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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."
Too bad there is no speedup for the Mac mini yet, I'd love to see a Mac mini with a base G5. However it does look like they may begin putting dual core processors out in this update.
PowerMacs already have PCI-X. You're thinking of PCI-E. Though I really think somebody out there must be a numbskull when we have PCI Extended and PCI Express.
English is easier said than done.
So, do you think they fixed the midplane capacitor issue? I've had to replace one already, and the replacement didn't work... I'm still trying to get my 20" iMac working again. Any insight on this? I really hope they redesigned the board!
new ibooks are also expected to be shipping around the same time, if not a few days later.
Wow, I'm curious to know what kind of needs you have that would justify this...
Scientific computing would be the answer. When decisions are made that depend on calculations, the sooner those calculations can be completed, the better. I am not yet at the point where I need my own cluster, but when calculations start to eat up hours per day or even whole days, you start to think about these things.
We are starting a project however, that will likely need a small cluster. I am thinking 5-10 Xserves would cut it for image analysis and dataset construction.
Sheer gear lust ?
Well, hellyeaa. It's Apple Computer we are talking about.
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Good day fot iMac G5 buyers. They have finally put in a graphics card that can play modern games(Radeon 9600 with 128MB of video RAM)
Creative Demolition
Apple Motion and Apple Final Cut Pro always can use more hardware thrown at them. I'm working on a long form project where quad processors would really help annoying multiple hour rendering times on FCP.
:-(.
The real-time rendering really helps with most things, but it still doesn't work for layering video at different sizes, exactly what I'm doing
(I know the original poster made a reply already, but I wanted to point out that he's far from the only person who can use serious power).
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From what I understand, the judge forced Thinksecret to become an informant. The judge did not tell them they couldn't publish the information. The judge can't tell them that. They never signed an NDA with Apple, and every once in awhile, the first ammendment actually means something in this country.
Need a Python, C++, Unix, Linux develop
You do realize that you can run Linux on Apple hardware, right? In fact i think that Linus Torvalds (you may have heard of him) does this.
"I am not yet at the point where I need my own cluster, but when calculations start to eat up hours per day or even whole days, you start to think about these things."
You may know this already but with Xgrid being built into OS X proper, buying a second Powermac could be used as a ad hoc 2-node cluster. If money isn't a problem, getting 2 of the new Powermacs, one as your workstation and both serving as grid nodes with Xgrid may be your best bet.
PCI-X is really designed for servers: RAID cards, gigabit ethernet, fibre channel, things like that. It's just an extension of the original PCI, to wring more life out of it until PCIe was ready, so it's unlikely that more uses will be found for it.
PCI-express is, on paper, good for everything. The x16 slots are for video cards, the x8 slots for RAID and gigabit, the x1 slots are for everything else, from new ports to sound cards to whatever. Or they will be, anyway; I've yet to see a PCIe device other than a video card.
People stick all kinds of things in slots (there's a joke there, somewhere). With more stuff being integrated into computers, it's become sort of a power user thing, though, which is why only the Powermac on the Mac side has the slots.
Give a man fire, and you warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life.
I don't understand why people are so paranoid about water-cooling.As long as the hoses are clamped well and the user doesnt do anything stupid like waving sharp objects near the tubing, there should not be any problems. Apple uses a special mixture that is non corrosive and kills algae so there's no need to worry about that. Besides a good quality pump can last just as long as a fan 90 there are no reliability issues either. People need to stop being so paranoid about water cooling.
If I were to buy a laptop, it would not be an Apple Computer, cause I can't see why I should have one that would only run MacOS, when I am more into Linux. But I gotta admit they do look good, but question is; ain't they going to be a bit heavy?
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Um, if you are so into linux, you should know that you can run linux on a mac, and quite well. Even Linus torvalds himself uses a mac now. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/09
The canary trap IIRC. Tom Clancy made a big deal about that with his main character throughout most of his novels. Apparently the way it works was to make many different copies of the documents, using a program to vary the punctuation and word choice. It's a remarkably elegant solution, and if Apple isn't doing this now, I don't know what the hell their problem is.
