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One more G4 for the PowerBook?
PurdueGraphicsMan writes "Much as we'd love to see the next PowerBook revision include a processor evolution to the mighty G5, we know it's not that simple. The Register provides some sound reasoning (and boatloads of model numbers and voltage specs) as to why we'll probably see a 1.5GHz G4 PowerBook before any G5 PowerBooks materialize." I don't want a G5 on my lap anyway. It'd make me feel guilty, having that much power in a small package while other people can't even get it in a PC tower. Oh, and I don't want to burn my lap.
Actually, that somewhat dorky statement about feeling guilty was relentlessly added into my post as though I said it. I would never say something that dorky.
The guitars sound good, now give me about 10db more on the cow bell.
Those issues will largely be solved by the recent die shrink at IBM.
> The G4 is grossly underpowered in comparison with a Centrino [...]
Centrino is the name of the CPU, chipset, and WLAN card. The CPU is called the Pentium-M (or Banias). It's a sort of hybrid between the Tualatin P3 and the P4, taking the best features from both, with energy efficiency as one of the primary design goals. It's probably the nicest chip Intel has done in years.
What version of MacOS was your professor using? You never just see "scrolling text" take over the GUI.
/Applications/Utilities/Console.app. Usually what you get is a dialog saying "The application -blah- has unexpectedly quit," and a log file is written to one of several convenent locations.
If OS X kernel panics, the screen dims and you get a message in multiple languages saying a reboot is necessary.
You can view crash logs with
Where did you get lines of scrolling text?
Um, Didn't IBM just release the 970FX, which uses the the new (.09nm ?) process and significantly less watt's of power consumption, along with PowerTune, a speedstep-like technology that would further reduce power consumption?
Why yes, yes they did. Maybe that's how they will fix the heat issue.
Apple will let you "trade in" any purchases you made, if a newer model is released. I can't remember if it's for 14 days or more that the coverage applies to. I believe it's 14 days though.
Just call the Apple store if a new model is released, like tomorrow, and they can hook you up. I did just that when I purchased my 17" Studio Display (price dropped $200 3 or 4 days after my purchase, and I got my money back).
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There is a second mouse button - it is labeled "Ctrl".
"I don't think it's selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish." -NOFX
The sleep function on Apple notebooks work so well that the ONLY time I reboot mine is for updates.
Now if you had a windows machine I could see the complaint since putting it to sleep is rolling the dice that the sucker will come up again :)
A sure sign that Apple is doing well is when people start to complain about the boot time because they have run out of other complaints!
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Well, I had a whole response typed upped but I went and read up on the 970FX on IBMs site and you are indeed correct. They got around the problems of leakage of strained silicon by combining SOI and SS. Pretty cool...literally. They also will be using IBMS voltage island techniques to reduce power (that's the real reason you will be seeing power use decreases, not the die shrink. SOI and SS both have issues as you get smaller. AMD and IBM will be completely combined in process tech starting at 65nm at AMDs new plant that is being built in Dresden and at the East Fiskill plant where the FX will be produced).
The prime benefits of the combined SOI and SS is that you get the ability to run with less power at the same frequency from SS but the SOI keeps the leakage characteristics of SS from generating ridiculous heat (look at Prescott).
It is going to be interesting.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
Use the sleep functionality on your laptop. No OS's boot time can beat OSX's wake from sleep time.
I personally never actually power off my laptop, except for when I need to apply a security update.
You might want to get your facts a little straighter as the G5 consumes 24.5W@2GHz. So much for the Athalon 64@35W.
Yup -- since you don't use need it, everyone else must be a fool to pay for it.
I guess the fact that I use my laptop as a portable recording studio isn't a reasonable justification? Even the top of the line 17" 1.33 Ghz can't always keep up with my realtime processing needs.
You're right in general about people buying more power than they know how to use, but there are also a lot of us who actually need that power.
Personally, I am itching to get my hands on the next major powerbook revision. I doubt I'd spring for a measly 166Mhz bump, but I need all the power I can get. Definitely getting a G5 when they're available.
Cheers.
"According to Motorola sources, a tweaked version of the Apollo 7450 G4, the 7470, will be ready for volume production shortly after the end of Q2, in time for a summer ramp. The 7470 will be manufactured on a 0.13 micron process, allowing for a smaller die size with room for 512K of L2 cache, and support up to 4MB of DDR-SDRAM L3 cache. The 7470 supports a modified bus protocol, MPX+, which supports double data transfer and which should effectively run at 266Mhz according to sources."
as taken from http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/24018.html
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-Thucydides
Actually, while I'm a big Mac fan, and I've longed for a chip that brought the PPC back over x86 for speed, the PowerMac G5 really was playing catchup to the PC world for motherboard architecture.
DDR RAM? Been there for over 5 years.
8 GB memory? AMD boards beat us by a few months.
Hypertransport? Been used for over 2 years.
AGP 8X? Been used for a few months before.
Dolby 5.1 sound on board? Been there for over 5 years.
USB 2.0? Been there for over 2 years.
PCI-X slots? Been there for over a year.
ATA-133? PC has been there for over a year with built-in hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 01, & 10 support that the Mac still doesn't have.
Now...
SMP on a single chip? Mac beat the PC there.
Firewire 800? Mac beat the PC there.
...but neither of those really help the internal processing speed. (Neither does USB 2.0 or Dolby 5.1 sound.) The PowerMac G5 is just getting up to parity. The new 90 nm G5s will make a jump ahead for a short time, but Intel and AMD won't be sitting still. I hope that Apple doesn't sit on its rear on the PCI Express standard and gets us ready for it. With NVidia and ATI pushing it for graphics, I doubt that they can afford to.
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