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Quote: Originally posted by BRussell For what it's worth, the Wall Street Journal article said that Apple would move the Mac Mini to Intel first, and the PowerMac last. Which I take as indirect confirmation that the 970MP is coming. If we wer…
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Why powermacs last? Because the 970MP will make an appearance first. And frankly, it will be better than the x86 at this time. Two years is enough time for the major PM upgrade to the 970MP and a minor speed bump, before the PPC is deprecated in tha…
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...but ... but photoshop was demoed under Rossetta on stage. But the dev docs indicate rosetta won't run any Altivec code. What the??? In the demo, Steve made an interesting misstep, perhaps. He brought up 2 photos in PS CS2, and on the second we…
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Except that Intel will be dropping BIOS in favor of EFI.
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What he said was that something would be SHIPPING by this time next year. He definitely said "shipping"... which means an intro prior to WWDC 2006. I can't imagine a stealth/PR announcment for a change this big. He will announce an intel based power…
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Neither. These will be Apple powermacs, powerbooks, iMacs and iBooks. (oh and mac minis). The chip manufacturer has no place in those names. The "G" series names drifted away from moto/IBM nomenclature years ago. The G5/G4 monikers will be droppe…
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Regarding the presumed hit to resale values of machines purchased now, I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill. An earlier poster suggested that he may be concerned about the resale value of a powermac purchased now and sold in 3 y…
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Oh the pain... I went through that "OMG-I-need-a-new-machine" agony... 4 years ago. Eventually you get over it. I'm posting this from my rev1 B&W G3, bought in Feb 1999 (?) making it my six year old beauty. Recall, if you will, those heady…
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Well, I hope that the machine looks better than the pict on AI front page. A few thoughts... apparantly impressive performance was demoed. But then, that is always true in the world of Jobs. Now we have to wait two months for the shakedown to see ho…
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I was hooked on AI in the months leading up to the B&W G3 release. Rightfully suspecting that Apple had some big things up it's sleave, I spent time lurking at AI, feeding like a vampire many years without blood, on what trickle of hope could be…
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Well, at the very least, your post suffers from hyperbole. [quote] (blah blah blah...) coupled with a system that's modeled around how the human brain stores and processes events I am a neuroscientist, and I can tell you we have barely the …
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Battery Life: OK. I use a Ti for work, and about twice a month I forget my power adaptor at home. Usually, I just start working normally, and after about 2 hours, decide it's time for a coffee and notice that I'm still running on battery. I then …
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Low signal is OK, as long as the signal to ratio remains high. There have been problems with access. You know, at one point AI was on the verge of being one of the hottest sites on the Mac web, but it just killed itself with the "Dark-Days-of-Downti…
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hmm. I think he means motherboard. Which is just not true.
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MarkUK, No flames. Just a comment. I also wish that you write to Apple and let them know how you feel. But before you do so you should make yourself aware of certain realities. Most of the reasons that you gave for Pro-PC purchansing have t…
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[quote] I tend to think Apple has something decent coming. That is a good point. The power lines are clearly near the end of their current incarnations. I would be surprised if they last 4 more months in light of this mornings announcements. Com…
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[quote] OK, the G4 has a better IPC than IA32 CPUs, but not vastly better or enough to make up the clock cycle/bandwidth deficit. A short pipeline may give it an advantage, but these are outweighted by higher clock rates, more units, better bandwidt…
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Yeah, I saw the writing on the wall, when I tuned into a smallish Southern Ontario radio station to listen to the Blue Jays game (broadcast on the radio, and for years over the internet) from Europe a while back. When I tuned in I heard instead a s…
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I hear what you're saying JRC! After nearly 4 years on this board, I just today noticed that I'm no longer a "Junior" member...
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Guys! Come on! This letter is a fake. It's not written by a real minister! It's written by a 14 year old PC-using whiner, who is feeling insecure about his 2 year old decision to buy an athlon that he now hates, and that sits unused on the corner of…