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Quote: Originally posted by job I'm not starting this thread in an attempt to fuel the debate as to whether or not there even should be a 14.1" iBook. I just don't see a future for the 12.1" iBook, especially after the most recent updates. We…
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Quote: Originally posted by curiousuburb edit: uh, if your DSL modem is an internal PCI card , that's what I'd be checking for ISP support in Aus not sure if the WiFi Routers will like it either... Airport Extreme from Apple Australia All…
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Quote: Originally posted by tink Owza! These are big chips. Never mind them showing up in a mac near you. So if there is a single cored Power 5 (aka PPC 980 in here) with 1 MB L2 cache (instead of 1.9 MB) and no L3 controller then we are …
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Yes. No. The number of architected FPU registers doesn't change when more FPUs are added. The number of rename registers probably does. But my point was in doubling the number of FPUs is there a ne…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Futhermore, the cost of these huge [256 bit] registers would affect the context switching cost of the processor in a very negative way. Doubling the vector registers would be an extra 0.5K for every context…
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Quote: Originally posted by cuneglasus Remember the P4 has much better branch prediction than the p3,but to no avail.It still cant compete clock per clock with the earlier design even after 2.5 years on the market.Still the 970 has shorter pipeli…
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Quote: Originally posted by Delphiki Microsoft can afford to pay billions without having to shut down. It could be a big loss and cut deep into their R&D budget though. I wouldn't hold my breath for this thing to break or cripple Microsoft th…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Perhaps my statement wasn't strong enough: FastPath is not VMX. I hear you now. But... could IBM leverage any of VMX's features for use by the Fastpath engine or are they totally incompatible? (I do…
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Quote: Originally posted by Henriok The new information regarding Power5, VMX and single core contradicts some of the earlier information we have of it. Previously we have been told that Power5 will be dual core just like the Power4, and that it…
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Quote: Originally posted by Henriok Not nessessarily. The 970+ is a second incarnation of the 970, aka GPUL, i's not a derivative of Power4+ aka GQ. Calling it GQUL would be wrong since GPUL already brached off of the Gx-tree. And.. If this PD…
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Quote: Originally posted by Tomb of the Unknown No, that would have to be the GQUL if you're going to hold to the naming convention. No such thing as a GPUL2. [snip] In any event, I'm going with TGB's assessment. I agree that there is an in…
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Quote: Originally posted by Henriok He'sactually completely right! This PDF witch seems to be a presentation of some Holger Holthoff at IBM pSeries Technical Support held May 19th 2003: Some interessting tibits: Codenames: GP = Power4 (1.…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rolo The Naked Mole Rat has an NMR Report out today that mentions GPUL2: It seems to me that GPUL2 will be the .09µ version of the 970, will be out by July 2004, will be up to 3 GHz, and will still be called the G5. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Socrates "I don't see why someone doesn't just buy SCO out and put them out of their misery. IBM is certainly big enough to do this on their own and it's certainly in their interest." Because if IBM bought every tw…
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Quote: Originally posted by nagha my point is this: instead of wasting all this time on building a UNIX-like OS and then improving upon it, all that time could have been spent on improving a pre-existing UNIX OS. perhaps BSD would have been a goo…
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Quote: Originally posted by I, Fred Is demand strong enough? Well.....more demand would nice, I'm sure. Now, anything Apple can do to increase deamnd for 970's? You all say no, but some of us say yes. Guess who will be right? Fred, how ca…
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Quote: Originally posted by Zapchud I don't see why the G5 can't appear in the iMac until 90nm. Surely, it is possible to produce 1.4GHz-models, and lower, and the FSB multiplier is not fixed to 2:1. A 1.4Ghz G5 with a 466Mhz FSB (effectively 415…
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Well, I've not seen it in this thread yet so here is a link to IBM's future 9xx plans: https://www-914.ibm.com/events%5Cmic...s?OpenDocument "Future Directions, 64-bit Multi-Gigahertz Embedded PowerPC's" by Jim Rogers In it is the following…
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Quote: Originally posted by Booga Considering that the rest of the industry doubles performance every 18 months, a 50% increase in 12 months isn't exactly good news. Why the "wow"? Well, I put money on Steve Jobs giving us a conservative est…
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Quote: Originally posted by Ed M. Here is a list of some of them which you commit: Thanks Ed M, nice list. MM