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  • Yes, use both. If you had to choose to buy a device with one option or the other, there are advantages to Firewire in some situations. Power - Charge your iPod just by hooking it up to your computer and updating your playlists and songs, no ne…
    in USB 2.0 vs Firewire: Which should we use? Comment by slacker July 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by whee: Usually there's a trace length reduction when chips are mounted diagonally, which can lead to greater performance, less power usage, etc. There's actually a
    in Diagonally Mounted Processors Comment by slacker July 2002
  • I don't design PCB's but I've been in the industry of building them (for all types of applications) for about 7 years. I don't think mounting a chip diagonally makes it easier to route traces than if it were mounted normally. It's all going to depen…
    in Diagonally Mounted Processors Comment by slacker July 2002
  • The development costs for the eMac have a blip on the radar the same size as a Stealth Bomber. It's a repackaged iMac, in fact it could be the long rumored 17" iMac that was developed so they had nothing to lose by redubbing it the eMac and trying t…
    in eMac why? Comment by slacker May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by JasonPP: yeah there's more to a computer than megahertz, but there's also the money issue. I run a business and I have to justify every penny I spend, if two items can do the same thing, I will ALWAYS buy the cheaper …
    in Apple's fate is sealed, doom lurks in the wings. Comment by slacker April 2002
  • For those of you who don't follow this board, JYD is constantly putting down the Mac and saying Apple is dead. Look at some facts, he mentions the pro market. We already know that the G4 outperforms the P4 in the key areas G4's are used in the pr…
    in Apple's fate is sealed, doom lurks in the wings. Comment by slacker April 2002
  • I appreciate that some of you looked at my problem and posted to try and help. The solution was zapping the PRAM, I thought of doing it right away but couldn't remember the damn key combination. I had to use the old 604 card to get the computer t…
    in Severe problem, 2 Macs down Comment by slacker February 2002
  • I've seen a few of these and wanted to know just as you did. But I fully expect it's just a VCD product.
    in Software superdrive?!? Comment by slacker February 2002
  • G-News, I know the Xeon is different than the P4, but that also covers the big price difference. Does anyone know if the P4 supports level 3 cache? I'm not concerned over a head to head (G4 vs P4) comparison (enough have been done). I'm only lo…
    in Is Apple selling overclocked G4's? Comment by slacker August 2002
  • If you overclock a chip beyond it's rated specs and try to repackage it as a faster chip you are breaking the law. The chip manufacturer puts the speed rating on a chip to protect itself. If Apple was to overclock a chip beyond it's stamped ratin…
    in Is Apple selling overclocked G4's? Comment by slacker August 2002
  • What do expect from the country of Sweden where the government pays for cradle to grave coverage for all citizens. If it's not supplied by their government of course it must be a ripoff. Freaking whiner
    in Super Drive available in BTO Dual 867s Comment by slacker August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg: It's important to note that this is an old rumor, so I don't know how accurate it is. But I wouldn't put something like this past Apple....after all, when's the last time Apple had to construct a mobo c…
    in IBM MPF PDF now available Comment by slacker November 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg: Interesting. Combined with the rumors of Apple being the source of this delay (they are supposedly behind schedule on designing the 970's chipset), it is a thoroughly depressing PDF. How do…
    in IBM MPF PDF now available Comment by slacker November 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by giant: [QB]These days a $500 digital camera is really a couple thousand, since I would need to drop moiney on a computer (pretending for a moment that I didn't have a good number of them at the house). I know people at …
    in USB catching up to FW...until FW2 Comment by slacker October 2002
  • only that it's been mentioned in a half dozen other threads already. ---------------EDIT---------------- And where does that mention October 15th? I guess I should be more specific. It sounds like you are implying it will be available on Oct 1…
    in *** NEW Power4 Based IBM Desktop CPU - October 15th *** Comment by slacker August 2002
  • I have to say this is probably the most believable story for the next Apple used chip in the last year and a half. The PowerPC Architecture was derived from the Power Architecture. Removing what was considered unecessary instructions from Power …
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by slacker August 2002
  • Not my field of expertise, but I am in the electronics mfg field. From what I know of chip design it is fully possible that it could ship in the timeframe you mention. It would need to be an aggresive schedule, based on existing technology would hel…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by slacker August 2002
  • Peter Sandon from IBM who will be giving the presentation on the new chip is the same guy who authored the papers / releases on the 750CX/FX which in my opinion makes this highly credible as a replacement to the G4 on high end machines. Peter is th…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by slacker August 2002
  • check out IBMs roadmap. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/whitepapers/power/ppc_arch.html
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by slacker August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by whee: Usually there's a trace length reduction when chips are mounted diagonally, which can lead to greater performance, less power usage, etc. There's actually a
    in Moved: Diagonally Mounted Processors Comment by slacker July 2002