Conroe will be featured in the iMac and the new PowerMac; Quad capability may or may not be present...
Woodcrest could show up in the PowerMac replacement if Apple wants to make it a true workstation class system... and it would allow them to maintain a Quad core system. It comes down to price point and components costs. In the case of the iMac it would require no work for Apple to drop in a Merom, they may go with that in the short term (also Merom runs at nearly half the power consumption and heat output of Conroe).
Woodcrest MAY be present in the next revision of the XServe and XServe RAID
The Xserve RAID is a storage device, it has no need for a Woodcrest (Xeon 51xx) processor.
Point releases are traditionally announced at WWDC.
Apple already announced well over a month ago that at WWDC 2006 they would be talking about and showing off Mac OS X 10.5.
Actually backdating is legal as long as it is approved by the companies board, revealed to stock holders and correctly accounted for.
What is backdating? Many companies, it now appears, allowed executives, board members, and other employees to look back over the history of their company's stock price movements and pick a date in the past on which they wanted their options to be granted. Thus, the executives could, and did, guarantee themselves a profit by selecting a date on which the stock price was very low. The options allowed the executives to buy stock in the future at the old, low stock price.
What are the rules governing backdating of options? Companies are free to give employees the right to purchase stock at whatever price the company wants, but they are supposed to reveal those actions to investors and deduct the costs of the options from profits. Until the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, companies were free to give employees options, and not deduct the cost from profits, as long as the price at which the employee could buy future stock was the price set by the market on the day the option was granted. Now, companies must deduct even the costs of those options from their profits.
If companies are free to backdate options, why are companies coming under SEC scrutiny? Many companies, it turns out, hid the backdating from investors and failed to subtract the costs from their profits. Lying to investors can be grounds for criminal prosecution by the Justice Department and civil penalties by the SEC. These actions may also mean the companies filed inaccurate tax forms, which could cause the Internal Revenue Service to demand fines and penalties.
Core = Core Solo and Core Duo (aka Yonah, a laptop chip)
Core 2 = the foundation of Intel's next generation CPU which are as follows...
Merom - laptop chip - T55xx, T56xx and T7xxx
Conroe - desktop chip - E6xxx, X6800, X6900, etc. - (Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, etc.)
Woodcrest - server chip - Xeon 51xx
Until Intel competes on price, AMD will continue to take market share.
Have you seen Intel's pricing for Core 2 based CPUs? They compare if not out compete AMD on price for performance.
Intel's Xeon 5100 series starts at $209 (@1.6GHz) and tops out at $851 (@3GHz) while AMD's dual core Opteron series starts at $316 (Model 265) and tops out at $1051 (Model 285).
Yeah was talking mostly in the context of x86 based system... get much above 4 socket systems and you run up against the POWER5, Itanium, PA-RISC (still a lot around), etc. in high socket count systems.
Yeah AMD is after all much much younger then Intel... lets see by around one whole year. In other words neither of them are an "upstart" when in comparison to each other today.
Intels current Core 2 based server class offerings only support 2 socket systems while AMD can scale to 4+ socket system. So in the 4+ socket segement AMD is still the only option (IIRC Intel's Itanium as well).
Of course with that said a lot of data centers as deploying blade based systems with the norm being 2 socket blades... so I believe Intel is targeting the large aspect of the market.
Darwin was made available by Apple... basically to address licensing requirements of source that they used and to provide Apple source to external parties to help in their development work on KEXT, etc. It was never meant, from Apple's point of view, to be a alternate "free" operating system distribution but they did allow for that possibility (via licensing and refinements of that license) but they never really had strong plans to spend a lot of resources on making such a thing happen.
OpenDarwin was started as a result of dreams of a handful of Apple employees and external individuals to see if they could build a more vibrant community, one that would lead to a distribution while also acting as a source of fixes and improvements from external parties. Apple helped to get it going, likely to see what would happen but they never had strong plans to change how they did things internally to make life easier for OpenDarwin folks (for one Apple has a strong desire to keep future products/capabilities secret so as a result they had to be selective on when and how they release source outside the company).
