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Quote: Originally posted by Corey A raid 5 or a raid 0 is notably safer than a DVD for long term survival. This is especially true of a home-burned DVD which depending on how you store it can have a shelf life of as little as 3 years. Corey …
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Quote: Originally posted by ipodandimac the InPhase holographic drives will break 500GB soon enough. PROPER spendy though
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Quote: Originally posted by Anders Can I have some of your money? My idea is that it would be self-funding, I could sell the DVDs after ripping them With 500Gb disks I'd need 11 (or 12 I supposed) 500Gb disks for a RAID 5 config = about £…
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Quote: Originally posted by Jwink3101 You could always RAID two 250 drives but that may not be the best solution. Anyway, >500 probably won't happen until perpendicular recording is perfectet? What is perpendicular recording you ask? I must…
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DirectX for Mac may not exist but DirectX on PPC IS working very nicely indeed right now on every XBox360 - and of course the dev kit was a G5 with a working copy of PPC DirectX on it.
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Quote: Originally posted by Danosaur I bought my dad iWork '05 for Christmas. He seems to like it. Now that iWork '06 is out, he is considering buying it. Is it really worth it for him to do so? As far as I know all that is new are new templates.…
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Quote: Originally posted by a_greer Most consumer apps dont have low cost "upgrade" versions as they are just extreamly stripped down versions of high end pro apps. Quite honestly, iLife from 05-06 looks like a nice upgrade, if you get a good bit…
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Quote: Originally posted by Placebo It overall seems to not even be detected by the OS, let alone be ready for USB Overdrive configuration. Cool, thank you for saving me a few quid
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Quote: Originally posted by Placebo Yeah, I bought one and it has yet to work. Thank you for letting us know, have you tried "USB Overdrive" yet?
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Quote: Originally posted by Arnel [BHas anyone tried hooking a WIRED controller up to a mac? I'm sure I read somewhere that when you hook a wireless pad up to a Play and Charge cable, it only actually provides power over the cable, and the signal…
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Quote: Originally posted by Sport73 I plugged mine in, and it charged via USB. I don't believe it was recognized by OSX however. Thank you, I'd be interested in what Profiler reported it as, I don't suppose you have "USB Overdrive" installed?
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Given Quartz-Extreme how much work would it be to rework Aqua to be res-independant anyway? they could pre-render all UI-assets both one step up and down to make things smoother - wouldn't take up too much memory would it?
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You know I bet the first Intel-ONLY release is OS XI, whether there was a X.9 or not doesn't matter, it would be sufficiently significant to justify moving to eleven - it would be the first highly-optimised version with no reliance on cross-platform…
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I'd take really efficient threading to make use of those 16 core intels on their way, oh and how about no finder crashes when previewing 'unusually-aquired' .avi files
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Quote: Originally posted by smalM The firmware on the cards still has to be mac specific, regardless of the interface to the system controller (be it PCI, PCI-X, AGP, or PCIe). Really? that's a shame, why is that? will that change with the in…
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Quote: Originally posted by kim kap sol If Engadget knew more than ThinkSecret, AI and MacRumors...I'd check it more often. The reality? They don't know shit, just like TS, AI and MR. That said I got exactly the same info from someone who a…
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Just spoke to a mate who has signed an apple nda, we're in for more disappointment I'm afraid. Minor speedbumps, bigger HDs on the PBs, nothing else sorry. Pretty-much just speed-bumps on the PMs as well, nothing of any real interest. Sorry. Guess t…
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Quote: [i]{B]But I thought that Mac OS X was limited by its Mach3 kernel to 2 physical CPUs max. Has it changed? [/B] I don't believe that to be the case.
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Quote: Originally posted by iSeeItNow I played with the MM and I did not see sound holes or anything and the noise seemed yo be mechanical. Are we sure that there really is a speaker? If you unplug the mouse and move the ball it's nearly sile…
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Quote: Originally posted by Placebo You have installed the included software, right? Yes, but I cannot see a "disable irritating and unnecessary artificial sound" check-box