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Aluminum cases are the "hottest" cases in the hobbyist community. Everyone wants one. Form their lightness to their heat dissipation properties to their nice sheen. Apple embraced the hobbyist community when they release the PowerMac G5 and now h…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph Can anyone name one foundry that has not had teething problems on 130nm? The simple fact is that 130nm is where current technology and tools start getting stretched, and 90nm is everything 130nm is, only wors…
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Quote: Originally posted by Nr9 http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...108042430.html Has nVidia confirmed this report?
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Quote: Originally posted by mmmpie To support firewire Apple just needs to use a transmissions controller, just like manufacturers did in the early days of DVI ( and often still do ). The video chips can output a raw digital stream, which is then…
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With a 20" display the iMac base is looking really good. I really can't see why Apple would design a new look. I can see them upgrading the components and maybe adding some expandability. Since the LCD iMac was released, a lot has been done to sh…
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Quote: Originally posted by Nr9 UMC and TSMC have the capability to fab complex chips, its just that the customers aren't there yet. these are really advanced 9 layer 90nm processes and they are pretty mature by now Yeah that's why nVidia is …
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Well here is just a brief mention of it on the Apple site: Quote: In addition to providing fast access to main memory, this high-performance frontside bus architecture lets each G5 discover and access data in the other processor?s cache. htt…
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The price difference between the 10, 20 and 40 drives themselves are not $100 respectively but a lot less. Apple is using price to segment their consumers and create demand from different types of users. You see them doing the same thing now with …
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The iPod could already be used for video, if you use it to store your video files and play it back on your notebook or when you plug in on another computer. I can see the following scenerio: Apple releases a iTV which has a built in DVR, Ethernet,…
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There already is such a device for the mac and it seems really cool. It isn't only a TV tuner, but a PVR as well! And you can burn shows to VideoCD. I would copy them to my iPod and watch them on the road. http://www.macintoshdigitalhub.com/re…
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Quote: Originally posted by THT There is everything to doubt, since it doesn't make any sense to do it that way, share the L1 and L2 cache in SMP configurations so that one processor can use the cache of another processor. If you know which link …
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For the G4 to be equal with the P4 it needs to be at .6 the speed. That means between 1.8 and 1.9 GHz for the top end G4. Apple needs to make a quick change to 970's and move beyond 2GHz. Leave the G4 for the iBooks and eMacs.
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Quote: Originally posted by THT The Power5 will have good power management capability. So, these power management features are going to be in the 90nm 970? It would be good news if so. It would be good news if they have a 130 nm version too. T…
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Quote: Originally posted by THT Hmm... according to Henriok's chart, the Power3 only had two revisions, a 250 nm version and a 200 nm version. The Power4 is a 180 nm processor while the Power4+ is a 130 nm processors. So, all IBM is doing is ju…
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Quote: I really doubt they share the on-die cache in the manner you are talking about in the Power Mac G5. There really is no point to doing it that way. Shared cache coherency is maybe what you are talking about though. There is nothing to doub…
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I am hoping that if there is a 20" iMac tomorrow it is with a 1.6GHz 970, there really is no heat issue when compared to the G4 at these speeds. The heat issue is a smokescreen while Apple readies new products for release. They want us to believe …
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Actually there were three major revisions of the Power3 before the Power4 came out and there is actually a Power4+. The 970 is not a subset of the Power4, it is built up from the Power4 core, but additional instructions and functionality was added …