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By the way, the photoshop articles appear to be findable here. Maybe alegal-venus-in-furs-part2 or something? The front page links were removed, but not the articles.

I wonder if Adobe complained when they previewed acroread?

I actually read that article

By the way, the photoshop articles appear to be findable here. Maybe alegal-venus-in-furs-part2 or something? The front page links were removed, but not the articles.

I wonder if Adobe complained when they previewed acroread?

ImageReady also . Just don't forget to add "alegal-" to the filename of the page you wanna go to.

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Don't believe me when I say that Appleinsider has no credibility? Then check out some of the BS that has turned up on that site. It is also a demonstration of how gullible people are today, if you're curious...

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This looks awesome, but I'm worried about system overhead with multiprocessing. If the BSD kernel can offer true SMP support in MacOS X, then I'm all for it, but a multiprocessor G4 seems like a waste under OS 9.0.4.

This looks awesome, but I'm worried about system overhead with multiprocessing. If the BSD kernel can offer true SMP support in MacOS X, then I'm all for it, but a multiprocessor G4 seems like a waste under OS 9.0.4.

It's about time this happens. With constant yield problems due to an unreliable fab process this has been delayed way too long. AppleInsider.com has an article about this from October. In any case one has to wonder what Apple's product strategy with these things will be. Are they trying to make a push into the high end server market?

do you suppose this will help apple/motorola/ibm's massive problems meeting demand on the G4 chips?

or is this process something that the chip has to be specifically designed to use? or something that will take a long time to be put into usage?

how much collaboration is IBM still putting into the powerpc line? are the rumors that they've begun helping produce G4s any more than rumors? IBM was manufacturing ppcs at some point (before Altivec came out), weren't they..?
This POWER4 thing looks very, very impressive..

this _is_ one of those cases where the PPC should be highly recommended.
why? altivec.
Speed improvements are always arbitrary. Yes, there are times when a G3 350 will be twice as fast as a pentium 350. THere are times the pentium 350 will be faster. Benchmarks are not something you should be listening to, and different processors will be better at different tasks.

However the question is not "which processor is better overall"; the question is "which processor is better for real-time heavy computational math". In which case you really kinda do probably want to go with the G4. "real time" implies you are going to be taking one speciallized [difficult] task and doing it over and over and over with different data, which is what Altivec is designed for (SIMD) and what it excels at. As long as you are willing to go ahead and specially code for Altivec, in this case you will get a speed jolt virtually unparallelled.

Unfortunately, due to manufacturing problems, Motorola and IBM are for the moment having trouble making G4s that run at over 500 mhz, and there are _still_ no multiprocessing G4 mobos available as far as i am aware.

So as soon as the third parties would actually get around to shipping a SMP G4 mobo for use with linux/bsd (apple is a bit tied up in their own problems..), that's what you'd want. As of now G4 may not be the best choice. A good choice to be sure, but i'm a bit dubious as to how well a single 500 mhz G4 would do against, say, four 800 mhz athlons.

this _is_ one of those cases where the PPC should be highly recommended.
why? altivec.
Speed improvements are always arbitrary. Yes, there are times when a G3 350 will be twice as fast as a pentium 350. THere are times the pentium 350 will be faster. Benchmarks are not something you should be listening to, and different processors will be better at different tasks.

However the question is not "which processor is better overall"; the question is "which processor is better for real-time heavy computational math". In which case you really kinda do probably want to go with the G4. "real time" implies you are going to be taking one speciallized [difficult] task and doing it over and over and over with different data, which is what Altivec is designed for (SIMD) and what it excels at. As long as you are willing to go ahead and specially code for Altivec, in this case you will get a speed jolt virtually unparallelled.

Unfortunately, due to manufacturing problems, Motorola and IBM are for the moment having trouble making G4s that run at over 500 mhz, and there are _still_ no multiprocessing G4 mobos available as far as i am aware.

