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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac But that's not what you said. Let me refresh your memory:"One of the reasons Apple doesn't go with huge numbers of cores is because OSX itself is (or at least was a couple of years ago) a dog at multithrea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Outsider I was wondering how someone could be so ignorant on GCD and OS X, then I looked at the post count. D'oh Grand Central is a parallel computation framework. Please, do explain how it fixes substandard (from a…
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One of the reasons Apple doesn't go with huge numbers of cores is because OSX itself is (or at least was a couple of years ago) a dog at multithreading. It has serious bottlenecks above 4 cores or so that made running larger core counts pointless. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. In modern times, the architecture is just as important as the clockspeed. Architecture was always as important as clock speed. The RISC boys (MIPS, SPARC, etc) were regularly kicking Intel's butt until Intel…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jukes Wikipedia doesn't think that the 2.4 GHz i5s have working AES units. Even if they did, does FileVault take advantage of hardware acceleration?
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Are you saying Nehalem is an Itanium replacement? I tend to agree, what with its focus on and huge improvement in floating point and vector arithmetic and NUMA memory architecture. In fact, it looks to be aimed squarely at SGI's last remaining marke…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hailstorm Well lets hope this doesn't mean a return to Intel's horrible integrated graphics. The whole point of Arrandale's design is to force just such a thing.
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I still can't see Apple going back to Intel hardware for GPU's no matter how slightly improved they would be. Improved? Larrabee is supposedly 1/2 the performance of the 9400M. The 200 series just puts them…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I guess time will tell here but I'd be very surprised to see Apple step away from Nvidia. The relationship seems to be firing on all cylinders right now. If it has gone bad it must be over something that is no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by maratus 240 and 250 will have exactly the same type of interconnection as current 9600M GT (it uses PCI-Express x16 bus and dedicated GDDR3 memory onboard). And only difference between current and future generation wi…
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The Atom also has a tiny cache and doesn't do out-of-order execution.
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The problem is that these hot new GPUs aren't compatible with Arrandale, with its integrated GPU and memory controller. Using them would require Apple go to a 3-chip solution from the current 2-chip one. Right now the 9400m has an integrated memory …
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Will there be any problem with 1TB+ drives on the iMac G5 (Rev ?
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison I had no problem walking into Costco and buying a Half Terabyte Western Digital FW/USB drive for 104.99. Last time I walked into a Best Buy there was maybe 1 or 2 USB/FW drives, and dozens of USB/eSATA d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 I disagree. I think Firewire 400 and 800 are dead. Firewire 3200 is ready, is backward compatible, and has the exact same connector as FW800. With the paucity of existing FW devices, and Apple itself effect…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow Unless it has a Blu-Ray drive built into it, what's the point of 1080p? Playing Blu-Ray hosted on a server elsewhere on your network and served to the Mini via NFS, Samba, or iSCSI, just like you can w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 ast is good of course but so is adoption, Firewire simply has had issues with adoption on the PC side. Hardly surprising. USB is an Intel standard, and Intel controls PC design. Firewire is what HDMI sho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii MobileMe sure sounds like something made up by an ad agency. I think it should be something with an "i" prefix. Might I suggest iTools?
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I find it amusing Apple would put a chip on its iPhone that has hardware HD video decoding, when Apple doesn't bother to use hardware for HD (though its non-integrated video chips support it) on Macs.