<strong>Which leaves us right back where we started: Whats going to be in them?</strong><hr></blockquote>
A G5 in powermacs. White case, two full front drive bays.
A (n apollo) G4 in iMacs (or whatevr the successor is called). iBook like configuration, different modles with different optical drives.
A (n apollo) G4 in powerbooks, all on 133 MHz bus.
Sahara G3 in iBooks.
That is not only what I at least want and expect, that's what's really needed.
I can get an Athlon XP 1600 machine here in Belgium for 24.000 BEF. That's less than half the price of the low 500 MHz CD-ROM iMac. That has to hurt Apple, both in the consumer and pro space. Reghardless of how much I like Apple's OS. This is not going to make me swith to winamd/tel, but it is letting me hang on to my old Apple hardware just that wee bit longer.
<strong>My sources report that it is more likely that the G5 will be delayed until Apple is done creating their Raycer graphics processor.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What's the "Raycer graphics processor" supposed to have that other companies have not yet provided?
Maybe they have so much G5's they will have more than enough. Perhaps Steve got so excited because their shipment of 1.6GHz G5's came early and they'll have more than enough to offer for sale that he moved up the keynote one day early! Think positive!
Actually, I just think it's kind of comical that any one would speculate about potential product announcements by when or how long the keynote will be. Long live the rumor mill.
Let's figure this: Uncle Steve, being a man who really-really likes to be admired from a safe distance ... would seriously think twice about pissing off his admirings fans (or those fan's journalist's) by screwing up their hotel plans.
Thus - he must have calculated something - that's the kind of mind he's got.
The math?
The weight of pissing off a small fraction of the admiring flock by way of their hotel plans - vs - the thunder loss of a day early security leak.
He must of thought simply this "tis nobler to freak out with full force the hundreds of thousands of fans who can't show up, than saving the hotel plans of the thousand or so who do, and risking a leak".
You do the "math": Uncle Steve's got something big: he wouldn't risk pissing on the warm glow of a thousand or so local admirers otherwise; my guess (and it's only a guess), is G5's.
Since Bake-offs take time: and 2.5 hours is about right for the monster chiller horror theatre of LCD iMacs and especially G5's mopping the floor with x86's. I think we're likely gonna see G5's, cause an Apple branded Ginger ain't gonna cut it.
Lets try this again. Unless the program is specifically coded to take advantage of a second processor in OSX, the only thing a second processor will allow is the offloading of other tasks while the app is running, i.e.
app=processor1
OS overhead and other tasks=processor2
[quote]The next major release of Maya will feature support for AltiVec and multiprocessing machines, Andrew Pearce, director of Maya technologies, told MacCentral.<hr></blockquote>
All I can say is Maya wasn't ported to OS X for an Apollo and my source ISNT talking now. Before he was all for telling me the processor situation at Motorola.
By telling me about processor information before I mostly mean the G4+ (V'Ger) which he gave me correct details on fall of 2000. He has told me a little about G5, but now I can't contact him.
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Somehow, I'm not surprised...
<strong>Which leaves us right back where we started: Whats going to be in them?</strong><hr></blockquote>
A G5 in powermacs. White case, two full front drive bays.
A (n apollo) G4 in iMacs (or whatevr the successor is called). iBook like configuration, different modles with different optical drives.
A (n apollo) G4 in powerbooks, all on 133 MHz bus.
Sahara G3 in iBooks.
That is not only what I at least want and expect, that's what's really needed.
I can get an Athlon XP 1600 machine here in Belgium for 24.000 BEF. That's less than half the price of the low 500 MHz CD-ROM iMac. That has to hurt Apple, both in the consumer and pro space. Reghardless of how much I like Apple's OS. This is not going to make me swith to winamd/tel, but it is letting me hang on to my old Apple hardware just that wee bit longer.
<strong>My sources report that it is more likely that the G5 will be delayed until Apple is done creating their Raycer graphics processor.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What's the "Raycer graphics processor" supposed to have that other companies have not yet provided?
--Alexis
P.S. Why would I have to re-register?
Steve Jobs is giving the keynote a day earlier that projected and Apple needed the extra day to be able to ensure an adequate supply of G5's for sale.
<strong>Well, that tears it. No G5's.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
I donna thinka so ...
Let's figure this: Uncle Steve, being a man who really-really likes to be admired from a safe distance ... would seriously think twice about pissing off his admirings fans (or those fan's journalist's) by screwing up their hotel plans.
Thus - he must have calculated something - that's the kind of mind he's got.
The math?
The weight of pissing off a small fraction of the admiring flock by way of their hotel plans - vs - the thunder loss of a day early security leak.
He must of thought simply this "tis nobler to freak out with full force the hundreds of thousands of fans who can't show up, than saving the hotel plans of the thousand or so who do, and risking a leak".
You do the "math": Uncle Steve's got something big: he wouldn't risk pissing on the warm glow of a thousand or so local admirers otherwise; my guess (and it's only a guess), is G5's.
Since Bake-offs take time: and 2.5 hours is about right for the monster chiller horror theatre of LCD iMacs and especially G5's mopping the floor with x86's. I think we're likely gonna see G5's, cause an Apple branded Ginger ain't gonna cut it.
And yes, it is about friken time.
RightOnMac chimes in
<a href="http://rightonmac.com/articles/01/12/13-earlykeynote.html"; target="_blank">http://rightonmac.com/articles/01/12/13-earlykeynote.html</a>;
[ 12-13-2001: Message edited by: rickag ]</p>
<strong>Especially if the bake off is going to include Photoshop 7, Maya, Office v.X, InDesign, QXP, etc.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Again...there's no way to do the bake off using Maya.
This app is slow, no MP support and half version behind other platform.
app=processor1
OS overhead and other tasks=processor2
[quote]The next major release of Maya will feature support for AltiVec and multiprocessing machines, Andrew Pearce, director of Maya technologies, told MacCentral.<hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0112/13.maya.php"; target="_blank">http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0112/13.maya.php</A>;
for similar accounts with other OSX proggies see Connectix VPC5 read me.