[geeks] Aluminum 30" Apple Display

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:07:51PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > Err, why did you pray for an internal modem?  What's wrong with an
> > external modem?
> 
> Everything is wrong with an external modem when you have a digicam, 
> iSight, usb printer, usb camera, usb microphone and various other 
> peripherals sticking out of your G5.  
> 
> Internal = hidden = good

If you want hidden, stick a dial up router in a rack, closet, basement,
etc. 

> > Of course.  But, the second one is why they invented things like HIPPI,
> > Infiniband, GSN, etc.  Why limit yourself to GigE jumbo frame size of
> > 9000 bytes, when you can have much larger ones, like say 64 Kbyte frames
> > from HIPPI?
> 
> Because I don't need HIPPI to read email and surf the web?  *ducks*

But you do need GigE to do that?