@polyp2000, ferrellsl
Never ever have I claimed that the Cell couldn't be used as a desktop CPU, only that it never (not even when it was new) has been suitable for this, thus a poor choice when better alternative exist(ed). The main feature of this piece of silicon were the numerous SPE's, with a PPC mostly there to tie it all together. Thus you will pay a very high price for a CPU of which main features will go largely unused in a normal desktop context, while you only utilize the PPC (PPE) part of it for your needs, which is an insane waste of resources. This is why it's not suitable, and this is why it was never used in desktop configurations. Better alternatives that actually made sense existed, so those were used instead. No brainer really, and it's somewhat strange that it's even being discussed. Maybe in the aftermath of the X1000 and similar, people has lost all track of concepts like "suitability", "viability", "waste of resources", etc? Why else are we regularly having these kind of pointless discussions about Cell and whatnot?
In the spirit of this: What I think is long overdue by now, is a discussion about Power 7! I mean, just imagine if "A-eon and the guys over at Varisys" would create a $10,000+ "AmigaOne X2000" desktop system for OS4 based on Power 7? Oh, wait... :rolleyes:
