Kid Red
Sep 17, 10:45 PM
Originally posted by applemacdude
There will be a G5 announced in MWSF. I got this information from a very important person at Apple. He's my friend and I can't risk his job and won't say anything else.
I doubt it unless IBM has moved up it's schedule. Moto's last G4 is due in jan with IBM's power4 core due next summer. I don't think Moto would take the G5 name if it's just a faster G4 on new mobo? Then what would you call the power4 core 6 months later? This doesn't jive with what I've been told unless Apple is maybe scrapping the G4+ and going right to the power4 core.
There will be a G5 announced in MWSF. I got this information from a very important person at Apple. He's my friend and I can't risk his job and won't say anything else.
I doubt it unless IBM has moved up it's schedule. Moto's last G4 is due in jan with IBM's power4 core due next summer. I don't think Moto would take the G5 name if it's just a faster G4 on new mobo? Then what would you call the power4 core 6 months later? This doesn't jive with what I've been told unless Apple is maybe scrapping the G4+ and going right to the power4 core.
MacCoaster
Oct 15, 02:18 PM
jefhatfield:
By the time those next generation Macs come out, Pentium 4s and AMD Hammers will be at approximately 4GHz already. 2000 sounds puny compared to 4000.
By the time those next generation Macs come out, Pentium 4s and AMD Hammers will be at approximately 4GHz already. 2000 sounds puny compared to 4000.
vniow
Sep 15, 05:53 PM
Originally posted by unreg
The AMD core excluding X86 compatibility circuits is an updated DEC Alpha chip.
This has been discussed many times over the last 2-3 years. What is a DEC Alpha chip exactly? Forgive me, I'd do better in Apple's marketing department, not their chip-design section. :)
The AMD core excluding X86 compatibility circuits is an updated DEC Alpha chip.
This has been discussed many times over the last 2-3 years. What is a DEC Alpha chip exactly? Forgive me, I'd do better in Apple's marketing department, not their chip-design section. :)
Hemingray
Sep 30, 04:15 PM
Yes, you read that that right -- it takes over 13,000 more 2GHz AMD processors to equal the work-unit crunching power of "just" 32K PowerBooks!
I'm a little surprised by that, that's pretty impressive. Now if we could only match them on their superficial MHz terms then we'd do more than blow the competition out of the water!
I'm a little surprised by that, that's pretty impressive. Now if we could only match them on their superficial MHz terms then we'd do more than blow the competition out of the water!
shadowfax
Oct 12, 10:13 PM
but the sale doesn't end till the end of the year, so don't you think that spells LONG wait? [i.e., +/-3 1/2 months]
impierced
Oct 21, 02:44 PM
Originally posted by Jeffx342
Just doesn't seem to be a big update, c'mon 32mgs THATS A JOKE
even the Compaq Latop has a readeon mobility 9000 w/64mgs!!
Have to agree, I've been waiting for a new PowerBook G4 to replace my older PowerBook, but even the last update wasn't worth my money. If this is true then I'll be waiting another 6 months...
Just doesn't seem to be a big update, c'mon 32mgs THATS A JOKE
even the Compaq Latop has a readeon mobility 9000 w/64mgs!!
Have to agree, I've been waiting for a new PowerBook G4 to replace my older PowerBook, but even the last update wasn't worth my money. If this is true then I'll be waiting another 6 months...
BongHits
Sep 14, 02:15 PM
or u could just take the ibook, stretch the screen to a 16:9 ratio (16:10 on a tibook, whatsup with that?) up the ram capacity, throw in a g4 and call it a tibook. (sarcasm)
what im saying is thats basically NO difference between the ibook and tibook if they have exact same cards (g3 processor will hurt on Doom 3 i bet) so u need some distinction. i bet a 700mhz ibook with a g3 and ati 9000 would rip in 10.2 due to QE support, you'd probably have trouble telling the speed differences except for in heavy computation tasks (see g4's l3 cache)
what im saying is thats basically NO difference between the ibook and tibook if they have exact same cards (g3 processor will hurt on Doom 3 i bet) so u need some distinction. i bet a 700mhz ibook with a g3 and ati 9000 would rip in 10.2 due to QE support, you'd probably have trouble telling the speed differences except for in heavy computation tasks (see g4's l3 cache)
Dreadnought
May 28, 09:27 AM
After the article and growth of Team MacOs X there was a lot of talk about consolidating the two Mac teams. Some of the MacRumors folders also switched. But the majority of our team wants to stay independant, as for I. Nonetheless I looked earlier this week what the possibility is when we consolidate to one big Mac team. We could be in the top 5.
buryyourbrideau
Mar 6, 12:29 PM
I am going to download the PPC client, but is there any known facts about them releasing a native intel version.
:confused:
:confused:
kgarner
Jun 5, 09:47 AM
Especially when they are wearing a red shirt in Target.
I actually had a lady that acted like she didnt' believe me whan I told I didn't work there. She gave me this look like, "Yeah right, If you don't want to help me just say so, don't lie about it." :p
I actually had a lady that acted like she didnt' believe me whan I told I didn't work there. She gave me this look like, "Yeah right, If you don't want to help me just say so, don't lie about it." :p
DakotaGuy
Oct 9, 10:21 AM
The funny thing is if I had never read a message board I would have never went and looked at a PC, because I just have always bought Macs, after 4 or 5 years, just went to the dealer and picked up a new one, I never used a PC except at school, which schools stuff is always years out of date anyway, so I just figured that this is what you had to pay for a good, fast, computer that will last 4 or 5 years, I have always been comfortable and pleased with my Macs, but this next when the DV is ready to be replaced, I am going to be smarter then I used to be and not just walk into the Apple dealer and pick up a new one, I am going to shop around and see if I like these all new PC's with XP. If I can save money and end up with a much faster, easier to use computer, then I am dumb to just go Apple like I always have. I don't know a lot about this freaking processor or that floating point, gigaflop, or whatever crap, I just want to buy something that works well and is a good value and I am sorry to say, but I have been blind to PC's and I see they have came so much farther then Macs have and also Microsoft is making some excellent software now. I am sad...because I used to love my Mackie and Booker, but now I get the point how crappy they really are compared to the PC's. ;o(
7on
Jun 14, 11:00 AM
Again??
Best Buy has had an on-and-off love affair with Macs. Mostly off.
What is this, the third time they've decided to sell Macs again? Anyone wanna take bets on how it'll last this time?
Whatev, as long as every Mac is booted up in Windows XP I'm sure they can handle it.:p
Best Buy has had an on-and-off love affair with Macs. Mostly off.
What is this, the third time they've decided to sell Macs again? Anyone wanna take bets on how it'll last this time?
Whatev, as long as every Mac is booted up in Windows XP I'm sure they can handle it.:p
denm316
Mar 16, 01:14 PM
I turned off magnification in the dock after a couple of days, and I assume everyone else would to.
Sure it's nice to look at but it's completely useless and always gets in the way.
It was cool when I first switched for like a day or so, then I turned it off, my girlfriend loves it.
Sure it's nice to look at but it's completely useless and always gets in the way.
It was cool when I first switched for like a day or so, then I turned it off, my girlfriend loves it.
niggiebro
Dec 21, 01:29 AM
I wonder if anyone knows of a good app to use with my UMAX scanner that runs under OS X 10.3.
I get tired of rebooting from OS X to OS 9 just to use my scanner! :mad:
I tried launching the app that came with the scanner under OS X, but the drivers do not load and the app cannot find the scanner, (UMAX MagicScan 4.5).
Any suggestion? :cool:
Thanks All! :)
I get tired of rebooting from OS X to OS 9 just to use my scanner! :mad:
I tried launching the app that came with the scanner under OS X, but the drivers do not load and the app cannot find the scanner, (UMAX MagicScan 4.5).
Any suggestion? :cool:
Thanks All! :)
EricNau
Dec 23, 03:56 PM
It's worth 46 points.
