[geeks] Aluminum 30" Apple Display

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:18:06PM -0400, Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:59:10 -0400, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> 
> > Woah, woah woah!  Why are you sullying this beauty with an modem?  Even
> > if dialup is the only way to get internet service in your area, please
> > use something external.  Either an external model on a USB serial
> > adapter, or better yet an external router.
> 
> Good Point. 
> 
> > 
> > Err, doesn't the machine have onboard GigE?  What's wrong with that?
> 
> What's wrong? If one Gig-E port is good, then two must be better!!!!!

GigEs not so great, that's whats wrong.  If you want more bandwidth than
the sum of GigE plus IPoverFC provides, then get a big boy network
going, like say HIPPI, GSN, or Infiniband.  I don't know so much about
Infiniband, but HIPPI and GSN offer frame sizes at least 7.2 times
larger than GigE on top of equal or greater bandwidth.
 
> So, who can come up with the most obscenely-speced/priced Apple G5
> (with accessories), Sun workstation, etc? It'd be funny to see what a
> true "dream machine" would run. Like, can we get a 4 *desktop
> workstation*  computers to run more  than $100K?

I believe it wouldn't be that hard.  Look up pricing on a nicely
configured flame station.  We'd be talking well past that price point
then, and thats just a single machine.  Or, look at SGI Tezros.  They
start at something like $39k.