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  • Its nearly impossible to prove a negative. Prove that the Xserve is not using a 7470 CPU (notice the Xserve has not shipped yet). Prove that the mobo on eBay is not a 7470-compatible MPX+ DDR RAM mobo (it is certainly not an Xserve-style mobo unless…
    in Faster G4 - MOTO 7470 Comment by nitride May 2002
  • [quote] b) look like money-grubbing capitalists...but, Apple has over 4 billion of hard cash in the bank. Thats real money, not short term investments that can be converted... Besides Apple makes most of its money from selling hardware, the s…
    in Project "Glove" and "Lucida" in July Comment by nitride May 2002
  • You are all wrong. Apple's own Mac OS X Dev tools (built on the UNIXy gcc) doesn't do AltiVec very well if at all (cant remember which way it went). Many people say they want auto-AltiVec coding to happen because of the extra work they would incu…
    in Demented speculation... Comment by nitride May 2002
  • Who needs blinken lights when you got one of these: :eek:
    in DasBlinkenLights! Comment by nitride May 2002
  • Sorry but 99% of this is not going to happen. There is just no way all of the pieces needed for this will be in place by MWNY 2002. Sorry, just not gonna happen. Look at how long it took Apple to get where we are now. And suddenly within 6 …
    in The Time travel for Future Mac by Kormac77 ! Comment by nitride May 2002
  • I wonder if all those little round holes are status LEDs. I loves them blinky lights!
    in Actual Pic - Rackmount Comment by nitride May 2002
  • Looks like 2U. Are those two bottom sections panels i.e. removable faceplates? Hmm. Certainly hope it doesn't cost a horrendous amount. I'd love to get one at work to keep all the accounting and customer database files on instead of separate comp…
    in Actual Pic - Rackmount Comment by nitride May 2002
  • In the spirit of the Iraqi "Baby Milk Factory" jumpsuits: There, now go to sleep. [ 05-07-2002: Message edited by: Nitride ]
    in Rack-mount server PICS????????????? Comment by nitride May 2002
  • The CPU connector is the large yellowish rectangle in the lower-right corner of the un-altered image (to the right of the RAM slots). Doesn't look like there is a modem (of course the G4s did have a modem up above the board attached to the back w…
    in Is this a hoax? Comment by nitride May 2002
  • Prices lower? Okay the top end G4 is already lower than they have been historically (right at $3k). And if you think all Mac prices are way too high you prolly weren't around for the $4k 8500 or $5k 9500 days, average prices not the top end eithe…
    in End of NO NEW PRODUCTS Comment by nitride April 2002
  • Comments like those above are utterly worthless. Guess what, Apple WILL release new products pretty regularly and they will generally be mightily disappointing to a large segment of the population that wants quad multi-core G6s with holographic m…
    in "We see some pretty good things coming" Comment by nitride April 2002
  • For further clarity Apple had trouble getting Mach-O "native" apps on Mac OS X for several reasons. The biggest one was waiting on CodeWarrior to make it over with the PowerPlant framework. Without that a lot of big apps were just not going to m…
    in We are getting there.... :) Comment by nitride May 2002
  • I think Avie meant PEF binary apps on OS X. Apparently anything invented at Apple is an anathema to the NeXTHeads. PEF would probably have been better for Apple to use than Mach-O for many reasons (multiple binaries in a single file including alt…
    in We are getting there.... :) Comment by nitride May 2002
  • This is simply a side effect of new Mac community members digging around and "discovering" things about Apple that are not obvious. I am sure the people over at MacRumors.com were quite surprised that Apple in fact had a handheld computer with re…
    in www.iphone.org Comment by nitride March 2002
  • You guys are all friggin nuts. When a project is created at any major company a whole series of events get triggered from a budget being created, critical people being culled from other projects, managers assigned, legal searches for trademark, p…
    in iPhone Comment by nitride February 2002
  • Apple doesn't seed test hardware in standard shipping desktop cases. Thats pretty much a given. Testing prototypes of the case itself is how the "leaked" QuickSilver photos appeared. Someone was probably fired over that incident. Not using a stan…
    in Any Idea what this could be? Quad G4? (video proof?) Comment by nitride January 2002
  • [Two-parter, first part] The comments by moki that two mobos (one with DDR and one without) were in development for this current G4 are rather specious. No matter what happened he would have been right bolstering his position of being in the "…
    in Why new round of G4s may not be here that long Comment by nitride January 2002
  • Quartz is hardware accelerated. If it weren't you couldn't drag around a solid window without any lag/flicker. There are many more issues involved than simple hardware graphics acceleration. OS X is forcing processes to give up time to let …
    in An indication of new hardware? Comment by nitride January 2002