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I was running 10.2 on a B&W G3/300 128 MB RAM and 6 GB HD, really slow and spinning beach ball. Added a 64 RAM pin to 192 and that helped a lot. You can actually have 512 MB RAM in it and 1. I suggest that putting in a 256 for a total of 320…
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X will run OK if you have a resonably big HD and at least 192 MB RAM (much better than 128) and more is better still. 2D graphics speed is limited by the slow motherboard chip. Even with a 200 MHz 604 CPU a good card will double the speed and wit…
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So are the europeans. While theythink they have the informed opinion that genetically modified crops are bad many of them think that a natrual tomato does not contain any genes only the unnatrual does. They also think that when eating that unnatrual…
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I did mean 1U servers using the 970, replacing the current dual G4 xserver, not a blade, sorry about that. Perhaps Apple can even user faster 970 than 1.6 Ghz for that...
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Cant think of one valid reason for Apple to delay their blade server when the IBM 970 Linux server is out of the door8)
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With Intel in the 3 Ghz range (2.8-3.2) for quite a while that would be an opportunity for Motorolas G4 to acually cross that "half clock speed threshold" that they have been under since 1999 or early 2000. Will they ever cross 2 GHz will anyone…
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www.xlr8yourmac.com and www.barefeats.com ar good places for speed tests
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As a scientist I love PDFs Getting articles meant getting to the library taking copies that washed out grayscale images and eliminated all colors. Ending up with piles of paper Now I download articles from the net as PDF save them in orderly way…
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If you can wait until the dual creep down to the midrange or even low end model. I upgraded my G4/400 that was suffering in X with a Gigadesign 1.2 GHz G4 and now I have time to wait for the G5 to get even more speed and torque8)
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I am an nut that installed the public beta but a far more sane way of looking at computers is. "Dont fix it if it aint broke". The guy at the next desk is using 8.1 on his B&W G3 as it came intalled with. His applications are the old ones fo…
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Anyone expecting Apple to say. "We expect to have G5 PB in 3-6 months starting with 2 GHz CPUs" If the G5PB is 2 months or 2 years away does not matter, Apple will not kill their current sales by telling stuff like that in advance. Telling such…
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And the emulation would be a one trick pony. One set of hardware (the Xbox) and one defined set of apps (games). Any interest in the PPC CPUs is a good thing. If Nokia would use them in their phones it would be good but having MS using it in the…
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Getting a larger tower and still lose one optical bay and two hard disk bays And I do not care for getting a stack of FW boxes. The whole point of having a big tower is to get rid of the clutter. Otherwise I could have a iMac and then daisychain w…
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A good 17" monitor can be bought for just above 100 dollars and that include powercable, onof button and a case all that stuff is shared in the eMac so the price reduction of a headless eMac would be even less than that. Both the headless eMac an…
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The price of CPUs are really just arbitary marketing prices. By having really high prices on the fastert CPUs IBM/AMD/Intel stear the consumer to the midrange were they have the highest yield and have the highest margins on the fastest ones. If …
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Quote: 1. It (usually) costs considerably more to have dual CPUs than a single CPU at a higher clock speed. It sure does, but a faster CPU is way more expensive! For the AMD Barton XP CPU the 3 GHz cost more two and half time as much as the 2.5 …
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I think in the old DOS dark ages that Format :/C or something could actually format the booted drive. Perhaps there is a similar unix command?
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500 MHz might sound like a lot for us macusers that were stuck at 500 Mhz for more than a year. It is "only" 25% boost for a 2 Ghz CPU like going from a 8500/200 to a 8500/250. The truth is that a 2.5 GHz is percived as just a little bit faster than…
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As I recall the G5 AKA IBM 970 was made by IBM with the expressed intent to have it in 1x blade servers running Linux. So if they can have those CPUs and other components in blade servers so should Apple. With Apple using IDE drivers (or serial…
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As is to late for consumer stuff, some new pro stuff would be nice. G5 blade servers really complete version of Maya, Pixars rendering program for OS X Things to give Apple Hollywood glamour and give the video editing eMac user a wiff of being…