The video card in the new Mini is weak. I have the same chipset in my HP S7320 slimline PC and it gets horrible framerates. Major chopfest with Doom3... even gets choppy with WoW... Most people want to play games at home so I wonder why Appleisn;t using something a bit better?
Maybe you wouldn't be exposed to tampon advertising if you cut down on the Sex in the City and Young and the Restless... Try watching UFC...
Actually Cringly oversteps his intelligence when he says "imagine if everyone watching "American Idol" only saw ads for things they might really buy?"
Television advertising is about creating a market for a new product... and advertisers DO get to target their message to specific groups of people (target demographics). Who watches American Idol?.. a lot of people, but primarily young adults. Who watches cartoons in the morning? Who watches soap operas? Who watches action movies? Who watches sports? Of course I'm generalizing, but you get the point.
Furthermore the point of all the latest television / online video software / hardware is ad removal. Fast forwarding ads, downloading tv with the ads stripped out, paying for Ad-free Knight Rider on iTunes... the ads are disappearing fast...
I think this has more to do with drivers than anything else. Gaming companies are reluctanct to spend any time on driver development / optimization for Mac when the vast majority of the market use Wintels for gaming. This is actually Apple's fault for releasing underpowered home computers for the last 3 years. Hopefully this will change with Apple's switch to Intel (I own a Powerbook and a Mac Mini, both of which would run games like garbage no matter which video card was installed because the CPU is way too slow).
The article is actually talking about high-bandwidth services such as streaming media and voice over IP... services that BellSouth themselves could offer and feel that their infrastructure should give priority to BellSouth first (or possibly another provider willing to pay for some of the backbone cost).
They don't seem to be talking about simple websites at all... not that I agree with any of it but lets get this into the right context.
I have an iPod and use http://www.allofmp3.com/... much cheaper than any of the music stores reviewed in this article. 10 cents a track, no subscription, choice between many codecs.
I recently purchased a PVR (Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300) from Future Shop for $399. It works with my Rogers Cable and I haven't had to pay any additional fees other than a $2 per month digital listings feed. I was also able to upgrade the hardrive in it no problem. It can record 2 shows at once, fast forward / pause live tv, do advanced scheduling etc.. actually its really amazing and has changed the way I watch tv. What makes Tivo better (and more costly)?
"We can write freely in blogs," writes Arash Sigarchi, an Iranian journalist who was nonetheless sentenced to 14 years in prison for posting several messages online that criticized the Iranian regime.
I guess freedom has a different definition over there...
Linux as a mainstream OS banks on business and government adoption. Companies like Xandros have been been working tirelessly to make Linux user friendly enough for mainstream businesses to make the switch. There have been a number of small successes in this space, installation is easy, hardware support has improved, and the perception towards Linux and OpenSource is generally favourable. In terms of Xandros they have a product that could very well put Linux into the business mainstream.
Now along comes Apple with an OS that runs on Intel architecture (any Intel box with the current OSXi developers release making the rounds) at the same pricepoint as Xandros ($129).
OSX has excellent hardware AND software support (native with Microsoft even), runs Opensource applications and already has some legs in the business community. Apple puts their marketing machine behind it taking advantage of *nix's positioning and market perception (secure, affordable) that companies like Xandros have been building with the business community and all of a sudden Linux has some competition.
Using IDE or (S)ATA, Bus Mastering is acutally called DMA. This is because unlike SCSI your IDE controller is not on the PCI Bus (hence Bus Mastering). However DMA has the same effect. There are actually two transfers modes that IDE can use - PIO and DMA.
PIO (Programmable Input/Output) data transfers use the CPU to control data transfers between the hard drive and RAM (very CPU intensive).
(U)DMA (Direct Memory Access) transfers do not involve the CPU, transferring data directly between the hard drive and RAM (very fast).
The article quotes... "A 3D rendering engine, on the other hand, is a beast, and our performance will be less than stellar" Haven't some commercial video card companies already opensourced their 2D video drivers? XGI, VIA, and Matrox come to mind, all with average 2D performance and less than stellar 3D performance. Also ATi has released the specs for its older cards as well.
