or the fact it's Steve Jobs up there at podium, whipping the silken cloth off these computers much in the same way a magician whisks the cloth off his beautiful assistant? (The assistant, in other words, isn't there to facilitate the trick in any real way -- she's more to make the magician look good.
In most magic tricks that involve an assistant, the assistant is critical. I've seen several tricks where the magician is just waving his arms around distracting the audience while the assistant does all the actual work, disappearing from one location and appearing in another, etc.
Is it possible, say, for Jobs to sue the pants off MacInsider in an attempt to recover the stolen thunder? Or does thunder -- once it's stolen -- simply cease to be? (Meaning: it's thunder only once -- only at the moment when the announcement is made -- and once that moment has passed, it is no longer thunder.)
In the case of trade secrets, once the information becomes public, it's no longer a trade secret, legally. If someone violated an NDA, you can sue them for whatever exhorbitant amount of money you think they've cost you, but you have to find them first.
Wow. Sounds mediocre to me. All that mediocrity for $1,800! What a frickin' bargain!
You forget, all that mediocrity is packed into a 7" nearly-silent cube that looks very pretty on a desk. And as has already been pointed out, a G4/450 is not nearly as mediocre as it sounds (they're trying to work on making it sound better, but they're not having much luck so far).
Wait a few months for the ATi Radion and gigabit Ethernet. And throw in an extra 128MB DIMM.
There are two ports on the back of the new Cube and G4 macs: one standard VGA, and one of these special cables that carries power, video and USB to the new monitors. So if you want to use a cheap 3rd party monitor you can. The ATI chipset has nothing to do with this physical connection.
But the new Apple monitors only have the new connection. You can't plug them into old cards.
However, the old ATi Rage Pro does have the new connector on it, so the issue is moot.
Furthermore, I've not seen the inside guts of this cube, but I would be very surprised if the video is on a PCI card. In keeping with Apple tradition it's probably soldered right to the mainboard.
No, it's on a 2x AGP slot. Apple went from PCI to AGP shortly after they released the G4 (the original G4 systems were basically hacked-up G3 systems with PCI video; they discontinued them as soon as the Sawtooth motherboard with 2x AGP was ready). Apple was using PCI cards for video on the blue G3 systems. Currently only the iMac and laptops have on-board video (and the iMac is basically a modified laptop with a CRT, which is why the first three revisions used SO-DIMMs).
If you take a close look here you can clearly see that there is barely room for the extra RAM, CPU and MoBo. You have to remember that this badboy is 7in * 7in * 9in. There isn't space for a PCI bridge with slots.
One single 2x AGP slot. It fits. Specs are here, and in the photo at the top of this page the video card is plainly visible, plugged into a brown AGP slot.
I would bet my left testicle that this chipset is hardwaired to the board.
Apple was never planning to ship Radeons in the cubes. Think of it, they change the entire graphics chipset inside of two days? Yeah, right. What ATI was announcing was the rollout of add-on cards that they would sell.
Uhh..
Wouldn't they just be swapping video cards? The Cube just has a 4x AGP slot, right?
When they start making it less expensive than an Air Force fighter jet.
Well, there ya go. If enough people make it clear that they're looking for fast hard drive access, companies will start competing on price. Until then, we're stuck with things as they are. UltraATA/100 is on the way, though.
(Recall their big "Windows 98 will be ported to Macs" rumor. Not only is that completely inprobable, it's also probably impossible. When I e-mailed them and asked them why 98 and not the PPC version of NT, their reply made it clear that they had no idea what Windows NT even was.)
Actually no, I don't remember that. Sounds pretty stupid though.
For reliable reports, I'll take AppleInsider (formerly Reality) any day. They don't go to print regularly, but when they do, their accuracy rate is pretty dang good.
That is true. I read both, and when the same thing comes up on both sites, the details they share are almost always dead on.
Anyway, the Cube is probably an all time low for Mac Rumor sites. They had the news for only about a week before the announcement, and real (fake) pictures didn't surface until the day before. Even the super top-secret iMac was known to them months before the official announcement.
I think of it more as an all-time high in Apple's security, actually. Information just isn't leaking like it used to.
I have to point out that Mac OS Rumors did have this one first, and they even had many of the details correct (not counting the parts of the Saturday update that came from the bogus e-mail).
I've been reading MOSR almost daily since before they had a domin name. Yes, take everything with a grain of salt - but then, they tell you that it's a rumor site and the stuff they cover isn't reliable. Sure, they've been wrong before. Everyone knows that. Even when they get the right idea, they're often wrong on some of the details. That doesn't mean they're never right about anything! Lighten up.
Yeah, it's somewhat Slashdotted, but mostly it's just in the process of being updated. Dunno why it's taking this long to finish updating, though.
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Yep, it's a personal server, with 25 or 30 users, some of whom don't even use it for mail. I'm not charging for the service; I've given out all the accounts for free. If anyone doesn't like the way I run things, well, they're more than welcome to stop using my bandwidth.
