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Quote: Folks, IBM is not Moto, and some of the arguments that cry out for more than one supplier of PPC chips are not the best ones. For example, IBM is not going to decide to abandon the high end CPU market for the embedded market. IBM does not vi…
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Quote: Originally posted by Barto I would have no problem with Apple doing the same, rather than being puritanical. Except that going off the beaten track means costs go through the roof, comparatively speaking. [Edit here - DDR400 memory is …
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but even 80% of the new Intel hardware is going to be a lot better than we've got right now! Damn right! If the fastest Apple machine can (overall) match (or beat) 80% of the fastest Intel P4 machine, I will be one *ecstatic* camper. I'm hoping…
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How do we know it the benchmarks are fake? Perhaps the most obvious problem with the benchmarks was the fact that Bryce, which does not use multiple processors, sped up substantially using a dual. There are numerous other somewhat questionable as…
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Not to rain on anybody's parade, but the Benchmarks are obvious fakes with any number of mistakes. I'm not sure whether MacBidouille hates Apple, or is just in it to make as much money off the hits as it can before reality rears its ugly head, but i…
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Quote: IBM is betting ALOT on the PPC 970. Not just for Apple but for Linux PPC. They're competing with low cost Intel based boxes. IBM will have to crank out the chips as fast as they can make them. Now this is something I've heard a lot lately…
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Of course, the glass half empty way of looking at it is if the Fishkill plant reaches 100% capacity and there are more contracts waiting to go, it makes sense to eliminate the least profitable lines. This means either boosting the 970 price so th…
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Quote: Geez, did you even read what I said? Um, not carefully enough. Sorry You were of course, right on the money. I should have reread more carefully when one of your posts sounded wrong.
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Quote: If there are already 64-bit versions of those apps then I'd expect them to appear almost instantly... somebody will just recompile them against the latest OS APIs and with the 64-bit flag thrown, and out pops a 64-bit executable. I WANT T…
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I will point out that with all the claims about how Apple must be competitive with Dell, it should be pointed out that nobody in the PC world is competitive with Dell, either. (Or they are, and are losing their shirt.) IBM basically abandoned th…
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Quote: Its silly. Apple NEEDS to make a $799 or $899 mini-tower for the masses. I'm tired of paying the Apple tax, too. They make one expandable Mac in the whole lineup (minus the Xserve). Come on Apple, quit being so GD arrogant and give us wh…
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[quote]It did and Apple has already done it. It's called the "System Controller" which has been part of the motherboard architecture since the Xserve was introduced. For the PPC970 it will be updated, but did anyone think that this architecture was …
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People unhappy about the x86-64 article in this thread too? *sigh* Look, Hannibal's quote is: [quote]Should Apple move from 32-bit PPC to 64-bit PPC, Mac users should not expect the same kinds of performance gains that x86 software sees from t…
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[quote]From ArsTechnica: Should Apple move from 32-bit PPC to 64-bit PPC, Mac users should not expect the same kinds of performance gains that x86 software sees from the jump to x86-64. 64-bit PPC gives you larger integers and more memory, and that…
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[quote]I have a question for you all learned individuals out there. With the 970 coming and the Power Mac evolving, will there be any changes to LCD monitor connections? I'm curious about this because I'm going to be buying a Power Mac when the 970 …
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[quote]Many are very interested by the Unix underpinnings of MacOS X. Actually, the one place that Apple really has room to grow is in the University market. The idea of a "usable" Unix does appeal to a lot of people. However, I'd be really sup…
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[quote] This is true in general. However, if someone was to tap them on the shoulder and point to some machine that kick's their machine's butt, don't you think they'd take notice? <bitterness> It would be nice, but I keep runni…
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[quote]Can you imagine the looks on x86 mhz-olites when the 2.5 gig 970 blisters past the 3. gig Pentium 4? Easily, total boredom. The Macintosh is so completely irrelevant to the real x86 fanatics that one might be talk about the Power5, for al…
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July?!? Eek! Must..control..soaring..expectations... Whew. That was close. Thank goodness MacWhispers has an accuracy only matched by MOSR. The 970's at 1.4, 1.6 & 1.8 GHz for January 2004, .09 970's at up to 2.5 GHz for 9-12 months …
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[quote]Good ridance Moto! You've been a cancer feeding on a great operating system for far too long. You little vampire! Go and suck the life out of some other living being for a change. You parasite! Go attach yourself to some other company who wil…