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  • 1] Anyone who expected a .5 ghz jump expected, well, too much 2] We don't know for sure till tomorrow 3] Top of the line would be DUAL 1.25 ghz, that's 2.5 ghz total. That's 2.5 ghz total of AltiVec, PowerPC goodness. I say let's wai…
    in Moved: New PowerMac specs Comment by xype August 2002
  • actually I think a dual 867 at the bottom is great. and dual 1.25 is great, too. this is PowerPC after all, no Pentium 4 schit. I guess a dual 867 with a Radeon 9700 card would make a kick-ass machine. and if it comes in snow-white, all the better -…
    in Moved: New PowerMac specs Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Appleworm:
    in DDR with current chip = no more preformance ! Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Jack Wiley: how likely do you think it is that the new powermacs will be released or atleast announced on tuesday? Hmmm... dunno. Did Apple invite any journalists over for tuesday? Or will it be a stealth 67 mhz u…
    in tuesday announcment? Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Miami Craig: Steve doesnt simply open a store in France because he likes that country. He did let the Cube see the light of day, though.
    in MOVED: iPad (again), G5 and iRevolutionary Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by MacRonin: Apple/nVidia co-designed video card! I don't even think this would be all that good - nVidia is not everything and I for my part would rather buy an ATI card. I would much rather see 2-4 diefferent c…
    in Video editing on next-gen GPUs Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Telomar: Not to throw fuel on anything but keep in mind IBM has a roadmap for the current G3 and it is fairly reasonable. There is no real need to replace it with something from Motorola unless it is really worth it. …
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype October 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Barto: Well Matsu, here's some Quake 3 (Mac OS X) benchmarks. These are from Bare Feets. 533/Fastest--------69.9 533/High Quality---53.2 1GHz/Fastest-------222 1GHz/High Quailty--101 Do all these have the sam…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Barto: That's around double the performance in 18 months, on par with the rest of the industry. So how is the Dual 1GHz not the same value as the Dual 533MHz? Barto You're forgetting that what people want is for A…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by wormboy: uh, no. Let me explain something to you. Just because there are three of something doesn't make it a "three-tiered strategy". No? [quote]Originally posted by wormboy: The iMac and eMac have the same …
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by wormboy: I don't see Apple developing a three-tiered strategy on the desktop, nor do I believe one is needed you mean like emac, imac, powermac?
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Barto: Intellectual property is the tool used by big business to enslave individuals. Yeah, that's the usual excuse of people who think there is no work included when it comes to have an idea and excetute it. You d…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by ZoSo: It'd certainly be a great strategic/marketing move (first 64-bit consumer OS ever, well ahead of M$!) but if what's true for the Hammer is true on the PPC platform too I don't think there's going to be a major …
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype September 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by newkid: Yes indeed, time is free. And it is the industry standard. If you say time is free then you obviously don't have a job yet. Nor anything serious to do with it. And if by industry standard you mean Linux then…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by moki: sure, but Linux can't compete with _anything_ in the desktop OS arena -- which IBM claims this chip is geared towards (as well as low-end servers). It competes well with Windows and MacOS on the desktop! …
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Programmer: So which company hasn't been contributing to the Mac? Intel?
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Amorph: Oh, and LightWave and its ilk will finally run at a decent clip. Oh, how I wish. I heared the ATI FireGL X1 (or something) will take over rendering from Maya, Lightwave & Co. Though I couldn't care …
    in 1.8GHz in 2003 - no G5, ever Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by moki: Motorola wants to do embedded processors and cell phones. Which, of course, is better than developing a uber-desktop-G5, going bancrupt and leaving Apple without a G4 supplier..
    in 1.8GHz in 2003 - no G5, ever Comment by xype August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by splode: Carl Norum, a regular poster there, has a page about doing both the external paint and (more impressively) the internal overclocking. cool, thanks for the info! how bout other Apple kit, powermacs or imacs…
    in a *original* new powermac idea Comment by xype August 2002
  • I saw someone painting his white iBook blue and another one orange - couldn't basically the same be done with a PowerMac? Does anyone have an idea of how hard it would be to take the plastic "shell" off it and color it?
    in a *original* new powermac idea Comment by xype August 2002