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  • [quote]Originally posted by Programmer: Even the PC upgrade market is small, the Mac upgrade market is tiny. Me and about 11 other guys, I'd guess. If I manage to get a Mac in a month or two, that will be 12. A dozen is almost a market y…
    in Where the !*$% is the Radeon 9700 Pro Comment by xype December 2002
  • I think the 9500pro might be a really nice card for the sub 200 price.
    in Where the !*$% is the Radeon 9700 Pro Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Chucker: How do you know? Have you seen it in use? He probably is basing his conclusions on the assumption that Apple will use it and thus it has to be slow
    in Could Apple Be Secretly Working On A New "Power" Chip With Samsung? Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by rok: damn, i will be int he market for a new computer for professional work... next spring. next january for me
    in New 970 Information Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Powerdoc: Right that's why my car has a turbo-diesel. High torque low consomption. I have a nice VW Passat that runs around 1200 km with one fuel load. Cheap! [ 12-13-2002: Message edited by: xype ]
    in moved: intel have problems to increase Mhz !! Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by KeilwerthReborn: That's ludicrous. They most certainly have not. Besides, the HP isn't important, the torque is.
    in moved: intel have problems to increase Mhz !! Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by kupan787: How does HT work? http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1576&p=1
    in moved: intel have problems to increase Mhz !! Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Wrong Robust: thats a lot of power for a computer to take up. Does the TOC of a computer include electricity, as well?
    in moved: intel have problems to increase Mhz !! Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Niconono: I'll finish by adding that apple market share in europe is slowly going down to zero month after month. yah, macs are expensive here. too bad.
    in Machine for switchers... Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Powerdoc: I guess it's certainly a cost reason, but is there any reason who prevent faster RPM for IDE drives ? I think I did read some place that the IDE drives can not have much greater speeds because then you wou…
    in Faster rpm IDE drive Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by progmac: but isn't it true that a lot of the other components (particularly ram) are slower as such that the benefits of the FSB are negated? The RAM used in the currend towers can run at (I think) 333 mhz, but th…
    in Dual 1.8gigs by end '03? Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by progmac: Lots of talk about FSB in here. Is it really that important? The faster you want to process data, the faster you have to get it to the CPU. The faster the bus (FSB) the faster the CPU gets the data. One of…
    in Dual 1.8gigs by end '03? Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Lemmingway: The initial topic of this thread doesn't really seem like it's impressive; it's saying that, assuming the 970 is what Apple uses (there still has been no confirmation), by the end of next year Apple will only…
    in Dual 1.8gigs by end '03? Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by JLL: And noone ever makes new apps that require more power The geenie effect can be turned off..
    in Dual 1.8gigs by end '03? Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Programmer: Everybody is going to have to come up with new performance measurements, including Intel. Ok, now I can't resist. Watts. Just like the audio freaks. Intel will go for Watt rating, I'm sure. "Now running a…
    in Dual 1.8gigs by end '03? Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Producer: kupan787 but Intel is moving to .09 next year so this will help... were the estimated 970 speeds actually based on .13 or .09 sizes? i really would not be surprised if the 970 would go over 2.0 ghz i…
    in Dual 1.8gigs by end '03? Comment by xype December 2002
  • you know what? I have a PC I am working on. and I realised that it does not FRECKIN MATTER HOW FAST IT IS, because I spent the last 4 weeks doing stuff that would take two on a Mac - because Windows decided it doesn't want to boot anymore half troug…
    in Dell vs Mac Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by RazzFazz: This might become a point once we have support for transparency gradients, but up until then, 8 bit alpha will only be a noticeable limit if you either have to have tons (>256) of transparent windows wit…
    in Software issue will make PPC970-based machines "suck" Comment by xype December 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Programmer: There is no issue with the 970 running 32-bit PowerPC code! None. Zip. Nada. Sure there is. Joe User feeling stupid to not "take advantade of all of the 64 bits". So there - psychological problem! O…
    in Software issue will make PPC970-based machines "suck" Comment by xype November 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by @homenow: If I recall right, DDR support is on the roadmap for the end of 03/begining of 04. If that's true, Motorola deserves the best of cutting edge technology award.
    in MWSF Question... Comment by xype December 2002