1 - OS 9.2.2 install for installing just OS 9.
1 - OS X install for installing just OS X.
the 4 restore CDs to make the computer like new.
1 - applications cd with individual application installers for the third party bundles.
plus two blank CD-Rs
This is the Sys requirments for Adobe After Effects 5.5
Windows
Intel® Pentium® II, III, or 4 (multiprocessor recommended)
Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
128 MB of RAM installed (256 MB or more recommended)
120 MB of available hard-disk space for installation (500 MB or larger hard disk or disk array recommended for ongoing work)
CD-ROM drive
24-bit color display adapter
Apple QuickTime(TM) 5.0 software (recommended)
Microsoft DirectX 8.0a software (recommended)
As it has been said when it comes to video production Quicktime is everywhere.
Again Quicktime is not a file format or a compression scheme it is a framework for time based media. The anlogy I like is Quicktime is a bowl in to which you can put things, like a text file that contains the closed captioning, an MP3 audio file and a High Defintion Video complete and ready to broadcast. Quicktime is then responsible for making everything play together. Quicktime is an API and media layer that controls well media, its a set of librarys and an enviroment in which you can build media objects and control those objects. Practically entire Apps can be built using quicktime.
Naturally a company will do something like this if they believe it is to their benefit, but with Apple they truly seem to be trying real hard to help open standards along and because the company, is such a reflection of Steve Jobs, it unlike other large companies can have a conscience as generally what Steve says goes. Corporate culture they say starts at the top, and you can see several examples of Apple's commitment to open standard support. They use XML extensively. When they needed to add additional web support to AppleScript they choose to use XML-RPC and SOAP. Once they had a platform that can run it, they have fully and as completely as they can integrated Java as a core language and environment for OS X. They make sure that OS X ships with perl and Open SSH and TCL and PHP. I know you say that its a Unix OS and they just got that for free, but your wrong its a Mac OS and they had to put man hours in to updating the packages and then QA, no Mac OS has had these by default before and Windows (their primary competitor) doesn't but they did anyway.
Plus look at some of these quotes
Quote from Fink's FAQs (fink.sourceforge.net)
"Apple is aware of Fink and has started to support us as part of their Open Source relations efforts. So far they are providing us with pre-release seeds of new Mac OS X versions in the hope that Fink packages can be adapted in time for the release. Quote: "Hopefully it underscores the commitment that many suspect we're not willing to provide. We'll get better at the open source game over time." Thanks Apple! "
Quote from the ask Darwin (www.apple.com/darwin)
"Q: Can I add something to Darwin (using the Open Source versions), then run the rest of Mac OS X on top of it?
A: Since Mac OS X is built using that same repository, and so many components are fully Open Source, the answer is generally yes. However, a few Mac OS X components (particularly Core Foundation) include both open and non-open code, so replacing Mac OS X pieces with the "Darwin" version would result in a loss of functionality (and potentially an unusable system). Our goal is to have a clean separation of open and non-open components, so that it becomes easy to interchange a customized Darwin system into a Mac OS. For example, many non-open drivers are available as loadable binary modules, allowing them to be used with a Darwin (or Darwin-ized) system. We are also looking at ways to make it identify to find out which versions of Darwin code correspond to shipping versions of Mac OS X."
Plus Apple within 2 weeks had the Darwin 1.4.1 CD image out (1.4.1 corresponds to X.1).
So to end my long ramble, I think Apple just did this, because I think the guys running the show at Apple Steve, Avie, Rubenstien etc all believe in open standards and Apple's actions in the last while support this.
Pentium processor
Graphics by Nvidia
40GB hard drive
128MB of RAM
Ethernet and modem
USB ports
Is this the latest Compaq Presario or the X-Box? Does anyone else notice that M$ is trying to make an end run around the OEMs? Its not just going to compete with TiVo or PS2, it's a computer, soon you'll surf the web, write notes to GrandMa and everything else. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Altivec is not limited you can use it to perform 2 single precision FP calculations or 4 integer calculations and you do not have to program for it in assembly. Apple and Motorola recognized the X86 SMID assembly only programming as a problem and created several C libraries for Altivec.
