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Quote: Originally posted by johnsonwax It wouldn't require Apple to sell the transition - it happens naturally. I assume you mean a transition from 970 based 64 bit OS & apps to Power? Yes the transition would be seamless. But if you mea…
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Quote: Originally posted by johnsonwax Another view of this is that 970 might be a transitional product to open up POWER for the high end stuff, leaving AMD for the low-end stuff. This just doesn't make sense to me. If you intro the 970 in Po…
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Quote: Originally posted by herbivore I guess I don't understand the logic of Apple making use of the Opteron or Athlon64. Neither do I. I don't think Apple is going to switch from PPC anytime soon. Quote: If Apple wanted to make a move ov…
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Quote: Originally posted by herbivore I don't think that I would necessarily put much faith in AMD right now. Their theoretical SPEC numbers look good compared with the 970, but with the amount of cash AMD is hemorrhaging, they will struggle to k…
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Quote: Originally posted by jwdawso My thoughts - I believe that Apple has Mac OS X running on x86 processors. There is a risk associated with PPC processors, and history shows that some have come true - i.e., Motorolla having limited success on …
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Quote: Originally posted by AirSluf Those aren't thin client's you are running, they are fat clients which have centrally repositited applications storage. The app isn't running over the network, it is downloaded and runs locally. One possible …
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Quote: Originally posted by AirSluf Someday networks will catch up significantly and then the concept may be successfully recycled in general compution, but not for awhile. I am employed by a firm that uses thin clients running on unix workst…
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Quote: Originally posted by snoopy If that 15 percent efficiency is correct, this is not the way to go. Who wants a 600 Watt space heater in their room, especially in Summer? Actually the efficiency of a peltier is more like 55%. Here is a …
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Quote: Originally posted by gar you dirty aliens always think you infented spaceflight because a stupid drunk redneck saw the dish flying through the air and thought: "wow, ufo" instead of: ow, the wife is very mad at me"... so, we infented sp…
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Quote: Originally posted by Bigc I assume you mean that it would be best to release the 970 running with a 32-bit OS X so everyone can see how well the 970 works with 32-bit. Then release 10.3 and tell all that you can run all your 32-bit program…
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Quote: Originally posted by MacJedai DHagan4755 and MartianMatt, I completely agree with your business stratgies. Release the 970 before WWDC and display its abilities with a 32 bit OS, compare it to the current G4s (and maybe the P4s), then .…
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Quote: Originally posted by DHagan4755 Thanks for clarifying that confusing line. It was poorly worded on my part, as I was trying to show that Apple would want to show that it can run a 32-bit OS natively on a 64-bit processor...not that it wou…
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Quote: Originally posted by DHagan4755 While we all agree that Apple will show the world how much better the 970 is over the G4, and more importantly, how well it performs against the current state of x86, Apple may want to prop-up the 970 by equ…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph Personally, I think the iMac will sit right where it is until either the 7457 or the 90nm 970 arrives. For those of you who doubt that the G4 still has legs left for the future just take a look at what has ha…
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[quote]Originally posted by os10geek: Lets face it. Moto figures that no one will want to have bragging rights on the integrated processor in their set-top DVD player. So why push the MHZ rating? Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believ…
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[quote]Originally posted by sc_markt: If there are new powermac cases for the PPC 970, I hope they look like this... [image of X-serve like case snipped] I don't! I hope it looks cool! This pictures shows something that is bland …
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[quote]Originally posted by snoopy: Some are expecting a new case / enclosure for the G5 / 970 PowerMac. I don't think so. The existing one was built for the IBM 970, and the present PowerMacs are just its shake down cruse, to get any mechanical …
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[quote]Originally posted by knobs: Then look at AMD. They have a better crossover solution at hand, but for the AMD opteron to run 64 bit code it has to 'switch modes', a slow process. "...By contrast, AMD uses a 64-bit prefix in front of X86 instr…
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Trying to rescue this thread from a disscussion on emulation... (Putting aside disscussion of heat and cost that we won't resolve any time soon ) [quote]Originally posted by Nevyn: Ok. What I was trying to say is this: The G4 when i…
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[quote]Originally posted by Bigc: ]Originally posted by Big Mac: If anyone has any problems with the logic contained herein, please feel free to challenge it. Otherwise, let?s not waste time on a moot issue. What's to stop M$ from making a ki…