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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Nick, if you could just PM me all your information, confirmed or otherwise, that would be great. I'd rather not wait for the official published version. I would be content with the Reader's Digest c…
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Thanks Nick for the update. End of Story. Move along.
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DrBoar, I agree that a lot of the talk is premature, but a little speculation does no harm and is actually fun. I think we will more likely see (based upon known statements) that one of Apple's primary goals will be to keep the price down. I…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph If not, it seems we're back to a memory bottleneck, and in that case an L3 might help. But I think it'd help if it were something significant cheaper than the G4's L3. I'm not sure that Apple's paying $200 a box…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph I don't think the supply of 970s will be a problem, honestly, unless half the Windows market decides all at once that they just can't live without a PowerMac. Supplies of any Mot chip are a crapshoot (so to spe…
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A few points: While production runs (mobos) are contracted in lots of 20,000, the actual assembly process of finished machines is not necessarily. A change in assembly process (minor component change) or even a firmware upgrade could be implemen…
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod Use *nix on them then and point the finger of blame where it belongs....MICROSOFT! It is a lot more then just microsoft. PC hardware is significantly more difficult to deal with for the average person. I…
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The Titan City site has also posted a preliminary analysis of the 970 as it would be used in a Mac. Short, but in simple enough language as to make some sense to non-techies. Can't vouch for the accuracy of their assumptions, but it made sense to …
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Its an interesting article, but remember it is heavily based on opinion and supposition. There are big unknowns in the article and he fully admits not having that information, and that that information coul…
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I understood it a little differently. The integer performance, is indeed not what some folks have hoped for, but about what I expected. It won't blow away any top end P4's on raw integer. However my impression is that the Altivec potential is rea…
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Quote: Originally posted by MozillaMan Wait.... I'm sure this has been covered before, but if Apple sticks to 32-bit processors in their laptops/low end Macs, would a 64-bit OS work on them? If not, what is the likelihood of Apple sustaining t…
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Quote: Originally posted by Nevyn The IBM site quoted 0.13 as the size, with a speed range of 1.8 to 2.5 GHz. From looking at the original page it would have had to be a serious typo for something else to be intended..... I think I might be co…
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The G4's have been behind the curve for many common tasks, though they still excell at a certain few other tasks. The high end P4 and AMD's all excell in most general tasks (though each has its strengths and weaknesses) but fall behind the G4 on c…
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IBM has always contended that they thought the G3 had a "lot more potential". Motorola wanted to go with the G4. This core contention was in part responsible for them going in different directions, fracturing the PowerPC alliance. Apple had to ma…
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Quote: Originally posted by cygsid err.. anybody heard of Intel's Centrino yet..? Centrino-based PC laptops get *extreme* battery life (IBM's T40 gets something like 7-8 hours ) and better performance than the P4 at lower frequency (1.6 Gh…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Yeah, but they just updated the eMacs. The rest of the lineup will be 6-7 months old at WWDC and an update seems reasonable, but why would they have updated the eMac just to do it again 1-2 months later? O…