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Also the G4+ will have the 2 Altivec units, 2 FPU units and 4 Integer units each with 32 dedicated registers. Plus it will use the 256bit data paths, integrate up to 1MB level 2 cache on to the die and support up to 4MB level 3 cache. Thats why the PPC will eventullaly pull away they have the space to do more.
Also remember that Apple has to continue on their current OS upgrade path, they could not switch to Linux even if they wanted to. Why you ask, just image how lynched in the media and with its developers if it announced yet another OS strategy? Apple got a BSD Unix when they bought NeXT so that is what they have to work with. On a side note, I think its good idea, BSD got the faster and more secure networking.
I have to agree, what is is it about the way the Mac mouse moves that makes the Mac feel, just so smooth compared to any other OS, I have used. (Windows 3.1,95, 98, NT MKLinux, OpenLink and LinxPPC, tried both KDE and Gnome)
Because Apple's implementation of the Ultra ATA 33 and 66 bus rocks, Macintouch has bench marks of the G4 400 (the one with the sucky motherboard) sustaining 20MB/sec with its ATA-33 drive, and even PC Magazine when running its benchmarks on the G3 ( a few months back) noted that the IDE vs single SCSI drive, performance gap was very small. Now striped SCSI raids and 160MB/sec SCSI still rule the roost, but hell the card and drives will cost you close to 3500 bucks alone.
But unlike MMX, SSE, or 3DNow, Altivec is an entirely separate vector unit, with its own vector permute unit to chop shop the data, so it is usable by the SIMD instructions. So unlike AMD's or Pentiums a PPC 7400 (aka G4) can process FP, Int and Altivec at the same time, no mode switches or register swaps.
I think Apple will do the right thing, under Steve Jobs they have been one of the few companies willing to change things, because of user input. and I think that their track record on reversing stupid decisions supports my hope. 1. iMac originally supposed to have a 33.6 modem, changed to 56K when users complained 2. Opened source several key technologies 3. When their Open Source license was deemed too restrictive they changed it 4. They tried to charge $1 a port for Firewire, but then formed a patent pool with Intel, Sony, Compaq, Philps and others, and changed the fee to $.25 per system, unlimited ports. 5. Have made an effort too hold and in fact reduce the price on every system, introduced under Steve jobs, no they are still not as cheap as X86 systems, and probably will not be unless they can start to claim 20%+ market share, because the economies of scale are not there for them.
(please do not bring up promises made pre Steve Jobs aka Scully and the other dumb asses) and yes I know that they have screwed people around on OS X for Intel and free/low cost yellow box licensing, but the conspiracy side of me thinks that more of the blame lies with the Microsoft Office for the Mac deal. 150 Million bucks does not HELP save a multibillon dollar company, but having M$ Office does. Also Steve's cutting of the clones, Newton and things like Open Doc I believe was necessary. Apple it seems was like an old house the foundation was still good, but the upper floors were rotten. So just like a renovator Steve had to to tear it down to the foundation which is, easy to use multimedia computers, not cool but expensive handhelds. True sometimes good wood gets torn down too, but this is the price you pay for a renovation. And since I am rambling, the clones will probably return, once OS X is out and the Mac only needs a open standard Open Firmware to boot, the first time around Apple had to do so much design work on the boards, for the clone makers and it was not getting enough money to support the R & D for and entire industry. Just look a the motherboard for a StarMax 3000, its got Apple Computer silk screened on it not Motorola.
The coolest thing I have seen in a while was when Jobs showed off Firewire at the May developers conference, he hot plugged two computers in to one digital camera and both computers pulled the video full screen real time. I just do not think USB is got the balls to compete with that.
