[plug] SME PC hardware linux supplier?

[Brock Woolf]

On 09/11/2004, at 9:41 PM, Chris Caston wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 21:11, skribe wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:16, Brock Woolf wrote:
>> Is there a logical reason why any sane person would choose to do 
>> this?  What I
>> mean by that is fork out the fat wad of cash for Apple's hardware and 
>> then
>> ditch its OS to run linux.  I mean, I like linux but it's not really 
>> worth
>> buying hardware at double the price unless you're a serious gearhead 
>> - and we
>> all know that serious gearheads are on the wrong side of the sanity 
>> line (and
>> more power to them).  I guess what I'm asking is there any benefit, 
>> other
>> than bragging rights and a warm feeling of satisfaction, from running 
>> linux
>> on Apple hardware?
>>
>> skribe
>
> It would be more stable, more geeky, immune to Windows installation and
> "less" of a thief magnet?
>
By the way, I have old Intel x86 boxes that have died after 4 or 5 
years but PPC
systems that are 4-10 years old still running strong, and oh yeah, they 
all run Linux.

Most of my x86 stuff has died, but the Apple just keeps on going.
However if you are on barebones budgetary constraints, buy an x86 PC,
provided you won't ever upgrade the hardware, because it is expensive
on Intel when you add up your costs.

Long term you will save money because you will find that you don't need 
to keep on
upgrading, whereas intel, you do.

Don't get me wrong, x86 is cool, one of my desktops is a 2.5GHz Athlon. 
But man,
wouldn't an X-Serve be cool!, those things outperform all the Dell 
servers by something
like 50% or something crazy like that.

- Brock