Posts by Hattig

Good stuff. Shame I have the musical talent of roadkill. But it is promising that Apple are getting their professional applications converted to intel native binaries on or before schedule.

Quote: Originally posted by Chucker You're still forgetting QE, which takes up vast amounts of VRAM, and Q2DE, which will probably take up even more, and CI/CV, which take some VRAM as well to process things. No I'm not. That's...

Quote: Originally posted by Alex3917 When will Apple fix the bug where icons don't snap to grid on the desktop properly? My 15 inch PB can only fit 32 icons on the desktop when it should be able to hold twice this number, because the...

Quote: Originally posted by Chucker You're thinking in terms of VGA. For DVI, calculating this is a more complicated matter. And as I said, a lot of VRAM will be required to drive QE (for window compositing acceleration), Q2DE (for...

I think you missed his point completely. Quote: Originally posted by Chucker [B]Which is 101 ppi. Um, there's a few problems with that. 1) that resolution is 16:10. The 15-inch PowerBook, however, is 3:2 (or 15:10). So? It...

Quote: Originally posted by JeffDM I am disappointed by the loss of Firewire, I don't believe for a minute that Portal Player or whoever couldn't have put the firewire controller on the microcontroller, it wouldn't cost much to...

Quote: Originally posted by melgross It makes me think that if Apple was so eager to give their OS to these guys for a machine that would cost what this does, Apple could make a machine that costs far less than the iBook or Mini....

Quote: Originally posted by Chucker The iPod has two StrongARM-based processor cores, manufactured by STM Microelectronics, enhanced with a PortalPlayer chipset. Intel manufactures ARM processors, but is not involved with this one, as...

Quote: Originally posted by GregAlexander Anyway, if it does run - that would be dual boot. And you'd have a partitioned hard disk - one for Mac, one for Windows right? If both OSes run simultaneously using some Intel technology,...

Damn, I bet someone on MacRumors my signature contents that Intel based PowerBooks would be later than the consumer systems, simply because a lot of Pro applications will perform poorly until they've been ported to x86. Anyway, I take...