Open Source apps should definitely, appear for Windows. Why? It helps peoples awareness of how powerful Open Source apps are. Currently most people probably think the apps are hacked together , and difficult to use, they have no real experience with them. Developing and distributing for Windows as an equal allows you to preach to the unwashed masses and not to just the choir as it were. Most end users (accountants, secretaries, VPs the vast majority of users, remember we are the minority) get to know apps they do not care about what runs them (until it crashes a loses a day of work) I work in a Mac shop and I can't count the number of times I have had client's new to the Mac whine that they do not like Macs because they are so different than Windows and that they just cannot get used to them. I then remove AppleWorks (formally ClarisWorks) and give them Office 98 and suddenly the Mac runs just like Windows, to them. My point is that getting users to run Linux apps smooths the way to a transition. If they all know how to run StarOffice, then what runs it, is not their worry but their IT staff. Enter Linux's stability strengths that win over the IT staff, who now do not face resistance from the Marketing VP or some other dumb ass because Linux does not run like Windows. Also it makes for a much easier sell when you do not have to say to a company, hey get those Windows boxes out of here because you what to run application "X" and it only runs on Linux (I know Linux can run on Windows boxes, but even in a small Office a complete OS change is not a quick or easy thing), it is much easier to say here we have a solution that can leverage your existing technology and incorporate the new (accountants love this phrase). This is one of the reasons Linux has become so popular in the server area, because of SAMBA, it says we'll play nice with you current NT and 9X client's, no fuss, no muss.
I have been running a 6100/66 and AppleShare IP 5 since AppleShare 5 came out approx 2yrs ago, the computer functions as my offices' central drop box. For approx 75 people who use it regularly to post any updates or useful files that everyone should have access to, it has not crashed a single time in fact it has only been shut down once to install a new hard drive (the old one got full) about a year ago, other than that it has been running non-stop and I run no maintenance, no Disk First Aid, no Norton, nothing (I laugh in the face of danger). And my 8550/150 webstar box is just as problem free, true Macs won't run Yahoo, but for workgroup servers (what NT is most often used for) they will run just fine.
I know with the G3 processor (and I admit I am assuming the same with CISC processors) that the size of the backside cache made more of a difference that the main memory bus speed. Newer Tech posted a paper demonstrating that moving from a 30Mhz to 66Mhz bus (this was when the G3 first came out) with a G3, produced a mere 5 - 8% speed change, but moving from the 512K backside cache to the 1MB produced an increase of aprox 20 - 30% and you could get another 10-15% (if I remember correctly) moving from the 2:1 cache ratio to the 1:1 cache ratio, this is why Apple's old 300 beige (which had the 66mhz bus but a full 1MB cache), could beat the new 300 blue (with a 100mhz bus but only 512K cache) in processor tests, of course the new ATI 128 vs the Rage Pro made sure the new 300 beat the old in every other important test (Quake frame rates!!!)
"Any independent source will show you that the G3 is at most 10-15% faster than a Pentium II at the same clock speed." Sorry but PC Mag (aka KissWinTel Ass Mag) just ran a real world bake off and the 400MHz G3 beat the 500Mhz Pentium III overall, the only thing it lost on was Quake and Microsoft products. And Hell will freeze over before M$ products run faster on a Mac than on Windows, and for Quake, I guess that proves the TNT card is faster than the ATI Rage 128. So despite a 100Mhz difference the G3 rules. Plus this is running 8.5 which is still 45% 68K code.Wait til fully PPC native OS X.
The G4's SIMD capabilities look like they maybe theoretically 4X as fast because the Pentium III has only 8 128Bit registers and requires a mode change compared to Altivec's 32 128bit registers. Plus you get the G3's integer performance, the 604E's FPU and up to 2MB of full speed backside cache. Drool.
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Thanks, I forgot to mention the hardware tester CD.
Apple provides with the Power Mac G4
1 - OS 9.2.2 install for installing just OS 9.
