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    DVE: Now, you're saying it's the first 64-bit desktop machine. But isn't there an Opteron dual-processor machine? It shipped on June 4th. BOXX Technologies shipped it. It has an Opteron 244 in it.

    Rubinstein: Uh...

    Akrout: It's not a desktop.

    DVE: That's a desktop unit.

    Akrout: It depends on what you call a desktop, now. These… From a full desktop per se, this is the first one. I don't know how you really distinguish the other one as a desktop.

    DVE: Well, it's a dual processor desktop machine, just like that one.

    Akrout: It's not 64, then.

    DVE: Yes, it's a 64-bit machine with two Opteron chips in it. It started shipping June 4th.

    Akrout: That we'll double check, but in my mind, it wasn't.
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  • #2
    Ooops. Thats what happens when just listen to your marketing department.
    Rest of the interview isn't to bad but he didn't seem to know what has happening to the G4.
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    • #3
      Well if the Opteron boxes count as desktop machines, then so do the IA64 machines that have been shipping (in small numbers, but still) for well over a year.

      Perhaps they should have said "first 64-bit personal computer", but this is all really just picking nits.
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      • #4
        Not to mention the Sun Sparc machines.. have been 64 bit for a while.. call them workstations if you will, they are starting in the same price range
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        • #5
          I wouldn't consider a SPARC a desktop machine. It's a workstation.

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          • #6
            I dunno about that man. I've used some slow Ultras in my time. They can really take the "work" out of "workstation."
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            • #7
              At university they still have some very old UltraSPARCs... they are SLOW! (well... they are very old tho)

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              • #8
                But they're "Ultra" how could they possibly be slow(laris)?

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                • #9
                  Well, almost all the 64 bit machines sold today have been sold as worktations, not personal computers.

                  That said, there was a 64 bit alpha with 150 MHz being sold here in like 1996 as a desktop machine, togeter with their FX!32 software to make ordinary windows run on it. It costs 10000 DM, if I remember correctly.

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