Extremely powerful Pentium system used to demo Mac OS X on Intel
I have to ask... did anyone else notice that apart from running loads of dashboard widgets at once Steve looked to be closing down every app before he opened the next? Was he just being tidy or is there a something more??
ps, it was late when i watched the webcast and I'd been crying all night lol I may have got it all wrong
Extremely powerful Pentium system used to demo Mac OS X on Intel
I have to ask... did anyone else notice that apart from running loads of dashboard widgets at once Steve looked to be closing down every app before he opened the next? Was he just being tidy or is there a something more??
ps, it was late when i watched the webcast and I'd been crying all night lol I may have got it all wrong
I didn't really notice, but I did notice that when he opened up a few word docs, excel, and a few photoshop documents, that there was no real lag other than the standard time that photoshop *always* takes when starting up.
I dunno, for on-the-fly binary translation, i was pretty impressed. I mean, the technology is a year away and it looked pretty good to me. The native apps launched in a blink of an eye and seemed to run fine. Even iPhoto looked fast.
Moreover, this is a super-early development system. Overall, I was pretty pleased with what I saw.
yeah maybe that's why the original thread was deleted (maybe Intel gave them a pre-release version of MP?)
Or the more obvious reason (stated in the now-missing thread) that someone misread the "Pentium 4" in the About Box displayed during the keynote and assumed that the "4" meant four processors.
I have to ask... did anyone else notice that apart from running loads of dashboard widgets at once Steve looked to be closing down every app before he opened the next? Was he just being tidy or is there a something more??
ps, it was late when i watched the webcast and I'd been crying all night lol I may have got it all wrong
You're correct in saying that you may have gotten it wrong.
If you watch the Keynote again (He begins the demo at about 28 minutes) you will see that he's simply closing the window of the app, not quitting it.
He has Preview, Dashboard, iCal, Mail, Safari, iPhoto and QuickTime Player all open at the same time.
Plus, iPhoto looks very responsive, especially when he enlarges the pictures.
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Extremely powerful Pentium system used to demo Mac OS X on Intel
I have to ask... did anyone else notice that apart from running loads of dashboard widgets at once Steve looked to be closing down every app before he opened the next? Was he just being tidy or is there a something more??
ps, it was late when i watched the webcast and I'd been crying all night lol I may have got it all wrong
Originally posted by onyx-pb
I missed whatever was here but with a topic like:
Extremely powerful Pentium system used to demo Mac OS X on Intel
I have to ask... did anyone else notice that apart from running loads of dashboard widgets at once Steve looked to be closing down every app before he opened the next? Was he just being tidy or is there a something more??
ps, it was late when i watched the webcast and I'd been crying all night lol I may have got it all wrong
I didn't really notice, but I did notice that when he opened up a few word docs, excel, and a few photoshop documents, that there was no real lag other than the standard time that photoshop *always* takes when starting up.
I dunno, for on-the-fly binary translation, i was pretty impressed. I mean, the technology is a year away and it looked pretty good to me. The native apps launched in a blink of an eye and seemed to run fine. Even iPhoto looked fast.
Moreover, this is a super-early development system. Overall, I was pretty pleased with what I saw.
Originally posted by MacCrazy
The rumours were that FOUR Pentium 4s were needed for this speed!
I too noticed the lag, and if that is true it's not good.
Originally posted by spyder
I too noticed the lag, and if that is true it's not good.
well maybe this proves that Apple's benchmarks were right - G5s completely beat P4s. Oh shit - someone should tell Steve.
Also, if there were 4 p4s, wouldn't you be able to hear the fans running from the audience?, those things are massive heat producers.
Originally posted by gameguy56
haha, if there really were 4 p4s, it would be an engineering feat, considering only xeons can be MP.
Also, if there were 4 p4s, wouldn't you be able to hear the fans running from the audience?
yeah maybe that's why the original thread was deleted (maybe Intel gave them a pre-release version of MP?)
Originally posted by MacCrazy
yeah maybe that's why the original thread was deleted (maybe Intel gave them a pre-release version of MP?)
Or the more obvious reason (stated in the now-missing thread) that someone misread the "Pentium 4" in the About Box displayed during the keynote and assumed that the "4" meant four processors.
Originally posted by MacCrazy
The rumours were that FOUR Pentium 4s were needed for this speed!
Jeez, the system is a single 3.6GHz Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading and integrated graphics.
There are hundreds of them here at WWDC.
Originally posted by blackwave
The body's of these computers are inclosed in what kind of case?
PowerMac
Originally posted by onyx-pb
I have to ask... did anyone else notice that apart from running loads of dashboard widgets at once Steve looked to be closing down every app before he opened the next? Was he just being tidy or is there a something more??
ps, it was late when i watched the webcast and I'd been crying all night lol I may have got it all wrong
You're correct in saying that you may have gotten it wrong.
If you watch the Keynote again (He begins the demo at about 28 minutes) you will see that he's simply closing the window of the app, not quitting it.
He has Preview, Dashboard, iCal, Mail, Safari, iPhoto and QuickTime Player all open at the same time.
Plus, iPhoto looks very responsive, especially when he enlarges the pictures.
And I'm not buying the four Pentium BS.
People like to make shit up.