1 - OS X install for installing just OS X.
the 4 restore CDs to make the computer like new.
1 - applications cd with individual application installers for the third party bundles.
plus two blank CD-Rs
This is the Sys requirments for Adobe After Effects 5.5
Windows
Intel® Pentium® II, III, or 4 (multiprocessor recommended)
Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
128 MB of RAM installed (256 MB or more recommended)
120 MB of available hard-disk space for installation (500 MB or larger hard disk or disk array recommended for ongoing work)
CD-ROM drive
24-bit color display adapter
Apple QuickTime(TM) 5.0 software (recommended)
Microsoft DirectX 8.0a software (recommended)
As it has been said when it comes to video production Quicktime is everywhere.
Again Quicktime is not a file format or a compression scheme it is a framework for time based media. The anlogy I like is Quicktime is a bowl in to which you can put things, like a text file that contains the closed captioning, an MP3 audio file and a High Defintion Video complete and ready to broadcast. Quicktime is then responsible for making everything play together. Quicktime is an API and media layer that controls well media, its a set of librarys and an enviroment in which you can build media objects and control those objects. Practically entire Apps can be built using quicktime.
Naturally a company will do something like this if they believe it is to their benefit, but with Apple they truly seem to be trying real hard to help open standards along and because the company, is such a reflection of Steve Jobs, it unlike other large companies can have a conscience as generally what Steve says goes. Corporate culture they say starts at the top, and you can see several examples of Apple's commitment to open standard support. They use XML extensively. When they needed to add additional web support to AppleScript they choose to use XML-RPC and SOAP. Once they had a platform that can run it, they have fully and as completely as they can integrated Java as a core language and environment for OS X. They make sure that OS X ships with perl and Open SSH and TCL and PHP. I know you say that its a Unix OS and they just got that for free, but your wrong its a Mac OS and they had to put man hours in to updating the packages and then QA, no Mac OS has had these by default before and Windows (their primary competitor) doesn't but they did anyway.
Plus look at some of these quotes
Quote from Fink's FAQs (fink.sourceforge.net)
"Apple is aware of Fink and has started to support us as part of their Open Source relations efforts. So far they are providing us with pre-release seeds of new Mac OS X versions in the hope that Fink packages can be adapted in time for the release. Quote: "Hopefully it underscores the commitment that many suspect we're not willing to provide. We'll get better at the open source game over time." Thanks Apple! "
Quote from the ask Darwin (www.apple.com/darwin)
"Q: Can I add something to Darwin (using the Open Source versions), then run the rest of Mac OS X on top of it?
A: Since Mac OS X is built using that same repository, and so many components are fully Open Source, the answer is generally yes. However, a few Mac OS X components (particularly Core Foundation) include both open and non-open code, so replacing Mac OS X pieces with the "Darwin" version would result in a loss of functionality (and potentially an unusable system). Our goal is to have a clean separation of open and non-open components, so that it becomes easy to interchange a customized Darwin system into a Mac OS. For example, many non-open drivers are available as loadable binary modules, allowing them to be used with a Darwin (or Darwin-ized) system. We are also looking at ways to make it identify to find out which versions of Darwin code correspond to shipping versions of Mac OS X."
Plus Apple within 2 weeks had the Darwin 1.4.1 CD image out (1.4.1 corresponds to X.1).
So to end my long ramble, I think Apple just did this, because I think the guys running the show at Apple Steve, Avie, Rubenstien etc all believe in open standards and Apple's actions in the last while support this.
Pentium processor
Graphics by Nvidia
40GB hard drive
128MB of RAM
Ethernet and modem
USB ports
Is this the latest Compaq Presario or the X-Box? Does anyone else notice that M$ is trying to make an end run around the OEMs? Its not just going to compete with TiVo or PS2, it's a computer, soon you'll surf the web, write notes to GrandMa and everything else. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Altivec is not limited you can use it to perform 2 single precision FP calculations or 4 integer calculations and you do not have to program for it in assembly. Apple and Motorola recognized the X86 SMID assembly only programming as a problem and created several C libraries for Altivec.
