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"Don't forget that Apple's (Moto's) L3 cache is a dog compared to most other CPU l3 caches" Yea a real damn dog! It is crap compared to the awsome p4 L3 cache,not to mention it's L34563 cache.And there is just no compareing it to the amd L3 cache…
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"Interesting that most everyone is assuming that the predictions for the slowest machines are correct" What bothers me most about the low end is how crippled it is.It is on a 133 bus,the top end is clearly a 166.The middle 1 ghrz could go either …
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"Before people start 'ing and running off to PCs: All we know is processor speed, video card and price. That's not much. I'd be surprised if DDR RAM appears, but if there's a move to the 166MHz MPX bus, that's about a 25% increase in CPU bandwidth …
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"configurations will be offered: dual-867MHz (US$1,699), dual-1GHz ($2,499), and dual-1.25GHz ($3,299)." Now this sounds like apple! Thanks apple for letting me keep my money another 6+ months!
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The problem is "true" DDR on the pc doesnt offer much more performance than SDRAM does.People need to quit looking at these maximum throughput numbers,they are misleading.The real issue is bus utilization and the mac seems finely engineered in that …
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"THIS is what pisses me off about the Mac: I bought the best portable on the market, paid dearly for it, and it can't run a friggin' two year old stupid game which runs fast as a bat flying from hell on a cheap-ass PIII@800" Well their is not muc…
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"I think a two button mouse would be enough to keep people at bay until a new pentium killer powermac is ready soon(I hope). It better have a scroll wheel though!! " HAHAHA!!!! Good one! Why not buy one at compUSA?
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"Interesting that most everyone is assuming that the predictions for the slowest machines are correct" What bothers me most about the low end is how crippled it is.It is on a 133 bus,the top end is clearly a 166.The middle 1 ghrz could go either …
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"Before people start 'ing and running off to PCs: All we know is processor speed, video card and price. That's not much. I'd be surprised if DDR RAM appears, but if there's a move to the 166MHz MPX bus, that's about a 25% increase in CPU bandwidth …
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"configurations will be offered: dual-867MHz (US$1,699), dual-1GHz ($2,499), and dual-1.25GHz ($3,299)." Now this sounds like apple! Thanks apple for letting me keep my money another 6+ months!
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"barefeats = clueless. barefeces would be more appropriate." I dont really care about the xserve,DDR is no great shaks anyway, but I would have to agree with this assesment of barefeats.I know they have some obviously wrong benchmark data on the…
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Why do they need to announce an announcement beforehand? Isnt that a tautology? Lets say that Tuesday morning a new 2 gigahertz G5 powermac is released,is there some danger that the media wont notice this on Apples website that millions go to every …
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"There's no way they have a new chip out already. They just released the Apollo 6 months ago" But really the "apollo" is just a 7450 variant,a chip that has been shipping for about a year and a half.So anything is possible.....
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"IMO, a dual 1.4 Ghz w. a real DDR-sdram implementation would be more than half-decent. But, Im expecting a 1.2 Ghz dual, with DDR hack" Hack or not ,"real" DDr doesnt blow the world away on the athlon so dont expect it to do so on the G4 eith…
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"If the stories are true that IBM is just now wooing Apple, and the arguments here are true about a 64 bit PPC processor being a year or so away, " Well there not "true",just idle speculation and perhaps a tinge of pessimism.No one here knows the…
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"All sounds like this chip is down the road aways then, hey?" Not really.It supports a maximum bus of this bandwith but it doesnt have to use it if released now.
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"This is not AltiVec compatible (with an own 128-bittigen unit), but works directly with the 64-bittigen CPU registers, probably compatibly to the extension for Embedded (Book E), agreed upon with Motorola." Ok,how do they know this is not "altiv…
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Apple has made me so cynical that I fully expect a lame 867 G4 lowend to a duel 1067 G4 top end next week but still it is interesting that the new Ibm chip is for "desktops".Now no one else realy uses the ppc in a desktop but Apple.This clearly p…
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"Next year... well maybe late next year. but I doubt very much that we'll see it before then." If that aint flat out pessemism......! I'd call that doom for Apple!
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Ok,I have to say I dont know what on earth you are talking about.Some here seemed confused about FSB speed and how DDR works.I see this "hack" nonesense on every rumor site but precious little evidence. 1)No commercially available bus runs faste…