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Quote: the company "will unveil light-weight models with a stylish design aimed at luring female users." Don´t see why so many feel their manhood is at stake with this quote. Simple, get this laptop and the girls will swoon in. Even a manly man …
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Quote: Originally posted by Powerdoc You are right they will be only able to upgrade old G4 macs with the 7457 in the future. The problem is that this generation of computer will be starved for ever by the MPX bus. The older the model, the slo…
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Quote: Originally posted by audiopollution I know what SPEC is, and I'd like to see independent lab-tests that show benchmarks against various other chips using the most efficient compiler for each chip. Didn't mean to come off so aggressive w…
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Quote: Originally posted by audiopollution As I mentioned above, older versions of Skidmarks GT only benchmarked 1 of the CPU's in a dual system. After seeing these results, I sure hope so. What I'd like to see are Skidmarks GT benchmarks for th…
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Quote: Originally posted by Yevgeny Most Intel people would simply see a vectorizing GCC as being an Apple specific compiler and insist that its SPEC numbers be compared to Intel's compiler numbers. I certainly don't care much for SPEC myself …
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The biggest improvement (IMO) IBM is reportedly working on (according to some folks at ars that got to talk to Peter Sandon at the WWDC) lies in Altivec. IBM is doing something that Motorolla should have, which is tune Altivec in such a way that it…
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From Dete at Ars about the power saving features of the ppc970 (presumably info gathered at WWDC): Quote: Normally, the machines are running at about 2/3 their total clock speed (for 2GHz machines, this is 1.4GHz), this jumps up to the full speed…
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Well yet again the PowerMac line won't compete at the lower price point but it sure is a great value at the top of the line. Well, when the replacement iMac and eMac lines show up and what they look like we will know how competitive (if ever) Apple …
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Another 64bit = x2 speed article This is really getting to be an embarrassing media misconception. Judging by the leaked product spec teaser graphic, I believe Apple won't play on the 64bit issue as a primary benefit of the ppc970. Sure they wil…