So as soon as the third parties would actually get around to shipping a SMP G4 mobo for use with linux/bsd (apple is a bit tied up in their own problems..), that's what you'd want. As of now G4 may not be the best choice. A good choice to be sure, but i'm a bit dubious as to how well a single 500 mhz G4 would do against, say, four 800 mhz athlons.

You will see this technology on the desktop. Beyond the fact that the Power Series is related to the PowerPC series (IBM uses both in their RS/6000 series), multiple cores has been on the PowerPC Roadmap for a while. (Yes I know that is a rumors site. I have seen something similar on Motorola's site I believe, but can't find it right now). Yeah I know the info is a little out of date...but its just a matter of time.

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That being said - i was with apple sticking with the PPC for a long time.. but now, with almost a _year_ of failure... i'm beginning to believe that there needs to be another way to power our Macs. We have almost 12 months of proof that Motorola can't cut it. Hell, they care 20 times more about embedded processors - and are simply not _that_ interested in high end PPCs.

Now, if you want some _honest_ reporting of what's going on, besides the bong resin i spewed out on my page, go read about the G4 mess over at AppleInsider. It tells about the problems that Apple is having with Mot and how they went begging to IBM to make AltiVec enabled PPCs.

I do think that Apple is in real trouble with the PPC series.. and its not the technology, its the companies involved.
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i think this was covered a bit in the mac os x rollout story. anyway in case someone missed it here's the real place to look for critiques on apple's UI and the OS in general. see:
http://forum.appleinsider.com/ ubb/Forum2/HTML/001104.html

I disagree about the close box; at least in the Mac OS the finder has so many windows that you end up using the close box an awful lot. :) (Yeah, I know -- that's why they're updating the finder! Still, some people like having lots of windows.)

On the issue of the left-side stuff -- have you ever used a NeXT/OpenStep machine? You'll note that the scroll bars were on the left! Although it might be a bit disconcerting at first, it's a definite advantage when in Miller Column mode -- you can move continuously accross columns, selecting and scrolling, without having to backtrack with the mouse. There was a forum post at appleinsider a few weeks ago in which the poster had a number of screenshots of the NeXTStep GUI. Here's the link: http://forum.appleinsider .com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000725.html The pictures are about halfway down the page. That GUI was a work of ART and I'm glad the MacOS X GUI maintains the level of gorgeousity, even though the two are of distinctly different styles. (Dark, industrial-looking grey and black vs. candy-coated robitussin liqui-gels!)

As reported at
http://www.appleinsider.com/, Apple is
working on an incredible update to
AppleWorks, called AppleWorks 6.0. This will
be where my money goes - I don't need StarOffice
(for all the reasons cited before and more, but
my personal hates are its huge memory footprint
and stupid desktop environment). There is a
tremendous amount of power in AppleWorks, and
it is IMHO the only suite you need for the Mac.
To hell with Microsoft, to hell with Sun.

I wonder how StarOffice will compete with AppleWorks 6, which is already in development and has a large feature set. In fact, looks like the thing is fully Carbon-compliant and is portable between 9.x and X. Check out the new features (although I dislike some of the MS Office-like "enhancements"):

AppleInsider article on upcoming AppleWorks 6.0 suite


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Now it doesn't take a genius to see that
a) they may be using the transmeta chip (and it could well be limited by PCI bus speed)
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b) they're developing a 'similar technology'

anyone else care to speculate?

As some people have noted, Apple Insider now has actual photos of the new graphite iMac.

Also, MacOS Rumors has several pictures of the new iMacs in all their fruity glory.

AppleInsider just posted a press shot of the new iMac.

http://www.appleinsider .com/articles/9909/kihei-photo.shtml

I understand the 4-core chip is ready but there's no reason to bring a 12-times-faster-than-PentiumIII chip on the market. This way they can sell 4-times faster chips and sell the even faster ones later, too.

