Posts by RBR

Quote: Originally posted by Amorph Technically, Apple has had a choice this whole time, since the G4 supports the 60x bus (the same bus the G3 uses, and the 604/603/601 etc.) MaxBus is the better performing of the two alternatives,...

Quote: Originally posted by rickag I take it that your not too pleased w/ Motorola at this point. I hope your saying this sarcastically, I believe in the long run it would be benefical, for both Apple and Motorola, if Motorola...

X 2.7 will suffice until then. Why should Apple wait half a year to get those 970s out? They can be making money NOW! Gaining market share NOW! It all counts. That's two quarters worth of growth. To get 'power'Mac sales off life...

Quote: Originally posted by Matsu S-ATA sounds good, cheap, and less of a headache to upgrade down the road. No real reasons NOT to use it. plus, Apple lurves small cables, and they can keep a legacy ATA-66 on the Mobo jusr for...

You will get NO speed increase unless you able to run the drives in a RAID configuration that can support more than 150MBps throughput. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the...

Quote: Originally posted by Amorph Actually, I believe Apple currently has ATA/33 for the optical drives and ATA/66 and /100 for hard drives. The ATA/66 bus is only there because OS 9 doesn't grok ATA/100 and Apple didn't bother...

Quote: Originally posted by kcgil ___________________ I agree that it will be more expensive at first, but not by much maybe as high as $100 per unit. But, as Apple does currently offer both ATA/66 and ATA/100 side by side in...

Is this really the guy shareholders want leading the company at a time when its future is very much being shaped by current actions?

MacWorld/UK has an article quoting IBM putting out a few more details. Nothing really new in the particulars, but confirming them. <http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_n...fm?NewsID=6332>

Or, their schedule was always 970 @ 130nm, 970+ @ 90nm, 980 at 90nm, etc. That's the impression I've had since last fall from the available documentation....