Er...the UTSA is not a law. It is a model statute. It only applies where and to the extent to which it has been adopted. It also usually requires that the publisher know that the source of information is violating the law by disclosing it, essentially making the publisher a party to a crime.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
I've had my new Mac iBook (my first Apple purchase) for a little over a month now. My old compaq (750 MHz) laptop died finally from the compaq white screen of death and I needed a replacement. I'm still at University so money is tight; I wanted the PowerMac but the iMac was much more in my range (1300). The one thing I've noticed about it is that you never really notice lag from the processor... BUT... if you don't have like a gig of ram, you can get a lot of lag while multitasking (think all 4 Office apps, firefox, X11 and a couple terminals). Fortunately, adding ram is easier than I thought, and aftermarket ram for them is pretty cheap. Overall, I will probably be saving up for a new G5 desktop whenever I can afford it. I'm hooked!
Neither. It's filled Delphi 151 Heat Transfer Fluid which is mostly propylene glycol.
In spite of the recent trackpad isses, PowerBooks are selling like iPods(yes, hot cakes have been replaced by iPods).
Tiger is supposed to include this feature:
Fine Grain Locking (SMP scalability)
Enjoy improved performance and scalability.
see http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/
No.
(Why beat around the bush?)
I'd also add here that the G5 in the iMac barely works as is; if you notice on these systems, they are set to "Automatic" Processor performance, which according to my benchmarks runs at about half the speed it's capable of. When you change it to the maximum setting, the fans spin up and it gets much hotter inside- I'm talking about 65C+ HD temperature and 75C CPU, while mostly idle.
This is also the reason for the noise/fan complaints; because the case is so small, Apple was forced to use small fans running at a high RPM to cool the system, thus creating an annoying buzzy model airplane noise. Drives a lot of people crazy. Then again, many users don't even notice, so it goes both ways.
Absolutely.
When did nVidia go and piss Apple off?
I guess the wait will continue for the PCI express (SLI-able) Macs. The sad irony is that the Mac market stands to gain more from the bidirectional nature of PCIe (just imagine integrated GPU acceleration within the coreimage and corevideo libs for rendering effects for stuff like film/tv CGI, photoshop, etc..) than Windows boxes, and yet they persist with AGP (and crap AGP cards at that!).
When oh when will Apple go PCIe with 2 (or more!) x16 slots?
Nope, not heavy, actually among the lighter portables you'll find. Also without the hopeless add-ons most windows portables have. It's either integrated or for sale by a third party supplier. And in case you haven't read it already, Linus is currently using Linux on a G5, no reason why you shouldn't...
I think, therefore I am...I think.
The Compromise of 1908
The company from which Wenger emerged had been a supplier to the Swiss Army as early as 1893, and its competitor, Victorinox, since 1890. Wenger is in the French-speaking Jura region, and its competitor is in the German-speaking canton of Schwyz. To avoid friction between the two cantons, the Swiss government decided in 1908 to use each supplier for half of its requirements. So while Victorinox can lay claim to be the "original", Wenger can state that its Swiss Army Knives are the "genuine". In any case, both have been manufacturing Swiss Army Knives for over 100 years and both must meet identical specifications laid down by the army.
BIf this is true, it's the best business decision at Apple since the iPod. I sincerely hope it's true, and if it is, I won't care how they do it. Making a G5 look slow due to disk swapping is just pathetic, and they can't be saving that much money by going with 256MB anymore. Two 256MB would be fine with me, though it probably won't be how they do it. I mean, what's the price difference between one 256MB stick and two 512MB sticks, even at retail?
They probably want to throw down 512MB default configuration machines at this point anyway, since everyone has been giving them a hard time about the 256MB configuration. Just check out any Mac mini review you care to find, or any other Apple hardware review- they almost all say "256MB is not really enough" at some point.
No, that's what his own lawyer says as well. Ciarelli's position since the beginning has been that YES, he did indeed break the law, but that he should be exempt because California has a (stupidly misguided) "shield law" that gives certain special classes of people certain protections.
I was actually kinda hoping that this case would inspire either the court or the legislature to get rid of that absurdly unconstitutional law, but it doesn't look like that will happen. Instead, the judge just declared that whether the "shield law" is constitutional or not, Ciarelli isn't protected by it.
So the facts of the case are not in dispute.
Just to perfectly clear for everyone, a hard drive's tested Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN REALITY!!
