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Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy
A huge number of readers submitted the new
Dual Ghz Power Mac that
Apple has announced. Includes a Geforce 4 and assorted other bells and
whistles that will ring and blow for the Mac Junkie. They start
at $3k and seriously make me want a Mac.
... and no software to take advantage of it
So,
a nice dual machine. Never mind that there are so few apps that actually use both processors.
I guess you need two cpu's to run that sluggish OS X.....
please stand still while i give you a good assfucking
Ignore PPC, it'll go away and be consigned to the evolution dustbin until someone comes up with a cheap motherboard that will allow the chips to compete in the open marketplace.
Until then, it's sales numbers aren't going to be distinguishable from background noise. Of niche interest only.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Macs are coming back!
War in the Middle Ease!
The Amiga isn't dead!
BeOS is... oh...
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Case closed.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
Hmmm... only 1.2ghz per processor than the competitors, with 1/10th the available software, no fast ram or firewire solution, and a video card that is not even released yet (and if things follow suit, the GF4 will be out for PC in the OEM channel first like the GF3). Way to innovate and stay on top Apple! Now I can see why you are such a personal computing powerhouse.
LOL... it's almost as bad as the *nix geeks
Sure, you can put linux on the 386 in your mom's basement; that will get your stool pushed a few times. But there is nothing like a hot, pastel mac machine to get the man on man action that you are looking for.
They should do a visa style commercial -
a new mac - 3000
the OSX upgrade - 189
having someone stick his schlong in your brown-eye - priceless!
Hardly my field of expertise, but from what I understand, because the Cocoa and Carbon APIs don't completely suck ass, applications use them a lot, and those APIs are multithreaded, so anything that the API does will be faster on a dual-proc system. The Win32 API, in contrast, is so poorly designed and useless that applications tend to avoid it, going around the API to do things their own way. That's why there's so little consistency between how different Windows apps behave.
Want to see something interesting? In Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer, click-and-hold on the Favorites menu, drag the mouse down away from the menu, and release. The menu disappears - this behavior is consistent with menus in most other apps such as Notepad. Now, do the same thing with any other menu (besides Favorites) in Explorer/MSIE: the menu doesn't disappear until you click. Can someone explain that to me?
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
Fortunately the kiddies on eBay don't have a clue. Good place to sell Macs, bad place to buy.
:-)
It's been that way for years which provides yet another example of the *quality* investment you make in a Mac.
My G4 DP 450 with DVD ROM and then BTO Radeon card cost 3 grand 2 years ago.
Compare all three of these features to the same categories today.
These new G4 Towers at the same price will rock and roll for the same money and will do so in every category, not to mention the effect on Photoshop, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto (best of the lot), with all (but Photoshop naturally), freebies.
Life is good. With OS X those Wintel junkies can take their 2.2 GHz do-nothings and eat my dust. I ordered one two hours ago. Supposed to ship in "early February."
What day of the month is it? LOL at the Wintel types. Let's see you take tthose Intels and Athlons and do something in the form of work or fun, except move around the desktop while hoping your Directory doesn't become corrupted.
MacGIMP should really rock on the new Towers and new iMacs shipping today.
And last but not least MacOS X is going to sizzle in the GUI or via the command line.
(Did I mention? My Apple stock went up in value today.
(Did I remember to mention cocoa OS X games with the new graphics card? All the clueless can dream about booting from Linux into Windoze and running their PC games. I'll take mine cocoa on Mac OS X, thank you very much and to heck with the Wintel ports.)
I customize the G4 with everything I would want total cost: 8800.00 dollars!
I tried reproducing your experiment:
2 x 1 GHz PPC G4
1.5 GB RAM
2 x 72 GB Ultra160 SCSI drives
22" Apple Cinema Display
iPod
Zip 250
GeForce 4 MX
UltraSCSI PCI card
internal modem
Apple Pro speakers
AirPort card
Cost: $8,803.
Now, then, let's be fair. Take out the iPod (sheesh; they're great, but don't use one to artifically inflate the price of the Mac) and the 2 x 72 GB SCSI drives and the Zip drive (does anybody still use those things?).
Cost: $6,105.
Now drop the Apple Cinema Display because, while it's a gorgeous item, it's $2500! Also, I believe that the Mac will perform better with 1 GB or 2 GB of RAM instead of 1.5 GB; something to do with interleaving. Drop 512 MB of RAM and save another $200.
Cost: $3,406.
I'll be damned! The computer I want really *does* cost about $3,000!
Steve Jobs:
"Taco, I am your father."
Poor mac slob. Let's see:
Athlon 1.67 gHz -- $150
Mobo -- $150
160 Gb HD -- $300
GeForce 3 Ultra -- $300
1 gig o ram -- $200
Combo 3com ethernet/modem: $50
case -- $150
M-audio Delta 1010 pro level sound card: $500
Plextor CD burner, Pioneer DVD reader: total: 250
Add a 19 inch VIEWABLE viewsonic flat for 1k.
Hmm. Why Did I just spec out a $3000 computer that has far more features than anything you'll ever have, runs faster, and has more apps to boot? And don't start bitching about stability: Win2k rocks.
But...lets face it, if Apple wasn't so anti-competitive there would be lots of nice cheap apples floating around...but there aren't. It has to therefore be valid to compare the lower end pcs as apple has no alternative. I'd love to be able to buy a nice cheap mac, but since they don't exist I buy PCs.
And comparing apple to premium PC brands it has to be said that for equivalent performance pcs still come out cheaper.