>>>>> I wonder - what would it cost to buy a twin 6-core Opteron or Xeon box?
>>>> If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
>>> I'd think an X-box is definitely cheaper. ;)
>> And a C64 is probably cheaper still. You're point?
> 
> You can't compare the computing power of an Xbox360 (triple-core PowerPC 
> 3.2GHz, theoretical peak of 115 GFLOPS; and one hell of a GPU that I won't 
> bother to describe) with the computing power of a C64.

Interesting. I wasn't aware PowerPC was still extant.

Regardless, the Xbos360 is a games machine. It's not like you can just 
fire up a copy of POV-Ray on it.

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