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Notice how Mac parts like Radeon 9200/9600 and GeForce 5200 don't even appear on those charts due to obsolesce. My personal data point, as I have 915G graphics in my work PC. It's perfect acceptable for 2D work. It plays Quake 3-era games great. …
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I could see this happening. Consider: 1) MacTel systems will allow consumers to directly compare the prices with WinTel systems. 2) Consequentially, there will be more pressure for Apple to either reduce prices and/or produce more exotic desig…
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Intel allegedly coerces companies by threatening to greatly increase prices. Not by building demo PCs.
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me However, placing a port on the computer means nothing if there is nothing to plug into the port. Anything you could plug into an iMac, you could also plug into a PC running Win98 (which shipped 1 month befor…
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Quote: Originally posted by skatman I want a magnesium body and magnesium skeleton. Like the NeXTCube?
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me Actually, Louzer is correct. At the time, clock doubling was standard for the technology. Intel advertised clock doubling as though it were a unique feature. It was not, but it sounded impressive to the easily i…
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me Without the stability brought by Apple's adoption of the technology, USB was doomed to be another passing fad. Fanboy folklore. USB was shipping on 100% of PCs at the same time, and as Wintel users turned ove…
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Quote: Originally posted by snoopy . But when it comes to talking directly to the people buying its products, Apple has been noticeably silent from the moment Steve Jobs left the stage at this month?s Developers Conference." Ditto! This is cer…
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me I think this is wrong on several levels. From the Apple side, I don't think that the company sees itself as Intel's bitch. From the Intel side, Dell and HP/Compaq will continue to be MUCH larger Intel customers …
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Quote: Originally posted by Louzer One other thing I remember about 486's and their 'Mac-equivlents' at the time, the 68040 Centris models. The 68040 ran at 25MHz and 33MHz, while the 486's ran usually at 50 and 66. But, IIRC, I read that the 486…
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Check the prices for PC motherboards -- a 4-way board might cost over $1500 while a 2-way board similar to the PMac's could be had for $300 or so. So the "design cost" does not increase linearlly with the number of CPUs. There's also the question…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer The 80486 and 68040 were the first mass market desktop processors which clocked the processor higher than its bus so nobody had figured out how to market that yet. Except that the 040 didn't really run …
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Quote: Originally posted by emig647 I remember when apple went from 33mhz to 66mhz on the 68040. Well, I can remember when Apple Marketing decided to retroactively double the 040 Megahertz rating for no good technical reason. But I don't thin…
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Quote: Originally posted by jsimmons Last week, I priced a single and dual AMD 64-bit box against a similarly equipped PowerMac G5, I don't think anyone disagrees that Apple is very price/performance competitive for high-end workstations. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Carson O'Genic Yes! This is really an arguement over whether Apple's long-term survival is best ensured by expanding market share with a low cost computer versus maintaining higher margins and an upscale image. T…
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I thought benchmarks of the DDR PowerMac G4s showed it wasn't a real win over SDR. The primary advantage DDR has for Apple is that SDR is basically obsolete and will soon cost more (if it doesn't already). Also, Apple obviously thinks a fast syst…
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I don't know if Apple ever published a "roadmap", but they used to be more public with their product plans 3-6 months out. The old IT Manager tabloid MacWeek would tell you exactly which CPUs were coming, how many slots, the expected price range…
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Second source agreements are pretty common with these sorts of arrangements. IBM needs to be able to tell customers -- including Apple -- that if their fab gets blown up, they can just take their business to Motorola (haha). So, I believe tha…
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Quote: All that's needed is "minimal" modifications to the kernel (and/or other low-level code), to make the 970 work. And it doens't need to be optimized, refined and tweaked alot to allow the 970 to perform like we we've heard so much about. …
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[quote]Originally posted by Chucker: Okay, then name me a binary for Linux that isn't available as source and doesn't exist for Darwin. Java. Oracle. Many more.