[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 21:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 81 (Anonymous): >> most people can do everything they want with their "last year's model"
> Still, the performance gap between a 3.4 GHz PC and a 0.6 GHz Pegasos is
> unaccepatble (factor 8+). MorphOS alone runs fast but some applications need
> power regardless of the OS, such as DivX/DVD/MPEG2 encoding: It's not as if
> copying and re-encoding DVDs or DVB is an esoteric hobby, many people do
> that. What is 1 hour on a fast PC is eight hours on a Pegasos 1. What is the
> purpose of a silent multimedia machine if it is too slow for multimedia -
> related tasks?
Sure, I'm not saying that a 600MHz G3 is suitable for every single need on this planet. I would rather render a complex 3D scene on my PC than on my Pegasos. But heck, even my really fast PC has *unacceptable low* CPU performance for this application when compared to this: http://news.com.com/2100-1008-5070403.html?tag=nl. However, that one would be an overkill for home server usage or IRC chatting and mail reading, don't you think?
BTW, the G4 *did* bring more muscles under the hood. It will also be interesting to see what the Altivitec unit may do for all the general users daily DVD re-encoding needs ... |
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