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Re: [cobalt-users] Question for the Group... Qube3 to Raq 3
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Question for the Group... Qube3 to Raq 3
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jan 17 20:11:06 2001
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
"Rodolfo J. Paiz (E-mail)" wrote:
> Forgive me if I point out the obvious, but the Qube3 is the third Qube and
> the RaQ3 is the third RaQ. The fact that they share a number has *nothing*
> to do with their hardware or operating systems being compatible.
True.
> They may in fact be compatible; I'm only saying you can't begin to count on
> it. I do think, however, that the Qube3 is over a year (more?) newer than
> the RaQ3 and is likely to contain unsupported hardware. Also, from what
> Cobalt says the OS is much improved; you'd be better off getting a cheap
> RaQ2 and converting *that* to the OS on RaQ3.
Won't work. The RaQ2 is MIPS-based, the RaQ3 is AMD-based.
Jeff
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