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| Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Mark GUertin and his PCMCIA fetish 11:42 AM EDT Thu Apr 19, 2001 | |
| Mark You are rather condescending aren't you? ;) nevermind, you can keep whatever conceptions you have drawn about my arguments. Firewire SCSI is simply a very bad idea (have you ever tyried to write hardware drivers?), and so is a USB NIC. SCSI may be dead on the desktop machines, but I assure you it is _very_ much alive in the world of servers. I wouldn't run a real server with ATA drives (at least not for more than a simple backup device). I am well aware that you can bind multiple IP's to a single NIC. I need multiple seperate NIC's to do network analysis. Trying to trace packet loss from 2 IP's on the same NIC is quite fruitless. As for external devices, you missed my point altogether. I know that you have to hook up to _something_ in order to use what I am looking for, but my point is that I dont want to have to carry extra compmenets around with me, it defeats the purpose of portability. It is much simpler to swap a device into a media bay than it is to carry external drives, cdr's (with extra power requirements) etc. Also, I do a fair bit of Linux work (yes on my wallstreet), and none of these horrible hardware hacks (ala SCSI over firewire and USB NICs) are supported, nor should they be, they are nothing more than what I have said, nasty hardware hacks. I won't continue arguing here as we both have strong opinions and will do nothing but fill up the threads here, but take my point. I am _not_ a 1%er here. People are absolutely scrambling to find powerbook G3 machines right now, they don't want to spend the $$ to get something they don't need. My point is that I would like to see a real set of options from Apple's hardware offerings, not being force fed whatever fits their current vision of the month. In the Intel world you have a plethora of options. In the Apple world you most certainly do not. We are obviously from 2 very different realms of use here. I am an IT manager and a networking specialist and demand more out of my computers than most. I guess maybe you are right and a lot of people like me who have higher demands for the hardware have already bailed out of the Apple arena. It is getting harder and harder every year to justify the purchase of new Apple machines, not personally, I love the hardware, but the powers that be are starting to greatly dislike them when they see things like very fast Dell for 1/2 the price of new Apple hardware. Sure it might be lesser hardware and not as nicely built, but the $$ at the end of the line turn a lot of heads in the payable dept. and many times the users dont need the advanced hardware and all the 'extras' that we are force fed. A true build your own box solution would be best for everyone. |
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