>Hmm not quite. Or at least if you have different information then >he following I would LOVE to hear about it as I am purchasing based on >his. When I called EMJ for prices thie quoted me the following: I was going on a show special price I paid Cell Computing in November for a 233MHz CardPC CPU with 64MB RAM together with an evaluation board (the very large one), somewhere around $1,080 (they wanted $999 including 32MB, 64MB added a bit). I was also figuring that a 233 MHz Pentium was around 5 times the compute power of a 66 MHz 486, a considerably bigger factor than the price difference, even at the EMJ price. Seems to me this makes the CardPC the clear winner in terms of MIPS per dollar. >Since both systems require you make or buy some fashion of breakout >board I am not considering the added cost there, but if you do not need >sound or too much speed then the JUMPtec option still seems to be less >then half the cost of the CELL computing path and an ok way to get started >on a wearable. Another issue is VGA, which comes with the CardPC, but which is $155 extra with the JUMPtec (assuming you get the Combo module with ethernet as well, plus two more serial ports). This further narrows the price gap. These considerations only make sense if you're trying to build a supercomputer out of a lot of these. For one computer go for the JUMPtec 486 unless you really need those cycles. It's a much smaller package with less demanding power requirements. Vaughan -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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