Re: The Mac vs. Windows War is Over. And the Winner is...


George wrote:
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Umm, I don't think the ability to do that is limited to Macs. I too can
grab a file off my wife's computer from mine and attach it to an e-mail.
No problem there at all. As for it being faster, I don't know what kind
of
adapter Macs use, by at 100 MB/sec, I don't know why you would need
anything faster than ethernet for most purposes. That's about as fast
as
the ATA 100 harddrives in most computers today (yes I know there are
faster
harddrives, as I have serial ATA 133).

George

Anything newer than the first generation G4's (at least 4 years old)
Mac's come with a gigabit ethernet interface standard. As for needing
anything faster think about the very common network attached storage
(NAS) devices that you can buy at BestBuy/CircuitCity. A 1 terabyte
(TB) NAS can be had at CircuitCity for $799. With a Mac this NAS
automatically shows up and transfer rates (measured by BONNIE) are the
same as a local SATA disk. With a standard 100BaseT almost any local
device outperforms the network.

But across the network, the speed is essentially the same. A network is no
faster than its weakest link. And how many people actually own a NAS
device. At that price, I don't think I'll be running out to buy one
anytime soon.

George

Since Circuit City/BestBuy/CompUSA has a shelf full of
Maxtor/Seagate/Sony/Buffalo/LinkSys one-touch backup NAS's and since
they are advertised one per customer prominently in the weekly adds
somebody is buying them. As for network speed, everything in both my
house and at work are using 1000BaseT networking the 2tb NAS in the
basement next to the router serves up files faster than a PC disk.
Apple, Sun, HP/Compaq/Dec and IBM (power5 types) all EXPECT 1000BaseT
to be the norm. At work we are considering 10GigE for at least the
servers. Only the PC's are stuck at 100BaseT with this weird SMB stuff

.

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