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  • IBM need the 970 to run fast for their own Linux servers so they have a big interest to make the 970 run as fast as possible. I got the impression that Motorola lacked not only talent but also reasons to get over the 500 MHz barrier. It is bad wi…
    in Problems with adapting 90nm G5's? Comment by drboar April 2004
  • An other source of erratic behaviour is a flat PRAM battery. If you get a proper booting (shift start) and find out that the current date is 1956 ,1971 or something like that then it is the battery. The hardware is not a good start for the mac. L…
    in Problems with my centris 650 Comment by drboar March 2004
  • Reminds me of the Pentium days were a 166 MHz Pentium on a 83 MHz bus was faster than a 200 MHz pentium on a 66 MHz bus! If there is a penalty in the 970 going for a 1:3 FSB instead of a 1:2 and Apple has to use a 1:3 bus then they simply have t…
    in 970FX Maxing out @ 2.4ghz? Comment by drboar March 2004
  • While the FPS genere is well covered in the Mac with most major titles exept HalfLife and CounterStrike some areas are totaly lost since a decade. WWII flight sims: On the PC side Microsoft is on its third generation of sims (plus all the expans…
    in Will Apple ever release a machine for gamers ? Comment by drboar February 2004
  • 1992 LCII Upgraded with 32 MHz 030 in 1993 that made that slowpoke quite useful. 1995 7200/90 (loved it) Upgraded 2001 with a 7600 MB and 200 MHz 604E CPU 2000 G4/400. Loved the case but both the CPU and the ATI 128 was lackluster at the tim…
    in How often do you replace your Mac? Comment by drboar February 2004
  • To veer back to new ATI cards. ATI have made some rather strange things the last couple of years. 1.The original Radeon was replaced by the inferior R 7000 2. They intoduced two largely overlapping cards the R8500 and R 9000 and kept them side …
    in ATI... New PowerMac Graphics Card? Comment by drboar February 2004
  • The most resonable component to hold back G5 servers shipping would be the CPU. And with servers shipping in far lower volumes than towers the production of G5 above 2 Ghz has to ramp up even more before the announcement of G5 towers. The first G…
    in countdown to new g5's... Comment by drboar January 2004
  • A 100 dollar amp and 400 dollar loudspeaker of the HiFi kind will get you a sound qality that far surpass any computer speakers. But if you want multichannel setup and thumping bass for the UT 2003 gaming good computer speakers will get you there. …
    in BEST Speaker Setup for the G5 ?? Comment by drboar January 2004
  • With Flash drives they are really slow if you keep the FAT32 format, reformatted to HFS they copy way faster. I keep my pendrive 128 MB Acer in HFS+ and if I have to use a PC I referomat it to FAT32 for the occation and then back to HFS again when I…
    in USB speeds under MacOS X on 1998-2003 Macs Comment by drboar January 2004
  • The IBM blade at least show that it is possible to have a 1.6 GHz 970 in a small space, iMac size by the look of it
    in what does the G5 xserve tell us? Comment by drboar January 2004
  • As ATI 128 card it should work in OS X as such but I assume that there is no suppoort in X for those VR features. However it is a early generation PCI card and there is issues with 5V versus 3.3V cards in the G5 so I suspect that it will not wor…
    in Ati Xclaim Vr 128 Comment by drboar January 2004
  • As I recall Word 5.1 could open WP and also Word 6 (at least after adding some filters). So look around for any old IIci to 6100 generation and they may have those kind of word processors on them. With my published papers I wanted to preserve the…
    in what would you use to open old wordperfect documents? Comment by drboar January 2004
  • The server is a low volume box compared to G5 towers and even more so compared to iMac etc. So with with servers starting to ship in February I do not expect tower until Mars-April or so. And I expect we will see iMacs with G5 before we see PBs wit…
    in what does the G5 xserve tell us? Comment by drboar January 2004
  • I do not think Apples CPU leaps will be dictated my "insanity" or sanaty of the same The G4 started with letting the AMD and Intel get at twise the clock speed, and during the following 4 years have showed no signs at closing the gap. With this…
    in This is what i see Comment by drboar December 2003
  • Heat can be transfered 3 ways. 1. Radiation 2. Convection through air or liquid ( all that air pumped over the heat sinks) 3. Conductance through solid material (like from the CPU to the heat sink) Basically most parts of the computer is heate…
    in didn't Apple used to make an Xserve? Comment by drboar December 2003
  • Regarding the 4 GB memory limit. Log scale is deciving we are very close is we now are at the 512 MB RAM range. That is only 8 times or as when I went from 4 MB to 32 MB about 10 years ago. There is no sign of the RAM race slowing down. But is i…
    in 65nm Intel, probably not a good thing... Comment by drboar December 2003
  • The Evil conversion of Marathon is the best! As scary as AvP, so you better strap on that Depend nappie
    in Blood Bath Comment by drboar December 2003
  • You also have a VGA output (or a ADC-to VGA) on all macs since the B&W G3 of 1999. I have been using PC monitors on Macs since 1994, with no problems
    in What PC monitor can I use with a G4 Tower and other questions. Please help. Comment by drboar November 2003
  • I could put the Benz star on a Fiat because I like the "M-B look and feel" A trojan troll no less, were did I put the tar and the feathers...
    in Apple to build pc capable of running windows xp Comment by drboar November 2003
  • The SP to DP 1.8 is one sweet update, way better than in the days of dual G4 450/500 and dual 604Es as now we have OS X and actual support for the second CPU The nvidia 5200 may be a weak card but take out that useless modem that nobody use anymor…
    in Dual 1.8 G5 Comment by drboar November 2003