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  • The iBook line is far from dead. I think Apple will continue to improve and differentiate their Pro and Consumer lines in different ways. Different machines for different customer bases and different needs. And forget Motorola. They are g…
    in Goodbye iBook series? Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon [B 'I'm sorry, Dave...you were attempting to erode my market share...I can't let you do that...' 'The New PowerMac 970.' Lemon Bon Bon [/B] No that's "I'm sorry, Bill..." My name is Dave and I u…
    in Wwdc Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • What a lot of folks are forgetting is the "big" dollars necessary to launch the kind of advertising campaigns you are talking about. Believe it or not, Apple is very smart about how they utilize what budgets they have. Apple is still in business b…
    in Wwdc Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by keyboardf12 (bring back the snail ads!) According to a late night PowerJack post on Spymac, a new snail add may be coming back. I kind of liked the steamroller ad myself.
    in Wwdc Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by whoami Shaktai... that translation is funny. i wonder who will be on the money with the predictions. all i know is we're gonna have some good ish in the next few months! i'm saving like crazy! Yes it is a bit…
    in Wwdc Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • MacBidouille's latest regarding WWDC and the 970. (Babel Fish translation) Quote: [ Rumour ] APPLE starts to raise the veil - Lionel - 05:51:53 - commercial large account and APPLE big shots in Europe, start to raise the veil on the WWDC. …
    in Wwdc Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by kupan787 I thoguht it was decided powerjack was full of shit, no? Someone posted a link to a macfixit (or someother mac site) with reader emails just totally trashing this guy for his very shoddy businesses. Plus he…
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Niconono The 7457 is not a bad processor. It's much faster than the actual 7455. But it isn't available yet. If we see it at all, which I doubt, it wouldn't be before late fall at the earliest.
    in Wwdc Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Cake So, since Bryce has been discontinued for the Mac, is that more proof that the benchmarks are fake (given the story that a MP aware version of Bryce was used?) As has been stated many times, the discontinuence…
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Nevyn Gak. I got my G4 numbers from here, but 187 doesn't scale to 428 either. (262) Oh well! Still the more I look at the numbers and compare them, the more I am amazed at how much real world performance Appl…
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Kurt Didn't Nick dePlume recently post to these boards saying he had some 970 info that he was going to post? He was going to check his sources or something like that. Did he give a time frame of when that would happ…
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by kim kap sol "It will cost $637 and will be Intel's top offering for months." Good night Intel. Wow! That is a huge speed bump and for only $637
    in Wwdc Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon I dunno. I thought Shaktai's attempts to liven up the benchmark thread deserve some credit. Nice to see it engineered in an Appleworks Spreadsheet. Nice one, Shaktai!!! Looks like the dual 970 is go…
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Bigc Looks like they'll be able to use the PPC970 for the cheap box according to SlacJackWhispers. If there is any validity to this at all, it might allow Apple to use some innovative technologies in their high end…
    in rumor: low end g4 box? Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Nevyn Ok, this is from straight scaling of the available info then: Code: Manu. Chip GHz S-INT S-FP GFLOPs Dhrystone RC5 key/s Mot. G4 1.4 428 428 10.2 3243 11.4 mil IBM …
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Nevyn The thing is, the _low_ side is open-ended. That is, I can (at least as a thought experiment make a 1.4 GHz ppc970 run slower than my Apple ][e. Picture 'main memory' as a paper-tape with a hole-puncher & a…
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Since this thread began with bencharks, I would like to propose an idea if anyone else is game. Mind you it is pure speculation for the fun of it. I am thinking of trying to come up with "very conservative" theoretical numbers for the performanc…
    in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by rickag Thank heaven for search engines on web boards. The elusive roadmap By that roadmap, the 7457RM wasn't indicated until 2004 anyway, and RIO not until 2005. As always Motorola is behind the curve. …
    in Motorola fabbing 2Ghz G4 Comment by shaktai June 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by keyboardf12 damn them. they should have built a time machine so they could see how much moto was going to frell them in the future. freakin apple. They did, but it needed the G5 chip that Moto didn't delive…
    in New iMacs? Comment by shaktai May 2003
  • My guess is that the next iMac will have either a 166 or 200mhz bus but still no DDR (due to Motorola). The CPU will be either 1.25 or 1.33 on the high end. Prices will hold the same. The big jump for iMacs and iBooks will be in the late fall …
    in New iMacs? Comment by shaktai May 2003