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The card in the laptops is the 8600 mobile, which is probably lower on the performance charts than the desktop 8600GT, so it's possible that the 2600 Pro outperforms it. I haven't read a good review of the mobile part yet. An alternative theory w…
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A slight price drop on the 20" and a better GPU is all I ask for...
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My understanding of what they're doing with LLVM (from the Ars article and its followup) is that they will take vertex or possibly fragment programs and compile them to ordinary x86/SSE code in order to take advantage of the CPU on machines where th…
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Mr Me, I believe this was your assertion: Quote: MacOS X is darned near immune to viruses, but the other non-Windows OSes are pretty darned secure as well. To which Gene Clean essentially said "No, because OS X is a *nix, and there exist a no…
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All of these things are simply evolutionary - a better battery, a more powerful computer, IBM making apple branded hardware (??) All we need is consistant progress forward faster than the "Other Side" and Apple's momentum will continue to grow. Li…
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Quote: Thats brings up more interesting thoughts, if's, and hmmm... Or crushes thoughts, ifs and hmms into the dust with the reality that it is very impractical to do this, but it shouldn't be impossible to have the computer realise that the car…
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Yes, dual core is very little different from dual separate processors.
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Apple is *not* safe- they have 60% of the market of current music downloaders - people who are savvy and aware enough to download and use iTunes. Microsoft has many more opportunities to "push" their service, and that is where the danger lies.
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Too much of this thread has probably been spent on OpenGL already, but I have had at least one bad experience with Apple's GL implementation (on 10.2.something, not sure if they've fixed it since). Basically one call which is used to update a small…
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Perhaps we'll see an iMac that sits embedded into the desk, with a writable (graphics tablet) screen surface? I'm not saying that this will be the very next iMac, but it might be a direction that they are moving in. Isn't that sort of like some of…
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I don't think it has the revolutionary appeal of the original iMac, which *totally stood out* due to it's strange, bubbly shape and bright colour. It seems to be a very sleek design, but I'm not sure if the world at large will see and take notice…
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Only not.
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What programs specifically do you need Windows for?
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In some ways, I'm glad they're willing to break stuff in order to have an "inwards facing" firewall, since so many problems are caused by spyware & zombie machines. It's not like this'll completely put an end to those sorts of shenanigans, but …
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CutePDF Writer is freeware and uses GNU ghostscript libraries (yes, on windows) ... I would *think* it would work for TIFF files but I haven't really tried it for image-intensive stuff.
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I thought that was autovectorisation, not automagical multithreading...
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Quote: onlooker: nope, no one said that. Quote: $2400- 4 DC Opteron chips Quote: onlooker: If your using (you said 4 DC, but they are 4 QC) Actually that would be 16 physical/potential 16 logical processors. That's what I meant about Pr…
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10.2 and 10.3 need to be installed on separate partitions in order to operate correctly; as long as this is done I don't see how you would have too many problems. (Assuming separate locations for user folders etc.)
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by most accounts that I've heard, Doom 3 has been designed to be quite playable on older hardware.
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Is someone saying you can get a quad-core opteron for $600? I have no idea if this is accurate, but it seems a little cheap..