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Am I the only one who's sick and tired of this "quad processor" nonsense?
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[quote]Originally posted by xype: Maya is generally hyped as _the_ 3D App but it's really not I don't know if you're saying this from experience, but Maya IS the 3D app. It is by far the most respected 3D application. Almost all 3D gam…
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[quote]Originally posted by OverToasty: Please clue me in ... 'cause I ain't all hip and rockin' with this DDR thingy ... ... If the new Apple servers have DDR Ram in them already, what's the big deal? Aren't all machine's with DDR running a bus…
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[quote]Originally posted by Bodhi: Mike from AccelerateYourMac has emailed two different sources at Apple to see if the G4 does actually support the DDR Ram. Different CPU and Memory bandwidths aren't unheard of. There have been two Ra…
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[quote]Originally posted by BRussell: So if this DDR RAM won't help performance, why did Apple use it? Is it just about buzzword compliance, or is there any technical reason why they would use it? All of the above. Mostly buzzword compliance, …
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[quote]Originally posted by Matsu: We don't know the particulars of Apple's memory controller yet. It is still possible that it talks to system memory at DDR266 speed on one end and doles out data to the each of the G4's independently a 133Mhz SDR…
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[quote]Originally posted by Bodhi: So very typical of Apple isn't it? [ 05-14-2002: Message edited by: Bodhi ] In this case it's more like so very typical of Motorola (& IBM it's not like they're offering something much better). Bec…
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[quote]Originally posted by Matsu: data throughput is 2.1GB for the memory bus. Even if the G4 can't use it, a dual config CAN take advantage because now each G4 can fully saturate it's own bus without choking off the data supply to the other G4. …
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[quote]Originally posted by Bodhi: Why is the bus speed listed as 133 if it is using DDR? Because there are two components that work together. There is the bus from the CPU to the memory controller, which can only run at a speed that the CP…
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Yeah, it's the good(!) old G4 with 133 Mhz bus. They might as well have stuck with SDRAM since DDR in this case won't mean anything. Though of course Apple now has a DDR memory controller capable of supporting 2 GB of RAM. Hopefully with a newer …
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The real quesion is whether this is a new iteration of the G4 that supports a double pumped bus, or the same one in the desktop PowerMacs. If the latter happens to be the case the DDR memory will mean nothing and bring absolutely no performance b…
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How can they come out with an iBook with a 16MB Radeon when they just announced that Jaguar will require 32 MB to function as it should. The GUI's slowness has been the major concern and a usability issue since the launch of OS X, and Apple final…
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[quote]Originally posted by G-News: If you don't mind spendig thousands of dollars moving from one platform to the other every few years, with a hell lot of productive time lost, that's fine with all of us, I guess. On the other hand, maybe you'…
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[quote]Originally posted by Xaqtly: Nobody hopes more than I do that Apple will bring out some truly killer hardware and start really retaking their market share, but I'm clear enough on how it works that I'm not going to bitch about what they do…
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[quote]Originally posted by wwwork: In fact if you look at the future of computers the benifits of more speed begin to diminish at a faster rate. Once you get past real-time 3d rendering (and it will happen soon) what are you going to want? [ 05-…
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[quote]Originally posted by Xaqtly: I get the distinct feeling that some of the people complaining about how fast Macs are haven't actually tried using, say, a dual 1 GHz G4. Two links, first this is how much faster than an Athlon the latest P4…
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There's a very simple fact here that can not be ignored. There are a considerable amount of long-time Mac users, who have been considering switching platforms because of the performance disparity. You guys can call it whining and tell them all…
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To all these people going on and on about how it's not 533 "really" but 4x133 and 1066 Mhz RDRAM is 2x533 etc. Who fscking cares? The fact, the simple fact is that the pentium 4 bus provides 4 times more bandwidth than the G4 memory bus and th…
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[quote]Originally posted by Programmer: . I don't think Apple needs to make friends with 3DLabs, nVidia and ATI will deliver what Apple needs to compete in the workstation space... and odds are we'd just have another set of substandard drivers…
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[quote]Originally posted by hmurchison: I will never get too excited about Graphics cards until they are shipping. Remember the Bitboys? Remember the Promedia 4 Dual chip from Formac? Way too much overhyped products in this field to take…