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  • Indeed, and so is criticism
    in xBox2's Power* CPU information Comment by dfryer August 2004
  • I think that everyone is so used to shipping delays that they announce them in their sleep
    in Apple ships first batch of liquid-cooled 2.5 GHz Power Mac G5s Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • Could you give an example of something that would perform *worse* on a dual core chip than on two separate chips? Is it just the possibility that they wouldn't up the FSB bandwidth correspondingly that makes you say this?
    in TS: The 970MP is coming Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • The difference is, they can be upgraded so it is not so bad. Still, Apple (being the ones taking are money) are less likely to see things "our way" I might as well admit that what I really want is for someone to give me a dual 2.5Ghz with an Nvi…
    in G5 iMac Video Card Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • I'd be interested in knowing what the graphics card specs of the posted dell and iMac are, respectively. The $400 difference isn't all that much when you consider that processor is only rarely a bottleneck (even, I think, in games), you get a quiet…
    in G5 iMac Video Card Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • A design that allows an upgradeable card would be really nice, but I'd put it in the "highly unlikely" category, especially if there is an integrated LCD. If they do plan to use the GPU for more work in Tiger, they may contemplate things like P…
    in G5 iMac Video Card Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • That's wack. I've never referred to ham as bacon in my entire life. I've never heard anyone else refer to it as bacon, maybe its some sorta weird "eastern canada" thing. Crispy, greasy fried strips of pork for me any day.
    in The late-night snack. Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • I'm a Canadian. Could someone explain to me the difference between "Canadian bacon", "American bacon" and any other kind of bacon *if* such a difference exists?
    in The late-night snack. Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • Shoot, if it's a hoax then it's a darn good one. Now we'll have people asking "When's apple going to deliver on a dual core powerbook G5?!?!?!!" If yeild problems have been resolved, then I don't see any reason why this couldn't be reality by J…
    in Come February... Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • Well, virtual memory doesn't necessarily equate to "used disk space" (although it did pre-OS X) so in that sense it's not "broken". It would be more helpful, though, if it did report disk usage numbers.
    in Is your OSX paging file feeling a bit bloated these days? Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • Note that if you use the "top" commandline utility, it may show foo.app as using 600MB of virtual memory. Catch is though, that might be 10MB real memory, 50MB worth of disk space and *all the rest* doesn't exist *anywhere* - and it won't be alloca…
    in Is your OSX paging file feeling a bit bloated these days? Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • Liquid cooling might not be because of higher heat, just higher heat *density*. 4 cm^2 dissipating 40W puts off more heat than 1cm^2 dissipating 20W, but that 20W has to be moved off the chip faster to avoid damage.
    in "New iMac Based On G5"-Oppenheimer Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • The impression that I'm getting (water cooling, comments from IBM etc.) is that 90nm isn't resulting in the heat savings that they thought it would. Is this just because, although the power consumption has dropped, the heat is being generated over …
    in "New iMac Based On G5"-Oppenheimer Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • THe implication wasn't that the iMac would use a 2.5 GHz 970FX, just that it would use a 970FX which *may* be in short supply. If the current shipping machines are 970's, is apple going to correct the statement that they made somewhere about usi…
    in Where's the scoop? Comment by dfryer July 2004
  • The only thing that's ever really got me about my AIO eMac (i.e. what I could afford ) is not the fact that I can't change the monitor - it's a really nice monitor, as far as I'm concerned. What kills me is that it's got a geForce2MX soldered to t…
    in PowerMac G5 Express Comment by dfryer June 2004
  • They're really putting XServes on the map as an "easy top500 supercomputer" solution, although it's the "clustering" approach that makes it all possible - I would assume there's stuff you can do with a more integrated supercomputer that wouldn't be …
    in 3000+ cpu G5 Cluster? Comment by dfryer June 2004
  • Yeah, and that 500Mhz only matters if *CPU* is a bottleneck. I'd bet that hard drive access is *way* more of a bottleneck in terms of time spent waiting for a harddrive read or write. True, there are people for whom faster CPUs would matter, but…
    in Question 3ghz g5's? Comment by dfryer June 2004
  • Watch them come out with a 3Ghz 040, and then we find out it's a 68LC040 and has *no FPU*.
    in Question 3ghz g5's? Comment by dfryer June 2004
  • Is there a particular reason you need to have the mac networked with another server? You certainly can set up some kinds of networking between a Darwin server and Mac OS X, it just isn't AppleShare, you'd have to use something else (does Darwin do …
    in Use a PC as an OSX server with Darwin?? Comment by dfryer June 2004