The reality is they had what they needed to build a community and a small one started but never really matured into anything. Lots of folks took with little give to the community effort. It would have been interesting to see it grow into something more (like WebKit appears to be doing now) but the main issue was trying to take something beyond what Apple really had envisioned... hard to do that without a stronger community.
My father had a Lisa at his office back when Apple was doing some external distribution and I used it to make the display collateral for my science fair project (trying to find the exact year...) which won in the junior division. Folks at the science fair had never really seen graphics and typesetting like that... some didn't believe I actually made it myself on a personal computer.
Visualize a tube sealed at both ends with a flat surface running lengthwise inside the tube dividing it in two (aka the floor in the aircraft above the cargo area). If one are of tube is pressurized while the other is not pressurized then any delta between the two area would result in a force being applied to the surface dividing the two sections.
Lets say a 5 PSI (pounds per square inch) delta exists... then every square inch of that surface is feeling this force... say 100 feet long by 10 wide and you get 144,000 pounds of force that the floor has to support (that is in addition to the weight of the passengers, etc.). A non-trivial amount of force to deal with.
Let's see. While this person who has done no physical harm (and is a first time offender) is awaiting sentencing which murederer, rapists or other violent felon should we kick out to make room for him.
...you know they have different types of prisons... ones for violent felons, ones for "white collar" criminals, etc. In other words no violent felon would be released just to house Kenny ("white collar" criminal).
Also he may have not directly physically harmed someone but his actions indirectly harmed millions of folks and some of those committed suicide, etc. as a result of the situation they found themselves in (thanks to Kenny's actions). I would state that such wide spread harm can easily be equated with a single murder.
I'd like to thank the US for these restrictive laws that prevent US companies making money out of internet gambling.
You do realize this is a law in one state out of the fifty states () that make up the United States of America... a state the represents about 2.1% of the total population of the United Stated of America.
Also it is very likely that this law will be found unconstitutional in part or whole at federal level (if not at the state level).
A large amount of POSIX support that lives in the kernel (XNU) is inherited from FreeBSD but Apple has and is feeding back relevant changes to FreeBSD.
Don't forget that Intel version of XNU may contain code licensed from Intel and others that they don't have the right to distribute. The delay could be as simple as Apple needing the time to work out the legalities and/or repackage the code to allow distribution of a subset of Intel XNU. It is known that some of the Intel related drivers are not releasable because of legalities.
Personally I bet it is a mix of several issues (including time and resources) and that come WWDC 2006 more will be made clear (one way or the other).
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Woodcrest could show up in the PowerMac replacement if Apple wants to make it a true workstation class system... and it would allow them to maintain a Quad core system. It comes down to price point and components costs. In the case of the iMac it would require no work for Apple to drop in a Merom, they may go with that in the short term (also Merom runs at nearly half the power consumption and heat output of Conroe).
The Xserve RAID is a storage device, it has no need for a Woodcrest (Xeon 51xx) processor.
Point releases are traditionally announced at WWDC.
Apple already announced well over a month ago that at WWDC 2006 they would be talking about and showing off Mac OS X 10.5.
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060
Seriously need a way to moderate the top level submission... this one is so clearly mischaracterizing the reality of things.
Core = Core Solo and Core Duo (aka Yonah, a laptop chip)
Core 2 = the foundation of Intel's next generation CPU which are as follows...
Merom - laptop chip - T55xx, T56xx and T7xxx
Conroe - desktop chip - E6xxx, X6800, X6900, etc. - (Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, etc.)
Woodcrest - server chip - Xeon 51xx
Have you seen Intel's pricing for Core 2 based CPUs? They compare if not out compete AMD on price for performance.
Intel's Xeon 5100 series starts at $209 (@1.6GHz) and tops out at $851 (@3GHz) while AMD's dual core Opteron series starts at $316 (Model 265) and tops out at $1051 (Model 285).
Yeah was talking mostly in the context of x86 based system... get much above 4 socket systems and you run up against the POWER5, Itanium, PA-RISC (still a lot around), etc. in high socket count systems.
