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• [quote]Originally posted by Programmer: Considering that the new Matrox card has 20 GB/sec of memory bandwidth, the answer to that is a resounding "yes". The Amiga guys leaked info about the MATROX turned out to be pretty good. Does that me…

  in AGP 8x is here Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Eugene: The HDDs in the Xserve RAID will be mounted vertically, 14 columns. It's strictly a disk array as well. No G4s, no fancy I/O. [ 05-14-2002: Message edited by: Eugene ] And it looks like this:

  in Xserve RAID Comment by gafferino May 2002
• Unless I am mistaken if a high volume server is running one/two gigabit ethernet cards the NIC's are going to be using a ton of memery bandwidth themselves. Data doesn't just jump magically from HD to ethernet, it goes through RAM does it not. The…

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• Apple says 4x ATA-100 controller will give theoretical max of 266 MB/s. Shouldn't this be 400 MB/s?

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• Gee ... its pretty ...

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• AAPL up over $1 ... I think he likes it ... Mikey likes it!!!

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by spotbug: I thought it was supposed to be 3 hours. ???? The server event has ended... is there something more in the next hour or just questions from the press?

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Aquatik: Why no hardware RAID? Option available through SCSI card I believe. I think they are suggesting that 4-channel ATA with softRAID is actually more than enough for many users and allows significant cost saving…

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Mithral: Okay, you're joking around, right? I mean, this would rock, but there's no way in hell, right? Linkage? -mithral (feeling like a sucker, at the moment) it is in the press release that has been prev…

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Tricky: From MacCentral: A demo of Blast, used in genetic research to try to find matches in fragments of genetic code. Not only will Blast run on XServe, but on clusters of Xserves. Like the sound of this... T …

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by keyboardf12: Anyone want to find better hardware and software specs (including Unlimited server licnese (check out the cost for that at microsft.com and visual server monitor tools, and firewire) for an equal or lowe…

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• " Pronounced ay-sik, and short for Application Specific Integrated Circuit, a chip designed for a particular application. ASICs are built by connecting existing circuit building blocks in new ways. Since the building blocks already exist in a librar…

  in Live updates at maccentral.com - press conference Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Matsu: I wouldn't say that Apple has been behind for a half decade. They've been behind for almost 3 years. Up to the intro of G4 they were ahead (you could show that a 500Mhz G4 was quite a bit faster than a 700Mhz …

  in New PowerMacs almost certain at MWNY... Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by snoopy: In response to percolate about probabilities: You could make the odd very much in your favor if you included all products, even refrigerators and washers. However, the consideration here is about two products…

  in Rackmounts a smokescreen? Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Bodhi: [QB]Jobs said a week from tomorrow they will be announced. Why he wouldn't just do it right then and there doesn't make sense but oh well.QB] This is an interesting way of announcing a new product. Seems Appl…

  in Rackmounts Coming Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Dennis the Phantom Menace: Perhaps the board was designed so that an Airport card can be inserted from the "front" of the case ala the new eMac. That is what it looks like to me too. Notice the 3 IDE connectors, 1 fo…

  in Is this a hoax? Comment by gafferino May 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Eugene: An educational customer is going to have tough time deciding between an iMac, eMac and LCD iMac. Why? Educational customers know the difference between 15" and 17" (except maybe here in Canada - whats that in…

  in eBook? Comment by gafferino April 2002
• I am sure we will see a remote control soon. Probable a microphone soon after that. Apple's marketing guys are bright. This is their first big consumer device since the Newton and they have taken a page from the Sony Playstation model. 1. Rel…

  in What iPod needs to be.... Comment by gafferino April 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by Joecool: Here in Australia we are paying AU$7000 for a top of the line laptop....$7000!!!!!!!....and Apple thinks it can ask this money and only put a 16MB GPU and everything is cool!!!??? What a joke!! The competitio…

  in Powerbooks (possibly iBook too?) update soon... Comment by gafferino April 2002
• [quote]Originally posted by SYN:

  in Moto, IBM paths diverging Comment by gafferino April 2002
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