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Quote: Originally posted by shadow APPLE IS REPLACING A VERY OLD AND CHEAP G4 WITH THE HOT AND EXPENSIVE CORE SOLO/DUO TECHNOLOGY! yes, but should they? we all said/heard things like "the (g4) mini is good for what it's for" etc just a few …
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Quote: Originally posted by iMav Why? Believe it or not, the GMA950 is an upgrade performance-wise to the Radeon 9200 chipset used in the previous Minis. really? i'd like to see some figures backing that up... anyways, a good thing with a…
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Quote: Originally posted by aegisdesign There's a 950 in the iMac? yes. both the imac and mbp got a 945gm-chipset with a gma950 built in. (there were a lot of 'wtf?!s' when the first images of a gutted imac surfaced, remember?)
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Quote: Originally posted by mdriftmeyer http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/ From what I read it supports OpenGL 1.4 and parts of it. Tiger OpenGL is 1.5 and Core Image which requires > 32MB of VRAM (my iBook G4 1Ghz with 32MB VRA…
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Quote: Originally posted by smalM The fun with GMA is that it runs nicely on a highend system and sucks very bad on a slow system. right. the benchmarks posted is more like 'gma and cpu opengl performance' vs. 'ati-gpu opengl performance'. …
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Quote: Originally posted by mdriftmeyer what are the odds Apple will have an on-board only video option for these upcoming Mac-mini's versus an upgradeable BTO? intresting aspect, but i see this in a different way... i dont see how apple c…
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Quote: Originally posted by aegisdesign And the Celeron M 4xx parts are likely to be a further $100 cheaper yet offer almost identical performance to the Core Solo for most people. agreed. celerons it is. core solo/duo bto, maybe... Quote…
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Quote: Originally posted by a_greer $999 for an iBook with 9200 or $949 for the same thing with intel integrated? I can tell you what most would buy... i wouldn't buy either for more than $700.. Quote: Originally posted by Robin Hood Fo…
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Quote: Originally posted by sjk Like there's some other "either" than Solo or Duo it could be. like... the yonah celeron-m?
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Quote: Originally posted by stw The reason could be: it comes nearly for free: Integrated graphics costs (maximum) $4 more (see Intel pricelist at http://www.intel.com/intel/finance/pricelist/). A seperate X1300 would cost more and there are hi…
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross Here's another article about the Core Duo chips, performance, and battery life. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/...cker_response/ now that's a hard-to-link-to article. i've tried to get it right se…
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Quote: Originally posted by jackbauer I can't imagine the mini would get a Core Solo - it would almost have to be a Celeron D. i think apple would like to use a lagrande/tpm capable cpu/chipset. afiak, that would rule out netburst-based cp…
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Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman (a) 1.66ghz core duo macbook for us$999 would give samsungs, vaios, and even dells a good run for their money. indeed. considering dell's cheapest core duo laptop is like what, $1200...? [edit:] if ap…
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Quote: Originally posted by cj171 do you really expect people to read before posting? that's just preposterous!
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go take another look...
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Quote: Originally posted by webmail Finally! Apple's going to release their new Dell branded web tablet! hell yeah! it would be nice to see some good ol' "apple is teh doomed" topics for a change...
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Quote: Originally posted by backtomac Thanks for the info. Guess I'm going to have to open up my mind to the celeron m. dont feel too bad about it, almost everyone reacts the same way... maybe intel will change the name of it, now that it'…
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Quote: Originally posted by aegisdesign I don't know if it'll support the same SpeedStep power saving technology. afaik, it does. without speedstep i would argue it's not a good chip for the ibook. benchmarking of the pentium-m (2mb cache)…
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Quote: Originally posted by backtomac Yonah sigh, we have been through this a hundred times before... THE CELERON-M 4XX IS A YONAH BASED CHIP!!! ...look what you made me do, caps and all... edit: basically, what i've been trying …
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well, if apple puts a core duo in the ibook, how are they going to differentiate the ibook and the macbook pro 12"/13"/whatever-inch...? are they going to resort to crippling the ibook with silly hacks this time around too? why not let a single …