The million dollars might be better spent getting ATi to open up one or two of their high-end 3D cards? Especially if KDE and Gnome move to 3D rendering the desktop ala Quartz Extreme, which would make an OpenSource video card obsolete pretty quickly.
Expansion in the PowerMac is weak... considering how big it is... no extra external drive bays, and only 1 extra internal bay??? and only 3 PCI slots (actually only 2 if you use the new Nvidia card)?? Remember the PowerMac is massive... it should have huge expansion, you should not have to stack drives on top. Furthermore CPU upgrades for the new PowerMac G5's don't exist and Apple engineers have been quoted as saying they may not be possible.
Am I missing something or is the PowerMac severely under spec'd and overpriced compared to the new iMac? I mean the iMac even comes with a display. I really wish they would take a look at improving the PowerMacs price / performance. It is sad when the iMac outpowers the PowerMac and comes in at the same price even after the recent PowerMac updates. These are the latest specs from the Apple store:
iMac $1,499.00 17-inch widescreen LCD 2GHz PowerPC G5 667MHz frontside bus 512K L2 cache 512MB DDR400 SDRAM 160GB Serial ATA hard drive Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (double-layer) ATI Radeon 9600 128MB DDR video memory 56K internal modem
PowerMac $1,499.00 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 600MHz frontside bus 512K L2 cache 256MB DDR400 SDRAM Expandable to 4GB SDRAM 80GB Serial ATA 8x SuperDrive Three PCI Slots NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR video memory 56K internal modem
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Maybe they could announce 2 buttons on the MacBookPro trackpad? Why on earth is it still one button? Even the Mighty Mouse has more buttons.
The video card in the new Mini is weak. I have the same chipset in my HP S7320 slimline PC and it gets horrible framerates. Major chopfest with Doom3 ... even gets choppy with WoW ... Most people want to play games at home so I wonder why Appleisn;t using something a bit better?
Ghetto blaster is no longer a politically correct term .. boombox would be more appropriate.
Nothings cheap when its first released. I remember buying 1x blank CD's for $13 a long long time ago ... give it a couple years and prices will drop.
wtf are these little homepage teaser articles all about?
Maybe you wouldn't be exposed to tampon advertising if you cut down on the Sex in the City and Young and the Restless ... Try watching UFC ...
... and advertisers DO get to target their message to specific groups of people (target demographics). Who watches American Idol? .. a lot of people, but primarily young adults. Who watches cartoons in the morning? Who watches soap operas? Who watches action movies? Who watches sports? Of course I'm generalizing, but you get the point.
... the ads are disappearing fast ...
Actually Cringly oversteps his intelligence when he says "imagine if everyone watching "American Idol" only saw ads for things they might really buy?"
Television advertising is about creating a market for a new product
Furthermore the point of all the latest television / online video software / hardware is ad removal. Fast forwarding ads, downloading tv with the ads stripped out, paying for Ad-free Knight Rider on iTunes
say what?!
I think this has more to do with drivers than anything else. Gaming companies are reluctanct to spend any time on driver development / optimization for Mac when the vast majority of the market use Wintels for gaming. This is actually Apple's fault for releasing underpowered home computers for the last 3 years. Hopefully this will change with Apple's switch to Intel (I own a Powerbook and a Mac Mini, both of which would run games like garbage no matter which video card was installed because the CPU is way too slow).
The article is actually talking about high-bandwidth services such as streaming media and voice over IP ... services that BellSouth themselves could offer and feel that their infrastructure should give priority to BellSouth first (or possibly another provider willing to pay for some of the backbone cost).
... not that I agree with any of it but lets get this into the right context.
They don't seem to be talking about simple websites at all
Vonage.ca has 911. You just have to tell them where your primary residence is.
http://www.vonage.ca/features.php?feature=911
Being a triple core 3.2GHz PowerPC it would be cool to get OS X running on the XBOX 360.
stunts was cool .. I always liked the coin op Race Drivin' out around the same time which reminded me of stunts but had better graphics ..
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Check out some screens here:
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=R&game
Seems like a good time to start a "Best Racer" of all time ..
