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Quote: Originally posted by shetline ...certainly a much better level of inventory than is implied by some rumors that don't have G5s shipping until September and October. If you order a dual G5 today you will find that September/October shipp…
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Quote: Originally posted by shetline Why doesn't this make sense? If you order now, you're well down in the queue from people who placed orders as soon as the G5 was announced. The article suggests the rumors of inventory shortage are unfounde…
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That doesn't make any sense. Go to the Apple store right now (Aug 10) and try to order a dual 2 gig G5. The estimated ship date is 7 to 10 weeks.
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Quote: Originally posted by dfiler iPhoto can easily consume my entire 1.5 gigs all by itself. iMovie is also RAM limited. But thanks to virtual memory you can use all those apps comfortably with a lot less than 1.5GB RAM. On this FAQ, h…
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Quote: Originally posted by bih Oops, I'm sorry this was meant to be a reply. Please delete me. Well just to try and salvage it, the powermac g5 weighs 39.2 pounds. Discuss? Sorry again. The battery in my car weighs 40 pounds. My german…
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Quote: Originally posted by markiv I would be playing some games, writing papers, surfing etc, College stuff. Might use Photoshop once in a while. I have only 4 slots in the 1.6 Ghz machine, had to go for that because of the money constraints, …
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Quote: Originally posted by Zapchud If you think it'll be a problem - "cripple" the 1.8, as Matsu suggested, with dual DDR 333, less RAM-slots and regular PCI-slots. It would make it very obvious that the DP 1.6 really is the better (faster) choi…
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Quote: Originally posted by Zapchud "Benchmarks". Single-threaded benchmarks never (well, rarely) simulate real-world situations, like in a job situation. It may well demonstrate how a given tasks perform when it, and only it is running alone.…
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Quote: Originally posted by Matsu I think a good lineup would look like this: CUBOID redux SP1.6 from 1299-1599 PMG5 SP1.8 1999 PMG5 DP1.6 2499 PMG5 DP2ghz 2999 A dual 1.6 gig should look slower than a single 1.8 gig on benchmarks that a…
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Quote: Originally posted by Tidris Are you sure of that? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the voltage used in AGP 8x pro cards isn't compatible with slower AGP buses, or something to that effect. Here is a web site on that subject. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Powerdoc I expect that the 9600 pro of My G5 could be used in my G4 533 to replace the old geforce 2 mx. Are you sure of that? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the voltage used in AGP 8x pro cards isn't co…
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Quote: Originally posted by thuh Freak well, i think most people multi-task, inwhich case dualies are better. each process is put on its own thread, and each thread is optioned off to either proc at instantiation. if a user tends to run more th…
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Quote: Originally posted by Bancho I don't think the supply and demand argument is entirely valid here. The supply of ALL configs at this moment is effectively zero so should they bump the price of all the configs to help control demand? I think …
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Quote: Originally posted by torifile So you're saying that the OS is SMP aware isn't a big deal? Surely you're kidding. I am not saying that at all. I am saying that OSX cannot force a user application to take advantage of multiple processors…
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Quote: Originally posted by Bancho The only frightening thing I've read on this thread so far is that some people suggest that the dual 2.0's price could be increased to accomodate the alleged dual 1.8 in the line. That would be insane and the fa…
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Quote: Originally posted by torifile You make a good point. But there is at least one application the user will be using at all times that does take advantage of dual (or multi) CPUs. OS X. That in and of itself is enough to outweigh the possible…
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Quote: Originally posted by MrSparkle What? Raise the price of the 2 Gig? I think it's much more a problem of the other configs not being worth what they're asking for them. The price increase should only affect those who haven't preordered t…
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Quote: Originally posted by applenut or how about 1.8 processor on the 1999 model and a dual 1.6 for the price of the 1.8 Bad idea because applications that aren't optimized for multiple processors would likely run slower on the dual 1.6 gig …
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Everybody seems to be missing the obvious. The extremely large number of dual 2 gig preorders reported indicates that model is significantly underpriced. The logical thing to do is to increase the price of the dual 2 gig and then introduce a dual 1.…
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Quote: Originally posted by Zapchud Yup, of course, but when it is not the bottleneck at 4x, having support for 8x will result in little gain http://www.extremetech.com/print_art...a=32560,00.asp I understand the bottleneck concept, but t…