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  • [quote]Originally posted by timortis: OK, let's talk about some more facts then. As far as I know, MrNSX develops drivers for Macintosh products at ATI. This means that he would have nothing to do with an embedded PPC G5 that Motorola is develop…
    in AbSoft Is Looking For A G5 Compiler Engineer Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by RazzFazz: Seen any shipping or near-shipping IA64 systems lately? Yes, and they were benchmarking them over in the Ars Battlefront forum using ArsBench. To put it bluntly, their performance was shockingly…
    in AbSoft Is Looking For A G5 Compiler Engineer Comment by msp January 2002
  • [whoops: hit 'reply' instead of 'edit' the first time] [ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: msp ]
    in "We should have had the good stuff ready" Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by applenut: August 15 1998 to August 30, 1999 the imac was either equal or a tad bit slower than the lowend model. on its debut it was 233Mhz and so was the lowend PowerMac [ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: applenu…
    in "We should have had the good stuff ready" Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by ASexySexyMan: Hear me out... People were expecting the G5s before the last macworld, let alone this current one, ... ???? Who the expected a G5 before the last MacWorld? I expected a G5 to come out during the s…
    in "We should have had the good stuff ready" Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by KidRed: hahaha, if you are going to make some leftist republican extremist freak statement like that about liberals... Actually, the 'consevative' Repbublicans stance was once known as liberal. Today we call it …
    in There is no G5 Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Slacker: The reason I believe we'll see a G5 in 2002 is that the original expected launch date was Q4 '01 or Q1 '02. Actually, it was originally due in 2000, back when it was known as the G2000...
    in There is no G5 Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by MacsRGood4U: Time is usually available on newstands in New York City late Sundays at Grand Central Station, Penn Station. I bet this is the very reason why Jobs moved the keynote speach forward one day -- he knew all …
    in You ain't seen nothing yet! Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by anand: Hey sc_markt, that site looks real. And yes, that is a big fat picture of a G5 chip. What the hell are we going to get on monday? Whatever it is, 1.4 ain't bad! No, that's a big fat picture of a G4 chip with "G…
    in G5 and MW? Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by sc_markt: Go2mac.com has a link to a French computer retail site with new hardware specs. I checked out the link and the powermacs are listed with the G4 processer. However, at the bottom of the page there is a big fat a…
    in G5 and MW? Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Aphelion: A Power4 is essentially a cluster of 8 G3's Not remotely close.
    in Power4 is the "hyped" product? Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by King Chung Huang: And what the heck are you talking about? All instructions must be decoded into 'microcode' to be executed by the processor. When you tell the PowerPC processor to 'ADD' two registers, it doesn't jus…
    in 7450 recompile = 25% speed boost Comment by msp December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by AirSluf: 7450 recompiles aren't to take advantage of deeper pipelines, but to effectively utilize the on chip cache. The 7450 required different microcode to make effective use of the hardware changes. Microcode? J…
    in 7450 recompile = 25% speed boost Comment by msp December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by AirSluf: Do you enjoy advertising your ignorance of hardware or radiosity? Altivec is in fact a vectorized floating point unit (4*32)[ 12-14-2001: Message edited by: AirSluf ] That's the problem right there: 4*32.…
    in Major speed boost come MWSF Comment by msp December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by G-News: First of all, there actually was a more or less platform independent way of indicating the performance of a chip: MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) MIPS is a joke. Here are some questions for you (an…
    in Pipelines vs. Megahertz new strategy Comment by msp December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by G-News: First of all, there actually was a more or less platform independent way of indicating the performance of a chip: MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) MIPS is a joke. Here are some questions for you (an…
    in Pipelines vs. Megahertz new strategy Comment by msp December 2001
  • The Raycer thing sounds a lot like the wild speculation that was going around these boards 6 months ago... Come to think of it, so does the G5 towers in January/Apollo in Powerbooks/iMacs stuff. I still say we're getting G4 Apollo towers in Ja…
    in Confirmed: Aqua Hardware acceleration Comment by msp December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by Yow: Can anyone confirm whether Moto has successfully started manufacturing on the .1 micron process? AFAIK, they aren't remotely close. They just cracked 0.13. [ 11-29-2001: Message edited by: msp ]
    in Moto sez: no G5 in January Comment by msp November 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by murk: Here's another quote from codename over at Think Secret. It's in the iPhoto? iCam? thread. --------- You heard it here first: G2000 -------- the G2000 was the original codename for the G5.
    in G5 - The truth Comment by msp January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Daver: Some concerns, though: the roadmap has no mention of AltiVec on the G5, and clockspeeds are stated as beginning at 800 MHz G5 is a series of chips, not a single design. For example, the 8540 is a G5 class ch…
    in G5 Rumors Comment by msp December 2001