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Quote: Originally posted by buckeye Do you think there is a technical issue (heat?, low chip supply?) that led to the lack of introduction of a full 12, 15, 17inch line today? Or is it: A: Developers need intel powerbooks to start working on…
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As others have said, sources, please. Quote: Originally posted by ngmapple 2. Solid state storage for OS. A large high speed flash drive may be built into all Mactel machines. This drive would be large enough to house the OS and would perfor…
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Last month my iBook (G3 900 MHz) died (I'm not sad: it's not mine, it's my employer's). Since I no longer work on the Mac porting project, I have no excuse to get a new one. However, I dug up a much older laptop - A 500 MHz G4 PowerBook. This g…
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Quote: Originally posted by Messiah Like they did with the POWER Mac which was based on the POWER PC chip? When they made up that name (probably leveraging the success of the powerbook whose moniker predates the PPC) they did want to emphasiz…
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Quote: Originally posted by Powerdoc But the important point is that speaking of destops, Apple still use the word mac. Perhaps in the future we will have : - emac, imac, intelmac, intelbook and ibook. I think not. Apple are going ou…
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Quote: Originally posted by Addison I don't think Apple is going to release a "Wine" type environment for OSX86 - you Mac will still look like a Mac boot like a Mac, they only way you will know it is different to the current models is that the ca…
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I think we're barking at the wrong tree. For years people have been saying that Apple needs a cheap headless. Well, Apple has delivered. It's a little weak, has a limited disk, and only one memory slot, so some people want it to have higher specs…
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Quote: Originally posted by Louzer Basically its "Hey, I know. Let's get the company to buy an iPod shuffle for "research" purposes. And then we can 'test' it out and see how it performs. Yeah, yeah, that's it! Oh, and we should get one for every…
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Quote: Originally posted by vinney57 Its not being marketed in any way as a PVR. That's the usual premature geek fantasy. So wisdom or otherwise is a non question. The mini is what it is, the smallest, cheapest Mac they could make. Why pretend it…
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Earphones have pretty good sound quality. Not as good as a good speaker system, but well beyond acceptable. Listening to music with earphones is cool. A 2" or 4" LCD screen is far inferior to a bargain-basement 19" TV or a 12" iBook screen. Wa…
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Quote: Originally posted by Dazabrit WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? Oh, come on! You know the answer. It starts with an H
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Quote: Originally posted by MacCrazy I don't think so. How long was it from the PowerBook G3 till the iBook G3? 2 years How long from a PowerBook G4 to a iBook G5? 2 and a half years While I'm not suggesting that an iBook G5 will be her…
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I'm not advocating a single thread either. I'm saying you should have a thread only where it makes sense. I do, however think that the main logic of the program, be it a mail app or a firewall or a database should be in a single thread. Tasks s…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph And yet, Mail.app is heavily threaded. All apps with GUIs have multiple threads. A simple aqua application that I wrote (just some buttons and simple calculations) uses nine threads, while Calculator uses t…
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Quote: Originally posted by TrevorD I think many people underestimate how much you can really benefit from threading. ... and also many people underestimate the problems caused by threading. Multiple threads access the same data. Unlike e…
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Quote: Originally posted by The One to Rescue I wasn't talking about replacing all the chips in the computer with standard CPUs, I was only talking about replacing the main CPU (or the two CPUs for duals) with 16, 32, or 64 very cheap chips, but …
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I can see some advantages and some disadvantages: Disadvantages: It makes the foot bulkier. It makes sense to put the keyboard right in front of the foot. If you put the optical in the foot you'd have to move the keyboard every time you want t…
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I think we should begin to look beyond SMP. Imagine a machine with a 2.5GHz dual-core CPU, plus a far lower-clock rate CPU like a 8-, 16- or even 32-core CPU running at 1GHz or even at 800 MHz. Of course the operating system would know the diffe…
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Quote: Originally posted by Uberspleef I'm tired of debating this with you. I have worked at multi-national companies, and I know how they have operated. I now work in academia, and I know how they operate. I'm sorry, but judging by what I see…
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Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison The headless mac at $999 is merely a geeks wet dream. Perhaps that dream becomes reality but it won't be anytime soon IMO. This is weird, cosidering that for just $900 more, they'll give me a $1200 scree…