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  • super : Just an FYI, it's Quark Xpress (not "Express"). The fact that it's not carbonized is very dissappointing & I think it will leave the door open for more people to switch to Indesign. Unless Quark lowers it's prices I think in the long…
    in Quark Express 5.0 Comment by x704 December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by cowerd: Ah the knee-jerk Aqua response to application speed. There may be some speed problems with OSx, like programmers getting used to using different APIs and different calls for things they may have done before, as…
    in VPC 5 Comment by x704 December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by TigerWoods99: Looks pretty slick. Wonder how the speed is on Windows XP. Also, imagine running it on a 1 GHz G5. How fast do you think the x86 emulation would be? I didn't read all the info but does it have built-in s…
    in VPC 5 Comment by x704 December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by Franck: G4Dude, I've benchmarked VPC 3 & 4 on my G3. VPC 4 is faster ( I've tried Norton System Info and Sisoft Sandra) but screen redraws are painfully slow under VPC 4 so it seems slower. The Maccentral arti…
    in VPC 5 Comment by x704 December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by Mark: The more important questions (now that 9.x has already been starved of new features or promotion) are when Apple will decide to 1) halt preinstalls on new systems, and 2) stop delivering apps for the older OS. …
    in Mac OS 9.3 Comment by x704 November 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by Aquatic: Plus FireWire 2 and TCP/IP over FireWire bring new possibilities... Indeed that is interesting. With FW2 it'd be near 1000 BT speeds which would matter more for iMacs I suppose but may also be good for som…
    in FireWire 2 Comment by x704 January 2003
  • Ewwwww, SW episode 1, yuck.... XLR8yourmac.com has a few articles on how to reduce the noise from Quicksilvers.
    in Current Powermac line noise Comment by x704 June 2002
  • Xserve doesn't run on OS 9 right? Doesn't seem to anyway ... if not then some clients may want the old server that can run OS 9 (for whatever reason). That said I really don't see any reason not to do what's already suggested & just make OS X …
    in Why are they still selling PM G4 Server? Comment by x704 May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Moogs: So are we all agreed then that XLR8 is essentially correct in that there is no way to flash a PC Radeon card so that it will work on a Mac? 1. the 7500 is significatnly faster then the Origonal Radeon AGP 2.…
    in Radeon 7500 Retail Card and ATi Mac drivers Comment by x704 May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by wwwork: AND How come the Mac Radeon 7000 is $50 more than the PC version? Is it possible to flash that card? Why does most mac stuff cost more. Low volume. Deal with it. Until Apple gets say 20-30% market share mac…
    in Upgrading a Video Card? Comment by x704 May 2002
  • 1. Your Power mac is upgradeable 2. There are no retail Nvida cards for the Mac 3. Some have successfully flashed varoius brands of Nvida GF 2mx & GF 3 with a Mac rom & they work fine 4. There are no known successes with any PC GF 4…
    in Upgrading a Video Card? Comment by x704 May 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by tspencer83: Hi, I'm just curious as to the real benefits of a dual processor machine. I'm not too well versed in computer architecture and whatnot so what would really impress upon me is if a Dual 500 G4 matched or surp…
    in How does a Dual 500 G4 compare with a single 867 G4? Comment by x704 April 2002
  • Seems like you've already got your bases covered... If you just want a 2nd monitor for simple 2D you could always see if you can find a cheap ixmicro (I think that's how it's spelled) card from a 9600 or something. To my understanding they work we…
    in Need a second video card... [options] Comment by x704 March 2002
  • To my recollection, around a year ago (maybe two) Apple invested in a company (I think it was Samsung, definately an "S" & asain based, not Sony). They bought a pretty heavty stake of it (5 or 10%). This was to help secure a supply of LCD's fo…
    in Apple's 17" LCD and the RDF Comment by x704 March 2002
  • To my understanding it can & has assuminly been done. I recall reading at xlr8yourmac.com before that they had the chip # & everything, I believe that they had the intention of adding it to the L3 cashless 733 ... may want to dig around the…
    in Adding an L3 cache to a PowerMac? Comment by x704 March 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by steve666: Thank you again for the reply. I don't want to buy the Apple speakers so I wanted to make sure I could plug in the yamahas I plan to buy. I guess I won't worry about the ADC port......................... FYI…
    in First PM G4 with Digital LCD port? Comment by x704 March 2002
  • I think it's also important to point out that in no way is the Mac version of quake anywhere close to as optimized as the PC version. So from the start, the PC's have an advantage. Additionally, I think we can all agree that these new PM's are s…
    in GeForce4 MX benchmarks Comment by x704 January 2002
  • Nice points RazzFazz. That said the new PM's are a little underwhelming ... ohwell. Unfortunately I sold my G4 3 weeks ago, I have to pickup something now ... Still $1600 for a new PM isn't bad.
    in Value of low-end G4? Comment by x704 January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by JW Pepper: Don't take this bad advice. Most non-Apple drive do not support bootable cd'S. Many will not work with disk burner and do strange things like ejecting prior to the verification. Actually many will work.…
    in New iMac hard drive speed? Comment by x704 January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by BuonRotto: Almost no one except us geeks upgrades their computers. Really. Yep, I'd say the majority of consumers (say 70 or 80%) don't upgrade their computers. This is who the iMac is targeted at. Remember, Apple …
    in Has Apple abandoned one of the iMacs best features? Comment by x704 January 2002