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Regarding the intel delay. To put it in perspective:When I boght my G4/400 in 2000 AMD would reach 800 MHz with their budget CPU and 1.2GHz with the Athlon a speed the G4 supercomputer chip would reach two years later , a timewhen the Intel were …
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Things like FSB limitation is very application dependent. CPU and cache wise the Intel seem to be "better" than AMD. So sure AMD will own Intels Quad cores in some applications but not all. So it really depend on what you need to do with the comput…
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I prefer the separate monitor as the CPU/monitor ratio I want to have can vary quite a lot. I had a 17" CRT with a 7200 back in the days when the 17" CRT costed at least 1000 dollars. In other cases a 15" is enough for a dual CPU box. Different need…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cubit Suddenly my iMac has stopped recognizing my firewire devices; I've tried them on my other macs and no trouble there so the problem would seem to be in the iMac. I hate to take it in for service since just two mon…
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Quote: I'm just happy that in 6 years my iMac will still be completely capable to do everything it can do today and just as fast or faster (with optimized OS's) I actually can try a G3/350 such as the iMac and my Sawtooth side by side. It is not…
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An iMac may fill the bill toady but what if it does not do that next year. A PM 7500/100 as an exampel of a plain mac, could get a good Radeon PCI card, USB and Firewire PCI card, IDE card and drives CD Burern and a much faster G3 CPU. This both ex…
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Wheels at the bottom and carrying slots instead of external handles at the top We have several PCS with the new ATX cases from Dell, HP and Fujitsu Siemens. They run really silent even if they do F@H and have 100% CPU load all the time. Slow spi…
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11 years ago the PM 7500 had 2 HDs, 3 PCI slots, 8 memory slots and one optical bay. All in a compact desktop case that was very easy to get into That is roughly on par with what fits inside the enourmous cheese graters. My suggestion is such a c…
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I would not risk the MB if I really need the computer. If you really need something faster thant the ATI128 look on ebay for 8500 9000 and the like. BTW a 8500 is not faster than a ATI128 if you have a 350-500 MHz CPU in there, it is still CPU limi…
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Are they all HFS+? Or do you have Journaling on A and B? It starts to fade I do not think I have used OS 9 or classic since 2004
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The outside is not bad at all. But compare that to http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling...oc.aspx?i=2758 were similiar dimentions holds 12 harddisk many opticals and 7 card slots. Not that I suggest that Apple have to go that far but 2 optical…
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Time to start to bite fingernails and hold the the plastic card tightly. Tell self "wait for second revison", repeat8)
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For us that bought a loud G4 tower a Conroe will be a different level. A "low end" prosumer tower will be plenty for many users, with the additon of a top end GPU it will be a fantastic gaming rig as well. A 8 core top of the line monster will have…
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imho there is no reason to wait until most pro apps are UB. As long as some to several pro apps are UB and the CPU and other design elements there is no reason to wait. CPU speedbumps can be made quitely like the ones for the pro mac book. T…
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With the aid of a IDE card you can get 4 HDs in your Sawooth and then you can break the 128 GB limit of the IDE 66 that you have on the Sawtooth. So 2 TB no problem I recently switched from tapes to harddisk for the retrospect backup of 60 compu…
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The MacLite should be the iMac minus the screen, plus PCIe slot and one extra HD bay. The more parts the different lines have in common the less number of support chips etc does Apple have to support in the OS. When I bought the G4 spring of 2000…
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"My pet theory is that Apple has very carefully managed clock-speed increases for the last few years." And that promise to be at 3 GHz with the G5 in the summer of 2004 was a smoke screen I try to not say anything about the G(5-1)
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What (sizable) group would be served by a single CPU tower? The light user can get a iMac or minimac. The macgamer can get a iMac. Prior to iMacs with good GPU gamers had to get a tower even if most games only use one CPU. For them a one CPU towe…
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What ever it will be, it will be way fast http://www.hardware.fr/articles/617-...e-desktop.html suggest that the current laptop CPUs are enough to be at the very top of the best desktop AMD and Intel CPUs. The replacement of the G5 towers will b…
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The TowerMac will have to wait until they can release a quad, a quadcore or two dual cores. Replacing the portable and Mini first make sense as the step up from a G4 makes up for the loss in performance in non native apps using Rosetta. With t…