I imagine I'll get more users once I get a faster connection. Being on 56k sucks ass. Should be getting DSL in about three weeks, though, God willing. Yay!
Read it again; that's not silly. They're not saying you can't link to other sites, just that you can't link to other pages on your own site that have the same information.
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If you want to do your own spam filtering on your own site, that's fine. Depending on someone else to tell you who you should block is just asking for trouble.
However, if I (as a server admin) choose to use such a service, I should have every right to do so.
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In most magic tricks that involve an assistant, the assistant is critical. I've seen several tricks where the magician is just waving his arms around distracting the audience while the assistant does all the actual work, disappearing from one location and appearing in another, etc.
Is it possible, say, for Jobs to sue the pants off MacInsider in an attempt to recover the stolen thunder? Or does thunder -- once it's stolen -- simply cease to be? (Meaning: it's thunder only once -- only at the moment when the announcement is made -- and once that moment has passed, it is no longer thunder.)
In the case of trade secrets, once the information becomes public, it's no longer a trade secret, legally. If someone violated an NDA, you can sue them for whatever exhorbitant amount of money you think they've cost you, but you have to find them first.
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No PCI slots.
I need something to justify this monster G4 I bought just a couple of months ago.
You've been using it for two months.
I suppose they'll expect me to fork out another $120 for these revolutionary input devices.
Yes. If you're not happy about it, send your $120 to MacAlly, Logitech, Microsoft, or whatever other vendor you thinks makes a better product.
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Uhh...
According to the Q3 financial results from both companies, ATi's total sales were $288.2 million. Apple's profits were $200 million.
What are you smoking? Baking powder?
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You forget, all that mediocrity is packed into a 7" nearly-silent cube that looks very pretty on a desk. And as has already been pointed out, a G4/450 is not nearly as mediocre as it sounds (they're trying to work on making it sound better, but they're not having much luck so far).
Wait a few months for the ATi Radion and gigabit Ethernet. And throw in an extra 128MB DIMM.
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But the new Apple monitors only have the new connection. You can't plug them into old cards.
However, the old ATi Rage Pro does have the new connector on it, so the issue is moot.
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No, it's on a 2x AGP slot. Apple went from PCI to AGP shortly after they released the G4 (the original G4 systems were basically hacked-up G3 systems with PCI video; they discontinued them as soon as the Sawtooth motherboard with 2x AGP was ready). Apple was using PCI cards for video on the blue G3 systems. Currently only the iMac and laptops have on-board video (and the iMac is basically a modified laptop with a CRT, which is why the first three revisions used SO-DIMMs).
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One single 2x AGP slot. It fits. Specs are here, and in the photo at the top of this page the video card is plainly visible, plugged into a brown AGP slot.
I would bet my left testicle that this chipset is hardwaired to the board.
That's OK, I don't really want it...
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It can. It's just a 2x AGP slot. More info here.
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Uhh..
Wouldn't they just be swapping video cards? The Cube just has a 4x AGP slot, right?
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Well, there ya go. If enough people make it clear that they're looking for fast hard drive access, companies will start competing on price. Until then, we're stuck with things as they are. UltraATA/100 is on the way, though.
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Wow, that's a lot. Good thing I'm getting DSL next month; I only have about 7GB of MP3s so far. I've got some catching up to do!
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Actually no, I don't remember that. Sounds pretty stupid though.
For reliable reports, I'll take AppleInsider (formerly Reality) any day. They don't go to print regularly, but when they do, their accuracy rate is pretty dang good.
That is true. I read both, and when the same thing comes up on both sites, the details they share are almost always dead on.
Anyway, the Cube is probably an all time low for Mac Rumor sites. They had the news for only about a week before the announcement, and real (fake) pictures didn't surface until the day before. Even the super top-secret iMac was known to them months before the official announcement.
I think of it more as an all-time high in Apple's security, actually. Information just isn't leaking like it used to.
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The iPalm?
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No, they moved it to Mac OS X Server for about three weeks and then moved it back to Netscape Enterprise on Solaris, according to Netcraft.
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I've been reading MOSR almost daily since before they had a domin name. Yes, take everything with a grain of salt - but then, they tell you that it's a rumor site and the stuff they cover isn't reliable. Sure, they've been wrong before. Everyone knows that. Even when they get the right idea, they're often wrong on some of the details. That doesn't mean they're never right about anything! Lighten up.
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I imagine I'll get more users once I get a faster connection. Being on 56k sucks ass. Should be getting DSL in about three weeks, though, God willing. Yay!
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I didn't say it was a bad idea.
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They're USB. They work. Check MacAlly, Logitech and Microsoft for USB mice.
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Read it again; that's not silly. They're not saying you can't link to other sites, just that you can't link to other pages on your own site that have the same information.
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However, if I (as a server admin) choose to use such a service, I should have every right to do so.
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