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  • won't there at least be a small percentage of people buying macs because of boot camp? The kind of people who like windows and would only use OS X to check email and surf the net?
  • 64 bits biggest win? Video. 32 bits of addressing (4GB) is only a few minutes worth of uncompressed video. Compression is fine, but for scrubbing, or game playing, where you need random access to much data, there is nothing like uncompressed vide…
  • If 4GB of RAM is currently about $600, then by intels 2008 transition time, they will be selling a desktop chip that can address about $60 worth or RAM. This is just not going to happen.
  • The fab is ready. This from July: (Article is about 3000mm wafers) When fully loaded, IBM Microelectronics' East Fishkill facility ? thus far known only as Building 323 ? will ramp up over the course of this year to full-scale commercial product…
  • You could build one machine to replace all of these: DVD recorder (HDTV progressive scan) $500 PVR $400 Set top box $100 Digital Amplifier $300 Unifified remote $200 Browser on hdtv email on hdtv iCal etc It would be a lowish end mac wi…
  • All this talk of iBook vs tablet. The hinge on an iBook almost looks designed to allow the monitor to flip around 360 deg, so that the thing becomes a tablet. You just need some sort of keyboard cover. This is something that might be useful.
  • Maybe this is the time to ship the G5 From Oct 2001, after the Microprocessor forum.