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[quote]Originally posted by ast3r3x: These tales of IBM making a chip for Apple makes me happy, what does not is how long we will have to wait. Assuming IBM is apple's next chip maker, the absolute fastest we'll have a new PM is in like 4-6month, a…
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[quote]Originally posted by MicrosoftOsXp: Most wintel motherboards don't come with firewire or usb 2. Starting to see early usb2 adoption for periferals but big deal, why does a printer need over 500mbs? Well, I regularly send really big files…
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[quote]Originally posted by xype: Looking at how old FireWire is, and how old USB2 is and comparing the marketshare.. I think Apple ought to give away cheap FireWire licences to gain FW marketshare - or is the cashflow they have with licensin…
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[quote]Originally posted by Matsu: USB2 is running away with the game. Scanners, printers, optical drives, external HDD's, MP3 players, outboard sound cards, and digital still cameras will all be on USB 2.0 in greater numbers and with lower prices…
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As to cost, something to think about..... How many machines does Apple sell in an average year? (I really don't know the real numbers, if anybody does, please post 'em) Let's say it's a million PowerMacs, and a million "others". Assuming th…
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[quote]Originally posted by fryke: I know I shouldn't tell you this, but Microsoft is planning a big release for autumn 2003. DON'T buy anything from Microsoft, at least until autumn 2003. [ 08-14-2002: Message edited by: fryke ] No, no…
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[quote]Originally posted by shetline: Apple certainly isn't known for providing upgrade options. If the CPU daughter card can be upgraded, however, perhaps it could be a good third-party upgrade opportunity. If Apple were to have suddenly ch…
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[quote]Originally posted by shetline: Back when the leaked pictures of the new Power Macs came out -- pictures that turned out to be pretty much on the money -- there was also a PDF document diagram of the back panel. I was okay with the photograph…
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Totally off topic, I know, but..... Has anyone seen any "meet the design team" articles on the recent (say, the last 2 years) hardware. I'm especially interested in the xServe contributers. Apologies all, but I've become curious about the hard…
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[quote]Originally posted by Yevgeny: From what most of the rumors say (and from what common sense says), it seems clear that Apple is never going to ship a PPC chip without Altivec. So, if the Power5 does not have altivec, then there isn't g…
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Just to make a couple of guesses (that will probably be disproved in time)..... We'll see in October, but I would suspect that the new POWER derived CPU is pretty far along. I seem to recall reading that the POWER5 is due out in early-mid 2004, w…
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[quote]Originally posted by moki: 2004? If Apple isn't using a radically spiffed up processor by the end of the 2003 calendar year, Mr. Jobs is going to finally lose his zen-like control and bring an Uzi into work, going out in a blaze of glor…
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[quote]Originally posted by moki: Apple wouldn't be using the POWER5 in its machines anyway, unless it decided to get into ultra-high end computing. Apple will be looking to use the new die-shrunk POWER4 (aka GP-UL), not the POWER5. Yep, …
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[quote]Originally posted by Son of Pismo: Sorry folks. No POWER5 until 2004. Motorola has also ceased G4 development putting Apple in a real pickle. Apple has two options: Quad machines or Jump on the PowerQUICC III bandwagon. I think I…
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[quote]Originally posted by Powerdoc: Considering that the new chip will have only one core, and less cache (i consider that they will remove the L3 cache and limit the L2 cache between 512 k and 1 MB) : i say 30 MB for the core, add 10 M trans…
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[quote]Originally posted by Programmer: IBM took part in the VMX design process, and are co-listed on the couple of patents I've seen. My guess is that they can't use Moto's implementation, but are free to build their own compatible implementation…
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[quote]Originally posted by sc_markt: Easy for you to say, you probably have a G4. I've had this 8600 for 5 years. I can't relax. And, I can't run OS X. Yeah, you can....well kinda slowly, but I'm running it on my 9600/350, and it's actually…
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[quote]Originally posted by Producer: So moki you are suggesting that for developers the transition to a 64bit chip like this is no big deal? NeXt already ran on 64bit hardware so prospects look pretty good then. Although Digidesign i think will …
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[quote]Originally posted by Producer: Another deciding factor is how hard is it going to be for developers to support a 64bit chip. Altough we do not know if this chip will have backward 32bit compatibility I assume it will not because it is based…
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Yep. I would assume that cost is THE big factor. I run a 3 drive U160 (at U2W - older PCI restrictions) raid in my 9600, and it is PDQ. However, an 18gig cheetah costs me 'bout $210USD, not including taxes, shipping, etc - and that's only for 18gi…