Click here (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html) for a list of the projects with their associated point totals and other miscellaneous information.
Yup. Only 46. :(
How can I get the higher point ones?
Click here (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html) for a list of the projects with their associated point totals and other miscellaneous information.
Yup. Only 46. :(
How can I get the higher point ones?
BenderBot1138
Oct 29, 02:37 AM
I know what this is... this is an example of a Company trying to out do Apple Computer Inc.
The brilliant Marketing and Product design folks there forgot to check the MacRumors site where they could have easily caught wind of the XServe.
The Moral of the Story... Nobody does it better, makes me feel sad for the rest...:(
Steve Jobs Rules
The brilliant Marketing and Product design folks there forgot to check the MacRumors site where they could have easily caught wind of the XServe.
The Moral of the Story... Nobody does it better, makes me feel sad for the rest...:(
Steve Jobs Rules
Blackheart
Jun 12, 04:06 PM
In China, where the wages for unskilled labour are universally a pittance, if you searched for employment elsewhere you wouldn't be able to find any better paid alternative.
Then maybe they're getting paid too much.
Forced labor, I'm against. But when people have the choice, there's enough competition for labor to force a market equilibrium on the price of labor.
Then maybe they're getting paid too much.
Forced labor, I'm against. But when people have the choice, there's enough competition for labor to force a market equilibrium on the price of labor.
Mr. Anderson
Nov 4, 05:18 PM
You realize that by resurrecting this thread and pointing it to even older threads we're managing to resurrect even more - most of which should have stayed dead!
That alien thread was ridiculous!
D
That alien thread was ridiculous!
D
miniConvert
Apr 25, 04:43 PM
Isn't it pretty much "Computers for the rest of us" or something like that? I know it's more of a slogan, but it sums up what they at least set out to do.
Chad4Mac
Oct 11, 10:40 AM
wanaPBnow
Not quite.
Rush stands for the guy on the radio...
However, it would really be cool if Rush band members used Macs too!
But I'm not sure on that...
Chad
Not quite.
Rush stands for the guy on the radio...
However, it would really be cool if Rush band members used Macs too!
But I'm not sure on that...
Chad
Fiveos22
Mar 23, 12:04 PM
yeah, who is working on it now? Or has it been completely tossed to neo office?
MacCoaster
Oct 13, 11:17 PM
Well, I like to listen to music on an MP3 player. Windows does not natively support MP3. I don't like product activation, as it means I have to call and reactivate when I change a bunch of hardware, which I'm likely to do enough for it to be a problem. I don't like paying for an OS with an insecure foundation. I don't like paying for an OS which with IE 'removed' still manages to pop up ads in ... IE. I don't like a dos cli, which has some UNIX commands, but ususally requires DOS commands.
Uh. Windows does have the support. I can play MP3s in Windows Media Player. I can write programs using the API to play MP3s, WMA, ASF, whatever. Maybe you mean to encode? Sure, Microsoft didn't want to pay Fraunhofer for the license, since they have their own audio format that works just fine.
Product activation. Just sends info on computer--no personal info. One click. No big deal. Microsoft is just protecting its profits losses. I've had my Athlon for a year, changed a lot, XP still runs fine and hasn't bitched.
Windows is just as insecure as any desktop OS. I've seen many OS X security updates. Desktop OSes are worst for security if you don't know how to fully utilize the OS security components (i.e. NT Security Model, UNIX security model).
If you want UNIX in Windows. Get cygwin.
.net is an entirely closed initiative. JScript is JavaScript crippled for IE only. C# is (from what I've heard) bad C++. I have tried to avoid .net for many reasons. I enjoy open standards. I like learning languages which are more likely to succeed in the broadest audience. I hate the whole .dll structure. COM/ASP services I have built in the past refused to scale well.
Outside of that, I see nothing wrong with .net, and some people will surely code for it, as long as its around.
