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The FB DIMMs are requirement of Xeon, or if as I recall the Northbridge that is needed to support more than one Quadcore CPU. The FB comes at two costs, one is money the other is higher latency than regular DIMMs. The G5 CPU had a similar thing with…
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Current MP use quite expensive fully buffered RAM. The next generation of Intel CPUs will use standard DDR3 and have an integrated memory controller that will boost performance quite a lot. This is the largest change in CPU design Intel have made in…
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I waith for the Nehalem, then my old G4 will become a backupserver.... CPU Nehalem octacore, hyperthread IMC standard RAM A lot of other new stuff
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Power Macintosh G4 (AGP-Graphics) ("PowerMac3,1") with 1 cores, running at 400.00 mHz. Frontside bus: 99.63 mHz Installed memory: 416.00 MB 200,000,000 factorials will be calculated by creating 1 threads. Thread # 1 created. Waiting for thr…
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A 1/2 tower. A native Quadcore that is easy to upgrade. Sizewise the low end would be: A super cube with room for a standard DVDburner and any decent graphic card. The upper limit something like the orignal B&W tower The MacPro is really…
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In previous version OS 7-8-9 and 10.0 to 10.3 (or was it 10.2) These things were more flexible. In my native country we use "," as decimal. Previously I could keep my national settings and pick "." as decimal a practical way to keep compability with…
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The airbook= Dual core the macbook= Dual core The Probook=Dual core The mini= Dual core The iMacs=Dual core The native Quad core=??? Mac Pro=Octa core, the quad core is a missfit were you still pay for expensive FB DIMMs and CPUs to be ab…
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Issues with Leapard. 1.No hierarical collapsing folders in the dock, I have had that feature since 8.6 or something (with the folder under the Apple menue) 2.The Document icon is less distinct than in 10.4 3. The Program folder Icon is less disti…
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It is a portable "cube" in a way but at least it is resonably priced. For myself I much rahter have one of the other books if I needed a laptop. For Apple it also serves as a testbed for new technologies like solidstate harddrives and wireless…
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The most interesting is not the speedbump or new GPUs both very expected but the "octacoring" in the ads. Octa core: Mac Pro, Xserver Quad core:... Dual core: iMac. Minimac, Macbook and Probook. I am not saying that they will but there is r…
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The 32 GB limit is a MS "feature" for formatting in XP/Vista. In Win 2000 and ME you can format any HD in FAT32 Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table My 320 MB drive is OK in FAT32, as long as you stay away from files of 4 GB…
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With EFI support Apple, and unified drivers for Mac (as the Windos drivers that nvidia and ATI/AMD has) it seems possible that the MacPro user can simply walk in in any PC store and get a generic card that will work for the intel mac:
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Wait! I installed it both on a Intel mini and a Sawtooth with 1.2GHz G4 upgrade without problems. However, Tiger is a big step backward in important regards. 1. Collapsing finder windows are gone. That is the trick of having an alias of the docu…
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The thread "Apple to fire up Penryn-based Mac Pros" will tell you more than you ever want to now about what macnerds thinks. The short of it is that the macpro is long over due to be updated so play the waiting game and get the next generation.
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Think a decent pentium III box. It has 4 slots for standard PC100/133 memory modules, a good ATI 128 graphic card. FireWire and USB 1. Many has DVD drives. You can install 1 GB of RAM in it. OS X 10.3 that is a good candidate for opertivse system f…
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Programmer, I do agree with you that the macpro is price competetive with other Xeon workstations, as is the dual cored minmac, imac and probook/macbook. However, as I understand it the main advantage the Xeon has over Conroe is that multi CPUs are …
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When the MacPro came out its quad cores (or rather tandem dual cores) were a good deal compared to similar PCs from Dell and the like. Good value hardware and the option to run both OS X and XP, fantastic Now you can buy a Del XPS 420 at clo…
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I have never seen anything about that the system has to be on the motherboard bus. Most if not all cards support booting. If I would get a card I would get a SATA card not a IDE133 as SATA drive will fit in your next computer a PATA will not
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Before updating the MacPro they have to wait for the new intel motherboard stuff so that they can scrap those expensive and rellatively speaking high latency fully buffered DIMMs and use the cheaper and faster RDIMMS
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Intel seem to back of from FBDIMMs and will use RDIMMs instead so we can expect lower latency DIMMS at lower prices. The time to leave my G4 tower from 2000 seem to get closer