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  • Some good speculation going on here... Anecdote- A friend of mine bought a dual GHz G4 with ACD (just before the $500 off mail-in rebate expired). He's claiming he's getting about a factor of 10 increase in speed over his Pismo G3 laptop (400…
    in Some vague MOT information Comment by hos April 2002
  • Airsluf- While your comments about DDR support are definitely true, my points about integrated IDE RAID and 5.1 sound are extremely valid ones. After all, neither one is dependent on Motorola to implement, just Apple. I'm also hoping that F…
    in The G5 and what it means for future Macs Comment by hos May 2002
  • [quote] DDR is long overdue, as is adoption of the faster ATA flavors (either ATA100 or ATA133), hardware support for 5.1 sound (DTS)- a natural complement for DVDs, built-in sound in or a reasonably priced PCI-based sound solution, FireWire 2 (800 …
    in The G5 and what it means for future Macs Comment by hos April 2002
  • [quote]The RapidIO bus is point to point, but if everybody wants to talk to one point (i.e. the CPU/memory controller/memory) then they all have to share bandwidth. --Programmer Yup- point-to-point is why I threw in the "unique!" (implying not…
    in The G5 and what it means for future Macs Comment by hos March 2002
  • [quote] - Multiprocessors probably need to communicate via the RapidIO interface. Don't forget that RIO is a switched bus- this means that any two (unique!) given devices can talk together with full theoretical bandwidth between them. So, for e…
    in The G5 and what it means for future Macs Comment by hos March 2002
  • Amorph- Remember that on Moto's roadmap, the G5/85xx gets an integrated DDR controller, so adopting "local" DDR SDRAM (in place of L3 cache as you point out) really isn't out of line at all. Plus, what gets more interesting is, how will Apple …
    in The G5 and what it means for future Macs Comment by hos March 2002
  • [quote] ...AGP/PCI bus would be across the RapidIO bus... Let's do a real quick thought experiment. Assume that the CPU and RAM are on a daughterboard, and the AGP/PCI busses are all on the motherboard. In current designs (CPU on daughterb…
    in The G5 and what it means for future Macs Comment by hos March 2002
  • Scenario: Curtain opens on stage. Fred Anderson (Apple's CFO) walks out on stage, picks up the microphone: "Hello. I'll try to make this brief. It turns out that Mike Dell was right. After consultation with the Board of Directors, we hav…
    in The MW that would make you switch to PC....Fantasy/Horror Time Comment by hos December 2001
  • Conversely, the bigger the name, the more likely the response. If there was no G5 introduction for January, I would expect the denial to come from Apple very soon. CNN has a far, far larger audience than any of the Mac rumor sites, so to preve…
    in HOLY @#$&!! CNN reports G5 powermac! Comment by hos December 2001
  • A little bit of math. Apple sells roughly 4 million Macs per year (all included). So, if Apple were to build an ASIC which went into all 4 million of them, the cost of the ASIC would be: Assume NRE of $1,000,000 for the sake of argument. A…
    in Confirmed: Aqua Hardware acceleration Comment by hos December 2001