Very wrong. Microsoft has a shared-source (other name for open source) .NET VM, compiler, etc. for BSD called ROTOR. It's just as good as the commercial counterpart for Windows, which is free. Hell, ROTOR works on Windows if you want to have ROTOR on Windows. Besides, Mono is GPL'ed open source implementation of Microsoft.NET.
JScript is not only for IE. It's used in scripting. JScript.NET isn't for IE anyways. It's a scripting language that can be compiled into .NET MSIL CLR.
C# is a ECMA standard. Java isn't. It isn't bad C++. It isn't even C++. It's Microsoft's version of SUN's Java with quite some differences from Java. C# isn't Java per se, but very similar. C# is actually a very elegant language. It just works.
Microsoft also encourages standards with XML Web Services. It's an open standard. There's a XML Web Service implementation for Java by SUN. It will play friendly with Microsoft.NET.
COM/ASP scalability is just as bad as PHP scalability. Microsoft.NET solves this with ASP.NET which is far much more powerful and scalable.
No what I'm saying is that Apple is a company that invest heavily in its industrial design, its UI development, etc. which gives it a high degree of style.
No arguments there. Then again, Microsoft has too, especially with Microsoft.NET.
The hardware of Apple's line, love it or hate it, is highly stylized. The OS has a lot more visual appeal, and more thoughful and intuitive layout. It's bloody UNIX my Granny sends me email from. Windows is available as delivered in Marshmellow or 98 Mode. It just looks bad...
Opinionated. I don't care if its bloody UNIX your granny sends emails from, she still doesn't know and therefore doesn't take full advantage of UNIX. Marshmellow? 98 Mode? Microsoft has dumped 9x and moved on with NT/2k/XP.
The ease of use argument is primarily focused opn productivity.
In Windows, when you empty the trash, an alert/confirmation box appears. You can then change focus to another window, burying the alert box, and freezing the OS, so you have to drill down through all the windows you have open to answer this alert before continuing.
Why not simply respond to the request of action immediately then move on. Since when would it freeze the OS? Never happened to me. You don't have to answer to continue. Windows NT/2k/XP uses protected memory, just like Mac OS X. In fact, Windows had it long before Mac OS X even came out the public.
Little annoying counter-intuitive time wasters abound.
Well... I haven't come across anything counter-intuitive or time wasting in XP. It's all opinonated.
I have both, I use both, I code on both, and I just feel from experience that the Mac is a better environment to code on. As I said, I'm not rendering, so the raw speed advantages of x86 are lost to the clunkiness of the UI.
Mac is better vs. PC again. Remember. PC isn't Windows. Besides, the faster speed can help by increasing productivity by making things seem extremely responsive.
My main machine is a DP867 with 2GB of RAM and a ATA133 RAID.
It is as responsive it can be.
Wow, you need that much to be productive under Mac OS X? Jeez.
Well, I run a Dual PIII 500 Server/occasional workstation with 1GB of PC100 Registered ECC Micron RAM, all name brand, unaltered stuff. It also runs only heavily tested commercial apps (no kazaa like crap).
It has a BSOD often enough to cause hair loss. Also, it has very destructive BSODs, meaning I get to use my 4 Win2k boot floppies...that's 3 hours of lost time.
Then you're doing something wrong. Try out Windows XP. Very destructive BSODs, like what? I've only had one about win32k.sys, but that was a memory corruption issue that I quickly solved. Windows XP is absolutely STABLE here.
Uh. Windows does have the support. I can play MP3s in Windows Media Player. I can write programs using the API to play MP3s, WMA, ASF, whatever. Maybe you mean to encode? Sure, Microsoft didn't want to pay Fraunhofer for the license, since they have their own audio format that works just fine.
Product activation. Just sends info on computer--no personal info. One click. No big deal. Microsoft is just protecting its profits losses. I've had my Athlon for a year, changed a lot, XP still runs fine and hasn't bitched.
Windows is just as insecure as any desktop OS. I've seen many OS X security updates. Desktop OSes are worst for security if you don't know how to fully utilize the OS security components (i.e. NT Security Model, UNIX security model).
If you want UNIX in Windows. Get cygwin.
