which is why they're calling it a supercomputer - it meets or exceeds the qualifications for a 'supercomputer' by the us gov't, so it can't be exported to 'sensitive' countries. anyone have the exact specs/requirements for this dubious honor? and are there any other shipping desktop machines that meet it?
as the new tv commercial (watch ABC tonight) says - "pentium-based systems.. they're harmless"
> first off, i cant even connect to their sight! > this might be due to the hit rate, but still. it > should be able to handle it. (?)
yes, ladies and gentlemen, the slashdot effect in action, combined with the fact that, as you and half the civilized (read: slashdot readers) and about half the mac-owning world were beating on it, they were trying to update their new pages.
> second, the g-4 sight , when i reached it, had > the same "think different" campaign ideas. this > includes explaining what mhz means!!
wait until they post the update explaining what a gigaflop is. oy, the humanity. but what do you expect from a company that tries to cater to the professional, as well as the consumer. yes, my grandmother likes the tangerine, but what do all the numbers mean?
> apple once again has claimed fastest machine. i > dont know if its true or not, but i doubt it.
i'm skeptical myself, but in the keynote they said they performed the operations specified in Intel's own benchmarks (as published) and beat their own published results. no actual hard numbers, but it sure as hell flew on the tests they did in the address. granted, they were optimized for altivec, but then, all the pentium tests were optimized for MMX, etc..
> "So, if you're one of those professionals..." > what? its like they are trying to portray mac > users to some sophisticated guy in a 3000 $ suit!
no.. the professionals they're talking to are graphics and creative professionals. we creative types don't wear suits. you're lucky if you see us in shoes. enterprising, business-types can continue using PCs until they burn up in the all-consuming fire of the apocalypse, but the creative guys have been getting a lot of flak lately for sticking with the mac in the face of better performance from NT boxes, so this is more ammunition for the "i'll use the mac till you pry the trackball from my cold, dead hands" crowd - namely graphics folks.
> "the first desktop with wireless computing" > uh huh, suuuure.
built-in? that you can use as a wireless hub? i'm not in the wireless market myself, but i, for one, haven;t seen any other pc with it built in from the factory.
i watched the keynote, and i think the coolest spec to quote on the new g4 is that, in the time it takes to run one operation, the light from your monitor hasn't had time to reach your eyes.
1: will it run linuxppc? because, no matter how fast os8 or 9 are, the real processing power won't be accessible until osX or linux are pumping it for all it's got
2: will the/. apple icon have to change? now that the systems are 'graphite' instead of blueberry...
as you all have noted, there is a javascript error on the site. sigh. that's microsoft's QA for you..
while i'm no javascript hack, it probably doesn't help that the same function is defined in two separate instances, one in the header, in a 'jscript', the other in the body in 'javascript'.
that and there's no browser version filtering...
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i tend to like the idea that apple and linux/OSS be good buddies. after all, apple is first and foremost a hardware company. that's where their money is made and spent, time expended in R&D, etc. better hardware means better performance for hardware-independent oses...
if apple can continue to make powerpc boxes that smoke intel's best offerings, and the oss community can be made comfortable with the platform for development - and a lot has been made of linuxppc lately - then i could very well see a future generation of macs without what some people are calling 'the closed, proprietary macos'
as a developer, i would think taking some of the high marks from the macos - namely the high level of hardware integration, plug and play that works, dammit, etc - and tying them together with a bombproof linux kernel would be a great goal to set for the 'linux desktop' people are looking forward to.
hell, if i could get a disk to eject just by dragging its icon onto an 'eject' icon in X, i'd be thrilled.
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which is why they're calling it a supercomputer - it meets or exceeds the qualifications for a 'supercomputer' by the us gov't, so it can't be exported to 'sensitive' countries. anyone have the exact specs/requirements for this dubious honor? and are there any other shipping desktop machines that meet it?
as the new tv commercial (watch ABC tonight) says - "pentium-based systems.. they're harmless"
no, that's actually 4 floating point operations per cycle, so less than a foot at the starting 400mhz speed.
> first off, i cant even connect to their sight!
..."
> this might be due to the hit rate, but still. it
> should be able to handle it. (?)
yes, ladies and gentlemen, the slashdot effect in action, combined with the fact that, as you and half the civilized (read: slashdot readers) and about half the mac-owning world were beating on it, they were trying to update their new pages.
> second, the g-4 sight , when i reached it, had
> the same "think different" campaign ideas. this
> includes explaining what mhz means!!
wait until they post the update explaining what a gigaflop is. oy, the humanity. but what do you expect from a company that tries to cater to the professional, as well as the consumer. yes, my grandmother likes the tangerine, but what do all the numbers mean?
> apple once again has claimed fastest machine. i
> dont know if its true or not, but i doubt it.
i'm skeptical myself, but in the keynote they said they performed the operations specified in Intel's own benchmarks (as published) and beat their own published results. no actual hard numbers, but it sure as hell flew on the tests they did in the address. granted, they were optimized for altivec, but then, all the pentium tests were optimized for MMX, etc..
> "So, if you're one of those professionals
> what? its like they are trying to portray mac
> users to some sophisticated guy in a 3000 $ suit!
no.. the professionals they're talking to are graphics and creative professionals. we creative types don't wear suits. you're lucky if you see us in shoes. enterprising, business-types can continue using PCs until they burn up in the all-consuming fire of the apocalypse, but the creative guys have been getting a lot of flak lately for sticking with the mac in the face of better performance from NT boxes, so this is more ammunition for the "i'll use the mac till you pry the trackball from my cold, dead hands" crowd - namely graphics folks.
> "the first desktop with wireless computing"
> uh huh, suuuure.
built-in? that you can use as a wireless hub? i'm not in the wireless market myself, but i, for one, haven;t seen any other pc with it built in from the factory.
i watched the keynote, and i think the coolest spec to quote on the new g4 is that, in the time it takes to run one operation, the light from your monitor hasn't had time to reach your eyes.
gigaflops, baby...
actually, it begs two obvios questions:
/. apple icon have to change? now that the systems are 'graphite' instead of blueberry...
1: will it run linuxppc? because, no matter how fast os8 or 9 are, the real processing power won't be accessible until osX or linux are pumping it for all it's got
2: will the
i don't know about you folks, but i submitted this story several days ago. perhaps it was during the latest round of technical difficulties. oh well.
as you all have noted, there is a javascript error on the site. sigh. that's microsoft's QA for you..
while i'm no javascript hack, it probably doesn't help that the same function is defined in two separate instances, one in the header, in a 'jscript', the other in the body in 'javascript'.
that and there's no browser version filtering...
i tend to like the idea that apple and linux/OSS be good buddies. after all, apple is first and foremost a hardware company. that's where their money is made and spent, time expended in R&D, etc. better hardware means better performance for hardware-independent oses...
if apple can continue to make powerpc boxes that smoke intel's best offerings, and the oss community can be made comfortable with the platform for development - and a lot has been made of linuxppc lately - then i could very well see a future generation of macs without what some people are calling 'the closed, proprietary macos'
as a developer, i would think taking some of the high marks from the macos - namely the high level of hardware integration, plug and play that works, dammit, etc - and tying them together with a bombproof linux kernel would be a great goal to set for the 'linux desktop' people are looking forward to.
hell, if i could get a disk to eject just by dragging its icon onto an 'eject' icon in X, i'd be thrilled.