On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 20:38, Joel wrote: > > Holy crap that is a sick machine. I had to look at that twice... I am > > still working with my PIII 850, 768M, Vodoo 3 3000!!! > > Don't look to fast. It only has 2 physical CPUs. The joy of > HyperThreading makes it appear as a Quad. > > Maybe I'm just not sensitive to these systems anymore... I work for a > company that sells these types of machines by the dozens. I get excited > when we build a real quad Opteron, or quad xeon, stuff like that. The > dual Xeon systems we sell, with up to 16gigs of rma, also come with around > 4TB of disk space on 3ware SATA controllers. _That_ is a sick system (; At work, my standard Linux box is a dual Xeon 3.02G with 4G of RAM (IBM x335). Less than 10 minutes to install my kickstart image. Then I go home and back to the real world.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com
