[News] Pegasos sales restarting | ANN.lu |
Posted on 28-Jan-2004 20:14 GMT by Nate Downes | 156 comments View flat View list |
That's right, online sales are returning early! If you're looking for that PegasosII, the wait is over! PegasosPPC.com is back and ready to take your order.
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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 29-Jan-2004 09:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 51 (Don Cox): The Pegasos and A1 may be inferior to high end Macs in performance (especially when running MacOS or Linux), but I would not call them *technically* inferior. Tecnically (from a general users point of view), they have most of the features that Macs have, you can use USB, Ultra ATA, Firewire, G3 and G4 CPU's, PCI and AGP devices, etc. However, the "numbers" are lower, it's USB1.1, Ultra ATA 100, Firewire 400, no 2GHz+ CPU yet, etc. You may call this "technically inferiour" but as I said, I would classify it more as a performance issue; it's there, but it's slower. If you want it faster you could allways insert a USB2.0 card, Ultra ATA 133 card (or better - real SCSI), Firewire 800, etc and write some drivers for them ;-).
When speaking about features, performance, "inferiourity" and such it would also be erroneous to leave the *target market segments* out of the discussion. What may be considered to be a burning inferiourity in one segment, may be perfectly enough in another. In some market segments the price is not an issue; it can cost whatever astronomical sums imaginable as long as you get the latest and fastest there is. In other segments, a low price is actually considered to be a feature itself, and in those segments an astronomical price actually makes the highest-end solution inferiour to the cheaper one. Sure, the top of the line Apple G5 might be very fast and have all the latest features, but its price of $2800-$3150 makes it *quite undersireable* for many usages and applications. |
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