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Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sign-me-up dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Dual Processors and Software by Phroggy · · Score: 2, Troll

    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?

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  2. Re:Moore's Law in effect? by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Troll

    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!