For the end user, purchasing a hard drive with an MTBF of 500,000 hours indicates that you have a 50% chance of disk drive failure in under 500k hours, and a 50% chance of drive failure after 500k hours. In other words, if a hard drive sells 1,000 units, and half of the drives die in an hour, while the other half last 1 million hours, the MBTF is 500,000 hours. Useful, eh?
Also its worth noting that manufacturers test the MBTF by putting a few dozen (or more) drives into a giant over and stressing them to the max. They will fail in a reletively short time. That time is averaged and modified to "reflect" real world usage. It is useful only for drive manufacturers (for risk management estimates etc...)
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who do not.
When oh when will Apple innovate again?
Among the many things you're not getting, this is a key one. When Apple innovated with Newton, they were first to market and made a shitload of mistakes for the benefit of the latecomers.
They avoided that with the iPod by not being first but instead taking an existing idea with niche appeal and perfecting it for the mass market. Oh, how terribly stupid of them!
Of course, naysayers will look on one strategy and mock the mistakes; and then they'll look at the other and mock the "lack of innovation." Who gives a shit? Would you rather be first and a big fat failure, or second and most successful?
As for "3% of the desktop" representing "death", why not look at it as four million CPUs sold annually? That's a viable platform, whether you like it or not. (If it's so irrelevant, why do you even care?)
Oh, and look. Roughly 30% growth in CPU sales versus the year-earlier quarter. Gee, how does that compare to the industry?
It's not about "all hailing Apple's great success", it's about letting go of the idiotic idea that a small percentage share of a gargantuan market is a sign of impending doom. While we're at it, how about letting go of the equally idiotic idea that a company that scores a success outside its core market has somehow done a bad or irrelevant thing.
Mmmmmkay?
I know, don't feed the trolls...
First, Apple didn't "steal" Darwin. It was based on BSD-licensed open source and they use it legally, and furthermore they maintain it as open source (which they are not required to do, but it costs them nothing so they do it anyway). The BSD community benefits from Apple's work in Darwin in several places, which doesn't hurt Apple because they don't compete with BSD.
Second, the best part of OS X is not the UNIX part. The kernel is stable and fast enough, and the BSD base system is OK, but really, Linux and Solaris are better for UNIXy things. What Apple wrote by themselves (and bought from NeXT, which was owned by their co-founder) was a GUI that is much better than any other GUI in any operating system, and a development environment to match it. This was never open source, and Apple did not "steal" it.
Finally, Mach and Darwin do not have fine-grained locking, and thus they suck on SMP. That's why Apple is adding fined-grain locking to Tiger, so their kernel synch isn't so monolithic. They're not stealing this either, they're writing it themselves, and it's possible that the BSD community will benefit from this, too (not sure how much it will only affect Mach stuff).
Apple has stolen plenty of designs (cough Watson cough), but this is not one of them.
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According to Appleinsider.com, Delphi's estimated MTBF (meantime between failure) for these liquid cooling CPU units is only 2 to 2.5 years. This is a primary driver for Apple to wanting to move to cooler PowerPC chips so that they can avoid having liquid coolers and avoiding having to fix these water-cooling unit en masse starting in 2006.
Pentium 4s are now around 95% RISC
No they're not. RISC is an architecture design model, not an implementation tool. A P4 is a CISC processor implemented as two or three separate processors pipelined together: there's the first stage that rewrites the CISC code as RISC code, then there's a vertical microcode processor that resembles RISC only in so far as early RISC processors were modelled on vertical microcode machines (the IBM 801 could be said to have been both), then there's the FPU and some post-instruction fixup and the hardware that manages the whole mess.
But having a RISC-like core to do the heavy lifting doesn't make it RISC, any more than having a VLIW-like horizontal microcode core makes the AMD processor VLIW. It's better to say that the P4 is a hardware emulator for the x86 instruction set with a RISC-like processor as part of the emulation. It's not RISC, though, any more than running a software Playstation emulator on a Windows box makes the MIPS RISC processor being emulated into a CISC.
You are not entirely correct here.
I will agree that for the average user, MTBF does not mean a whole lot. No single drive is going to last 100+ years!
There are some of us that run server farms of 20,000 drives or more. When you calculate the MTBF across the farm, and then compare how many drives you fail in a week, the numbers are pretty close.
This factors in for how many techs I am going to need to keep up with drive replacements.
So saying that MTBF has absolutely nothing to do with reality is in itself, a myth.