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Upgrade Your G4 Cube to a Pentium M Processor
reklusband writes "This report tells of a company that has released a processor upgrade for G4 cubes; this upgrade is in the form of a Pentium M. The cube becomes Windows + Linux, x86-blah compatible."
The Pentium M processor is an excellent choice for a desktop system, because having been designed for laptop computers, the power consumption is astonishingly low (around 20W), and it performs at low frequences (~2 Ghz) better than a Pentium 4 clocked much higher (I believe at 3.4 Ghz). As a plus, it operates at a low temperature and with the Asus Pentium M motherboard, the heat automatically kicks in at a user-defined threshold so the computer is silent for most of its operation.
On the downside though, the price of the processor is quite high and so is the price of a motherboard to support it. Pentium M motherboards also often have, in addition to the disadvantage of costing double the price of a Pentium 4 motherboard, decreased connectivity. A Socket 478 Pentium M adapter does exist though.
And that's old news, look at the post date: Monday, February 28 2005 @ 10:27 AM EST.
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Old, fake news too, from the same Dana as has done various Visual Hacks on assorted Macintoshes.
The site's somewhat dead at the moment, but it's a great read when it's up and running - so long as one's tongue is kept firmly in cheek...
(Off-topic: there's a spider currently walking across my iBook's screen. It started near the bottom and now it's sat at the top, just under the 'Window' menu. Oooer!)
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Keep in mind that Apple probably won't sell MacOS on general pc's -- the sell a package, not just harware or software. That means they only have to support the machines they themselves sell, just like they do now. There won't be much of a change there.
Jan
I think he meant not upgrading as in just making a totally different PC and using a case , as opposed to its not an upgrade of components.
It may be a nice case mod , but have you seen how much the g4 cubes cost , they are still regularly being sold at around the same price of the MacMini
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
As it stands Mac OS X runs on Apple Production hardware because its just that, production, produced by apple, so they know that users won't be using anything but a small hardware set. Even internally within Apple you can get some interesting prototypes lying around with interesting issues associated with them.
In short part of the strength of the Mac is that developers, including Apple, can assume that it will only be run on a very small set of hardware, and thus anything that is not within that set will not only be untested, assuming you do have drivers for it, but even then those drivers will probably not work as well as Mac OS X, as it exists now is not made to handle any piece of hardware you possibly could throw at it, and the OS might not be as stable as it would running real production Apple hardware.
However when it comes to many external devices, eg. DVD/CD Burners, Printers, Scanners, Digital Cameras, etc. many of those tend to Just Work (TM). I have a PowerBook running Tiger and it detects my Sony Cybershot W5 no problem, no futzing with drivers or anything. Similarly I have a media reader that I picked up in Japan that works like a charm with my mac, it recently has been having issues with my Windows box, largely because of how Windows detects it. Similarly at this moment my digital camera does not work with my Windows 2000 box because I've yet to install the right driver. In all fairness the OS I'm running on my mac is six weeks old, closer to three months though if you count from the time it went GM. Compared to Windows 2000 which is over five years old.
My Epson 777, and 1200U scanner both work just fine with Mac OS X. In fact I've yet to find some USB or Firewire device that doesn't work, but I haven't looked all that hard, I'm sure if brought to the challenge someone could find something.
this is a fake, other than the fact that the pentium M is COMPLETElY incompatible with the cubes motherboard, i know someone who knows the person that runs this site and it's fake u-power probably dose not even exist (impossible to find on google) i'll probably hack a P-M motherboard with a yonah in my cube when the x86 version of OS X comes out and hack that into running on it.
I personally think the cubequarium is a much better use of the little box...
http://home.comcast.net/~jleblanc77/cube/
There's always the possibility of closing that lid...
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The aforementioned spider has since moved away from my iBook, and is currently sat on a wound-up ethernet patch cable that's also on my desk. It's been there for the last hour or so.
Ooh! It just wiggled its pedipalps around, and it's on the move again!
(I can't believe I'm writing a spider-blog, but it's already got more factual content than The Fabled Article...
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
But how else are they going to get people to buy Macs, if they don't make sure the buyer gets a feeling of superiority? Why would you buy a weird system that's different from what everybody else is using, if not for the ability to gloat and scorn the "sheeple" ?
Kind of makes you wonder how long Apple has been planning on their x86 compatibility.. I dont think they would already be kicking this stuff out for the G4s without serious hardware modifications or even a total replacement of the mainboard if it hadn't been on the horizon for some time. I've never seen or opened one of these up. Maybe the processor is on it's own daughterboard? I also see the word 'Upgrade' but not sure if they are referring to an upgrade of their own product line or an upgrade for existing users.
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Quick scan of TFA says it uses a bit of emulation and 'Glue Logic' to pull this off.
Hmm Glue Logic. . Mr Owl. . How many rolls of duct tape does it take to get to the center of the G4 Cube/PCube.. .
Well, you don't get it because the perceived superiorities of Mac OS X are perceived. My wife has been using Linux for the past 4 years. I recently got her a Mac-Mini and she hates the thing. She says that OS X is unintuitive and gets in the way of her work.
People confuse habit with ease-of-use. Hell, maybe, that's the problem with my wife, but when she has been on OS X for a month and still hates it, yet had no problem moving to Linux four years ago, I question all the wisdom of all the Apple fanboys.