This is also a hot topic for PC users. I'm with you on the upgrading thing. By the time that Vista is stable and worth upgrading to, PCs will have moved on yet again and 4 Quad core processors will be possible. Couple that with masses of RAM and the one box solution could be a reality. We are actually not far from this now, so I'm just hoping that my current system will last another 6 months before it dies a death, either from old age or from terminal slowness..!

DG

Hang in there!!!

@DG said:

Couple that with masses of RAM and the one box solution could be a reality.

<insert very loud diminished seventh chord here>

It's an ad MIR able goal, but someone like VSL will come along and bring that machine to its knees too.

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I'd resigned myself to the idea of buying a new computer every couple of years long ago. The difference is that I used to sell them at that point. Now I stick them on the shelf in my garage next to all the others. [:)]

@Nick Batzdorf said:

I'd resigned myself to the idea of buying a new computer every couple of years long ago. The difference is that I used to sell them at that point. Now I stick them on the shelf in my garage next to all the others. [:)]

LOL-- tell me about it. My garage now looks like a silicon graveyard.

I'm getting there too...

Oh, I've had a Mac graveyard in the garage for years. There's a Mac Plus in there, a IIci, a Radius clone, a 9600, a broken Powerbook 520, a pre-Windows and mouse portable PC, along with lots of things like tiny hard drives, a Syquest drive, a Zip drive, an old 15" color monitor, a 10BT ethernet hub, a Localtalk-Ethernet adapter, and on and on - to say nothing of mountains of old cables.

I mean that I still have my dual gig G4, and the main G5 I'm using now is still going to be useful whenever I move to an Intel Mac, etc.

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You know, I should put all this junk together and donate it as a tax deduction to a school that will in turn send it to a landfill in China. And maybe I can sell a huge carton of unspecified cables on eBay. [:)]

@Nick Batzdorf said:

Oh, I've had a Mac graveyard in the garage for years. There's a Mac Plus in there, a IIci, a Radius clone, a 9600, a broken Powerbook 520, a pre-Windows and mouse portable PC, along with lots of things like tiny hard drives, a Syquest drive, a Zip drive, an old 15" color monitor, a 10BT ethernet hub, a Localtalk-Ethernet adapter, and on and on - to say nothing of mountains of old cables.

I mean that I still have my dual gig G4, and the main G5 I'm using now is still going to be useful whenever I move to an Intel Mac, etc.

***

You know, I should put all this junk together and donate it as a tax deduction to a school that will in turn send it to a landfill in China. And maybe I can sell a huge carton of unspecified cables on eBay. [:)]

LOL. The stuff we hang onto.

Add 4 Atari STs, a Mac Performa 6400/200 Mhz, boxes and boxes of old PCI cards, cables, parts, chips, and about 2000 3.5 floppies.

Then there's the old Tascam Portastudio and all gadgets associated with it-- MMC boxes, old cheap mics... billions of 4-track cassettes...

Ah-- those were the good ol' days! [:D]

Oh!! This was a thread about PC vs Mac. Sorry to go OT!

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So for instance, if building a slave pooter to run VSL only, something like an:

AMD 3800 X2 processor
Asus M2N-E Motherboard (one of their least expensive)
2 gigs RAM
3 Seagate SATA hard drives (80, 300, 300 for backup)
Antec 500 watt PS
inexpensive video card

....would be a good setup, or would that be overkill even?

Thanks,
Mahlon

@Mahlon said:

So for instance, if building a slave pooter to run VSL only, something like an:

AMD 3800 X2 processor
Asus M2N-E Motherboard (one of their least expensive)
2 gigs RAM
3 Seagate SATA hard drives (80, 300, 300 for backup)
Antec 500 watt PS
inexpensive video card

....would be a good setup, or would that be overkill even?

Thanks,
Mahlon

Put in 3Gb RAM

DG