Does any one know if they will have dual P4's or not like the PIII's? This would kind of suck if they did not do it.

I mean a dual 1.7GHz P4 that would be killer.. hehe I don't know if you would ever use 3.4GHz for a Web, DNS or Mail server but would still be nice.. :)

Yes they will be coming. But what you really will be wanting is a quad P4 Xeon thats if you want Intel.

I don't know if you would ever use 3.4GHz for a Web, DNS or Mail server

You say that now ... But wait 5 years and you will be saying

"Dang man you only have a 30 Ghz! With 50 Gigs of Ram, you need to upgrade"

Originally posted by Jason_Berresford
"Dang man you only have a 30 Ghz! With 50 Gigs of Ram, you need to upgrade"

:D

Can you imagine a 50ghz machine with 35 gb's of ram and 5 terabytes of hard drive space? can you imagine how many clients per machine we could have?

Originally posted by dherman76
can you imagine how many clients per machine we could have?

uh...not really:stickout

Even if you were able to get a machine, that powerful. I dont think it makes good business since to put more than say 200-500 sites per machine, something can always fail hardware related, its better to have some sites down then all of them.

Originally posted by dherman76
Can you imagine a 50ghz machine with 35 gb's of ram and 5 terabytes of hard drive space? can you imagine how many clients per machine we could have?

Probably not very many. Remember that bandwidth supply is increasing faster than processor and disk speeds, and web sites (at least so far) are expanding to fill all available bandwidth.

Well I'm just guessing here .. no one knows for sure. But the way technology goes. I would think that when that time rolls around. People may need Gig's instead of megs for there websites. I think that if line speeds and Bandwidth costs improve as the technology does, There will be no limit in what can be done.

Something to think about anyway :)

10 years ago most people couldn't even begin to imagine a gigahertz processor. Now they're common. I'm sure the same with hold true 10 years from now. I'd be surprised if we were only at 50ghz.

Originally posted by dherman76
Can you imagine a 50ghz machine with 35 gb's of ram and 5 terabytes of hard drive space? can you imagine how many clients per machine we could have?

Aloha
hmmm bet the same amount as they will all have stereaming media of some kind
and need at least 10 gigs of HD space to store there webiste
;)
that is my thought

Originally posted by Honu


Aloha
hmmm bet the same amount as they will all have stereaming media of some kind
and need at least 10 gigs of HD space to store there webiste
;)
that is my thought




.......... And then all the video/audio streaming gets too much for all the OCxs lines and we return to a minimalistic Net world :D

I think IBM is comming out with 3GH processor. But no idea when.

only answer you will see it when it comes out...

I didn't know IBM manufactures processors? I thought only AMD, Intel, Motorolla were the biggies...

Aloha
when I worked for HP
I got to see a test box that ran win2k and HPUX at the same time and could pull proccessors out as needed and switche em to the needed ap the box had 32 cpu's
so if you were doing cad work and needed more proccessors it would switch the proccess off on the hpux sie of things and let it start to run win2k all this was on one box that could switch os's between load on the proccessor's pretty wild.