<strong>I have been reading about this ibm and apple thing the past little while. What is it all about? What does it mean for just a home user like me?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Faster G4's in the consumer market, as well as an update to the system bus to 133-166 mhz sometime in the next 6-12 months
<strong>I have been reading about this ibm and apple thing the past little while. What is it all about? What does it mean for just a home user like me?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't understand the point of this thread. Until it becomes a product or more to the point it (the 970) gets used in an Apple it doesn't mean a thing for home users... As for speculation we have a ton of it this board is filled with it.
Very Good. A home user. Precisely who Apple hopes will be looking at their computers. Not all of us techno geeks, anicipating their next move, predicting what will happen and EXPECTING that it will.
IBM is making a very powerful new CPU (central processing unit). It's the electronic chip that is the brain of your Mac. This chip won't be out for a while, but there is a real possibility that Apple will use it in an upcoming computer. It will create a very powerful Mac, and we're all salivating for that.
I don't understand the point of this thread.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think the point is that this forum has sort of been taken over by speculation about a new high end processor, and it is not clear to Lil.Tope what he/she has to gain from such a chip. What is someone who mostly uses Word and iApps going to gain from this new super processor? Unfortunately we don't really know the answer since we don't know how quickly the speed improvements will trickle down to the consumer products. However, even the iApps could use some improved speed. In particular, I find that iPhoto is (often) really slow to scroll, resize, switch to edit mode, etc. Outside of iPhoto and Photoshop Elements, I don't really use anything that will benefit greatly from a processor upgrade; although I assume that if Apple has more power available they will come up with new iApps and fancier interface elements to use up some of that power. Anyone care to speculate on what Apple might do with faster processors that would benefit the non-power user?
Well, even if the 970 can't get into an iMac, it would at least free Apple to use the fastest G4's in the consumer line-up. By the time GPuL's are ready, we should have 1.5-1.8Ghz .13u G4's or '2Ghz'ish Sahara's (with Altivec) for the consumer and portable line-ups. There is even a RapidIO G4 buried somewhere on Moto's roapmaps, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Still, just think about how gawd-awful-slow the consumer machines are, and how much better they would be with twice the clocks, 166Mhz buses, psuedo-DDR, and a MB or 2 of L3 cache? Pretty respectable, I think. Having something like a PPC970 for the pro-line might encourage Apple not to willingly handicap the consumer offerings.
<strong>Still, just think about how gawd-awful-slow the consumer machines are...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I am just curious: which consumer applications do you find run unacceptably slowly on consumer Macs? Like I said above, the only ones I have problems with are iPhoto and Photoshop Elements, but I don't use that wide an array of applications. I am interested in what the benefits of faster processors are to people who don't make a living rendering 3D animated movies (that is just an example, I don't mean for people to respond saying "Well, you can do protein folding!").
Agreed with Matsu--home users are the ones who need the performance most. My Ti800 is actually pretty satisfying to use on a daily basis, but I can't say the same for my wife's iBook.
OSX, iPhoto, click on anything in general... wait just a touch too long... I'm extrapolating a bit of course, my best point of reference is the original Superdrive Graphite 733 (with L3 cache). This machine is surely faster than an cacheless 100Mhz FSB iMac 800. Is it really "gawd-awful-slow" you ask? OK, not really, but compared to wintel it sure feels slow, and in light of its price tag, well, yes, then it really feels slow.
Amen, Matsu. I'm hoping the 970 in the Power Macs will get the iMacs to use the best of what's left in the G4s. OSX has arrived with Jaguar. All we need now is more snappy iMacs to really convince those switchers.
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<strong>I have been reading about this ibm and apple thing the past little while. What is it all about? What does it mean for just a home user like me?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Faster G4's in the consumer market, as well as an update to the system bus to 133-166 mhz sometime in the next 6-12 months
<strong>I have been reading about this ibm and apple thing the past little while. What is it all about? What does it mean for just a home user like me?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't understand the point of this thread. Until it becomes a product or more to the point it (the 970) gets used in an Apple it doesn't mean a thing for home users... As for speculation we have a ton of it this board is filled with it.
IBM is making a very powerful new CPU (central processing unit). It's the electronic chip that is the brain of your Mac. This chip won't be out for a while, but there is a real possibility that Apple will use it in an upcoming computer. It will create a very powerful Mac, and we're all salivating for that.
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I don't understand the point of this thread.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think the point is that this forum has sort of been taken over by speculation about a new high end processor, and it is not clear to Lil.Tope what he/she has to gain from such a chip. What is someone who mostly uses Word and iApps going to gain from this new super processor? Unfortunately we don't really know the answer since we don't know how quickly the speed improvements will trickle down to the consumer products. However, even the iApps could use some improved speed. In particular, I find that iPhoto is (often) really slow to scroll, resize, switch to edit mode, etc. Outside of iPhoto and Photoshop Elements, I don't really use anything that will benefit greatly from a processor upgrade; although I assume that if Apple has more power available they will come up with new iApps and fancier interface elements to use up some of that power. Anyone care to speculate on what Apple might do with faster processors that would benefit the non-power user?
<strong>Anyone care to speculate on what Apple might do with faster processors that would benefit the non-power user?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Faster porn? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Still, just think about how gawd-awful-slow the consumer machines are, and how much better they would be with twice the clocks, 166Mhz buses, psuedo-DDR, and a MB or 2 of L3 cache? Pretty respectable, I think. Having something like a PPC970 for the pro-line might encourage Apple not to willingly handicap the consumer offerings.
<strong>Still, just think about how gawd-awful-slow the consumer machines are...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I am just curious: which consumer applications do you find run unacceptably slowly on consumer Macs? Like I said above, the only ones I have problems with are iPhoto and Photoshop Elements, but I don't use that wide an array of applications. I am interested in what the benefits of faster processors are to people who don't make a living rendering 3D animated movies (that is just an example, I don't mean for people to respond saying "Well, you can do protein folding!").