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No P.C's feature SATA II to my knowledge so lets add that - twice the speed of SATA at 3gbps

Refer to http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7525/X6DAL-TG.cfm
This is a Intel® E7525 (Tumwater) base motherboard and it includes SATA II from Marvell. This is a similar motherboard that broke through ~21000 3DMarks 2003 via SLI NV40s.

Another SATA II enabled feature is from
1. http://www.amdboard.com/ali_uli_m1573.html
AMD K8 Socket 939, PCI-E generation

2.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2137
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_13739.html
nVIDIA's SATA-II (SATA 3Gb/s) support from incoming NV's MCP chip e.g. nForce4 (2004 Q4).

Plans for SATA?s second coming (SATA II) is integrated in most X86 motherboard reference design road maps.

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Also Gigabit Ethernet requires CAT5e cables so only newer CAT5 stuff works. Just me being picky IDE may be going the way of AGP for hard drives but it is still needed for CD/DVD drives unless you use SATA->IDE converters. Like AGP it is still needed for legacy compatability with hard drives.

Right, well that's what I was getting at, but I guess that's not what I said... Most home users are going to have the 5e stuff anyways, as home networks have only become mainstream since the last couple of years.

And right again about the IDE drives. I haven't heard anything about SATA CD/DVD drives yet. And I'm pretty sure some will want to bring over and existing IDE drive as well.

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Here's an article on PPC on Linux which could be relevant to the discussion. It focuses mostly on how to run Linux on PPC, but also indicates a growing trend in running Linux on PPC platforms.