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Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison RDRAM did beat DDR in almost everthing beyond latency. ...and price.
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Well I don't know about XDR but DDR2, DDR3 and RDRAM all have higher latency than DDR which often offsets any gains in bandwidth. This is fine on a video card where you are usually moving around large sequential chunks of data but not so great when …
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Well the Geforce 6800 Ultra isn't isn't shipping yet for the Mac so there's no Mac specific benchmarks out that I'm aware of. On the PC side the 6800 Ultra shows much greater performance than the ATI 9800XT, especially at higher resolutions and when…
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha There are people out there that want their computers to create smells too (no, really... it's a real technology). Does that mean Apple should make iSmell? Don't think so. I think it's only a matter of tim…
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The cultural point is quite true I feel. I doubt a sub-notebook would do that well where I live (New Zealand) either, although I must admit I'd think I'd be tempted if Apple released such a thing. Of course Apple is trying to sell to the whole worl…
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Quote: Originally posted by Kickaha I still have a hard time believing these rampant reports of poor batteries. Maybe I got the one good one in the entire bunch, but I have an almost two-and-a-half year old *1st gen* iPod, and still get 6 hrs ou…
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I get less than the 8 hours advertised too. I take mine to work for a 7.5 hour day and even without listening to it for 2-3 of those hours, it's usually flat before I'm off home. In my case I'm using the lossless format so that's more hard drive use…
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Quote: Originally posted by moazam nVidia is known for writing amazingly good drivers for their cards. ATI drivers are questionable. If nVidia is helping Apple with the drivers, then it's wiser to go with nVidia. On the PC side, I always try t…
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Quote: Originally posted by AirSluf I have no idea how you come up with Cell as MIPS related as it is IBM doing the heavy lifting for Sony on this one and advertised since day one as Power based (as opposed to POWER based). I hadn't seen anyt…
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Hmmmm, he claims that the cell processor is a PowerPC derivative. As far as I was aware, it is a MIPS derivative (Where Toshiba comes in) which is sigificantly different to the PowerPC architecture. MIPS was one of the early RISC architectures and h…
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Yeah, that's my thinking too. There is no Mac card available that is faster or supports more features than the 6800. Even when the X800 does ship (I have no doubt it will eventually) the 6800 still could likely prove to be the faster card for OpenGL…
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Quote: Originally posted by Aurora One other point though has little relvance to us in the mac world is it has direct x 9.0c the 800xt only supports 9.0a &b this has little value now but should play a part in future games written to take adva…
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To me battery life is the biggest problem with the current iPod and the only thing that really has to be fixed. Longer life is a must. Lower price would help it sell better but Apple has never been one for competing on price. I don't expect to s…
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hmurchison, that was great, thanks for posting that link. Being built on Web Kit brings so many more possibilities for Dashboard gadgets/widgets. I am much more excited about seeing Dashboard now! Couldn't help but laugh when I saw this too... "…
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Quote: Originally posted by ZoSo Again, this is pretty much a billg argument. And it basically kills the whole shareware segment of development for your OS. There are no incentives. Sure you wanna do that? Does it bring more benefits or more dama…
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Quote: Originally posted by Borborygmi Yep. Widgets are the code that runs on the Konfabulator engine. They were invented for Konfabulator, and didn't exist before Konfabulator. Certainly the idea of little mini utilities was not original, De…
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Quote: Originally posted by Mac Voyer It was not a natural progression of anything. Even without the legal side, to me it really does look like a natural progression of Classic MacOS style Desk Accessories blended with Exposé. I have no probl…
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Quote: Originally posted by onlooker The reason I dislike ATI cards so much wouldn't affect most users, but it's solely because 3D, and Open-GL. ATI's Open-GL is atrocious. IF you do 3D ATI is a freaking joke, and will cripple your efforts. I' …
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Quote: Originally posted by onlooker Did you check out that Nvidia 6800 DLL, or whatever it's called hmurchison? I wonder what a 3D user can expect from that? At least It's better than the ATI cards that I dislike so much. I much prefer AT…