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  • My G4/400 has served me for 5 years thanks to some upgrades but the 2xAGP and 100 MHz bus starts to be a limit. Will it take until 2010 until AGP is a limit??? I will skip the G5 and wait for the dual core G6 and PCIe when ever that occur. Both …
    in PowerMac - Anyone else waiting? Comment by drboar February 2005
  • Yes the time when die shrinks automagically gave clockspeed boosts seems to be gone. Programmer, can you guesstimate what the performance gain would be on a 2.5 GHz G5 with doubled L2 cache and an integrated memory controller? With IBM selling…
    in Any news of Powermac upgrades? Comment by drboar January 2005
  • Here I see people using cubes, first generation G4 towers and have really slow OS X, and for those with even slower boxes even 8 and 9 is slow. For them getting mini makes a lot of sense as they at the cost of a G4 CPU upgrade get that CPU upgrade …
    in Mac mini misses its target consumer Comment by drboar January 2005
  • Even for free at http://www.realvnc.com/ and the X client at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ YMMW with the speed
    in FrontPage on VPC sucks, any way to run it over a network off of a PC? Comment by drboar December 2004
  • The rellative speed of Celerons above 2 GHz is very application depenent http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/ has many tests and in Office applications the Celeron holds up quite well but in anyhing that tax the fpu like quake it gets stomped by the …
    in Intel® Celeron® Question Comment by drboar November 2004
  • Still down, but my guess is that is something about iPod and X-mas sales
    in European Apple Strores are down! Comment by drboar November 2004
  • keeping the top end at 2.5 GHz but with 1024 K L2 (as in the IBM blade server) and a faster graphical card like the nvidia 6600 replacing the ATI 9600 will give a speed boost with parts that are aviable now.
    in Unofficial Power Mac G5 MWSF Spec Thread Comment by drboar November 2004
  • The G5 starts to look more and more like the G4. It is a good thing that the Intel AMDs does not scale up as fast as they did 1999-2000
    in Apple eMac G5 on hold, G4 back in production Comment by drboar November 2004
  • With currently available stuff they could do a minor update straight away : Doubling the L2 caches to 1024, finaly kill of that nvidia 5200 and use 6600 insted (anyone rememember how many years that ATI 128 was used ) other minor HW tweaks. Integ…
    in Timetable for future PowerMac G5's ??? Comment by drboar November 2004
  • Rather than a Power5 I am hoping for 970 with a integrated memory controller and perhaps larger cache. This would boost performance even with no increase in clock speed
    in Will Apple move to the POWER 5 instead of PPC? Comment by drboar November 2004
  • Unreal Sin Gold MacSpeaker (loudspeaker measurment) TopBox (loudspeaker calculations)
    in The Great List of Abandoned OS9 apps Comment by drboar October 2004
  • I have some PCs I got for free that I run distributed computing on. I also will get a PC for some apps that are not aviable for the mac. (loudspeaker measurements). I am also thinking about getting it for Flight sims as the last FS on the Mac that I…
    in Do you have a PC to complement your Mac? Comment by drboar September 2004
  • My point is that many internal hardisks are SATA so hence the motherboard or a card has to support SATA. This opens up the field for external SATA cases (http://www.xpcgear.com/sataenclosure.html) and I assume that DVD burners etc also will come. Wi…
    in What will be the new specs for the next PM line? Comment by drboar September 2004
  • Currently there is no room for a both a PM and ProPM line, short of going quattro on the Pro models. If the PM line has gone across the 3GHz line within the next 6-8 months and there are dual cores aviable in good numbers, then might be the time …
    in What will be the new specs for the next PM line? Comment by drboar September 2004
  • The 90nm debacle tells us that 70% done is like being 70% pregnant Its done when it is shipping in sufficent numbers not before that!
    in IBM's 65nm technology 70% done Comment by drboar August 2004
  • Onlooker I do not claim that MHz equals performance, a 2.8GHz celeron gets spanked by 1.6 GHz AMD. Asn the Xeon is one hell of a performer at least in FPU (http://www.cox-internet.com/setispy/efficiency.htm) But I claim that if you would take…
    in Doom3 to run on new iMac? Comment by drboar August 2004
  • How many busloads of Mac gamers are there with the computer to run DOOM III? With no SMP anything below 1.5 to 2 GHz CPUs are pretty useless so that leaves us with G5 gaming rigs... With the low end pentium PCs starting at 2.6 Ghz or so and the …
    in Doom3 to run on new iMac? Comment by drboar August 2004
  • So we (and Apple) expected a speedbump about 6 months ago and then more through revision this summer. Now the speed bump arrives in this summer and the revision hopefully later this year. These things happen and I am sure IBM is hard at work. The…
    in Latest G5's = Short EOL? Comment by drboar June 2004
  • A low power IBM 970 spells bad news for the G4 also in the embedded sector so Motorola Freescale has to show a positive roadmap to keep its customers. Then again a minor miracle might happen and Moto/FS will be able to acually manufacture and not…
    in Motorola is back Comment by drboar April 2004
  • With a GigaDesign @1.2Ghz and a ATI 8500 my old G4/400 feels as fast as the dual 1.25 I have at work. It has been worth doing as I alredy had added a bigger HD and a CDRW. Now I have a computer that will last me until 2005 and then I go G 6 extreme …
    in Need More Speed. Comment by drboar April 2004