Yes. A cube. Please give us a modern cube, or xMac or whatever you want to call it, but something fitting the gap between the (dying) Mac Mini and the massive Mac Pro. We have been crying for that mythical xMac for ages now, so it is time that Apple Inc (gone is the Computer). devotes some resources to that!
I mean, I would be even happy with the iMac hardware without the screen so they can reuse the same iMac and Mac Book Pro designs in three form factors, it is simply that I want to use an external monitor!!
I have been dealing with computers for quite a numbers of years now. RSI, back and shoulder problems, eye strain, you name it, I've been throuh all. We are all bound to suffer of this as long as we keep on sitting in front of the computers both at work and at home.
The only real cure I've found for back problems is actually yoga. The classical yoga program takes no more than 1 hour to do and it stretches thoroughly most muscles in your back. Try it, join some yoga courses and be constant for several months (the beginner's course once a week is NOT enough!). Your milleage may vary, but it worked wonders for me.
reporting that Samsung would be having a 16GB flash hard disk (SDD) available around August 2005. Has anyone seen those? I know for a very good reason that I would be insterested in installing one of those in my Powerbook: the joy of silence.
The newest PowerPC from Freescale, the MPC7448, is supposed to reach full production in October, so these machines are still reusing once more the MPC7447.
If I remember properly this chip was first introduced in October... 2003... rounding nicely two years for Freescale to port the design from 130nm to 90nm. Apple has had to live with the same CPU for over two years (minis, powerbooks, ibooks, emacs... a large bit of its product line!!)
And people still wonder why Apple is switching to Intel.
This explosion and the tragic deads and casualties just shows how dangerous are the arguments of Mr. Bush and his camarilla. Was not the war vs terror supposed to create a safer world? Were we not defeating all the terrorists where they were hiding? Were not we winning?
Of course not. Such "wars" cannot ever be won. The extremists in both sides will always continue to have reasons for this horror. And always strike back on their terms.
The sad thing is that it is always innocent civilians (in London, Irak, Afganistan and young americans) those who die.
Sad day, (as sad as when a bomb goes off in Irak, but then it gets much less media coverage)...
I am surprised that no one has suggested this before, but get a Tibook from eBay, preferably with an Airport card installed.
- It's got a BSD derivative OS - Works without problems (FreeBSD drivers for some laptops... good luck!) - The PowerPC architecture is more energy efficient than 80x86 - The 667 Mhz/DVI model, the one I am typing this with, is silent in normal use. - No need for additional wireless routers/access points - and you can send all you unix boxes to/dev/null !!:)
It is just curious to see that Apple is not using the latest MPC7447 G4s (those found inside the newest Powerbooks) but the oldest MPC7445 , which include only 256K cache and generate more heat as they are produced with an 0.18 u technology (as opposed to the 0.13 u of the 47s)
The only reason I could see is, apart from differentating the models in terms of cache size, the future transition to G5 in the Powerbooks and G4-7447s in the iBooks.
As someone else has already pointed out, there are some architectural advantages in the PPC vs. the x86 comparissons, more specifically the use of Altivec extensions in the current G4s (and of course G5s).
Some tests have already proven that the G5 is not overwhelmingly superior to the G4 when using Altivec code (just a linear increase with the clock rates). Thus waiting for G5 systems is probably not needed in this case.
As the article clearly states, these systems will be used for signal processing applications, where the vector extensions really shine. So in terms of computational power/required energy to run (very important in submarines, i assume) i can image that the G4 are very competitive.
As for the Linux vs. Os X, well, we do have to agree that Linux is very well supported and already qualified for many tasks/contracts (which Os X might not??).
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Yes. A cube. Please give us a modern cube, or xMac or whatever you want to call it, but something fitting the gap between the (dying) Mac Mini and the massive Mac Pro. We have been crying for that mythical xMac for ages now, so it is time that Apple Inc (gone is the Computer). devotes some resources to that!
I mean, I would be even happy with the iMac hardware without the screen so they can reuse the same iMac and Mac Book Pro designs in three form factors, it is simply that I want to use an external monitor!!
