Re: Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista


"Steve de Mena" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ba2dnT39ae_DNDLanZ2dnUVZ_hSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
John Slade wrote:

"-hh" <recscuba_google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:035167e9-0bc7-4795-b5ab-fb6f63288ae9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"John Slade" <sa...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yea wait until you want to add more storage, better sound and other
things. You will have wires all over your desk from that cute little
machine. Tell me this, how do you add a new sound card, video card and extra
HD to a Mac Mini or iMac?

For sound & video, the upgrade path is generally the same as for the
common laptop.

Bingo! You've proved my point, the Mini is a laptop with no mouse, monitor, battery or keyboard. You're talking about USB to upgrade audio, you're going to need connectors, that means another component with wires on the desk for the iMac or Mini. As for video, you'd want to open it up and probably have your maker do the upgrade for you. This also is like on a laptop. So thank you for helping me, I was saying that a roomy desktop is better than a iMac or Mini for expansion. Mission accomplished!


Naturally, the other real question here is what contemporary
Application needs more than 'state of the shelf' for either one
today? Other than YA entertainment game, that is.

For more HD, would not a NAS running on Gigabit Ethernet actually have
better I/O than the laptop-class drive within a Mini? It wouldn't be
the first time that such things have happened; ran across this with a
Windows PC Desktop, many moons ago.

And that's the problem. A 1Gb Ethernet connection for a HD is still slow. Practially unusable for any application. Mostly it's just used for backups and not actuall real time use.

Hmmm...I wonder how many big companies run their applications from shared file servers?

They're probably connected via optical fiber. That is much faster than Ethernet. 1000Gb Ethernet can run smaller applications but using a drive for video editing, 3D rendering or gaming is no dice. Try it. Just ask yourself why are there 40 or 80 wires in EIDE and only eight wires in Ethernet.

Optical fiber is the fastest of them all. Many supercomputers use optical fiber to connect each server/workstation in a cluster.

John

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    ... You've proved my point, the Mini is a laptop with no mouse, monitor, battery or keyboard. ... As for video, you'd want to open it up and probably have your maker do the upgrade for you. ... A 1Gb Ethernet connection for a HD is still slow. ...
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  • Re: Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista
    ... You've proved my point, the Mini is a laptop with no mouse, monitor, battery or keyboard. ... You're talking about USB to upgrade audio, you're going to need connectors, that means another component with wires on the desk for the iMac or Mini. ... A 1Gb Ethernet connection for a HD is still slow. ... What does what speed the other end have to do with getting me the data any faster than the GigE connection on my desktop can run? ...
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  • Re: Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista
    ... You've proved my point, the Mini is a laptop with no mouse, monitor, battery or keyboard. ... You're talking about USB to upgrade audio, you're going to need connectors, that means another component with wires on the desk for the iMac or Mini. ... A 1Gb Ethernet connection for a HD is still slow. ...
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