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When IBM 970 Linux blade servers are out they will be pitted against other Linux server (insert various CPUs here). Then with a supposedly hardware agnostic Linux community tweaking the apps to get the most out of them. That will be more intere…
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Part of the problem is that it is harder to get pirated software for the Mac Another is sheer ignorance " is that windows for Macintosh? as a IT staff asked me once Then some might have more valid points about applications that are not aviable …
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HP and all the RAM you can fill it with
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The GHz is anyones guess but I think that there will be more duals than just the top of the line. It does not serve Apple that "to many" want to buy the very top end model with restricted CPU supply while " to few" will buy the mid range. For me …
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install NetBSD UNIX and run then as web servers! http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/ The lowest end web server I have seen so far was a Mac Plus... Or download the RC-72 distributed net client to contribut to the macnn team8)
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If you take a look at http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/cpureview.lasso you will find that there is far more user complians with PL than GD. I really prefer to keep things simple so picking a product with high relieability is very important. Having …
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GigaDesign 1.2 GHz card for 390 dollars is sweet.. A dual is not that much faster to begin with and with that 100 MHz bus instead of a 167 MHz bus I do not think the differenece will be that big. Upgraded my G4/400 and it made a big difference no…
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If the G5 offers a lot of performance difference in the blade server, Apple will have it out soon. There really is no more heat issues in the blade server than in the tower. The Tower may be roomier and only house two hard disks but the blade has no…
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Well if the 8500 work as it is that is good but to upgrade? For just SCSI internal and external that is a 40 dollar SCSI card in any modern Mac (or PC) "i just bought a 8500 av mainly because it has the A/V capabilities and because it has intern…
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Splinemodel The flaw in your reasoning is that you assume that what is refered to as "common senses" is common Sure elegant iMacs with sensible performance will sell, but Apple need to have towering testosterone products as well. Not only 970 b…
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1. I need to transfer my photo and music collections from the old box to the new. Is firewire target disk mode the best way? That or a ethernet cross over cable 2. Do I, or should I upgrade the old box to OSX before I transfer the files? No. …
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Even the G4/400 benefit from a better card than the ATI 128. And the 4mx fare well with a 1 GHz CPU http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/radeon_8500/index2.html The ATI 8500 pulls away at 1280x1024 but below that the 4mx is a very good card. Pair…
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With the 970 production ramping up it do put a squeeze on the G4. We have yet to see how the G5 compare to the G4 with optimized OS and application and what the time frame for this is. Assuming 1. G5 will be faster. 2 The optimization will be…
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iBook and Xservers both depending on IBM. That is when IBM have the faster G3 and when IBM have released their own Linux 970 blade servers. BTW have they even been demoed after that pulled demo in CEBIT in February?
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I worked in a hospital lab were they recently had IBM unix server running on 604E CPUs. With thosands of samples each day and patients life at risk. Having a secure OS that stays up years at the time is far more important then the cost of the hardwa…
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Motorola G4 Motorola does not need the G4 to be a fast desktop CPU for their own (embedded) applications IBM 970 AKA "G5" IBM intend to sell Linux servers where the 970 will race head to head with Xeon CPUs also running Linux. IBM have a very s…
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After being tormented by WordPerfect in DOS 3 I bought a 1. LCII 4/80 in 1992. Later upgraded with a 32 MHz 030 upgrade, and more RAM bigger HD, great for wordprocessing and Hellcats. Marathon was terrible but I persisted until... ( The LCIII rea…
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Quote: What are Cocoa and Carbon? Remember OS 9 (and 8 and 7 etc)?? Carbon is like a spiffed up 9. Carbon applictions runs "native" in both OS 9 and OS X. So to carbonize old OS 9 applications is a neat way of enabling them to run in both 9 and…
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That CPU-GPU limitation is very game dependent. To take one extreme Quake 3 were a weak CPU (500 MHz G4) and good graphcial card (ATI 8500/9000). On other games like SOF II and UT2003 the CPU can hardly be fast enough. And game habits dependent a…
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I think it is an exit strategy. Apple need some interim speed bumped G4s before they can put the dieshrunk G5 in the powerbooks and iMacs. A low power 2GHz G4 with DDR support would not be a bad CPU in 2003, if it arrives late 2004 it will never en…