Torvalds switches to Apple - Sorta! ;)

[gerbick]

Originally Posted by enforce1

You guys know... that guy that said about speed? Last time I checked, no x86 boxes out there ran 2 64-bit 2.5 GHz Processors. Thats pretty fast, last time i checked.

I guess you've never seen or heard about those new-fangled Opteron 852 dual, or quad CPU, rendering server that's running 2.6ghz per 64-bit enabled chip.

[fryke]

Quote from the article... "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970)--it's physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don't think you can call it a Mac any more "

Sure it's still a Mac - but Linus should've kept a partition on the HD with OS X installed - just to play with it from time to time and to see why linux ain't ready for the desktop. Then again, he _isn't_ exactly a regular desktop user, nor's that his field of development...

[Viro]

Originally Posted by gerbick

I guess you've never seen or heard about those new-fangled Opteron 852 dual, or quad CPU, rendering server that's running 2.6ghz per 64-bit enabled chip.

or even oct processors. Now that will be oh so cool. 8x 2.6 Ghz chips running at full speed.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally Posted by gerbick

I guess you've never seen or heard about those new-fangled Opteron 852 dual, or quad CPU, rendering server that's running 2.6ghz per 64-bit enabled chip.

Yeah, but have you seen the prices on them? Much higher than a G5. Sure, most of them come with 1 or 2GB of RAM, but they sell for $4000 - $8000!

[gerbick]

But they exist. The person I was responding to seemed to not have been clued into their existence. I was making sure he was savvy.

Just like I didn't know about the 8-way Opteron. Now that's something new for me.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

8 way Opteron? My God... that's insanity.