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  • Quote: Originally posted by ChevalierMalFet To pull the lynchpin in this theory: Tablet PC style screens are functionally much worse for this type of application than wacom tablets. The pressure/tilt sensitivity, which is a huge boon for the crea…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Ensign Pulver Any tablet from Apple would NEVER be based on third party software. Sketchbook Pro is a non-issue. However, if Alias knew that apple were planning a tablet, it would make porting Sketchbook Pro a no-b…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Henriok ...The International Inch witch is 2.54 cm.... Yikes, she sounds scary, but then again she's not that big... Blark
  • Download Cinebench 2003 from Maxon's website and run that: http://www.maxon.net/pages/download/cinebench.html It is a good cross-platform benchmark of 3d render and OpenGL performance. Blark
  • Quote: Originally posted by johnpg Let me know if you have any ideas on questions I should ask tomorrow. Cheers, John Thanks for the info. One question would be whther they have any firmer info on the 970s performance. The Spec numb…
  • [quote]Originally posted by moki: Well, I meant two separate fairly surprising items... at least based on current conventional wisdom re: the PPC970's and Apple's new machines. Hmmm, symmetric multithreading? The DSP-on-memory-controller …
  • [quote]Originally posted by Tom West: Except that the "Sneak Peek" at the XServe might serve to stop people buying other Blades, not Apple machines. [pedantic mode] The Xserve is not a blade... its a 1U rack server... [/pedantic mode] A…
  • [quote]Originally posted by bunge: 2) A 64 Bit chip actually slows down a program just a tad, although most likely not enough to feel the difference in the slightest. The benefits are numerous, but nothing urgent for most people. The maximum amou…
  • Just a few clarifications: [quote]Originally posted by thecube1359: Apple first launched the server version of OSX (called Rhapsody or something like that) running on G3 machines. The operating system was then modified and released only to run …
  • [quote]Originally posted by SYN: [QB all this is here
  • MCCFR has an interesting idea, and everyone seems to be forgetting one thing: Alias|Wavefront is owned by SGI. So Apple would not only get the HW/SW know-how of SGI and eleminate a competitor in the high-end, it would get the 3D software it is rumou…