Actually, I bet the 512K L2, 700mhz iBook will outrun a P4 at 1ghz pretty easily. You gotta deflate P4 mhz against P3's and Athlons, which don't do quite as much per clock as a G3. So the P4 at 1.0 would be roughly equiv to a 500-600mhz G3.
... when both AMD and Intel's offerings generally take more than 50 watts. The last desktop chip that had any hope of working well as a mobile was the Tualatin P3/Celeron... which is being dropped.
IMO, even the P4M is too power hungry - I'd absolutely hate to have a laptop with a desktop P4. Bring on Banias! (or even some more P3M models:) )
As for slowing down a desktop CPU - after I got my Thinkpad 600E it turned out it had been set to power saving mode - 90mhz:) It wasn't running too slowly, but I definitely noticed when I reset it to full speed.
I've got one myself and it runs Mandrake 9 very happily. On the contrary it's quite well built, and designed in Japan and not Taiwan like most new notebooks;)
1999 was basically the last year for ISA sound cards in general. The ISA chip works pretty well once it's configured. Now if only I could trade out the Neomagic video chip for a Radeon Mobility M9;)
It's not nearly as bad as my prior laptop - a circa 1997 Toshiba Tecra (high end, definitely not a cheap build either) with ISA IDE. No DMA *at all*...
If you do some quick googling you can get the default sound card port settings and how to set it up with either ALSA or OSS.
for alsa in modules.conf : options snd-card-cs4236 snd_port=0x530 snd_cport=0x538 snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0 snd_fm_port=0x388
for oss: options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
'cuz a P3/1.2 (.13u) runs cooler than a P4 or Athlon, and in the P3-S version (512K cache) does more per clock? I could see a high end model of either of the latter melting the plastic.;)
*That* explains why the 400W goes for $67 at newegg - it's a G series model whereas the 350W (also quite nice IMO) is a B.
I forgot to mention Powerman, I've recommended and used Inwin cases partially 'cuz of that. At a computer show often the Inwin cases are one of the few brands with decent power supplies. Alas, many many more "Super Cases" with Deer etc supplies are out there.
They tested two different-badged Sparkles - the Fortron and Verax(sp) both have FSP part #'s which correspond with Sparkle. Their naming scheme is pretty consistent across brands.
I use a 350W one with the same model # as the one THG tested. There are definitely different grades of sparkle, you can tell by comparing a current 300W and 350W model.
But... given that they're making DVD-A with DVD backwards compatibility for now, the same deal holds, and most people with 5.1 home theater systems already have DVD-Video units, they won't bother with SACD right off. The DVD-A disks will be a carrot so that they upgrade to DVD-A capable DVD players, I'd imagine.
From what I've seen the changes are more cosmetic - there's one bug scheduled to be fixed before/in 8.1, and (almost) all KDE apps work unchanged. The "About KDE" dialog does not have the credits for the program in question - there's another About dialogue too.
This is the kind of freedom the GPL provides and is within the rights of Red Hat as well as all free software users.
You do realize that that's like saying Dell's new Dimension is based on the know-how from designing and manufacturing the TiBook, iBook, and G4 Cube, right?
It's not impossible, at least some units of most or all of those products have been made by Hong Hai (Foxconn) in Taiwan.
This bumps MP3 decoders out of Debian main (if it's not in non-US already), redhat, etc. where cost is not the only priority. So the next version of redhat, even boxed - which as of a while ago only includes Free Software* - can no longer contain MP3 decoding.
It's not a small fee compared to what it was before which was nothing.
(* - RMS would argue that because of the patents it never was, but it was free beer at least and free enough for pragmatists)
The XVID team left the last stable, trusted, and last snapshot up on their site for everyone to get. So it's quite possible someone will pick up the work, but remember coding video codecs is not easy.
Yeah, look at Agilent, they have most of HP's hard-core stuff. Carly did the same to Lucent with Agere.
Check out theinquier.net... Mike Magee posts war stories on occasion. Sometimes the rumors are off but other times dead-on (like the story last week about the 2400/2600+ Athlons, and unfortunatly the Alpha-to-Intel story.)
IMO Mike Capellas ruined Compaq desktops by (a) throwing Alpha to the wind^W^WIntel and (b) doing the whole HP merger in the first place. Oh, and (c) not getting rid of the Presario line, which thinking about it *should* have been sold to HP...;)
That said Carly hasn't ruined HP's real core profitable biz these days... ink.
The software might be moving slower - for now - but the hardware is still moving quickly. This year there are at least 3 new video card designs (not just refreshes) and it's going to take quite a while for games to use them all. Carmack has a lot of new toys to play with for Doom 3, and it's going to be a very large jump from Q3.
The cache is unified, very much like a Duron. I don't think it's as effective as the Duron design though for various reasons. The chip is a bit slow, but it runs cool and really is pretty good for a lot of tasks - a good "slow" chip.
If you can wait a few months, the C4 will have 256K 16-way L2 and much better multimedia performance.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, I bet the 512K L2, 700mhz iBook will outrun a P4 at 1ghz pretty easily. You gotta deflate P4 mhz against P3's and Athlons, which don't do quite as much per clock as a G3. So the P4 at 1.0 would be roughly equiv to a 500-600mhz G3.
Now, a P3-M/1.0 would be a different story.
... when both AMD and Intel's offerings generally take more than 50 watts. The last desktop chip that had any hope of working well as a mobile was the Tualatin P3/Celeron... which is being dropped.
:) )
:) It wasn't running too slowly, but I definitely noticed when I reset it to full speed.