Yeah AMD is after all much much younger then Intel... lets see by around one whole year. In other words neither of them are an "upstart" when in comparison to each other today.
Intels current Core 2 based server class offerings only support 2 socket systems while AMD can scale to 4+ socket system. So in the 4+ socket segement AMD is still the only option (IIRC Intel's Itanium as well).
Of course with that said a lot of data centers as deploying blade based systems with the norm being 2 socket blades... so I believe Intel is targeting the large aspect of the market.
Conroe isn't the server chip... the Xeon 5100 series is the Core 2 based server chip.
...even then the submission and related article story need a severe beating with a grammar stick.
Anyone have a decoder ring that works for this submission? I think mine is busted.
prescriptive easement
lighten up, Francis
Review the successful Minotaur. Russia also has had success with theirs despite this failure.
Darwin was made available by Apple... basically to address licensing requirements of source that they used and to provide Apple source to external parties to help in their development work on KEXT, etc. It was never meant, from Apple's point of view, to be a alternate "free" operating system distribution but they did allow for that possibility (via licensing and refinements of that license) but they never really had strong plans to spend a lot of resources on making such a thing happen.
OpenDarwin was started as a result of dreams of a handful of Apple employees and external individuals to see if they could build a more vibrant community, one that would lead to a distribution while also acting as a source of fixes and improvements from external parties. Apple helped to get it going, likely to see what would happen but they never had strong plans to change how they did things internally to make life easier for OpenDarwin folks (for one Apple has a strong desire to keep future products/capabilities secret so as a result they had to be selective on when and how they release source outside the company).
The reality is they had what they needed to build a community and a small one started but never really matured into anything. Lots of folks took with little give to the community effort. It would have been interesting to see it grow into something more (like WebKit appears to be doing now) but the main issue was trying to take something beyond what Apple really had envisioned... hard to do that without a stronger community.
My father had a Lisa at his office back when Apple was doing some external distribution and I used it to make the display collateral for my science fair project (trying to find the exact year...) which won in the junior division. Folks at the science fair had never really seen graphics and typesetting like that... some didn't believe I actually made it myself on a personal computer.
Visualize a tube sealed at both ends with a flat surface running lengthwise inside the tube dividing it in two (aka the floor in the aircraft above the cargo area). If one are of tube is pressurized while the other is not pressurized then any delta between the two area would result in a force being applied to the surface dividing the two sections.
Lets say a 5 PSI (pounds per square inch) delta exists... then every square inch of that surface is feeling this force... say 100 feet long by 10 wide and you get 144,000 pounds of force that the floor has to support (that is in addition to the weight of the passengers, etc.). A non-trivial amount of force to deal with.
Also he may have not directly physically harmed someone but his actions indirectly harmed millions of folks and some of those committed suicide, etc. as a result of the situation they found themselves in (thanks to Kenny's actions). I would state that such wide spread harm can easily be equated with a single murder.
You do realize this is a law in one state out of the fifty states () that make up the United States of America... a state the represents about 2.1% of the total population of the United Stated of America.
Also it is very likely that this law will be found unconstitutional in part or whole at federal level (if not at the state level).
A large amount of POSIX support that lives in the kernel (XNU) is inherited from FreeBSD but Apple has and is feeding back relevant changes to FreeBSD.
Don't forget that Intel version of XNU may contain code licensed from Intel and others that they don't have the right to distribute. The delay could be as simple as Apple needing the time to work out the legalities and/or repackage the code to allow distribution of a subset of Intel XNU. It is known that some of the Intel related drivers are not releasable because of legalities.
Personally I bet it is a mix of several issues (including time and resources) and that come WWDC 2006 more will be made clear (one way or the other).
Apple's value comes from software
Actually it comes from solutions which is the sum of software, hardware, packaging, etc.
Aspects of this sound a lot like what took place in Ethertalk / IP aware AppleTalk over a decade ago.
Now if they flushed the distribution lines more often with direct current they won't have such a clogging problem I bet.
(yes I am joking)