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New iMac disassembled
wild_berry writes "Found, via Ars Technica's Apple journal, Infinite Loop, a Japanese site disassembling Intel Core Duo iMac. Clint, from the Ars blog, points out that the Core Duo processor is socket-mounted, allowing for possible upgrades, unlike the IBM chips which were soldered to the PCB's. Please use the - cached pages."
I love an intelligernt, well thot out first post!!! Woo Hooo!
i'm going to plug one of these into my butt socket
With three sequential artlices submitted to slashdot, one would think so. I had to check my address bar to make sure i wasn't viewing apple.slashdot.org. Frosty Pist.
I'm not buying one unless I can put Win 95 on it!
Drunks [whitehouse.gov]kill more USians a year than all war/terror since Nam
Please move that space from the inside to the outside of the link text, so the spacing looks right. Thanks :)
the layman's guide to computer science
I got he Alien autopsy film?
One of the things I loved about the G4 powerbook I briefly had was that it could do useful work for 5 hours on a routine basis. My wintel laptop knocks out after about 3-4 hours (and if I'm running my favorite Free OS where power management isn't a priority, I'm lucky to get half that much).
Going from the low power G4 with circa 6 hours of battery life to a dual core Intel, regardless of all the good reviews of the Duo, makes me nervous. Apple has also been consistently mum about battery life on these units.
Battery life is listed right on the front page of the powerbook page in the apple store - up to 5.5 hours. The MacBook page says nothing about battery life - nor does any other page I can find on apple's website.
I would probably spring for one of these guys if I knew battery life was comparable to the lowly G4 laptops apple sells - hell even if they told me it would only get 3-4 hours of battery life. But the fact that they omit battery life after raving so much about performance per watt leaves me wondering if folks who are ordering these puppies are going to be severely disappointed when they find their shiny new toy conks out after playing a full length movie.
Can someone with one of these beasts tell us how long the thing runs unplugged?
OffTopic:
You know I see your sig almost every day. Best I can tell it's some anti-bush sentiment. I thought it would be interesting to point out though, that it is indeed true. In fact, more people died last year from alchohol related deaths (including drunk driving), than have been killed in all US military conflicts since AND INCLUDING vietnam. Vietnam making up the largest number of lives lost at ~50,000 american deaths (from wikipedia), while ~85,000 deaths last year were attributed to alcohol.
Big ones, small ones, some as big as yer 'ead!
Give 'em a twist, a flick o' the wrist...
Does that set any kind of /. record?
Not that I'm complaining, after all Apple is worth more than Dell (in more ways than one) at this point.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
...does it run lin- er, winblows?