Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the no-surprises-here dept.
Les writes "Mac insider site Think Secret has its scoop on what Apple CEO Steve Jobs will announce at Macworld Expo in New York next week. The site says that Power Mac G4s won't be updated until August, but we'll instead see a 17" flat-panel iMac and a demo of OS X 10.2 Jaguar."
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Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
What does Time Canada say?
by
ianscot
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Until our sources north of the border break the story, I'm not a believer.
There's no reason to use rumor mill sites for anything but kicking around what you think a company should do. Yeah, the iWalk didn't exist, but it did make me think through exactly what sort of Newton the 21st century would want, at least.
CNET's story says sales of existing 15" iMacs have "all but stalled." What does that mean? It it accurate? Does it mean the new iMacs are already off their "sweet spot" a little? Gee, I've had trouble finding an available one myself. Maybe that tossaway line was just the usual CNET Applebashing; this is a source that always, always slants against the company.
Tedious as the rumors are, they at least open the "what should they release next?" question. (In this case there's no question, though: Since the new iMac stories way back, everyone's said the towers got leapfrogged in price for performance. Something needs to fill that niche, though "new, better towers" would be an uninspired replacement.)
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by
nosferatu-man
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· Score: 1, Redundant
We'll let the numbers speak for themselves:
SPEC CPU 2000
P4 2.0 ghz : 745/743 G4 1.0ghz : 306/187 (!)
Oops. Of course clock speed is not a meaningful measure of performance across architectures. SPEC, the only really useful general purpose benchmark, is.
Altivec is a wondrous thing, but the majority of work that your computer is going to do is not vectorizable, or requires DP floating point, in which case, Altivec buys you nothing. And the pathetic memory subsystem on the Macintosh really hurts when you/do/ get to use Altivec, as it can't feed the G4 fast enough.
And trying to trot out the term "RISC" in this discussion is meaningless, and only highlights your ignorance (to say nothing of "386 co-processor".) Do yourself a favor and learn about CPU architectures before you post on the subject again, thanks.
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Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
There's no reason to use rumor mill sites for anything but kicking around what you think a company should do. Yeah, the iWalk didn't exist, but it did make me think through exactly what sort of Newton the 21st century would want, at least.
CNET's story says sales of existing 15" iMacs have "all but stalled." What does that mean? It it accurate? Does it mean the new iMacs are already off their "sweet spot" a little? Gee, I've had trouble finding an available one myself. Maybe that tossaway line was just the usual CNET Applebashing; this is a source that always, always slants against the company.
Tedious as the rumors are, they at least open the "what should they release next?" question. (In this case there's no question, though: Since the new iMac stories way back, everyone's said the towers got leapfrogged in price for performance. Something needs to fill that niche, though "new, better towers" would be an uninspired replacement.)
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
We'll let the numbers speak for themselves:
/do/ get to use Altivec, as it can't feed the G4 fast enough.
SPEC CPU 2000
P4 2.0 ghz : 745/743
G4 1.0ghz : 306/187 (!)
Oops. Of course clock speed is not a meaningful measure of performance across architectures. SPEC, the only really useful general purpose benchmark, is.
Altivec is a wondrous thing, but the majority of work that your computer is going to do is not vectorizable, or requires DP floating point, in which case, Altivec buys you nothing. And the pathetic memory subsystem on the Macintosh really hurts when you
And trying to trot out the term "RISC" in this discussion is meaningless, and only highlights your ignorance (to say nothing of "386 co-processor".) Do yourself a favor and learn about CPU architectures before you post on the subject again, thanks.
'jfb
Links:
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/05/182/ (G4 SPEC, unofficial)
http://www.spec.org (P4 SPEC)
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