[geeks] Dual Xeon vs Dual G4

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Sat Feb 1 16:15:13 CST 2003


On Saturday 01 February 2003 22:57, William S. wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:57:51PM -0800, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I just read (at lunch) about Linus (yes, that one...) and the press
> > conference he participated in when Transmeta demonstrated their new
> > chips. The interesting part was that Linus said he was spending more
> > time with his laptop than his 8-way Xenon machine at his desk. He went
> > on to say that well, yes, the 8-way box was *fast*, but not nearly as
> > portable as his laptop, and it took so darn long to boot (paraphrased).
>
>                  ^^^^^^^^
>       Any idea what he is using?

Buh... a Crusoe-based one? :-)

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