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New Mac System Specs
xyankee writes " Think Secret appears to be dishing more of the dirt that Apple loves to hate so much, this time dropping details on updated Power Mac G5, iMac G5, and eMac systems soon to be released. Looks like speed bumps all around: Power Macs get to 2.7GHz, iMacs to 2GHz, and eMacs to 1.42GHz. Video cards and SuperDrives are also upgraded."
Well I, for one, would like to be the first to tell you "shut up". idiot.
because they don't care about your lord and master, the nazi whore Steve "hand" Jobs, and his gestapo.
It never fails to amaze me how you slashbois are all about free speech - hell you'd support someone giving secret government child porn to Bin Laden as free speech. But someone leaks the specs for a fruity M.A.C. two weeks early, Steve wants to burn their house down for it, and you all bring the gasoline.
Requisite flame approaching. You misbegotten troll. That one would stop to egregious flamebaiting for the purpose of somehow justifying their miserable existence only serves to make that one seem all the more ridiculous. Shame on you and your parents for having had the coitus that produced you in the first place.
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Who cares about Mac performance? You should be concerned about Mac reliability.
The fact is, Macs (bar the Xserve) don't use error-correcting RAM. That's why there are so many reports of bad ram causing kernel panics, applications quitting etc. on Macintouch.
A decade ago, Macs (bar the Network Server 950 and 970) didn't use parity RAM.
I can't believe that anyone would do serious scientific work on a Mac.
Appple owns 3% of the desktop market. That's not "dying," that's pretty fucking dead already.
i just got my mac mini yesterday, the 1.42ghz/256mb/80gig one.. anyone want to buy it?
(its nice but theres no way in hell i could ever get used to using a mac, im a pc user for life)
Tiger is supposed to include this feature:
Fine Grain Locking (SMP scalability)
Enjoy improved performance and scalability.
And with the cool feature of being built on a monolithic kernel interface. Way to go Apple. Whoo Hoo.
Oh wait, the monolithic kernel interface they stole kind of sucks at multi-processor and mult-threaded performance.
Maybe the next Open Source software they steal and sell at high prices will be better suited for the G5 architecture with Dual Core Processors.
And people have the nerve to bitch at Microsoft, when Apple not only rips off who they can, and then drops it in a propriety OS on proriety hardware. At least Microsoft Built their own freaking Kernel and Kernel client/server system - i.e. Cutler's development team.
You get back to us when your quarterly sales top $3 billion and your market cap is over $30 billion
Mmmkay...
Ok, and how does this compare to IBM or even Dell alone, and they are single companies selling a variety of the the competing architecture. Mmmkay...
Shall we compare Microsoft's Sales and Cap?
Gates alone could personally Buy out Apple out of his personal assets.
So we should all hail the great success of Apple, why again? Mmmkay...
Oh wait, they are successful because of the popularity of the IPOD. A device that mimics features found on products that Create Jukebox had released in 1998 - wow some innovation, rip off the competition... Oh wait, only Microsoft would do that, not your precious Apple. Just like they wouldn't rip off the BSD interface or the Kernel in OSX. Oh wait, they did that too.
When oh when will Apple innovate again?
Ipod sales do not equate to Market share on the desktop, nor is the halo effect going to increase the Mac's market share enough to even make companies like Dell or Microsoft BLINK.
Why? Because Apple is small potatoes... MMMKay...
Thank you very much! I will be sure to add that to the list of reason I don't want to get a Mac, which I give out every week when someone tells me I should buy one...
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