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Methinks you are incorrect on this one. Please see this article, which talks about a quad processor g3 that was shown at LinuxWorld.

Not really... true Nerds, like Andy Ihnatko, have been taking digital pictures of everything in their line of sight, and writing about it, for years. With better cameras than the Sony, too.

Not many Wintel and Linux people read Ihnatko's stuff, because the old saw, "Macs are for graphics" is often wrongly correlated to "graphics are for Macs"... but his stuff is worth reading if you are interested in this stuff, no matter what platform you use.

Amid his humorous Mac-centric rants, you can find some darn good advice about digital photography (and other gadget lore).

As for Sony using CDR's? Well, every innovation drives down the cost of earlier iterations of any given gadget, meaning that this might make the camera I actually want a little bit cheaper. Even if I don't want the Sony, this is good news to me. :)

This is changing, thank heavens. A quote from the article about this on MacCentral:

"Also, Apple and RealNetworks have agreed to support the principles of the "Ask, Tell, Help" initiative. The "Ask, Tell, Help" initiative is designed to promote good "Internet manner" by ensuring that each company's player applications will inform and ask the user before changing the user's default player selection for common media formats."

-Joe

As for Unreal and UT, I have faith in Westlake, they've done a great job so far on the ports for the Mac they've handled. Between them and companies that already grok the Mac and the value of cross-platform development (i.e. Bungie and Id), gaming on the Mac is finally becoming viable again.

If I were a serious game developer, why woould I want to use any technology that limited my product to a single platform? What happens when it's no longer the dominant one? With OpenGL, it may be a little slower or harder to code, but it lets me capture that extra 10% market share, plus it brings free good will. Pretty simple choice.

There are a couple of relevant articles on MacCentral today. Check them out: http://maccentral.com/news/0004/ 10.apple2.shtml and http://maccentral.com/news/000 4/10.finalcut.shtml .

The first one is a summary of an announcement made by Apple, Matrox, and Pinnacle Systems concerning a new "Macintosh Only" uncompressed standard-definition (SD) and uncompressed high-definition (HD) video solutions. The second article describe the latest release of FInal Cut Pro.

There are a couple of relevant articles on MacCentral today. Check them out: http://maccentral.com/news/0004/ 10.apple2.shtml and http://maccentral.com/news/000 4/10.finalcut.shtml .

The first one is a summary of an announcement made by Apple, Matrox, and Pinnacle Systems concerning a new "Macintosh Only" uncompressed standard-definition (SD) and uncompressed high-definition (HD) video solutions. The second article describe the latest release of FInal Cut Pro.

There are a couple of relevant articles on MacCentral today. Check them out: http://maccentral.com/news/0004/ 10.apple2.shtml and http://maccentral.com/news/000 4/10.finalcut.shtml .

The first one is a summary of an announcement made by Apple, Matrox, and Pinnacle Systems concerning a new "Macintosh Only" uncompressed standard-definition (SD) and uncompressed high-definition (HD) video solutions. The second article describe the latest release of FInal Cut Pro.

Related links:

Deneba Canvas 7.0 (March) review at MacWorld

Deneba Canvas 7 (Feb 1) at The Internet Eye.com

Velocity Engine (Jan 17) MacCentral article on G4 Acceleration for Canvas 7

Another Review (12 Jan) at CreativePro.com

Yes, to AC above; Did it occur to you that the Windows release of Canvas 7 runs on x86 hardware?

As a follow-up, would velocity engine acceleration be easy to add to a Linux PPC version of Canvas or would it require a lot more coding?

He talks about the QT4 player, Mac OS X, and GUIs in general. Listen in.

TML

Before anyone gets out of shape, take a visit to the usual Mac web sites:

it's not wise to base your judgements on something coming from ZDNet

That issue has been resolved.

http://www.maccentral.com/news /9905/12.licensing.shtml

(um, though I took the time to preview my post and it had correct HTML formatting, the final posted version did not, so a 2nd try...)

Eh, the Handspring site was experiencing problems earlier today, well before the slashdot post.

I went there this morning after reading a glowing review of the Visor over at MacCentral.

Now it is working.

hmm...

For my PDA needs I'm going to get a Nokia 7100 with switchblade keypad, WAP, 1000 number memory, & microbrowser.

Actually, coward, the Handspring site was experiencing problems earlier today, well before the /. post. I went there this morning after reading a nice review of the Visor over at MacCentral. Now it is working. hmm... Personally, I'm going to get a Nokia 7190 with switchblade keypad, WAP, and microbrowser.

I think I saw something like $3999 when it ships later. look here as I think it was on MacCentral that I saw that.

the G4 processor, which has a sustained speed of 1 gigaflops and a peak speed of 4 gigaflops.
Apple's new systems are available in 400 Mhz, 450 Mhz, 500 Mhz speeds. The 500 Mhz version will include a DVD-RAM drive, which can record several gigs of data to a CD-sized disk.
The 400 Mhz system will be priced at $1599, the 450 Mhz system at $2499, the 500 Mhz at $3,499.
Apple will be immediately shipping the 400 Mhz system, with the other two systems shipping in a "few weeks."
Jobs said that the new systems will ship with a Photoshop plug-in that will recognize the G4 processor.
In a head-to-head race against a Pentium III system, the PowerMac G4 handily blew away the Pentium III system, rendering a scene with Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story more than twice as fast as the Pentium machine, which was running at 600 Mhz.
The next demo tested memory bandwidth. Again facing the fastest Pentium III currently available, the PowerMac G4 crushed the Pentium system.
Next came a QuickTime encoding demo, where the trailer for the James Bond movie was compressed in real time on the PowerMac G4, but took about twice as long on the Pentium system. In fact, the PowerMac G4 could actually compress the James Bond movie and play it back before the Pentium system could encode the clip.
A college professor then took the reins to demonstrate the supercomputer capabilities of the G4.He demonstrated the popular SETI@Home project, where a G4 was able to process in 6 hours the same amount of information that a Pentium III could process in 25 hours.
To demonstrate encryption speed, a 1000 bit encryption key was decoded on both a G4 and G3, where the G4 was almost seven times faster. Standard cryptography applications run at 3 to 8 times the speed of Pentium III systems, according to the professor.
The last demo showed actual data from the Mars Pathfinder mission. A G4 and a Pentium II system set up head-to-head showed the rendering of data from a probe flying through a valley on Mars. The G4 played like a movie, while the Pentium III played more like a slide-show.
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More info at: Conference call article

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While the video was a problem on the PowerTowers, beige Apple G3s past Rev. B (i.e., the ones with the ATI Rage Pro Turbo instead of the Rage II) have extremely good video performance. In general, I think the benchmarks are about 10-20% faster than a Pentium at the same MHz. (I'd have to double check that; I can't remember quite where I read it.) There's also a link to a report at MacCentral where ZDNet or somebody found that a 400 MHz G3 Macintosh was faster than a similarly equiped 500 MHz Pentium III. I'll post back later if I can find the exact article.

...the MacCentral forum. Especially Jason. He admitted he worked for MS. (but I wouldn't beleive everything he says).....but, a lot of kids out there may be getting out of line defending MS, that it seems they work for MS. I wouldn't discount that.


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