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[quote]Originally posted by SDW2001: Fact: Apple is one of the only computer makers making money in a poor economy. Well, news for you machead: Compaq and Dell is making money.. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20020117/tc/15839_1.…
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[quote]Originally posted by spindler: Now you may be saying that the Apple retail stores will help the new iMac. Here's more bad news. First of all, the iMac is a little too out there design wise to sell well in a crappy setting like CompUSA, but i…
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Some people still refuse to accept the truth: 7470 is just a product of MacOSRumors.
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[quote]Originally posted by Marcus: Also, assuming the specs are right, and the 1.25 does ship 'sometime' in Sept, it doesn't bode well for an update at MWSF. 3 months...seems like the IBM 'holy grail' Mac could be further away than we think... [ …
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[quote]Originally posted by BrunoBruin: (will the chip even support it? or are the PowerBooks going to the 7470 The 7470 was a product of MOSR, not Motorola...
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[quote]Originally posted by visigothe: Other interesting news on the 7457 chip from motorola
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Uhm, just what advantage would a G3 give compared to a G4? Ok, its probably somewhat less energy-consuming, but it still doesnt support Altivec and never will. The G3 will be about 6 years old when the 970 arrives. While age itself is not a big a…
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Sorry, for my ignorance. What do you need Firewire800 for, when running cluster? I mean.. if you are doing a lot of string-matching (or something) for a biotech problem... do you need firewire800? Do you need firewire400? IMO, no.. Correct me if …
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[quote]it has also been stated that they will be used in apples ibook and imac computer lines. QB] link? [quote][QB] didnt apple just say recently that there will be no g3 support in future versions of os x? they did. link? And bt…
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[quote]Originally posted by JLL: Now you're talking about new models - not lowering price on existing models. I do agree that Apple need to make a couple more models, and I would personally love to see the Cube reintroduced as a business com…
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[quote]Originally posted by Ed M.: PC OEMs don't do the R&D... Remember, Apple does the OS, the hardware, the design of all the cases and mobos, the chip sets, the packaging, the marketing....etc. etc.... They literally *touch* everything, inc…
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[quote]Originally posted by Roscoe: So, September 30th is around the corner and the "Free" Printer with iMac purchase goes away, and the rebate on flat panel displays goes away - do you think we will see some new products, or perhaps new rebates? …
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[quote] I get the feeling that this GPUL will use its integer and floating point units to execute its SIMD instructions... Wouldnt that actually require more engineering effort? ( Assuming somehow IBM already got the G4 altivec impelmentation, …
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[quote] It'll be around 6 to 9 million transistors total, or 3 to 5 per core. Ops, sorry .. But if your transistor estimates are correct, adding full altivec support is definitively not going to result in much difference in die-size. …
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[quote]Originally posted by RodUK: I wonder whether the Altivec units are core specific, or whether they can be shared between cores? Doubt it.. and i doubt we will see two different cores. How many transistors does Altivec requires? Well.. …
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[quote]Originally posted by RodUK: As I understand it, the existing G4 has more than one vector processing unit, I think it may be four. If a new dual core chip had two units for each core, or four units for one core and none for the other, would t…
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Im on thin ice here, so please correct me if im wrong: you could use a 64 bit "internal" color map, but the graphics gard does not need to support it. You could run filters and stuff on a 64 bit image ( for higher precision), but the end result c…
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[quote]Originally posted by wfzelle: A 64-bit processor can process those 64-bit colors in one go, while the 32-bit processor needs two seperate cycles. . uhm but remember: Altivec is fast running Gaussian Blur because it can do channel-operat…
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[quote]Originally posted by spotbug: Can't you just use two 32-bit words? Yupp.. It might faster than using scalar 64 bit integers, because you need to separate the color channels for many standard algorithms. A linear convolution ( mexica…
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Uhm, square shape makes sense since it also takes a while to transport a signal from one side of the chip to the other. Longer distance would require not only longer, but also wider internal buspaths inside the chip. Besides, a CPU is only somethin…