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To: FruJu who wrote (28439)	7/19/2000 2:34:26 PM
From: Dan Fleuris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Fruju, good to hear from you. I agree. Remembering your earlier posts on parallel processing, do multiple processors speed up server type functions as they can for certain graphics functioins? Dan

To: FruJu who wrote (28439)	7/19/2000 9:08:56 PM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213176

FruJu, Re: "I don't see any reason why I would buy the low end cube over the tower - do you?" No fan? (as my box hums away nearby...) Looks cool? (the box I am using is mostly hidden under the desk) I am also a little unsure of how the cube will compete. The price tag, in particular, seems surprisingly high compared to what the package offers. The color choices on the new iMacs was also interesting with color-product segmentation and a new intermediate model. -PT

To: FruJu who wrote (28439)	7/19/2000 9:16:14 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

>>The low end cube is 450MHz ($1799), the low end tower is 400MHz ($1599). However, the tower has Gigabit Ethernet as of today, while the cube sounds as though it only has 100Mb/s. The cube has no expandability [other than memory, hard disk and maybe graphics card], while the tower has multiple hard drive bays, can have a ZIP disk as well, 3 PCI slots.<< FruJu - I can see your point about the expandability, although a lot of users really don't need or want that. Also, don't forget that you can add quite a bit of functionality via FireWire and/or USB. But Gigabit Ethernet? That's a nice feature, but who has a Gigabit Ethernet connection to the desktop? It's got to be less than 1/10th of a percent of the user population right now, and it will be years before it gets much beyond that. Certainly anyone who uses one of these at home will not have the need for anything beyond 100Mb/s. The cube is a very sexy machine, indeed. I'm disappointed that the OS X beta wasn't released, though. I really want to get my hands on that. - Allen