Posts by smalM

Quote: Originally posted by costique If developers wrap all calculations up in high level classes and try to isolate explicitly platform-dependent code, they might even have half-ready 64-bit versions of these apps. Untested? – yes....

Quote: Originally posted by Outsider Yep, SRAM specifically. Getting 450MHz SRAM (DDR to 900MHz) is not expensive and building it into the cost of the companion chip would be a way to save on overall costs, especially by going with a...

Quote: Originally posted by Programmer What we're saying is that the 970 may not have a clock multiplier... the bus runs at 1/4 the chip speed, double pumped. Period. Don't bother trying to figure out clock multipliers. The bus...

[quote]Originally posted by Barto: <strong>The iMac is not cheap. </strong><hr></blockquote> I think this was meant like cheap to produce not cheap to buy [ 02-13-2003: Message edited by: smalM ]</p>

[quote]Originally posted by Algol: <strong> If motorola claims that the 7455 can only go 1Ghz, but apple has them going 1.42Ghz, I imagine Motorola's claim that the 7457's top speed is 1.3ghz is incorrent. Do you think we will see...

[quote]Originally posted by Programmer: <strong>I don't know... the IBM presentation was pretty clear that the bus speed is half the processor speed. Period.</strong><hr></blockquote> The presentation said 900...

[quote]Originally posted by opuscroakus: <strong>Will this extra L3 cache goodness really help or is this more of a marketing thing. </strong><hr></blockquote> The bus ratio for the DP 1250 is 7.5 and each...

[quote]Originally posted by Algol: 1Ghz G4 1MB L3 cache 256MB DDR RAM 80GB HD SuperDrive <strong>17" LCD</strong> Radeon 9000 64MB Firewire 800 Airport extreme <strong>$1599</strong> 1Ghz G4 1MB L3...

[quote]Originally posted by tsukurite: <strong> Nope, Jan. 16th, 1991. tsukurite</strong><hr></blockquote> What a strange point of view! The war began Aug. 2nd, 1990. Back to topic: IBM said Q3 for...

[quote]Originally posted by DrBoar: <strong>I do understand that adding dual CPU support in OS and applications is quite an undertaking. How is going past 2 CPUs compared to that?</strong><hr></blockquote> OS X...