Also the G4+ will have the 2 Altivec units, 2 FPU units and 4 Integer units each with 32 dedicated registers. Plus it will use the 256bit data paths, integrate up to 1MB level 2 cache on to the die and support up to 4MB level 3 cache. Thats why the PPC will eventullaly pull away they have the space to do more.
correction : just imagine how lynched in the media and with its developers they would be if they announced yet another OS strategy?
Yah Yah thats why the preview button is there.
Also remember that Apple has to continue on their current OS upgrade path, they could not switch to Linux even if they wanted to. Why you ask, just image how lynched in the media and with its developers if it announced yet another OS strategy? Apple got a BSD Unix when they bought NeXT so that is what they have to work with. On a side note, I think its good idea, BSD got the faster and more secure networking.
I have to agree, what is is it about the way the Mac mouse moves that makes the Mac feel, just so smooth compared to any other OS, I have used. (Windows 3.1,95, 98, NT MKLinux, OpenLink and LinxPPC, tried both KDE and Gnome)
Because Apple's implementation of the Ultra ATA 33 and 66 bus rocks, Macintouch has bench marks of the G4 400 (the one with the sucky motherboard) sustaining 20MB/sec with its ATA-33 drive, and even PC Magazine when running its benchmarks on the G3 ( a few months back) noted that the IDE vs single SCSI drive, performance gap was very small. Now striped SCSI raids and 160MB/sec SCSI still rule the roost, but hell the card and drives will cost you close to 3500 bucks alone.
But unlike MMX, SSE, or 3DNow, Altivec is an entirely separate vector unit, with its own vector permute unit to chop shop the data, so it is usable by the SIMD instructions. So unlike AMD's or Pentiums a PPC 7400 (aka G4) can process FP, Int and Altivec at the same time, no mode switches or register swaps.
I think Apple will do the right thing, under Steve Jobs they have been one of the few companies willing to change things, because of user input. and I think that their track record on reversing stupid decisions supports my hope.
1. iMac originally supposed to have a 33.6 modem, changed to 56K when users complained
2. Opened source several key technologies
3. When their Open Source license was deemed too restrictive they changed it
4. They tried to charge $1 a port for Firewire, but then formed a patent pool with Intel, Sony, Compaq, Philps and others, and changed the fee to $.25 per system, unlimited ports.
5. Have made an effort too hold and in fact reduce the price on every system, introduced under Steve jobs, no they are still not as cheap as X86 systems, and probably will not be unless they can start to claim 20%+ market share, because the economies of scale are not there for them.
(please do not bring up promises made pre Steve Jobs aka Scully and the other dumb asses) and yes I know that they have screwed people around on OS X for Intel and free/low cost yellow box licensing, but the conspiracy side of me thinks that more of the blame lies with the Microsoft Office for the Mac deal. 150 Million bucks does not HELP save a multibillon dollar company, but having M$ Office does. Also Steve's cutting of the clones, Newton and things like Open Doc I believe was necessary. Apple it seems was like an old house the foundation was still good, but the upper floors were rotten. So just like a renovator Steve had to to tear it down to the foundation which is, easy to use multimedia computers, not cool but expensive handhelds. True sometimes good wood gets torn down too, but this is the price you pay for a renovation. And since I am rambling, the clones will probably return, once OS X is out and the Mac only needs a open standard Open Firmware to boot, the first time around Apple had to do so much design work on the boards, for the clone makers and it was not getting enough money to support the R & D for and entire industry. Just look a the motherboard for a StarMax 3000, its got Apple Computer silk screened on it not Motorola.
