Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Where Are The Computer Compamies? Date: 4 Jun 2025 03:04:31 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4xudnYJGWODS66H1nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@supernews.com> <1cgu3k1g9hl6rep830i5gdlkjpv4ejuvqv@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 0XU0e9HHSV6VwiI68t0CewkB5M7d4oufMzPBLTbn7ydzSLCP/n Cancel-Lock: sha1:oZ+AeUza+CvNaO2DDCs8iHBOKJ4= sha256:Vhvb6qzPaczK6Yz+cpIPqrC+BHRF4M3mnJtnvNv3lng= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:28:49 -0500, chrisv wrote: > There were a few years where the Celerons were just *killing* the > Pentium II's and III's in performance/dollar. Celerys? I always considered them the KMarts of the processor world. I've heard good things about the N100 in minis but I went with a more expensive Ryzen 7 that's worked out well. That was another experiment. The company bought a Mac mini for an aborted attempt to build an iPhone product and I was fascinated by the form factor. Unboxing it would have made a good youtube video. We all stood around trying to figure out what to do with it. I never did anything with it and still don't know jack about macOS or whatever it ran but it planted the idea. Come to think of it I wonder where it is? It always ran headless in the server room and tended to get lost behind a switch or UPS.