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The argument that an Intel Mac mini will somehow be "faster" than the current shipping dual G5s is simply silly. There is a lot of truth to Apple's old marketing about the G5 being faster than the fastest available x86 CPUs -- it's why people build …
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That said, either Apple or Intel needed to go to the fairly large trouble of developing an OpenGL-supporting driver for this card, when it probably would have been much easier to lean on ATI/nVidia at an earlier date to port their drivers (which I b…
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Broadcom also makes some PCI Express ethernet cards (quad port gigabit hardware and the like).
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Yeah, exactly. The BIOS was something IBM hacked together for the original IBM PC, expecting it to exist only on that hardware. But then it got cloned. And so we still have it today. It still runs in 16 bit real mode. PCs still use the same memory a…
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I would be interested to know where the warning about the unsupported hardware came from... specifically if it came up before Aqua started. Splicing in an OpenDarwin 8.0.1 kernel would be an interesting thing to try. I wonder if we'll have something…
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I'm running OpenDarwin 8.0.1 (corresponds to Tiger) just fine on my Xeon machine here -- full hardware support and everything. From the looks of the drivers on the CD, the new Apple macs are going to be bog-standard ICH6-based machines (there's an i…