So much for PBs as the first 64 bit portable...
http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/200306281/index.html
At least we still have the best OS and best looking notebooks around.
At least we still have the best OS and best looking notebooks around.
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Originally posted by filmmaker2002
http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/200306281/index.html
At least we still have the best OS and best looking notebooks around.
Didn't SGI make notebooks? I thought I saw a couple, in the 4 minutes I watched from the movie, Congo.
Originally posted by GardenOfEarthlyDelights
Didn't SGI make notebooks? I thought I saw a couple, in the 4 minutes I watched from the movie, Congo.
well, i wouldn't call the SGI things notebooks. more like luggables. and they never offered them for public sale. only a few very high profile customers ever got their hands on one of those things.
Originally posted by pesi
... they never offered them for public sale. only a few very high profile customers ever got their hands on one of those things.
Well, that just made them even cooler— techy stuff that you can't buy.
Or, if you're crunching the numbers in a task that could bennefit from 64bit floating point, then a desktop would probably be in order.
Granted, these are just generalizations and portables will likely all be 64 bit someday. I guess what I'm trying to point out is that having the first 64bit portable isn't that impressive of a milestone.
Maybe I should be the first motorcycle manufacturer to produce a 40 gallon gas tank. I'd be the first.
Originally posted by klinux
Uh, you know there were 64-bit OS and PCs before G5 and Athlon64 right?
It depends on how Apple was defining desktop. Were the 64-bit PCs desktops, servers or workstations? I think everyone knows it's nit picking marketing talk.
I believe it's close enough to say that AMD and IBM are close to a tie for first place in 64-bit desktop chips. As far as the market goes, a couple months doesn't make much difference. Now Intel is far behind. They must either do a 64-bit x86 or a consumer version of the Itanium.