IMO, even the P4M is too power hungry - I'd absolutely hate to have a laptop with a desktop P4. Bring on Banias! (or even some more P3M models
As for slowing down a desktop CPU - after I got my Thinkpad 600E it turned out it had been set to power saving mode - 90mhz
I've got one myself and it runs Mandrake 9 very happily. On the contrary it's quite well built, and designed in Japan and not Taiwan like most new notebooks ;)
;)
1999 was basically the last year for ISA sound cards in general. The ISA chip works pretty well once it's configured. Now if only I could trade out the Neomagic video chip for a Radeon Mobility M9
It's not nearly as bad as my prior laptop - a circa 1997 Toshiba Tecra (high end, definitely not a cheap build either) with ISA IDE. No DMA *at all*...
If you do some quick googling you can get the default sound card port settings and how to set it up with either ALSA or OSS.
for alsa in modules.conf : options snd-card-cs4236 snd_port=0x530 snd_cport=0x538 snd_irq=5 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=0 snd_fm_port=0x388
for oss: options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
What *other* excuse does a geek need? Building and configuring regular x86 boxen gets boring after a while.
'cuz a P3/1.2 (.13u) runs cooler than a P4 or Athlon, and in the P3-S version (512K cache) does more per clock? I could see a high end model of either of the latter melting the plastic. ;)
*That* explains why the 400W goes for $67 at newegg - it's a G series model whereas the 350W (also quite nice IMO) is a B.
I forgot to mention Powerman, I've recommended and used Inwin cases partially 'cuz of that. At a computer show often the Inwin cases are one of the few brands with decent power supplies. Alas, many many more "Super Cases" with Deer etc supplies are out there.
They tested two different-badged Sparkles - the Fortron and Verax(sp) both have FSP part #'s which correspond with Sparkle. Their naming scheme is pretty consistent across brands.
The FSP model # is a giveaway that it's a Fortron/Sparkle relabel...
As for the Hirochi(sp) I've heard they make the non-Truepower lines of Antec power supplies.
You've never dealt with Deer (aka L&C, Allied, etc), have you? I've seen Deers destroy motherboards when they go.
I use a 350W one with the same model # as the one THG tested. There are definitely different grades of sparkle, you can tell by comparing a current 300W and 350W model.
But... given that they're making DVD-A with DVD backwards compatibility for now, the same deal holds, and most people with 5.1 home theater systems already have DVD-Video units, they won't bother with SACD right off. The DVD-A disks will be a carrot so that they upgrade to DVD-A capable DVD players, I'd imagine.
Look at how badly Creative implemented PCI on the first go (SB Live) - I could see them screwing up 1394 even worse...
I wonder if "Psyche" is a Serial Experiments Lain reference, or just a coincidence... ;)
From what I've seen the changes are more cosmetic - there's one bug scheduled to be fixed before/in 8.1, and (almost) all KDE apps work unchanged. The "About KDE" dialog does not have the credits for the program in question - there's another About dialogue too.
:)
This is the kind of freedom the GPL provides and is within the rights of Red Hat as well as all free software users.
You are also free to not use it.
I'm waiting for the inevitable sequel series...
Tuuuuuxxxxxx in Spaaaacccceeeeee!
In which Tux looks for a legendary planet of Herring for him and his people.
Atari merged with JTS (the worst hard drive maker ever, or close to) - and later on Hasbro bought the Atari name for $7mil.
You do realize that that's like saying Dell's new Dimension is based on the know-how from designing and manufacturing the TiBook, iBook, and G4 Cube, right?
It's not impossible, at least some units of most or all of those products have been made by Hong Hai (Foxconn) in Taiwan.
- Chad
The first cartridge is half full on the 1440 at least - but that's listed in Costco's spec sheet for it and it's 3000 instead of 6000 pages.
This bumps MP3 decoders out of Debian main (if it's not in non-US already), redhat, etc. where cost is not the only priority. So the next version of redhat, even boxed - which as of a while ago only includes Free Software* - can no longer contain MP3 decoding.
It's not a small fee compared to what it was before which was nothing.
(* - RMS would argue that because of the patents it never was, but it was free beer at least and free enough for pragmatists)
Sony used to make one - bought a DVMC-DA2 ~2yrs ago, and Canopus still does in that price range too.
The XVID team left the last stable, trusted, and last snapshot up on their site for everyone to get. So it's quite possible someone will pick up the work, but remember coding video codecs is not easy.
Yeah, look at Agilent, they have most of HP's hard-core stuff. Carly did the same to Lucent with Agere.
;)
Check out theinquier.net... Mike Magee posts war stories on occasion. Sometimes the rumors are off but other times dead-on (like the story last week about the 2400/2600+ Athlons, and unfortunatly the Alpha-to-Intel story.)
IMO Mike Capellas ruined Compaq desktops by (a) throwing Alpha to the wind^W^WIntel and (b) doing the whole HP merger in the first place. Oh, and (c) not getting rid of the Presario line, which thinking about it *should* have been sold to HP...
That said Carly hasn't ruined HP's real core profitable biz these days... ink.
Some of HP's electronics dept got spun off into Agilent, but the calc division got f*cked.
The software might be moving slower - for now - but the hardware is still moving quickly. This year there are at least 3 new video card designs (not just refreshes) and it's going to take quite a while for games to use them all. Carmack has a lot of new toys to play with for Doom 3, and it's going to be a very large jump from Q3.
The cache is unified, very much like a Duron. I don't think it's as effective as the Duron design though for various reasons. The chip is a bit slow, but it runs cool and really is pretty good for a lot of tasks - a good "slow" chip.
If you can wait a few months, the C4 will have 256K 16-way L2 and much better multimedia performance.