Because the "Home Computer" is something sadly missing from todays market, back in the late 1980's/early 1990's, there were things like the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST on the market, cheap (relatively) fairly capable and fairly fixed platform computers...
games were written that hit the hardware, and they were quite capable for proper work also (the CGI for the first episode (and I think some of the first season?) of Babylon 5 was done using Lightwave on Amiga's)
right now we have consoles pretending to be computers (PS2 Linux) and computers pretending to be good value (emachines)
sadly, IMO, both miss the mark (the cheap PC moreso than the PS2 w/linux).. a system that fit the fixed platform/proper computer ideal would be great IMO.. imagine a Gamecube with a small harddisk + mouse + keyboard + realtime OS with assorted applications for mail/web etc. (and the option of installing applications that did other, more interesting things:)
I'd guessitmate £299-350 for something like that? I know I'd buy one.
Of course, such a thing will probably never happen.. and I happen to think that's something of a shame >:(
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Apple gear is still fairly expensive from a price/performance perspective. (Though the Xserve DDR memory controller seems to help a LOT there, and I'd be surprised if we don't get that in the PowerMacs at MWNY)
It's less expensive from a price/functionality or price/geeklust perspective, but for raw numbercrunching it's difficult to argue with an AthlonXP 2000+:)
uh.. if you recompiled It I imagine you'd have the sense to recompile it for the machine you were going to run it on... IOW, PowerPC code.. hence making a translation layer utterly pointless after you'd recompiled it.
the rackmount formfactor makes it PERFECT for a DAW (as it can sit in the rack with the effects hardware).. that clashes slightly with the apparent noise though?:/
g{I'd say that if you're thinking of going SCSI-1, don't waste your time. Only SCSI-2 or -3 are going to make a noticeable difference over Ultra-ATA, IMHO.}g
Um..
SCSI-1 topped out at I think 5MB/s ?
(It's rather difficult to buy a SCSI-1 card for a powermac these days too)
failing that, I do believe you can mount the standard towers (they take up 6u though)
failing that, it's beginning to look like the PowerMac will get a big revamp at the upcoming Macworld, so *shrug* nobody outside apple can answer your question WRT to the 'new' PowerMacs
MacWorld New York is RSN (17th), the current towers have (apparently) been EOL'd and this is floating around
That's an Apple logic board (allegedly), it has DDR memory slots... it's a strange shape AND it's not an Xserve board..
you do the math:)
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Because the "Home Computer" is something sadly missing from todays market, back in the late 1980's/early 1990's, there were things like the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST on the market, cheap (relatively) fairly capable and fairly fixed platform computers...
:)
games were written that hit the hardware, and they were quite capable for proper work also (the CGI for the first episode (and I think some of the first season?) of Babylon 5 was done using Lightwave on Amiga's)
right now we have consoles pretending to be computers (PS2 Linux) and computers pretending to be good value (emachines)
sadly, IMO, both miss the mark (the cheap PC moreso than the PS2 w/linux)..
a system that fit the fixed platform/proper computer ideal would be great IMO.. imagine a Gamecube with a small harddisk + mouse + keyboard + realtime OS with assorted applications for mail/web etc. (and the option of installing applications that did other, more interesting things
I'd guessitmate £299-350 for something like that?
I know I'd buy one.
Of course, such a thing will probably never happen.. and I happen to think that's something of a shame >:(
That's a chipset limit, not a bios limit persay.
(I think you were referring to the 512MB limit on i815E mainboards?)
I'm watching the keynote speech, Steve just announced .mac >:(
you have that wrong, it's He's sure to make an impact on the skydiving industry^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hground.
Apple gear is still fairly expensive from a price/performance perspective. (Though the Xserve DDR memory controller seems to help a LOT there, and I'd be surprised if we don't get that in the PowerMacs at MWNY)
:)
It's less expensive from a price/functionality or price/geeklust perspective, but for raw numbercrunching it's difficult to argue with an AthlonXP 2000+
I do believe Apple Spares centres stock them?
How about this It's just a mockup of a modern "pizzabox" mac, but I think it'd go pretty well with a component hifi system. * watches as DSL connection is raped by /. readers *
The problem has always been the OS, and the costs of the hardware. I'd say they've managed to fix the first of those pretty well.
uh.. if you recompiled It I imagine you'd have the sense to recompile it for the machine you were going to run it on... IOW, PowerPC code.. hence making a translation layer utterly pointless after you'd recompiled it.
workstation?
:/
the rackmount formfactor makes it PERFECT for a DAW (as it can sit in the rack with the effects hardware).. that clashes slightly with the apparent noise though?
g{I'd say that if you're thinking of going SCSI-1, don't waste your time. Only SCSI-2 or -3 are going to make a noticeable difference over Ultra-ATA, IMHO.}g
Um..
SCSI-1 topped out at I think 5MB/s ?
(It's rather difficult to buy a SCSI-1 card for a powermac these days too)
You could always buy a workstation config Xserve?
failing that, I do believe you can mount the standard towers (they take up 6u though)
failing that, it's beginning to look like the PowerMac will get a big revamp at the upcoming Macworld, so *shrug* nobody outside apple can answer your question WRT to the 'new' PowerMacs
g{It's possible that a new Power Mac G4 }g
I'm almost certain of it.
(see my post above)
MacWorld New York is RSN (17th), the current towers have (apparently) been EOL'd and this is floating around That's an Apple logic board (allegedly), it has DDR memory slots... it's a strange shape AND it's not an Xserve board.. you do the math :)
But when I first tried a Windows machine I was amazed at the speed of the multitasking. Apple always claimed to have 'true' multitasking
:)
both multitask like dogs, try BeOS or AmigaOS
Also, the 1Ghz PowerMac's were unleashed _after_ MW this January...
I'd honestly be surprised if a tweaked tower featuring the new northbridge from the Xserve doesn't materialise though?
That's the entire point... You take two relatively low power chips and give them each half the workload.
ATI's dual proc cards used Alternate Frame Rendering
GPU1: renders a frame
GPU2: renders a frame - GPU1: Displays frame it just rendered
GPU1: Renders a frame - GPU2: Displays frame it just rendered
etc.
um, more clients at once = more traffic ?
:)
Last I looked Quake didn't use multicast?
That of course assumes that the switch/router can keep up with such a massive storm of traffic :)
I seem to recall circa 1993 Acorn A3020's being able to split printjobs up like that...
I'm actually rather surprised that modern machines can't >:(
two steps forward, three steps back and all that.
You DO know that the IO bandwidth (DMA transfers from memory to ethernet/IDE controllers) on the Xserve is served by PC2100 DDR memory don't you?...
Bill Gates isn't the devil, Al Pacino is.
There is a version without _any_ spyware.. at least, there was last time I bothered to check.
Someone install BOCHS on that thing!