sweet - send a couple over please

Anyone have any idea if we're going to see dual-cpu X2 motherboards sometime in the future?

Or is the quasi-quad cpu system going to be limited to the Opteron chips?

I don't believe the X2 can be run in dual proc configurations, but I may be wrong

I guess I'm the only one who thinks it's kind of ironic, and self-defeating, of White to chastise the Mac crowd with his own equally breathy prose. He's hopping up and down about a machine that cost 2x the Mac's cost, but only offers something in the neighborhood of 25% improved performance.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm enjoying watching the Mac community do a backstep and shuffle to try and put a positive spin on the Pentium adoption as much as the next guy, but I really think a review like this is reaching and offputting.

- jim

a machine that cost 2x the Mac's cost, but only offers something in the neighborhood of 25% improved performance

How do you figure that? The table on page two lists a price of $4398 for the Mac and $5669 for the Boxx system. In my book that is a 28.9% increase over the Mac; hardly twice the cost and pretty much in line with the performance improvement.

ro_max

price out a mac with slightly more memory and it is the same price or more

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71201/wo/hM699ZBLhrp72HG1DDRiYUTMgZF/2.0.11.1.0.6.3

Whoops. Posted too soon, I guess. I'd just jumped over to the Apple store and saw the Mac listed for 2,999.00 and the machine in the White review at close to 6,000.00.

Sorry,

- jim

Well - at the twice the performance, twice the price is not out of the question. What about heat dissipation? upgradability? the list could go on - but then again I have no interest in pursuing it. It all gets trumped by the fact that the system price for the dual-core AMD chip *will* come down and that Mac will still be $2999.00 in two years but will have an Intel chip in it and still be half the speed of the multi-core AMD...