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MacBytes

Sep 10, 2003, 12:42 PM

Category: Apple Hardware
Link: A Mac-Style Supercomputer - another article about the upcoming Virginia Tech PowerMac Cluster (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2003/tc20030910_7427_tc056.htm)

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dombi

Sep 10, 2003, 01:31 PM

Interesting article, but I feel a negative bias in there.
Anyhow...still nice.

MrMacMan

Sep 10, 2003, 06:18 PM

Yeah the body or main section seems fair but the beggining and end seems like he:
a) doesn't like this idea
b) Didn't want to write about this topic

mactastic

Sep 10, 2003, 07:12 PM

Haha, I liked this line, it make me chuckle.
Macs have always been the lever of choice for imaginative underdogs.

MrMacMan

Sep 10, 2003, 08:12 PM

Originally posted by mactastic
Haha, I liked this line, it make me chuckle.

Indeed.

themadchemist

Sep 11, 2003, 12:25 AM

Another writer who tries to write about Macs and their place in the industry without even getting their processor speeds right.

He states that the PowerMac G5 uses "dual processors to reach speeds up to 2 GHz." No it doesn't. It uses one processor to reach 2 GHz. It uses TWO processors to reach 4 GHz.

Wow. 2x2=4, not 2. This is tough, Haddad, real tough.