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  • Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman hi aph, you're a bit ahead of the curve, looks like it... apple seems to put profit ahead of features i guess as a publicly traded company, that's what ya do... ....take care!! Well I was defi…
    in What would you like in a NEW iPod Photo? Comment by aphelion February 2005
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    in Apple extends wait times for iPod photo models Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • TOE IS COMING
    in TOE NIC's In All Future PowerMacs? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • If they can put a camera into a phone, they can put one in a photo iPod.
    in iPods threatened by digital cameras? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • They are no doubt getting this out to fix a problem with at least some iMac G5's that 10.3.8 completely borks Quicktime play back with these machines. I spent all day yesterday trying to fix my friend's iMac G5 and nothing worked until a clean re…
    in Apple developing Mac OS X 10.3.9 Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • In the past Apple has called upon Sony to manufacture their laptops. I can see Apple having Sony OEM any number of home centered digital devices to compliment Apple's product lines. Sony will want to use their investment in Cell to produce produc…
    in New Powermacs to use Cell Processor? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • I think some of you are missing the point of a blade. A blade is a complete computer that fits in a slot in a chassis. IBM already makes such a chassis and they have published the specifications for third parties to create blades that conform to i…
    in Apple XWorkstation. a scalable desktop supercomputer. Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • AAPL stock is up $2.12 in pre open as I write this. Much of that jump is a result of Merrill Lynch target update to $102 (up from $85). Here is the quote from their upgrade: Quote: Merrill Lynch raised its 12-month target price on Apple Comp…
    in New Powermacs to use Cell Processor? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • beatlejuice ... beatlejuice ... beatlejuice ... Blade Runner ~ Modular Powermac Perhaps the time and technology has come for this concept. IBM has opened up the specifications for their blade center chassis. IBM already makes a J20 970 bl…
    in Apple XWorkstation. a scalable desktop supercomputer. Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by BenRoethig ... It'd take up half the motherboard. The 90nm part shown will be produced to create the workstations needed to program for PS3. IBM and it's partners plan to step this Cell design down to 65nm and …
    in Cell details Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Features do not the same core make... The PowerPC core in the Cell seems to have additional features compared to the current G5, the next revision of the IBM 970xx will, in my opinion, share these feat…
    in what happened to all the G6 plans? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by onlooker That's the point. You can't just hand someone broadband on a chip. No, the point is you can speed up broadband on the chip.
    in New Powermacs to use Cell Processor? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by onlooker I still think it's bad language, and more of a buzz term than anything. How are you supposed to get broadband on a chip if you have dial up? What good is the chip then? That I'd like to know. I'm no networ…
    in New Powermacs to use Cell Processor? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by smalM I would prefere a 970MP @ 3 GHz Especially if it had a Cell co-processor (or co-processors) to handle real time rendering as well as HD encoding & decoding! (Not to mention my broadband connection).
    in Cell details Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Programmer Nope, I'm not saying anything of the sort. If they did, however, that information alone is not sufficient to say they share anything (besides bullet points in the feature list) with Cell. Well it would …
    in what happened to all the G6 plans? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • It is very possible that OSX can run directly on the Cell chip's PPC core processor. Whether it can address the 8 SPE's ("synergistic processing units") through Tiger's Core services is something only Apple's system engineer's know. I don'…
    in Cell details Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by onlooker "Broadband on a chip" What a clown. This guy makes no sense. Broadband on a the chip is the VISION for the Cell shared by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. Yep those guys are real clowns about the broadband capab…
    in New Powermacs to use Cell Processor? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • In other NEWS Rambus is claiming : Quote: The new processor will include Rambus interfaces called FlexIO Processor Bus and XDR RAM for memory._ Together these interfaces provide up to 100 gigabytes per second of aggregate CPU bandwidth, said Rich …
    in Cell details Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by mugwump First of all, down the road Apple could be in a fine position to take advantage of such tech advances. Doubtful if Intel, MS, and Dell could be so nimble. As an aside, I wonder if it would be the appro…
    in New Powermacs to use Cell Processor? Comment by aphelion February 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Programmer ISSCC should be enlightening. OK Programmer, I understand now that your lips are sealed and can't elaborate as much as you might like to about the Cell, but after ISSCC I'm hoping you will be able to giv…
    in what happened to all the G6 plans? Comment by aphelion February 2005