I'm fine with comparisons. But I'm also happier to put them into real world perspective - no one in their right mind is going out to buy 150 used PPC Mac's or X1000 machines to set up a render farm. It's money in the toilet, an exercise in inefficiency. A $300 commodity wintel box could outrun a whole cluster (I use the term cluster loosely, unless you know of a form of networked load balancing/load sharing that would make said cluster on NG systems actually work) of any of the NG Amiga's.
Well, Beowulf clustering has been around for OVER a decade, that would probably work on any NG Amiga that ran Linux:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/bookshelf/articles/how_to_build_a_cluster.htmlSome hippies made a cluster from iMacs so I assume that G4 mac minis running OS X would work, too.
I do like the car-computer analogy, a thread about hardware isn't really good until one of those come up. The engine is like a CPU!
But honestly, your comparison of a sporty car versus a utility vehicle is more akin to a high-performance workstation versus a redundant server ala HP Integrity Nonstop or some of the IBM POWER servers. You know, machines that you can hot-swap CPUs and RAM in? Machines that keep going through any conditions? Versus something just going for high performance under ideal conditions?
Or maybe the SUV is like a regular PC and the hot rod is like a netbook or tablet? The regular PC can slog through stuff that the netbook or tablet would have trouble with? I mean, it can't be just the SUV is cheap like a commodity PC and the hot rod is expensive. While that hot rod is worth something like $20k to $35k USD, SUVs tend to start at $25k and go up past $50k USD. They are now more expensive and luxury than full size or large sedans! And depending on where you live, and I bet Canadia is in this list, SUVs hold their value better than sedans as well, especially if they are 4WD or AWD.
Maybe shift the focus over to workloads, then? The SUV might handle multiple concurrent transactions, maybe something based on the Sun SPARC T3 (8 cores, 16 threads per core, 128 threads total) and the hot rod would be more like a DEC Alpha of the olden days, just out and out straight IPC and performance?
Or maybe your analogy stinks.
What I don't get is why you, a self-proclaimed Amiga enthusiast, popped into the thread to just whine about how people shouldn't talk about hardware platforms that aren't the old, dead 68k machines that are of no use to anyone anymore. You souped up your '32 V8 flathead roadster, I'm guessing, so shouldn't you intimately understand the desire to take something old, keep it running, and improve it with newer things like a CyberStormPPC or other peripherals?
Why is throwing money away on limited-use old things ok when it's your car hobby but stupid when it's our computer hobby? I'd venture that most of the people here use Amigas as secondary systems because they aren't as stupid as you're making them out to be. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong and most here use their Amiga 1200's as daily machines and wonder why they can't stream 1080p video from Netflix to their 1084.
Either way, I think your posts are in poor taste, offering nothing constructive to the thread for either MorphOS or information on PowerMac G5s.
