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Originally posted by kim kap sol
As much as you and others would like to see Apple 'address the top end', I think Apple is abandoning the idea of 'big ass computers that double as furnaces'.
Look at what Apple has put out in the last year or two: the iMac G5, the whole computer behind the screen; the Mac mini, the whole computer inside a tiny box; the iPod nano, impossibly small
While AMD and nVidia have plans to make CPUs much faster by making them bigger and hotter, ATI, Apple and Intel have plans to make them run faster but smaller and cooler.
Who's going to win? Beats me...some people are probably willing to go back to the 1950s and have the entire computer inside a mid-sized room inside the house. But looking at the love the nano is getting and how the Mac mini is turning heads, I think the future isn't about speed but about functionality and size.
If you want speed, you'll cluster computers together.
The winner? I think it's Apple, ATI and Intel despite what the hardcore gamers and speed freaks (which make up a tiny little portion of this world) would like to make us believe.
As much as you and others would like to see Apple 'address the top end', I think Apple is abandoning the idea of 'big ass computers that double as furnaces'.
Look at what Apple has put out in the last year or two: the iMac G5, the whole computer behind the screen; the Mac mini, the whole computer inside a tiny box; the iPod nano, impossibly small
While AMD and nVidia have plans to make CPUs much faster by making them bigger and hotter, ATI, Apple and Intel have plans to make them run faster but smaller and cooler.
Who's going to win? Beats me...some people are probably willing to go back to the 1950s and have the entire computer inside a mid-sized room inside the house. But looking at the love the nano is getting and how the Mac mini is turning heads, I think the future isn't about speed but about functionality and size.
If you want speed, you'll cluster computers together.
The winner? I think it's Apple, ATI and Intel despite what the hardcore gamers and speed freaks (which make up a tiny little portion of this world) would like to make us believe.
I agree with you. I personally take a small drop of performance, and even a 30 % one over a giant furnace. Today computers are very performant, as much performant than supercomputers 15 years ago.
By now, for the majority of the users, the design and silence of the computer is more important than raw power.
