naepstn
About
- Username
- naepstn
- Joined
- Visits
- 0
- Last Active
- -
- Roles
- member
- Badges
- 0
- Posts
- 78
Reactions
Comments
-
Regardless of the validity of this rumor, I think that it would have many benefits, and in turn, lead to increased revenue for Apple in terms of hardware sales. If I was designing such a scheme, it would have the following features: - Whenever a m…
-
Um, I didn't think that FW2 devices would work with FW1 ports (on the computer). I realize that the spec says that FW2 ports will be backward compatible with FW1 devices, but is it true in reverse? If not, then the only people capable of buying on…
-
BTW, for those of you complaining about how dark the video is, try hitting cmd-K in Quicktime. This brings up the video controls and you can adjust things using left and right arrow keys and change the current parameter using the up and down keys. …
-
[quote]Originally posted by Mike: While the PIV is a very nice chip the PIII Xenon is still faster on a desktop workstation. I should also note that the PIV Xenon 2.4 is a VERY fast processor. However, the Athlon is almost just as fast as the…
-
[quote]Originally posted by SteveS: Workstation graphics The difference between high end graphics cards (like Oxygen) and high end consumer cards (nVidia Geforce 4 Ti) are diminishing very quickly. That is, the consumer cards are advancing at a…
-
I think you answered your own question... "I used to use an iBook for that..." Most Mac-using writers (especially journalists) own laptops, and Apple already has a decent market-share among writers (authors, journalists, etc.). Since most alr…
-
I honestly think that the biggest thing missing from the Cube when it was introduced was a dual-head display card. I personally know a couple of graphic designers and web designers that would have bought one had they been able to run two displays f…
-
Anyone that knows what they are doing setting up a RAID is perfectly comfortable opening their case and swapping out an IDE drive. You don't need hot-swap at all. The only real benefit of hot-swap, and the reason it's used in servers is that you…
-
[quote]Originally posted by bunge: People already pay a premium for a PowerMac, might as well add some more value to that premium. The high end P-Mac price is lower now than it has traditionally been. Adding the hot swap drives would allow apple …
-
There are many reasons why Apple shouldn't do this, though I agree that Apple including a hardware RAID controller on their Mobos would be good, though not set up in a RAID config by default. - You can't mix up RAID 0 and RAID 1, unless you use 0…
-
As for the Register article, I really don't see why anyone is getting axcited about it. The article does not have any info on a workstation version of the Power4 (let alone really any different version than what's been out for awhile. It's just ta…
-
[quote]Originally posted by moki: I am not under NDA for any of this stuff, and indeed, it is a mixture of water cooler talk and speculation. But still, you know people here and there, you can put the pieces together. Clearly there is no way in…
-
[quote]Originally posted by spotbug: It's not a problem for the reason why they're selling now, if that's what you mean. It is a problem for them, though, yeah. This is just the way it is when you're an executive with stock (options). You don't…
-
[quote]Originally posted by Crusader: Well Apple isn't getting sold, and this indicates bad news in the short term (oh f***). So many execs selling short term really means somthing bad (or steve's misinformation department has had all of the execs …
-
[quote]Originally posted by cinder: Maybe they're all chipping in on a floating space castle. That's just about as probable. Yeah, just as probable!
-
[quote]Originally posted by spotbug: They're selling now, because now is when they can do it without appearing to be jumping ship. If you do it when the company is doing poorly, it doesn't look too good. If you do it because you think the company w…
-
[quote]Originally posted by cl.nevil: I have an idea for apple and it's imac,...why not sel screens and bases separatly. the base would have a monitor connector where the screen's articulated "arm" goes.... I mean, that what really bothers me i…
-
Now, completely abstract thought, with very limited knowledge of semiconductor reality... Would it be possible to have an external/backside Altivec co-processor? This way, IF IBM or someone else has a PowerPC compatible chip that smokes anything…
-
Since Moto loves the PPC for the embedded market, they likely wouldn't particularly want to sell their IP in PPC. They might, however, be willing to sell the patents in Altivec, since it isn't really used that much for embedded applications (from w…
-
Since Moto loves the PPC for the embedded market, they likely wouldn't particularly want to sell their IP in PPC. They might, however, be willing to sell the patents in Altivec, since it isn't really used that much for embedded applications (from w…