> Check the benchmarks and you'll see that the G4 500Mhz is toasting the 1Ghz Athlon in a great deal of tests.
Read those same benchmarks and you'll see they are only comparing a few Photoshop plugins. Altivec is fine, I guess. But it is only a limited set of instructions (a la 3dnow! and SSE) and can only be programmed using ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE.
Apple would be better served if they went into the consumer settop internet box business. They have only a paper future in the PC world.
> If anything, wait for i815 to come out. This is supposed to be the "real" successor to 440BX.
Since this chipset is claimed to support 'dual' rambus & sdram, I'm not sure it is going to be any better. In fact, I've been watching the trades for any news about a Big Cheese getting fired for the continual gaffes about rambus/i820. If nobody gets canned, we can expect more of the same!
Glad they have freebies to download. I have decided to make many copies of Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies and rename them into things likeMetallica - Breath Blows for Maggots (Studio Boot Upcoming Album) and then log in to Napster and then get whined on by those loosers! Hah...
AMD already produces second-rate chips. The last thing we need is a "light version."
That's right, sir!
We're preparing to send Sharkey a set of comparative Quake benchmarks showing how our new 826 chipset beats the Duroc when used with a 66bus Celery coupled with our Rambo memory patent invention product(TM)!
Yep. X's use of fonts is so bad that any decent app that uses fonts well has to roll their own libs to render kerning, special characters, etc. and as a result, they have to have special directories and special files.
Note that both StarOffice and Framamaker support decent font use, but have created their own unique ways of doing things. Adobe seems to have an ATM bundled somewhere in Frame. They use bitmapped fonts for smaller font sizes, use afm files for character kerning.
GTK and QT both only support an RBG, but not a CMYK model which keeps graphic applications out in the cold. Thus, Killustrator, Gimp, etc. don't get used when I'm trying to make a buck with my pitiful design business.
I have to file up my old 60mhz Power Mac for that.
Slashdot Mirror
Read those same benchmarks and you'll see they are only comparing a few Photoshop plugins. Altivec is fine, I guess. But it is only a limited set of instructions (a la 3dnow! and SSE) and can only be programmed using ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE.
Apple would be better served if they went into the consumer settop internet box business. They have only a paper future in the PC world.
The corporate culture there would make Adolf Hitler well up with tears of nostalgia.
Is this Slashdot slowdown just a coincidence? I think not. Slashdot is now the victim of an official Microsoft Denial of Service Attack.
Slashdot has crossed the line and is hurting our American Company's Freedom to Innovate.
Also, this temporary Explorer snafu makes it quite clear that Microsoft doesn't steal everything from open source!
blessings,
Master Bait
Since this chipset is claimed to support 'dual' rambus & sdram, I'm not sure it is going to be any better. In fact, I've been watching the trades for any news about a Big Cheese getting fired for the continual gaffes about rambus/i820. If nobody gets canned, we can expect more of the same!
Glad they have freebies to download. I have decided to make many copies of Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies and rename them into things likeMetallica - Breath Blows for Maggots (Studio Boot Upcoming Album) and then log in to Napster and then get whined on by those loosers! Hah...
God, it's late.
My spirit guides inform me that this law is the speediest method yet for the bloatware companies to self-destruct.
As long as our pals in the Open Source movement still move, the greed of the commercial software thugs will only help our cause.
I cannot stress the importance of the continued growth or warez... Free your mind, folks.
Blessings,
Master Bait
That's right, sir!
We're preparing to send Sharkey a set of comparative Quake benchmarks showing how our new 826 chipset beats the Duroc when used with a 66bus Celery coupled with our Rambo memory patent invention product(TM)!
Are you from the Santa Clara office?
Blessings,
Master Bait
Note that both StarOffice and Framamaker support decent font use, but have created their own unique ways of doing things. Adobe seems to have an ATM bundled somewhere in Frame. They use bitmapped fonts for smaller font sizes, use afm files for character kerning.
GTK and QT both only support an RBG, but not a CMYK model which keeps graphic applications out in the cold. Thus, Killustrator, Gimp, etc. don't get used when I'm trying to make a buck with my pitiful design business.
I have to file up my old 60mhz Power Mac for that.
Intel's work (adding legacy 386 baggage) has made the Merced/Itanic slow and late.
If AMD's 64-bit 386 instruction set cpu is a winner, Intel will drop the Itanic like a hot potato and where would that leave HP?
The truth is, WINE just another Xanadu. A pipe dream, a holy grail that is little more than a carrot in front of many fine programmers.
After so many years of work, WINE still sucks. It really sucks.
Sorry, but you know its true!