Linux may or may not run on the high end. There are really two new motherboards. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/9908/power-ma c-g4.shtml and http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n584 18

I'd suspect that LinuxPPC would probably run fine on Yikes! (the currently avaialbe one), but Sawtooth is likely a different story. It quite likely there is different CPU bus/glue logic on that board. However, you can't buy a Sawtooth board up anytime soon either. I don't think that Apple seeds boxes for LinuxPPC development so it may take a while.

There are TWO new G4 boxes coming. The one you can buy now does not have a AGP slot in it. The ones coming in a couple of months do (450 and 500) versions.

The details are kind of short at the moment but take a gander at: http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n584 18 for some official info and http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/9908/power-ma c-g4.shtml for some higher level commentary.

Once again Jobs et. al. are oversimplifying the model descriptions so there is only one name for two different boxes. I imagine the PCI box will quickly die off once the AGP box is in full production.

As for as ATI cards go, you can't look at the G4 boxes in isolation from the iMac. Since Apple is usingATI chips there, they'll go with ATI chips in G4. Simply for purchasing economies of scale. Secondly, it is a two way street. If these other graphics makers made Apple an offer they couldn't refuse they'd probably switch. Apple isn't trying to market the ultimate gamer's box.

[ Hopefully that isn't a "winmodem" in the new models. I wouldn't get one of those internals anyway. ]

In case any of you are interested at all about the Keychain and MacOS 9's voice passwords, AppleInsider has it all in its MacOS 9.0 archive:

http://www.appleinsider.com/macos9.0.shtm l

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. Any good monitor with any decent card (like an ATI Rage Orion 128 or 3Dfx Voodoo3 2000) can be installed in a Mac, flip the switch and it instantly works. You'll suddenly notice extra options in the Monitors and Sound control panel for: (1) Pick primary display, (2) which monitor gets to have the menu bar, (3) screen arrangement or position.. plus you can have each monitor have different resolutions and bit-depth -- all changeable ON THE FLY. No rebooting or editing config/driver files.. nada. It's basically extended workspace.. I usually use two monitors so Adobe Photoshop can fully display a HI-RES image on one screen and have all the imaging/editing palettes on the other. Very convenient. Hell, if I had three monitors with Adobe Premiere, I could have the video-editing work area on the middle monitor, my editing palettes on the right, and my output video playback on the left! Totally production-oriented setup! No IRQs, DLLs, configs, drivers, or window-managers needed! Mac has got it all (and this is just the OS 8.0 and higher.. we're getting close to the real hardcore stuff soon........)
More screenshots:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/9905/sonata-p art2.shtml
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/9905/sonata-p art1.shtml

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Oh yeah, forgot about that one. Any good monitor with any decent card (like an ATI Rage Orion 128 or 3Dfx Voodoo3 2000) can be installed in a Mac, flip the switch and it instantly works. You'll suddenly notice extra options in the Monitors and Sound control panel for: (1) Pick primary display, (2) which monitor gets to have the menu bar, (3) screen arrangement or position.. plus you can have each monitor have different resolutions and bit-depth -- all changeable ON THE FLY. No rebooting or editing config/driver files.. nada. It's basically extended workspace.. I usually use two monitors so Adobe Photoshop can fully display a HI-RES image on one screen and have all the imaging/editing palettes on the other. Very convenient. Hell, if I had three monitors with Adobe Premiere, I could have the video-editing work area on the middle monitor, my editing palettes on the right, and my output video playback on the left! Totally production-oriented setup! No IRQs, DLLs, configs, drivers, or window-managers needed! Mac has got it all (and this is just the OS 8.0 and higher.. we're getting close to the real hardcore stuff soon........)
More screenshots:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/9905/sonata-p art2.shtml
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/9905/sonata-p art1.shtml

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I forgot to mention that MacOS 9 contains some feature sets that won't be available to any platform for a short time (well built-in anyway). Find out about them here:
http://www.appleinsider.com/macos8.7.shtml
There are some cool mentionable features such as voiceprint authentication for multi-user environments and Sherlock II.

