Posts by RBR

Quote: Originally posted by Telomar I wouldn't be praying for PCI-Express unless you want to wait until 2004 for a new PowerMac. What I have seen recently seems to be a battle between the PCI-X crowd which wants the backward...

Quote: Originally posted by Henriok 970 is here this year. 980 won't be here for some years. IBM hasn't made any public anouncment when they intend to ship the slimmed down version of Power 5 AFAIK. It might not be here until 2005 or...

IBM is in a hurry to get the Power 5/980 chips out as there are manufacturing as well as performance advantages over the Power 4/970 chips. If Apple drags its feet much longer the 970 will be obsolete when introduced. As it is the 970...

Quote: Originally posted by iCode OK, I understand all the objections. This to me simply means that a 970 Mac MUST have a 64-bit OS on practical grounds. This conclusion leads us to the questions: Will Apple have the OS X 10.3...

[quote]Originally posted by johnpg: <strong>Well Linux and AIX don't support Altivec, so I think that's what they mean. They don't want their customers to think it's going to make their software faster just because it has a vector...

&gt;however, apple will have difficulty maintaining current &gt;price points on their other products. surely they must &gt;be aware of this potential problem. how will they deal &gt;with it? pin their hopes on the power...

While you are at the request line, don't forget to ask for PCI Express or some similar high speed bus for a replacement to the current mix of PCI & AGP slots. And a bunch of them.

OK Frosty, I think you took off in the wrong direction without realizing it. Hardware is of no use without software. Software (programs) that accomplish something are the reason for the user to acquire the computer in the first place....

Good points OCCAM. The most fundamental question is whether applications presently written for OS X could run on OSX/x86/Marklar without substantial effort by the software vendors. If a major effort were required, one would have to...

I can not comment on the SIIG card, but I have been using the ACARD RAID ATA133 card for a few months now. The installation was straight forward and without problems. I have had no difficulties that I am aware of with it. Mine is...