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[quote]Originally posted by keyboardf12: unless the press in under NDA until after the event. Its quite normal actually, that one of the clauses of the NDA is that the NDA cannot be discussed, or revealed.
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Nothing special there with that screen. LCD screens are made out of glass, and are transparent. Thats so that light can get through, either from a backlight, or the sun. Take all the bits away, and you are left with a clear screen. I think it wo…
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The reason is pretty straight forward. In any given chip process the system is capable of distinguishing a certain voltage level. Current chips are running just over one volt internally. That cant be split any further, so having three or four leve…
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Why is Altivec only 32bit - an explaination: In the rest of the cpu processing is done in 32 bit amounts. That means that if I want to add two numbers together both of those numbers will be 32 bits, and the answer will be 32 bits. This applies in…
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I dont think you'll see bluetooth built in, anymore than airport is built in. Im pretty sure that bluetooth will be integrated into the airport card, at the same price point. The reason that this product hasnt been anounced, is that Jaguar isnt …
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IANAEE. My knowledgable postition is based totaly on here say, but giving the concept a couple of minutes thought gave me the results about mean pins passed by a single trace. Certainly real boards are more complex, but the basic idea still ho…
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The daughter card was not _clearly_ visible, and at first I thought the diagonal chip was the controller. However, if you look at the components around the cpu, you will see that they match those around the chip on the board, then you will be able …
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Mounting chips diagonaly to some reference is supposed to make it easier to route traces. A bit of simple examination reveals the following: Consider a chip with an array of 5x5 pins under it ( not many i know ). All the pins are to be routed…
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[quote]Originally posted by robster: If you look at the red ebay mobo and the one from the french pics, many of the elements are in the same places, the only real difference is the french pics show that 45 deg placed chip (maybe a processor may…
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Whatever else happens, Apple will never ship DDR 400, because it is not a standard. JEDEC have stated that they will not standardise DDR 400, and instead will go directly to DDR II. It is not unreasonable to hope that it will be DDR 333, it has b…
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[quote]Originally posted by Yevgeny: From the numbers that I have seen, a modern x86 bus should be able to feed quad G4's running at 1.4 GHZ. Such a machine would be rather impressive (and expensive). The key is getting a real bus. Yes, al…
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While these cards can do some pretty mean triangle numbers, they also support several 'vertex amplification' techniques. ATI has truform, and claim to support displacement mapping ( with DX9 - might not be available under ogl ). With these techn…
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Well, the iBook doesnt use a geforce mx, so its not really a valid comparison. Im not sure exactly what the ati rage in the ibook can do. I believe ( from everything that Ive read ) that the gf mx has one on board display generator - it has outpu…
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Lots of PC monitors offer portrait rotation. There is no special hardware required, an extension to windows allows the desktop to be rotated in 90 degree increment. I havent seen any benchmarks examining performance costs of the rotation softwar…
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How QDR works: The problem is that it is really hard to make a signal go at 533 mhz, as you get faster and faster you get all sorts of nasty problems creeping in on the circuit board. These are not issues for the chips, but the design and manufact…
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[quote]Originally posted by Dave K.: Right. I agree with you 100%, but as you stated "publically traded companies". What about the mom and pop local PC shops that sell house-branded boxes and are not publically traded. Are they tracked as we…
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Both bluetooth and airport use frequency hopping. Airport has 11 'channels', which are bands that it hops within. Bluetooth apparently has 'unfriendly' hopping behaviour, in that it doesnt look to see if the frequency it is hopping to is occupied. …
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Airport and Bluetooth operate in the same frequency range - 2.4 GHz. Therefore they shouldnt have any issues sharing the airport antenna in modern Macs. It is an obvious step to add bluetooth capabilites to the airport card, so that both protocols…
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Comments about internet access are all well and good, but you forget... Faxes. I use my modem to send faxes all the time. And Im sure there are some other cool tricks you can do with the internal modem, what about caller ID? I know Id like …
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The question is will Apple release an 17" iMac? The only reason I wouldnt buy an iMac is because the current screen is too small ( too low res really ). That means that Ill have to get a PowerMac, to expensive atm, but it will be my next computer p…