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System-level anti-aliasing of fonts are already available.. on MacOS. If any of the system fonts (large, small, and views) are either TrueType or PostScript, the Mac gives you the option of anti-aliasing them. Looks great. In addition, Adobe Type Manager (the little control panel) allows you to have global anti-aliased fonts in all applications like Macromedia FreeHand, Microsoft Word, Netscape/IE, etc.. it's cool.

BTW MacOS 9 __is__ coming out and it should be officially OS 9, not 8.7. Preorders start tomorrow and should ship in October. For more info:
http://www.applein sider.com/articles/9907/sonata-beta-four.shtml

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only two: blueberry and tangerine?
i'm disappointed; i was hoping for a gray. too bad.

According to the AppleInsider link in the original article, Apple rushed a batch of them out so they'd have a model to show at this week's MacWorld expo.

It's possible that the blueberry and tangerine ones are the only ones they made in this run; the AppleInsider article says they've been seen "in all five flavors of the iMac, [as well as] in a mysterious smoke gray flavor (totaling 6)".

At least, I hope this is the case; otherwise, I'm getting a blueberry one...

Jay (=
(Who has been waiting for months for this machine to be released -- well, that and geting my credit card paid off...)

But that's not the point really. The point is that G4 is not ready for introduction in Lombard before the Sawtooth desktop systems expected around MWNY this July. Lombard is a done machine, its production is ramping up in Taiwan right now, but has had some setbacks, which has thus delayed its introduction. It runs on the g3 processor, there really is no doubt about that. The guy who wrote the infoworld article may have just been fed real bad information by a reader or fell victim to one of Apple's notorious leak-detecting far-out rumors. Much like the apple/disney/pixar merger rumors that AppleInsider fell for.

Also, by reading some of the other posts, the codenames of Apple's PowerBooks are of much interest and intrigue. Yes, The Powerbook G3 Series is codenamed Wallstreet (and there was a low end version codenamed Mainstreet). Then the next PowerBook codenamed Lombard is named after the street in San Francisco, but it also has the additional codename of 101. This is from the highway in California named 101, which is renamed Lombard street when it reaches downtown San Francisco. Neat, huh? The connection of Lombard with the street in Britain akin to America's financial district has been recognized as well.If you want to go way into the future, speculation on the next generation after Lombard/101 says the machine may be codenamed 102, but that's likely to change as we get closer to that product's timeframe.

Doug

I do hope you all realise that QuickTime 4.0 is -just- a preview release right now. Apple released it basically as a public beta in order to root out some of the annoying little bugs that everyone is kvetching about.

My Mac is still dead due to a corrupted drive (DIE ADAPTEC! DIE!) so I haven't had the chance to check it on the Mac side. BUT, I did download QuickTime 4.0 on a Windows95 machine. It played the 320x240 trailer without a hitch and it's only a P-90. I consider that pretty good.

For more, non-apple info on QuiokTime 4.0 check out this article at AppleInsider :

Apple to Announce QuickTime 4 Preview Release

I do hope you all realise that QuickTime 4.0 is -just- a preview release right now. Apple released it basically as a public beta in order to root out some of the annoying little bugs that everyone is kvetching about.

My Mac is still dead due to a corrupted drive (DIE ADAPTEC! DIE!) so I haven't had the chance to check it on the Mac side. BUT, I did download QuickTime 4.0 on a Windows95 machine. It played the 320x240 trailer without a hitch and it's only a P-90. I consider that pretty good.

For more, non-apple info on QuiokTime 4.0 check out this article at AppleInsider :

Apple to Announce QuickTime 4 Preview Release

I see mp3s becoming much more pervasive then they are even now before they start to wane to other, better formats. Even quicktime is going to support it!