I have been dealing with computers for quite a numbers of years now. RSI, back and shoulder problems, eye strain, you name it, I've been throuh all. We are all bound to suffer of this as long as we keep on sitting in front of the computers both at work and at home.
The only real cure I've found for back problems is actually yoga. The classical yoga program takes no more than 1 hour to do and it stretches thoroughly most muscles in your back. Try it, join some yoga courses and be constant for several months (the beginner's course once a week is NOT enough!). Your milleage may vary, but it worked wonders for me.
Around the end of May, there were several sites
- on-Flash-disk-drives-2222.shtml
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23425
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-is-betting
reporting that Samsung would be having a 16GB flash hard disk (SDD) available around August 2005. Has anyone seen those? I know for a very good reason that I would be insterested in installing one of those in my Powerbook: the joy of silence.
- In Soviet Russia the Robot owns you!
...
- Missing option: Silicone... breasts!!
- Imagine a cluster of female silicone-breasted robots
1. Make a female looking robot
2. Silicone breasts!
3. It breathes... and really deep!
4. Profit!
The newest PowerPC from Freescale, the MPC7448, is supposed to reach full production in October, so these machines are still reusing once more the MPC7447.
If I remember properly this chip was first introduced in October... 2003... rounding nicely two years for Freescale to port the design from 130nm to 90nm. Apple has had to live with the same CPU for over two years (minis, powerbooks, ibooks, emacs... a large bit of its product line!!)
And people still wonder why Apple is switching to Intel.
Of course Mitsubishi did it with its Pajero model.
In spanish, pajero means simply "wanker", so they had to change the name to Montero in order to address the spanish market.
Just look at the official pages (in spanish). Although the website is pajero.com, they refer to the car as Montero. Really funny.
http://www.pajero.com/spanish/top.html
This explosion and the tragic deads and casualties just shows how dangerous are the arguments of Mr. Bush and his camarilla. Was not the war vs terror supposed to create a safer world? Were we not defeating all the terrorists where they were hiding? Were not we winning?
Of course not. Such "wars" cannot ever be won. The extremists in both sides will always continue to have reasons for this horror. And always strike back on their terms.
The sad thing is that it is always innocent civilians (in London, Irak, Afganistan and young americans) those who die.
Sad day, (as sad as when a bomb goes off in Irak, but then it gets much less media coverage)...
I just hope this leads web-developers to eventually test and validate their pages with something else than IE.
I am always so annoyed with the "Your browser is not supported" mesage...
I am surprised that no one has suggested this before, but get a Tibook from eBay, preferably with an Airport card installed.
/dev/null !! :)
- It's got a BSD derivative OS
- Works without problems (FreeBSD drivers for some laptops... good luck!)
- The PowerPC architecture is more energy efficient than 80x86
- The 667 Mhz/DVI model, the one I am typing this with, is silent in normal use.
- No need for additional wireless routers/access points
- and you can send all you unix boxes to
http://grotto11.com/blog/archive/1018823985.shtml
It is just curious to see that Apple is not using the latest MPC7447 G4s (those found inside the newest Powerbooks) but the oldest MPC7445 , which include only 256K cache and generate more heat as they are produced with an 0.18 u technology (as opposed to the 0.13 u of the 47s)
The only reason I could see is, apart from differentating the models in terms of cache size, the future transition to G5 in the Powerbooks and G4-7447s in the iBooks.
As someone else has already pointed out, there are some architectural advantages in the PPC vs. the x86 comparissons, more specifically the use of Altivec extensions in the current G4s (and of course G5s).
Some tests have already proven that the G5 is not overwhelmingly superior to the G4 when using Altivec code (just a linear increase with the clock rates). Thus waiting for G5 systems is probably not needed in this case.
As the article clearly states, these systems will be used for signal processing applications, where the vector extensions really shine. So in terms of computational power/required energy to run (very important in submarines, i assume) i can image that the G4 are very competitive.
As for the Linux vs. Os X, well, we do have to agree that Linux is very well supported and already qualified for many tasks/contracts (which Os X might not??).
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