I would say:
Super Mario Cart
F-Zero
Pitstop II (C64)
MotoRacer
Any additions?
I have an iPod and use http://www.allofmp3.com/ ... much cheaper than any of the music stores reviewed in this article. 10 cents a track, no subscription, choice between many codecs.
I recently purchased a PVR (Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300) from Future Shop for $399. It works with my Rogers Cable and I haven't had to pay any additional fees other than a $2 per month digital listings feed. I was also able to upgrade the hardrive in it no problem. It can record 2 shows at once, fast forward / pause live tv, do advanced scheduling etc .. actually its really amazing and has changed the way I watch tv. What makes Tivo better (and more costly)?
"We can write freely in blogs," writes Arash Sigarchi, an Iranian journalist who was nonetheless sentenced to 14 years in prison for posting several messages online that criticized the Iranian regime. I guess freedom has a different definition over there ...
Lemonade Stand ...
I have yet to master the art of 10x zoom by changing the shape of my eye ..
Believe it or not but "Monad" wasn't their first choice. Other names which were seriously considered include: Mesticle, Menis, Magina and Mitoris ...
The threat is REAL:
Linux as a mainstream OS banks on business and government adoption. Companies like Xandros have been been working tirelessly to make Linux user friendly enough for mainstream businesses to make the switch. There have been a number of small successes in this space, installation is easy, hardware support has improved, and the perception towards Linux and OpenSource is generally favourable. In terms of Xandros they have a product that could very well put Linux into the business mainstream.
Now along comes Apple with an OS that runs on Intel architecture (any Intel box with the current OSXi developers release making the rounds) at the same pricepoint as Xandros ($129).
OSX has excellent hardware AND software support (native with Microsoft even), runs Opensource applications and already has some legs in the business community. Apple puts their marketing machine behind it taking advantage of *nix's positioning and market perception (secure, affordable) that companies like Xandros have been building with the business community and all of a sudden Linux has some competition.
Using IDE or (S)ATA, Bus Mastering is acutally called DMA. This is because unlike SCSI your IDE controller is not on the PCI Bus (hence Bus Mastering). However DMA has the same effect. There are actually two transfers modes that IDE can use - PIO and DMA.
PIO (Programmable Input/Output) data transfers use the CPU to control data transfers between the hard drive and RAM (very CPU intensive).
(U)DMA (Direct Memory Access) transfers do not involve the CPU, transferring data directly between the hard drive and RAM (very fast).
The article quotes ... "A 3D rendering engine, on the other hand, is a beast, and our performance will be less than stellar" Haven't some commercial video card companies already opensourced their 2D video drivers? XGI, VIA, and Matrox come to mind, all with average 2D performance and less than stellar 3D performance. Also ATi has released the specs for its older cards as well.
The million dollars might be better spent getting ATi to open up one or two of their high-end 3D cards? Especially if KDE and Gnome move to 3D rendering the desktop ala Quartz Extreme, which would make an OpenSource video card obsolete pretty quickly.
Expansion in the PowerMac is weak ... considering how big it is ... no extra external drive bays, and only 1 extra internal bay??? and only 3 PCI slots (actually only 2 if you use the new Nvidia card)?? Remember the PowerMac is massive ... it should have huge expansion, you should not have to stack drives on top. Furthermore CPU upgrades for the new PowerMac G5's don't exist and Apple engineers have been quoted as saying they may not be possible.
Am I missing something or is the PowerMac severely under spec'd and overpriced compared to the new iMac? I mean the iMac even comes with a display. I really wish they would take a look at improving the PowerMacs price / performance. It is sad when the iMac outpowers the PowerMac and comes in at the same price even after the recent PowerMac updates. These are the latest specs from the Apple store:
iMac $1,499.00
17-inch widescreen LCD
2GHz PowerPC G5
667MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA hard drive
Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (double-layer)
ATI Radeon 9600
128MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem
PowerMac $1,499.00
1.8GHz PowerPC G5
600MHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache
256MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 4GB SDRAM
80GB Serial ATA
8x SuperDrive
Three PCI Slots
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem
I'm not buying it
:-)
Download it then