This link leads to an AppleInsider article with some pics of a late beta of QuickTime 4.0. Besides just looking really cool, the player is going to play mp3s. This is significant since quicktime ships with all macs (and is easily available for win32)!

Oh and for anyone interested, quicktime IS mpeg4... So look for Good Stuff down the road...

for the naysayers who doubt Apple's commitment to Unix: A/UX; NeXTSTEP; AIX; MAE; MkLinux; OS X.

Where are A/UX, NextStep, AIX, MAE, and MkLinux now? Apple can never seem to stay committed to anything (or anyone) very long. Yes, they are now clearly betting the farm on OS X.

I am confused by Apple's client OS strategy, though. If OS X Client is due out in late 1999, why is Apple wasting time and money developing Mac OS 8.6 (Veronica)?

Here are some interesting links...

http://www.appleinsider.com/macosx.shtml - mac os x (and server) information.

http:// www.zdnet.com/zdtv/newscobrand/features/story/0,37 30,2178630,00.html - Steve Job's keynote speech at Macworld Expo 99*

http://developer.apple.com/macosx/server/ - Apple's Mac OS X Server page

2 weeks ago I had no interest at all in anything related to Apple or Mac OS, but I've recently decided to switch my major to graphic design and having a Mac is almost a standard... not to mention my alternative is running Windows 95/98/NT which I do not find very useful for graphic designing, even though the software is there (the major stuff at least.) So, for the past week or so, I've been spending hours reasearching and stuff. It's really fun, and for some reason, I feel this love towards Apple... maybe it's major subliminal messages or something... whatever it is, it's working. Anyhow, by the time i plan on getting a new comp for college (transfer) february of next year, i plan on getting a powermac g4 500 mhz (hopefully they're out by then), 512 RAM, and all the extra goodies. i was planning on getting one soon, but after reading websites, apple has problems to iron out on the design of their new b&w powermac g3s, and mac os won't support preemptive multitasking until 8.6 which isn't quite out yet... and i imagine they'll be ironing out bugs a few months after 8.6 is released. i know all the arguments against buying an apple, and most are pretty weak. i also think i understand why they have to do things like axe the newton, keep a lot of things closed, not support be (if, of course this is a true fact.) anyway, if i feel like i'm in the mood to mess with linux, i can install linuxppc, but i do not see any need to use it anymore (i used to want to major in computer science, so all i cared about was programming and such, now i hate programming and want nothing to do with it.)

Rhapsody is now called Mac OS X in case you didn't know.

Apple plans on selling Mac OS X Server sometime in February at around $1k. That is a VERY high price, however, it comes with some expensive software bundled with it and you only have to pay that one price and you can run any number of computers off of it (as in imacs connected to the server running mac os x.)

*this requires realplayer, and ahum, is on zdnet. the coolest part is his presentation of mac os x server with the 50 imacs connected to one machine all running a different movie file from it at once. this speech the source of that recent q3arena movie released (it's a clip of q3arena running a powermac g3 presented by john carmack.)

Apple Insider has some more info on the keynote speech, including a blow-by-blow description. I really want to see that pile of 50 iMacs all showing the same video. Jobs sure does have a knack for spectacle.

Although PSEmu has been around for some time, it is a "hack" and I mean that in the least flattering sense. It play ROMs, not actual PlayStation discs. Connectix's Virtual GameStation will allow Mac owners to go down to the store, pick up Tekken3, tear off the shrink wrap and start playing the game. Why is that a Woo-hoo? For all you PC users, it isn't, but for the Mac community and anyone thinking about buying a Mac, it basically solves the game drought we'd been suffering. For more details, check out AppleInsider, the site that first broke the story and seems to have the most accurate account. Or listen to Steve Jobs' keynote at Noon ET.

head on over to AppleInsider and check out what apple has instore for tomorrow. a playstaion emulator, bringing over 1200 games to the mac. so, where's that game argument now?