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Quote: Originally posted by Algol So when some one goes and buys a 1.25Ghz iMac for 1799 what is the power it has compared to a P4 at what speed. I'm trying to figure out whether Apple has actually got their act together. What makes this tric…
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Quote: Originally posted by rok who the hell uses airport extreme in a desktop LAN parties babeeeee Actually, I've been quite happy with my powerbook 800 as a desktop replacement for the last year or so. With an external keyboard and mous…
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Quote: Originally posted by pscates Jeez...you guys just don't get it. Is everything only measured in "speed"? When someone talks about computers being "equally powerful," that's normally used to mean "comparably capable of the same tasks," wh…
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Quote: Originally posted by ryaxnb For 4 months the iBook had 366 and 466Mhz processors vs. 400 and 500Mhz ones. In those dark days, the main advantage of the PowerBook was the bigger screen. The powerbook current at that time had a faster bu…
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Quote: Originally posted by pscates Anyway, they talked about how in the coming months/years, laptops will be as powerful and full-featured as their desktop brothers and that you will no longer have to compromise or give up anything when you get …
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I find the P4 3.2 numbers HIGHLY suspect. I have a P4 3.2 system that benches much like those found at Anandtech and Tom's Hardware and a dual G5 on order, so I'm going to be running tests for myself -- but just about all the comparable benchmarks …
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Quote: Originally posted by johnjosephbachir i ordered a stock dual with a combo drive if you ordered a combo drive, it's not a stock dual. Anyway, their ship dates have oscillated all over the place, but you'll probably get yours before some…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph They will not even blink at bringing over a three-button mouse for Maya. The percentage of sales of those applications going to Mac users is testimony to that. Absolutely. A $12 3-button mouse for Maya was a…
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It's built to coexist with GCC 3.3 and Apple's developer tools. The README describes it all. -- Mark
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How about dl'ing the public beta of IBM's XLC compiler and trying that? -- Mark
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Quote: Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself Sorry mark, was shooting from the hip. No reason to apologize; it's certainly quite possible that your order won't ship on time. Let us know! -- Mark
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Quote: Originally posted by craig12co I too have the same situation with an "open" order slated for next Monday. I am getting scared, however, as it still seems very few dual orders have shipped, and like the last delay, Apple has very little tim…
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Quote: Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself Open. Assembling. (or OrderInProcess which means backordered) Shipped. (or Delayed) Closed. According to the help page on the Apple Store site, the status messages seem to be: Order Received…
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I was kidding. -- Mark
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Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic No they should have 512 on the bottom. I mean come on, let's go to DealRam. $79 for a stick of 512. While Apple's RAM is unconscionably expensive, there are many quality levels of RAM and that which sells …
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Quote: Originally posted by qazII Apple System Profiler responds instantly for me, for both main tab and devices and volumes. 1.8 stock + 1 gig extra ram. That's because you keep opening it to remind yourself that you're on A NEW G5!!!! …
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Quote: Originally posted by spaz i believe it was quoted by Apple themselves that they had approximately 110,000 preorders for the G5, a large portion of which were for the dual-processor machines. Sure, but that doesn't mean that they won't …
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph Everyone else in the market for the thing is either waiting for hard data, waiting for some application, or waiting for money. ... or waiting for the things to ship in quantity without a long wait. My expe…
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Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/Bro...ml?catid=77642 Look at their "best" config there. No gigabit Ethernet. Half the max RAM. Firewire and USB 1. Much less CPU. Much less applications. Not too much m…
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1) In the fall of 1982, when I was 11, mom and dad bought an Apple II+ w/ 64K RAM (incl. Language Card), Apple Pascal system, monochrome monitor, AppleWriter II, and an Epson MX-80 wide-carriage printer. On this computer I: * Cheated at Wiza…