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  1. Re:A what? by ad0gg · · Score: 1 · on Intel Readying Dual-Core Desktop Chip

    G5 was never designed to be a mobile chip, it had no real chance of getting put into a laptop. Only solution Apple had was to get IBM or Xscale to design a brand new mobile chip, which wasn't feasible. Intel's Pentium M on the other hand is designed as a low voltage chip as intel focuses on processing power per mhz which allowed pentium m to do more processing at lower mhz.

  2. Re:Intel's killer application by ad0gg · · Score: 1 · on Intel Preps Mac mini Look-Alike

    G4 is slower chip per clock cycle than Pentium M. Your 2ghz Celeron M(assuming its a M and not a P4 Mobile) has more than double the performance power than 1.4 ghz G4 found in a mini. Seti Benchmarks

  3. Re:This is good by ad0gg · · Score: 1 · on New Mac System Specs

    Uhh.. P4s are pushing 3.8ghz and apple is coming out with 2.8ghz. On the laptop side of things, Pentium M's(which are faster per clock cycle than a g4 or g5) are at 2.13ghz while G4s are at 1.67ghz.

  4. Re:compare to x86 laptops by ad0gg · · Score: 1 · on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005
    You forgot to mention the Pentium M will smoke a G4 anyday of the week when comparing by clock cycle. So not only do you get a higher mhz, but pentium m is doing more work per clock cycle. Seti numbers for processors. So in your comparision, the wintel laptop is easily double the speed of the apple laptop.

    You can also can get 8600 inspiron(15.5 wide screen) for $1400 fully loaded with 1680x1050 screen, they have higher resolution screen upgrade but its plain stupid for 15.5.

  5. 5.7 teraflops by FTL · · Score: 3, Insightful · on IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene On Demand
    Amazing supercomputer. It's /.ed already...

    What's 5.7 teraflops in more familiar units? Like SETI@home workunits/day? By my calculations that's 1.5 workunits every second. Give or take. By comparison the entire SETI@home network is currently running at 67 teraflops.

  6. this is so off topic, but it's funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Preempting Hailstone Formation To Protect Cars

    save this file as

  7. Re:Meh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Science & Industry 0.97b Half-Life Mod Release

    Coolness checkout the list of people, there actually are girls that play FPS :)

  8. Re:Charter Communications in Medford, OR by Bonker · · Score: 2 · on Preventing Broadband Price-Gouging?

    Cox Communications in Amarillo TX, which is owned by Cox, but is its own provider, uses a similar tier. I've always thought it was *very* fair in comparison to other cable plans and DSL rates, with the exception that you have to buy regular cable service before you can use a cablemodem connection. (Can you say 'Tying'?)

    Currently, you get 1024 kilobit/s down and 128 kilobit/s up at the lowest rate, around $35/month. 15 kilobyte per second can be used for a P2P connection or personal website, but it sucks.

    It's more than enough, however, to download from Usenet or large files off the web in reasonable amounts of time.

    More and more bandwidth costs more and more per month until you're paying about $300/month for about T1 speeds. I would suggest that most cable operators could probably get this scheme to work. People who are interested in using a lot of bandwidth end up paying for the tier they fit in, while those who are only interested in email and web pay just slightly more than they would for a dial-up account.

  9. CNN: Gore has backslashdot vote by kaleid · · Score: 1 · on Election Wrapping Up
    I noticed CNN.com had a bug in their website code.
    It says: "Bush now has 217 electoral votes and Gore has \. "

    OK, that's a backslashdot, not slashdot, but hey!

    Screencap is here in case they fix it before you look at it.

    No, I'm not making this up.