David T. Lewis wrote:
p.s. Speaking of lack of feedback, the 64 bit VM seems like a really big thing to me. Ditto Croquet. I'm trying to figure out the cheapest 64 bit box that would let me try these out. I'm sure as soon as I do I'll be wanting to use the latest VMMaker and I might as well try out some multiple host windows while I'm at it ;-)
Is about $1000 US cheap enough? I built a 64-bit AMD64 box in June for about that much, and some of the parts have come down in price since then:
2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 1GB DDR400 RAM 120GB SATA drive DVD burner Gentoo Linux All in a case small enough to fit in carry-on luggage.
I've been very happy with it, except for a recent adventure with a failed power supply in the second case I bought for it. I moved back to the first case and I'm fine.
I assume the list isn't all that interested in all the gritty hardware details (and that they'll speak up if they are) so contact me off-list if this sounds like a direction you'd like to go and want more details.
-Martin