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  • Hopefully they release better autovectorizing compilers along with the new rackmounts. Some scientists have realized that hand vectorizing code means that G4's can be much faster than expected. To really get a pile of converts Apple needs to relea…
    in Racks upcoming? Comment by gafferino April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by rickag: Where would Apple, and subsequently Motorola, be today if they had a 2.0 - 2.4 GHz G4 on a motherboard with DDRsdram and OS X? [ 04-23-2002: Message edited by: rickag ] Hmm... they would be exactly w…
    in Some vague MOT information Comment by gafferino April 2002
  • Right now a hardware hacker would have to do more than add a microphone to the firewire port. You would need a microphone attached to an A2D converter attached to an MP3 encoding chip attached to a firewire encoding chip. Not trivial. But the…
    in iPod as an MP3 voice recorder Comment by gafferino April 2002
  • Moved comment to more appropriate thread. [ 04-11-2002: Message edited by: gafferino ]
    in Reasons for OSX on Clawhammer Comment by gafferino April 2002
  • Hmm... I have thought about this rumor and the only reason why ATI and NVidia would be looking at AMD Clawhammers is if they were designing a new integrated chipset for PPC Clawhammers. I find it silly to entertain the notion Apple will switch to x…
    in The G5 is an AMD Clawhammer Comment by gafferino April 2002
  • Think before you speak. A two button mouse or more will not ruin your world. It is actually vey handy to run an Apple with more than one button. The default for the second button is control-click which is handy. If you have more buttons you can …
    in New mouse! Comment by gafferino April 2002
  • Could this be the answer to all those asking Apple to abandon Motorolla? Apple's new massively parallel processor!!
    in New portable iMac (pic) Comment by gafferino March 2002
  • Regardless of what method you use the amount of energy disipated from the cpu + the amount of energy required to run the cooling system (be it piezoelectric or compressor based) will need to be dumped to atmosphere as heat. A Ti laptop is already p…
    in What about active proccessor cooling? Comment by gafferino March 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by spindler: Just because Intel and AMD can keep pumping up the MHZ because they have so much revenue to spend doesn't mean that Motorola is going to do any better than they have for the last ten years. [ 03-31-2002: Mess…
    in Your MWNY Predictions Comment by gafferino April 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Me: hmmm... "No new CPUs..." Is a speed bump of the current CPU a "NEW" CPU? Respect the thread. - iPod revision - Photoshop 7 Demo - geForce 4 Ti demo and shipping news - bragging about iMac orders, iPhotot…
    in non-CPU MW Tokyo Predictions Comment by gafferino March 2002
  • The more interesting line of thought is what Apple could do with Power4 chips. PPC is just a subset of this series. PPC is Power2 tailored to Apple, IBM and Moto's needs. Moto's needs (embedded and DSP) are much less in line with Apple than IBM's…
    in Why Can't Apple Switch? Comment by gafferino March 2002
  • Yes thay can switch. Darwin has been compiled successfully on x86. The kicker wold be all developers would have to again port their apps to the new OS. This is the same for Unix. The binaries for various hardware platforms have to be compiled fo…
    in Why Can't Apple Switch? Comment by gafferino March 2002
  • [quote] An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market. Source: Dictionary.com T…
    in Is Apple G5 = Motorolla neccessary? Comment by gafferino March 2002
  • Remember the c't article says that the specint PIII score was 236 using MS visual Studio. Specint scores using intel's special compiler get specint scores of 454 for a PIII 1Ghz. The real world uses MS visual studio. Intels compiler gets Specint …
    in Intel at 4 GHz??? Come on Motorola... Comment by gafferino March 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by onlooker: Apple's Raycer people is who I imagine is the party responcable for all our Nvidia cards. Unless someone knows of another 3rd party that is definately the manufacturer of them I'd say that is who is creating th…
    in Raycer Graphics and Nothing Real Comment by gafferino February 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Scooterboy: If but I'd love to see a DVI out port on all of Apple's computers. I understand that the displays are powered by the ADC, but why couldn't Apple make an adapter that separated the AC power (which would go t…
    in Apple LCD's must be collecting dust Comment by gafferino February 2002
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    in Can't wait any longer.When's the next G4 improvement? Comment by gafferino February 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by powerdoc: his brain was a G5 Please refrain from underestimating the human mind. His brain and yours is infinately more complex than a G5.
    in Can't wait any longer.When's the next G4 improvement? Comment by gafferino February 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by SpiffyGuyC: [QB] I hate it when pro users think they know what consumers want, when all they really want is pro stuff at consumer prices - and pro stuff just doesn't get cheap. It's a vicious cycle and I wish we coul…
    in spec: new macs sub -1000$ ? what will it be? Comment by gafferino January 2002
  • This is very frustrating. Why the hell can we not buy the new imac without the ever so cool LCD and swing arm. This would be trivial to produce. Just stick a cap in the hole and ship in a smaller box. they already come with a VGA output (not dua…
    in spec: new macs sub -1000$ ? what will it be? Comment by gafferino January 2002