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[quote]Originally posted by Ompus: SINGLE 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 167MHz System Bus 256MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM 60GB Ultra ATA drive Combo drive (DVD/CD-RW) NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 56K internal modem $1,299.00 This is for a DESKTOP. Someone ple…

in Jobs: We've got a few things up our sleeve in the desktop area Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by bunge: That's not true. A lot of the heat and power are created by the harddrive so adding a second CPU doesn't just double the numbers. I meant the CPUs only, my bad.

in Jobs: We've got a few things up our sleeve in the desktop area Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by Crouton: Adding a 2nd CPU would probably not be as difficult as you may think. I'm not an engineer, so I don't know. Just tossing in my two cents. No? Twice the heat, twice the power consumption - both a factors w…

in Jobs: We've got a few things up our sleeve in the desktop area Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by Bacon: Don't AMD and IBM compete? Especially now with the advent of the 970 and the Opteron? Sure, Intel is the kingpin, but the more successful this partnership is, the better AMD's chips are, and ultimately the stiff…

in IBM-AMD Alliance Comment by xype January 2003

IMHO a G3 PowerMac with OS9 would make Quark users happy, Apple should offer a QuarkedMac only for them.

in PowerMacs updated in late January Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by KidRed: I don't think so. They would drop the 1ghz and the 1.25ghz would be the low end. If they can get up to 1.4ghz, they can get a 1.3ghz. The highend usually becomes the low end. Besides keeping the 1 ghz (a…

in PowerMacs updated in late January Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by Transcendental Octothorpe: What in the heck are you basing that statement on??? Or is it just a joke? Must be a joke since I know of at least one religion whose main priority is to supply the priesthood with childr…

in PowerMacs updated in late January Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by Outsider: Unless Apple uses an asynchronous bus. 200Mhz bus with 333MHz DDR RAM. It's unknown if the present chipset supports that feature. What's DDR-II cloecked at actually? Doesn't it support 400 mhz as well (…

in PowerMacs updated in late January Comment by xype January 2003

When was DDR-II supposed to come along? Wont nVidia use it in it's GeForce FX? When will the FX come out? And the G4 with a built-in memory controller? ATI Radeon 9700 on a smaller process? Serial ATA? I doubt all of these will only come in 200…

in 2003: year of the portables Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by lungaretta: PS: you sound like you have a fear of things that you do not understand. those 'geeks' fulfill the task of learning the things that you are so scared of and making the internet a better place for you to do 's…

in Intel Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by lungaretta: i don't think i'm answering your questions adequately, but i'm wondering why, if all your friends hate m$ so much, why they don't take the very straight forward route that is and has been available to the for…

in Intel Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by Anden Wood: I didn't really understand a few points raised however... 1. Apple already gets it's chips from another company, why would switching from motorola to intel stop them from being a 'hardware company'? …

in Intel Comment by xype January 2003

I think one can sum it up on one word: Control. Right now reverse-engineering a Mac to make a "compatible" system includes the PowerPC (G3, G4) CPUs and the technology around them and thus requires a greater amount of work for a company wanting…

in Intel Comment by xype January 2003

[quote]Originally posted by MacLuv: This is a common fallacy--that Quark is being "threatened" by Adobe. <blahblah snipped> Adobe won't be able to threaten Quark until Quark releases a new version on OS X. How so? I know a lot…

in Apple is going to release G5 in MWSF Comment by xype December 2002

[quote]Originally posted by DHagan4755: Duh, why can't we have those 1199 QuickSilvers in Europe! Can a european student buy them from the US store?

in 1.25 GHz PowerMac G4 to become low-end? Comment by xype December 2002

[quote]Originally posted by Gargoyle: Standard AGP cards dont work in macs? I think Apple is using AGP, too, so why wouldn't they? Unless it's a company that doesn't produce gfc chippies for the Mac (3dlabs or so) if should work with a ROM fla…