The coolest thing I have seen in a while was when Jobs showed off Firewire at the May developers conference, he hot plugged two computers in to one digital camera and both computers pulled the video full screen real time. I just do not think USB is got the balls to compete with that.
Open Source apps should definitely, appear for Windows. Why? It helps peoples awareness of how powerful Open Source apps are. Currently most people probably think the apps are hacked together , and difficult to use, they have no real experience with them. Developing and distributing for Windows as an equal allows you to preach to the unwashed masses and not to just the choir as it were. Most end users (accountants, secretaries, VPs the vast majority of users, remember we are the minority) get to know apps they do not care about what runs them (until it crashes a loses a day of work) I work in a Mac shop and I can't count the number of times I have had client's new to the Mac whine that they do not like Macs because they are so different than Windows and that they just cannot get used to them. I then remove AppleWorks (formally ClarisWorks) and give them Office 98 and suddenly the Mac runs just like Windows, to them. My point is that getting users to run Linux apps smooths the way to a transition. If they all know how to run StarOffice, then what runs it, is not their worry but their IT staff. Enter Linux's stability strengths that win over the IT staff, who now do not face resistance from the Marketing VP or some other dumb ass because Linux does not run like Windows. Also it makes for a much easier sell when you do not have to say to a company, hey get those Windows boxes out of here because you what to run application "X" and it only runs on Linux (I know Linux can run on Windows boxes, but even in a small Office a complete OS change is not a quick or easy thing), it is much easier to say here we have a solution that can leverage your existing technology and incorporate the new (accountants love this phrase). This is one of the reasons Linux has become so popular in the server area, because of SAMBA, it says we'll play nice with you current NT and 9X client's, no fuss, no muss.
I have been running a 6100/66 and AppleShare IP 5 since AppleShare 5 came out approx 2yrs ago, the computer functions as my offices' central drop box. For approx 75 people who use it regularly to post any updates or useful files that everyone should have access to, it has not crashed a single time in fact it has only been shut down once to install a new hard drive (the old one got full) about a year ago, other than that it has been running non-stop and I run no maintenance, no Disk First Aid, no Norton, nothing (I laugh in the face of danger). And my 8550/150 webstar box is just as problem free, true Macs won't run Yahoo, but for workgroup servers (what NT is most often used for) they will run just fine.
I know with the G3 processor (and I admit I am assuming the same with CISC processors) that the size of the backside cache made more of a difference that the main memory bus speed. Newer Tech posted a paper demonstrating that moving from a 30Mhz to 66Mhz bus (this was when the G3 first came out) with a G3, produced a mere 5 - 8% speed change, but moving from the 512K backside cache to the 1MB produced an increase of aprox 20 - 30% and you could get another 10-15% (if I remember correctly) moving from the 2:1 cache ratio to the 1:1 cache ratio, this is why Apple's old 300 beige (which had the 66mhz bus but a full 1MB cache), could beat the new 300 blue (with a 100mhz bus but only 512K cache) in processor tests, of course the new ATI 128 vs the Rage Pro made sure the new 300 beat the old in every other important test (Quake frame rates!!!)
"Any independent source will show you that the G3 is at most 10-15% faster than a Pentium II at the same clock speed." Sorry but PC Mag (aka KissWinTel Ass Mag) just ran a real world bake off and the 400MHz G3 beat the 500Mhz Pentium III overall, the only thing it lost on was Quake and Microsoft products. And Hell will freeze over before M$ products run faster on a Mac than on Windows, and for Quake, I guess that proves the TNT card is faster than the ATI Rage 128. So despite a 100Mhz difference the G3 rules. Plus this is running 8.5 which is still 45% 68K code.Wait til fully PPC native OS X.
The G4's SIMD capabilities look like they maybe theoretically 4X as fast because the Pentium III has only 8 128Bit registers and requires a mode change compared to Altivec's 32 128bit registers. Plus you get the G3's integer performance, the 604E's FPU and up to 2MB of full speed backside cache. Drool.