Right, Intel always has had the fastest chip, if you ignore things like Alpha, Athlon, Opteron, Power, PowerPC, and others.
And of course, Intel's motivations are entirely performance, or at least price/performance, not marketing.
The fact that every other company has chosen a different design decision and has made better chips as a result is just an illusion foisted on us by those who think there own thoughts.
POWER is absolutely not binary compatible with PPC. Even the 601 requires the OS to handle some illegal instructions in order to get POWER compatibility. They're also not source compatible, at the assembly level; they have different mnemonics for many instructions, and some instructions on each side are entirely absent on the other.
Both the binaries and the assembly sources are very similar, and could be mechanically translated... but they are just not compatible.
Many 32 bit platforms, including x86, PowerPC, etc, support 64GB of ram... but only 4GB of address space. Most people want more than 4GB of address space, but don't yet care about more than 4GB of ram.
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Those are all valid, of course. But why do I get a sense you're dodging the question? What are you using that lacks a MAC address? The people who are most interested in IPv6 are the people most likely to be using the currently pervasive networking technology.
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Sure, why not?
What are you using, if not ethernet, out of curiousity?
Is "the US will be left behind" the new "think about the children"? I mean, since when are we in a competition to have the best technology possible, instead of the technology most appropriate for what we're doing with it?
Nah, battery charge has to be around 20W or so, I think. Certainly at least 10W. I think the extra few watts are for things like wake-on-lan, and other useless junk I don't much care about.
Yup, there are three differences between the powerbooks and (most, not all) pc laptops. First, the powerbooks are energy-star compliant, which is a goofy way of saying they draw 1W of power when suspended (on battery; they actually take about 3W when on AC, for reasons I don't quite get). This is what allows such long suspend times. Second, they don't support hibernate at all; if you're going away for vacation for a month or more, you have no choice really but to either plug in the powerbook, or shut it down; with a pc, you'd probably just hibernate it. Third, the lid switches work really damn well. There are a lot of PC's that have that, now, but it's still not consistent... the goal, just to let the pc makers know, is so that closing suspends immediately, and opening has an image on the screen before the screen is visible to the user.
I can promise 100% that the G5's will get a speed bump "on or after the 20th Jan"... and, while I can't rule out their getting one before then, I find that unlikely.
I've never understood this argument. Do you cheer your computer on when it's doing something? 5 hours of the computer time is exactly [checks watch] zero of my time.
Then again, I'm the guy who wrote a pathtracer for a class in mathematica... two hours of my time, about forty hours of my computer's. The rest of the class did it much faster... ten hours of there time, one second of the computer's. Which would you prefer?
Eh. I had an iBook G3, which was a bad unit, got it replaced with a G4. I badly miss my G3... better keyboard, better screen construction, better battery life, software over/underclockable... the G4 feels too much like a PC to me; it's nice and all, but it doesn't have that Apple polish.
As long as it plays LPs. Even just singles, which I guess is all that would fit in the tray.
Does anyone else miss 8" disks?
I want an old-style 11-platter (20 surface) 8" hard disk built with today's technology. I don't care if it's only 1350 rpm... just give me my 10TB disk!
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There with Monica's past dinners.
Yuck.
Right, Intel always has had the fastest chip, if you ignore things like Alpha, Athlon, Opteron, Power, PowerPC, and others.
And of course, Intel's motivations are entirely performance, or at least price/performance, not marketing.
The fact that every other company has chosen a different design decision and has made better chips as a result is just an illusion foisted on us by those who think there own thoughts.
Yup, good catch. I was wrong.
However, arrays are limited to 2^32 elements in size.
POWER is absolutely not binary compatible with PPC. Even the 601 requires the OS to handle some illegal instructions in order to get POWER compatibility. They're also not source compatible, at the assembly level; they have different mnemonics for many instructions, and some instructions on each side are entirely absent on the other.
Both the binaries and the assembly sources are very similar, and could be mechanically translated... but they are just not compatible.
POWER is not PowerPC, although the PPC 601 managed to run both instruction sets poorly.
Many 32 bit platforms, including x86, PowerPC, etc, support 64GB of ram... but only 4GB of address space. Most people want more than 4GB of address space, but don't yet care about more than 4GB of ram.
Me too!
Those are all valid, of course. But why do I get a sense you're dodging the question? What are you using that lacks a MAC address? The people who are most interested in IPv6 are the people most likely to be using the currently pervasive networking technology.
Sure, why not?
What are you using, if not ethernet, out of curiousity?
Is "the US will be left behind" the new "think about the children"? I mean, since when are we in a competition to have the best technology possible, instead of the technology most appropriate for what we're doing with it?
Nah, battery charge has to be around 20W or so, I think. Certainly at least 10W. I think the extra few watts are for things like wake-on-lan, and other useless junk I don't much care about.
you want a smaller machine that fits on the tray table
Or at least in the overhead bin! You see the weight of this thing?
I want my 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 like Dell's UXGAs
Call me naive but, if that's what you want, why not buy a dell?
I think I could find something to do with it
From linked site: Weighs 7.5 lbs/1.5" thin
Me too. It would make a good foundation for a bird house.
If you house albatross.
Yup, there are three differences between the powerbooks and (most, not all) pc laptops. First, the powerbooks are energy-star compliant, which is a goofy way of saying they draw 1W of power when suspended (on battery; they actually take about 3W when on AC, for reasons I don't quite get). This is what allows such long suspend times. Second, they don't support hibernate at all; if you're going away for vacation for a month or more, you have no choice really but to either plug in the powerbook, or shut it down; with a pc, you'd probably just hibernate it. Third, the lid switches work really damn well. There are a lot of PC's that have that, now, but it's still not consistent... the goal, just to let the pc makers know, is so that closing suspends immediately, and opening has an image on the screen before the screen is visible to the user.
I can promise 100% that the G5's will get a speed bump "on or after the 20th Jan"... and, while I can't rule out their getting one before then, I find that unlikely.
A few pulleys and levers, some screws... yeah, I'd be good at these games.
5 hours wasted
I've never understood this argument. Do you cheer your computer on when it's doing something? 5 hours of the computer time is exactly [checks watch] zero of my time.
Then again, I'm the guy who wrote a pathtracer for a class in mathematica... two hours of my time, about forty hours of my computer's. The rest of the class did it much faster... ten hours of there time, one second of the computer's. Which would you prefer?
Go to Debug menu, click Show DOM tree.
I assume other browsers have equivalents.
If I were deciding on a photo system for a Mars rover, motion blur would be a compromise I would be more than willing to make.
You're using "users" in the "crack users" sense, yes?
It's like the Iraq WMD situation
I'm not seeing it...
The patents exist, you know.
Eh. I had an iBook G3, which was a bad unit, got it replaced with a G4. I badly miss my G3... better keyboard, better screen construction, better battery life, software over/underclockable... the G4 feels too much like a PC to me; it's nice and all, but it doesn't have that Apple polish.
As long as it plays LPs. Even just singles, which I guess is all that would fit in the tray.
Does anyone else miss 8" disks?
I want an old-style 11-platter (20 surface) 8" hard disk built with today's technology. I don't care if it's only 1350 rpm... just give me my 10TB disk!