the other day...
... I'm visiting a friend of mine at his home, here in CA. Havent seen the guy for a while, known him since college days, more than 12 years ago - anyway, he works for a software company which makes apple / pc applications.
To make a long story short -
After chit-chatting for a while, we venture to his computer desk, where I asked him to show me his new dual amd setup he just received (I am interested in such a setup). Also on the desk is a cinema display running osX - always having been an apple fan, I play around w/ it for a bit (he was getting us food from the kitchen) and I was shocked!
So whatever this post will cause, I'm sharing this info simply for fun -
Having played with G4's at a local apple store over the past couple of months, I immediatley noticed an enormous performance jump. It was huge! I mean, I know how it takes apps to launch a while and playing w/ the menu's sometimes (even w/ the dual 800's) you notice lag - this thing was screeming through it all! Just about the time he comes back to the desk, I had itunes playing w/ large visualization running, 3 quicktime movies playing, assorted apps open, and the thing was still flying through its paces! Now like i said before, doing similar work on even the dual 800's @ the store provoked some sort of slow down, especially while running the visualization in itunes!
I was like, w00-h00, what do we have here? I looked around, couldnt find anything remotley resembling a current G4 powermac, only thing i say where 2 generic computer cases, one obviously being the dual amd setup, the other... G5 maybe???
Anyway, my friend was a bit "annoyed" by my discovery, as he quickly diverted my attention to the amd setup...
He never brought up the Mac, and I on the other hand never felt like asking him what he had...
Anyway, maybe its nothing, but i know what i saw was deffinitley no dual G4... at least not @ 800mhz.
D.
To make a long story short -
After chit-chatting for a while, we venture to his computer desk, where I asked him to show me his new dual amd setup he just received (I am interested in such a setup). Also on the desk is a cinema display running osX - always having been an apple fan, I play around w/ it for a bit (he was getting us food from the kitchen) and I was shocked!
So whatever this post will cause, I'm sharing this info simply for fun -
Having played with G4's at a local apple store over the past couple of months, I immediatley noticed an enormous performance jump. It was huge! I mean, I know how it takes apps to launch a while and playing w/ the menu's sometimes (even w/ the dual 800's) you notice lag - this thing was screeming through it all! Just about the time he comes back to the desk, I had itunes playing w/ large visualization running, 3 quicktime movies playing, assorted apps open, and the thing was still flying through its paces! Now like i said before, doing similar work on even the dual 800's @ the store provoked some sort of slow down, especially while running the visualization in itunes!
I was like, w00-h00, what do we have here? I looked around, couldnt find anything remotley resembling a current G4 powermac, only thing i say where 2 generic computer cases, one obviously being the dual amd setup, the other... G5 maybe???
Anyway, my friend was a bit "annoyed" by my discovery, as he quickly diverted my attention to the amd setup...
He never brought up the Mac, and I on the other hand never felt like asking him what he had...
Anyway, maybe its nothing, but i know what i saw was deffinitley no dual G4... at least not @ 800mhz.
D.
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... and I was shocked!
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Check the grounding in the outlet.
While the genius was preparing the ppr wrk to have the book sent off, the huy said that he had called Apple w/the problem.
When he told the tech that the iBook was shocking him every time he put it obn his lap, the tech said 'Apple doesn't make laptops, they make notebooks.' Huh?
Anyways, made me laugh.
You should try to get another look at the machine if you can.
Oh, nerd humor...
Any how, it really boggles my mind how stupid some of the people at these stores are.
2 stories:
1. I was in London Drugs the other day watchin the xbox (Im really NOT impressed) when I over heard a womans conversation with a sales clerk about buying a laptop. They went over the normal stuff (CPU speed, RAM, harddrive, size) and then she asked about 2d, the guy says "yes, every note book is capable of handling 2D very well". Then she askes about 3d and the guy says "No, only Toshiba notebooks support 3D".
Im sorry, but Idont think that a GF2go is necessary for 3d.
At another London Drugs (gotta love that store) I was talking to a friend of mine who is "cheif computer technician" (meaningless title since this guy doesnt know shit from apple butter) and the new sony Viao's were in (this was a while back, when they first got in) and I walked up to it and said, "wow, these are cool little note books"
"Ya" he says
"And look," I say "Theres USB"
"No, thats Firewire" he says
I point out the serial bus symbol, and he says "No, thats the universal connection symbol, that doesnt mean its USB"
So I pojnt out that if its an Apple notebook it would be the firewire symbol, and since its a sony it would be the iLink symbol
"Your wrong" he says
So I point out the shape of the plug
"Listen," he says "Im the computer guy here, I think I know trhese things"
With that I say "whatever" and leave.
If so, good news, if not, why bother speculating?
<strong>OK, so how did we get so sidetracked as to go from a story of a faster OSX machine to whether or not the person behind the counters knows anything?</strong><hr></blockquote>
'cause these people think this guy is full of it.
You think Apple would allow a company to let its employee take their hot mystery box home for software development? No they wouldn't. Said box, if it existed, would be in the R&D and/or the software testing lab.
Maybe he was looking at an Aqua skin on a Wintel OS?
[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Scott H. ]</p>
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Maybe he was looking at an Aqua skin on a Wintel OS?
[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Scott H. ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
ha ha ha
[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Power Apple ]</p>
<strong>Okay for all future people who want to post these stories, you're going to have to tell us what it said in the Apple System Profiler, or we just won't believe you. Sorry, but that's the way it goes. It's stupid, on your behalf, not to do it otherwise. So, check it out and get back to us. Thanks.</strong><hr></blockquote>
"I checked and there was no system profiler installed. Then I ripped one half off and the CPU was blank, neither saying G4 nor G5. After torturing my friend he confessed it was Aqua-themed Linux connected to his other dual AMD machine. The doctors say he'll recover soon."
Check the computer better next time. Steal it if neseccary.
[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Anders ]</p>
<strong>iTunes on XP rulez.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You can run iTunes on Windows. Don´t you know that?
[edit]Forget I said that. I just discovered what VirtualPC for Windows is about. My bad[/edit]
[ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Anders ]</p>
Dave
Dave
G5 are going to be announced soon!! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />