Re: AMD64 box

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 7, 2003, at 3:44 AM, James Bilotto wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:01:46PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     The alpha and Itanium non-withstanding, the AMD64 is the first 
> > 'consumer'
> >     64 bit machine in mass production.  I am already impressed!
>
> if the alpha and itanium are 'consumer' processors then you mite as 
> well put the
> mips, sparc64, and power4's in their too. and i think you are 
> forgeting the
> ppc 970 ( G5 ), which shiped in 'mass' befor the AMD64.
Actually the Opteron beat the G5 by a long shot.  I think you are 
thinking Atlhlon64.

The G5 Mac's are actually obtainable for about 2300 bucks dual CPU 
systems when
you apply Apple's generous hardware discounts for ADC members. [500 
dollar membership
for all the OSes and early releases of software + 600 dollars off a 
dual G5 is win-win for me :)]

I have had mine for about a month now and its been great :).  The OS 
doesn't do anything 64bit
in the C sense so its not really a huge step in any direction but 
overall system speed.  A 64bit
OS would be wonderful but I am not holding my breath just yet.

Dave