/99 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote: >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 Ah, but the SGI system has some benefits the other PC makers aren't getting into their systems. Like the way the motherboard handles memory allocation. I actually photographed a guy recently whose son was a Cray scientist who was moved to SGI after they bought Cray to design Pentium systems for them. Quite an interesting exercise in seeing what a computer can do when put in the hands of people who really know high performance. I played with an O2 Workstation once. Oh baby, enough to make me give up Windows or Mac! Though the new 500 MHz G4 Mac is 2 to 4 times faster with Photoshop than 500 MHz Pentium III systems. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch I don't get no respect. I called a suicide prevention line and they tried to talk me into it. -- Rodney Dangerfield