.net is an entirely closed initiative. JScript is JavaScript crippled for IE only. C# is (from what I've heard) bad C++. I have tried to avoid .net for many reasons. I enjoy open standards. I like learning languages which are more likely to succeed in the broadest audience. I hate the whole .dll structure. COM/ASP services I have built in the past refused to scale well.
Outside of that, I see nothing wrong with .net, and some people will surely code for it, as long as its around.
Very wrong. Microsoft has a shared-source (other name for open source) .NET VM, compiler, etc. for BSD called ROTOR. It's just as good as the commercial counterpart for Windows, which is free. Hell, ROTOR works on Windows if you want to have ROTOR on Windows. Besides, Mono is GPL'ed open source implementation of Microsoft.NET.
JScript is not only for IE. It's used in scripting. JScript.NET isn't for IE anyways. It's a scripting language that can be compiled into .NET MSIL CLR.
C# is a ECMA standard. Java isn't. It isn't bad C++. It isn't even C++. It's Microsoft's version of SUN's Java with quite some differences from Java. C# isn't Java per se, but very similar. C# is actually a very elegant language. It just works.
Microsoft also encourages standards with XML Web Services. It's an open standard. There's a XML Web Service implementation for Java by SUN. It will play friendly with Microsoft.NET.
COM/ASP scalability is just as bad as PHP scalability. Microsoft.NET solves this with ASP.NET which is far much more powerful and scalable.
No what I'm saying is that Apple is a company that invest heavily in its industrial design, its UI development, etc. which gives it a high degree of style.
No arguments there. Then again, Microsoft has too, especially with Microsoft.NET.
The hardware of Apple's line, love it or hate it, is highly stylized. The OS has a lot more visual appeal, and more thoughful and intuitive layout. It's bloody UNIX my Granny sends me email from. Windows is available as delivered in Marshmellow or 98 Mode. It just looks bad...
Opinionated. I don't care if its bloody UNIX your granny sends emails from, she still doesn't know and therefore doesn't take full advantage of UNIX. Marshmellow? 98 Mode? Microsoft has dumped 9x and moved on with NT/2k/XP.
The ease of use argument is primarily focused opn productivity.
In Windows, when you empty the trash, an alert/confirmation box appears. You can then change focus to another window, burying the alert box, and freezing the OS, so you have to drill down through all the windows you have open to answer this alert before continuing.
Why not simply respond to the request of action immediately then move on. Since when would it freeze the OS? Never happened to me. You don't have to answer to continue. Windows NT/2k/XP uses protected memory, just like Mac OS X. In fact, Windows had it long before Mac OS X even came out the public.
Little annoying counter-intuitive time wasters abound.
Well... I haven't come across anything counter-intuitive or time wasting in XP. It's all opinonated.
I have both, I use both, I code on both, and I just feel from experience that the Mac is a better environment to code on. As I said, I'm not rendering, so the raw speed advantages of x86 are lost to the clunkiness of the UI.
Mac is better vs. PC again. Remember. PC isn't Windows. Besides, the faster speed can help by increasing productivity by making things seem extremely responsive.
My main machine is a DP867 with 2GB of RAM and a ATA133 RAID.
It is as responsive it can be.
Wow, you need that much to be productive under Mac OS X? Jeez.
Well, I run a Dual PIII 500 Server/occasional workstation with 1GB of PC100 Registered ECC Micron RAM, all name brand, unaltered stuff. It also runs only heavily tested commercial apps (no kazaa like crap).
It has a BSOD often enough to cause hair loss. Also, it has very destructive BSODs, meaning I get to use my 4 Win2k boot floppies...that's 3 hours of lost time.
Then you're doing something wrong. Try out Windows XP. Very destructive BSODs, like what? I've only had one about win32k.sys, but that was a memory corruption issue that I quickly solved. Windows XP is absolutely STABLE here.
jhu
May 8, 06:06 PM
and sgi just filed for bankruptcy today. what's your point?
abrooks
Jun 2, 02:47 PM
Huh? :confused: