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Joe - very few $500 computers from OEMs come with both dedicated graphics and a GB of RAM. A Dell Dimension E521 (the $599 Dell with a $100 rebate) comes with 1 GB and IG, and a combo-drive. HP's website seems to hate me, but it looks like most of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by waytogobuddy I personally like the expandability, but I don't hink Apple would; It wants to sell your grandma 3 Macs, not have her upgrade her own twice. I've never been sold on this as an issue. Sure, there are oc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gugy guys. do not get too excite. Couple years back the WWDC was just to announce the Intel transition. No new products. And the one last year, we got the Mac Pro, an announcement that Intel XServes would ship 3 mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe_the_dragon mac pros with the new exon chip set with more pci-e lanes and ddr2 ecc ram. I don't think that there's a dual-independent-bus chipset that can do ddr2 ecc ram. I mean, you'd have to go to NUMA or som…
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Now that people actually have the new MBPs in their hands, I don't think that that's possible for anything to happen with them. If there was anything they were going to activate, we'd probably know about it by now. We knew about the Draft-N capabi…
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Engadget usually has text and a few pictures. The pictures usually suck (pre-Stevenote only, I think).
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That's probably the case. It usually takes Apple a week or so to update Boot Camp (it's really just a set of drivers and a GUI partitioning/bootloader-editing app). You could try the current Nvidia drivers for XP and Vista. Really, the current …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe You think? The TIME part sorta gives it away I meant that it's "relative" in the sense of it makes incremental backups in relation to the first back-up. So if you have a 50 GB filesystem (say, 10,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by retiarius We know that Apple has jammed ZFS + 'dtrace' + Java from Sun into MacOS X for a while now. Perhaps a "secret feature" from the near/medium-term future is to just replace the whole damn kernel with (soon …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy Stupid question: Won't time machine either rely on ZFS to make it work, or at least, to make it work much better? Time Machine is a relative back-up system. It backs up everything once, then it backs …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Feynman I think when Jobs said Leopard will not be out till October, I have a feeling he meant at the very latest, giving Apple a cushion. It really should not take Apple that long. I think it will start shipping in mi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by garyp Interesting that Microsoft is calling this a product release. It sure looks a lot more like a demonstration from the research labs. What is different about this video compared to the Jeff Han videos? My money …
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I agree with SLewis. Apple isn't going to cut Parallels off at the knees. They sell it in their stores, and it's been advertised (slightly) by Apple. Especially now that it's really kicking it into high-gear, with the summer release having (suppo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by technohermit I think because they have a popular media player they are regaining some recognition, but they are not a serious competitor to Windows. Their hardware is still much too expensive (also way, way, way less …
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They're a bit more optimistic about the GPU than I'd be. Apple has never done hardware decoding in the GPU in Quicktime. Play a MPEG2 movie in Quicktime and VLC and note the processor usage gap.
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Huh? The current Cinema Dislays are already 16x10. 16x9 is actually not that great for a workstation display, because you don't have room for the menubar and Dock (or whatever other tools your application uses)
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This would require a lot of OS X work though. Isn't OS X pretty bad about switching tasks and threads from core to core too frequently? A fully-divided L1 would amplify the effects of that, right?
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My laptop is sort of on its last legs*, and my warranty refuses to cover it (pretty ticked), but with the student discount, a low-end Macbook Pro is really tempting. If I make enough money this summer, I might want to pull the trigger. * = rando…
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With Santa Rosa out shortly, I'd expect updates in the very near future to at least the Macbook Pro. I just got an email from Apple, along the lines of "Student prices expire after finals". I suspect that this is to try to get people to buy the cu…
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I've tried the username/password deal. I can access the router, but I don't have a username password combo (and it's changed from the default). I'm also worried that guess-hacking their router could get me in trouble. I tried setting it to Port…