[X4U] New Mac Mini's

[Muckerheide]

on 3/1/06 1:41 AM, Zane H. Healy at healyzh at aracnet.com wrote:

> At 10:42 PM -0500 2/28/06, Muckerheide wrote:
>> on 2/28/06 8:27 PM, Zane H. Healy at healyzh at aracnet.com wrote:
>> 
>> My use of MS RDC on a G5 is full speed, as though being on the system.
> 
> That's interesting.  Are you connecting to a Windows Terminal Server,
> or simply to a WinXP box?  Also what speed box?
 
Windows Server 2003; ~3-year old Dell Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, 1 G RAM
 
> 
> In connecting to a 1.6Ghz P4 with 2GB RAM over a basically idle
> switched 100Mbit ethernet, from a dual 2Ghz G5 with 1.5GB RAM with
> Mac OS X 10.3.9 it was anything but like being there.  It is usable,
> but definitely not that great.
> 
> In connecting to a HP DL380 G3 (something like 3.6Ghz hyper-threaded
> Xeon with 3GB+ RAM) over a busy corporate network to a 100Mbit
> network connection and a dual 500Mhz Pentium III with 1GB RAM running
> Win XP it was like being there (I'm now with a nice fast Pentium M
> laptop, but don't really notice a difference in speed).  Even when
> connecting to these servers over a very slow VPN connection using
> DSL, I get far better performance than I do on my G5.
> 
> It is the exact same situation with VNC sessions, except I'm
> connecting to a Linux box (originally a dual 450Mhz Pentium II, now
> something like a 3.4Ghz Pentium 4).
> 
>       Zane
>