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and yes I know how to spell but typing too fast is a problem.
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Okay okay. They are using intellistations. None of this has anything to do with Apple save for the debate about the usefulness of 64bit chips in video and 3D. I believe that the "scientific research" everyone is refering to that fully uses a 64bi…
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The only link I found was;
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If you saw a story about pixar purchasing Intel boxes then post the link. I'm not saying your lying and if they are running Linux that at least makes some sense although I doubt they would use them for their render farm. Renderman does work on Linux…
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Pixar's business does not depend on Pentium 4's. They use Sun Sparc and MACS. Oh I'm sure there are Windows boxes sitting around doing something (like crashing)there but do they depend on them for their livelyhood. Not a chance. [quote] Do you t…
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[quote] Mind telling me how exactly 64-bitness is important to video editing? Certainly. Total amount of addressable memory is a good start. For instance, Commotion and similar video compositing packages (Shake?) use RAM memory to store video in…
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I don't think Apple has given up on convincing people that there is more to computing power than clock speed. The G5 will help on the clock speed front but it will also go far beyond that. Apple is not above mixing and matching things in the pro lin…
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I don't think this is strange at all. Apple has time and again set out to make what used to be available only for high dollar budgets, available to the average computer user or not so high dollar professional (iMovie,FCP,iDVD,DVD Studio). Nothing R…
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Presumably a G5 would be a significant upgrade of the PowerPC processor on par with the difference between the G3 and G4 or the 600 series (601,602,603,604) and the G3. ?G? is supposed to stand for generation. It?s as subjective as naming software r…
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[quote] The G3 is based of of the 603e, which can not be set up as a MP system. Actually I seem to remember talking to an AMIGA user about 3 years ago that was talking about his multiprocessor G3 machine. It was my undertanding that the limitati…
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More than 2 G4's isn't practical unless they want to redesign the memory controller. Why bother. The G5 specs take care of the problem nicely.
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That's certainly true. I am in down time at the moment but then I lost the battle to use a Mac at work. Believe me I tried every bit of persuasive information I could find, no dice. The problem is that the professionals you speak of don't have compl…
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The Superdrive is useful for backup. It isn't unreasonable at all to have it in all models. I am involved in digital video but if I had a Superdrive that's not the only thing I would use it for. I hope the new desktops do have the Superdrive in all …
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Well maybe you can afford to upgrade to a new machine every year but I can't. You still get an extremely poswerful useful machine. My trials and tribulations with Windows software and hardware each day at work keep me real on this subject. Anybod…
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I know that there are dual and quad x86 systems out there but unless you want to run a UNIX variant on them, four processors doesn't mean anything but that you have a very expensive and in-efficient space heater. Windows doesn't support multiple pro…
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"True, yet the new AMD (which has a slower mhz rating) smokes past the latest Pentium... so the whole idea of "higher clock cycles makes for a faster system" is pretty much a broken myth in the PC camp now a days. And you can ask any *real* PC user …
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If the pro market is so far down on Apple's list than why did they just buy Nothing Real. This is expensive high end software. I'm sure parts of it can be incorporated into consumer level software but this has "Major Final Cut Pro Upadate" written a…
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July seems like a long ways away. If there is something going on (such as a G5 machine being prepped), Apple is going to work harder than they ever have to control the inforomation flow. All this speculation with only bits and pieces of information …
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After reading this extremely long thread. I guess I'm not as convinced as I once was that the timing for both the Apollo and the G5 has just been poor for Apple. I had suspected that the decision on which chip to use for the next desktops was hingin…