Remember that Apple is all about visual appeal. If OS X looked like KDE or BeOS did, nobody would even care that it existed. Unfortnuately, to achieve that visual appeal, insane amounts of processing power are required, and as of right now the only chip that can deliver is the G4 w/Altivec.
Don't believe that it's altivec that makes the difference? Get a Mac with a G3 and another with a G4 at the same speed and I think you will find that the G4 runs much, much more smoothly than the G3 does.
OS X's visual interface is tuned to run on the G4 chip. Highly tuned. The fastest Intel or AMD processor would choke trying to handle aqua as it is. It would require a full rework of the entire system to get it to run at an acceptable speed on x86 chips. A 2ghz Intel chip is only about 1/2 as fast as a 500mhz G4 executing Altivec optimized instructions.
Your kidding, right? The only app that microsoft has for Apple is the Office suite and internet explorer. Apples creative apps come from companies such as Macromedia, Adobe, Procreate, and Apple itself, just to name a few. Not to mention that Apple has its own Office suite, Appleworks, that is more than adequate for most users and is compatible with Microsoft Office.
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Here's a slightly off topic question for you, does the current beta of Warcraft III support wide-screen's (eg have a 1600x1024 screen resolution). No one seems to know, but blizzard's site says that it will most likely only support 4:3 aspect ratios.
Actually Quantum's Fireball Plus LM (and earlier) ATA drives had their mechanics directly related to their SCSI counterparts. On that note, the Plus LM was the most reliable ATA HDD I've ever owned, not only reliable, but fast as well.
rather than communicate all world changes to all the clients, only communicate changes to the clients that are within their "scope" of the game. this will keep network usage down, and system load on both the clients and the server down.
Naturally, this model might not work depending on the type of game you are designing, but generally for MMORPG's, you should be good.
Ever opened up a Power Mac G4? It makes PC cases look like total crap. One latch on the side and the case swings open, with flat-out easy (literally) access to the mainboard, and open access to all the drives and power supply. Not to mention that the cables come secured to the sides of the case from the factory, so you don't have to work around them.
The altivec engine (which is what gives the G4 its juice) can crunch out tons of operations at rediculous speeds. The problem with this is, if the programs are specifically optimized to take advantage of these engines, then the program will run like it would on a fast G3.
However, when a program (like Maya or Photoshop or Cleaner or many others) is optimised for Altivec and DP, it **blows away** anything else in it's price range.
Still, If I were doing serious 3D work, I would be doing it on the SGI for all of the reasons (besides the senseless G4 bashing) above.
Let me just make a point that an Apple Logic Board (motherboard for all you PC users) is by *no means* the same as a PC one. It is entirely designed in house by Apple; and this added quality is refelected in the price. A replacement apple logic board for a uni-north new-world class computer (on its own, no processors, ram, etc.) can cost upwards of $800!
Final Fantasy 10? I'm happy an emulator came out that is fast enough to run FF8 on my Power Mac! I'll be damned if im going to buy a ps2 just to play ff10!
ok ok...im going to go and invade one of my ps2 owning friends life for a few days and play the game through there. I just hope the promises that it is as "revolutionary" as ff7 are true and it is really a great game. ff7 is still my all-time favorite final fantasy.
Very sorry to report that under ie 5.1 on mac os 9.2.2 these nasty ads work. why is it that all of the pointless annoying technologies always work on this thing but nothing useful ever does?
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Remember that Apple is all about visual appeal. If OS X looked like KDE or BeOS did, nobody would even care that it existed. Unfortnuately, to achieve that visual appeal, insane amounts of processing power are required, and as of right now the only chip that can deliver is the G4 w/Altivec.
Don't believe that it's altivec that makes the difference? Get a Mac with a G3 and another with a G4 at the same speed and I think you will find that the G4 runs much, much more smoothly than the G3 does.
OS X's visual interface is tuned to run on the G4 chip. Highly tuned. The fastest Intel or AMD processor would choke trying to handle aqua as it is. It would require a full rework of the entire system to get it to run at an acceptable speed on x86 chips. A 2ghz Intel chip is only about 1/2 as fast as a 500mhz G4 executing Altivec optimized instructions.
Your kidding, right? The only app that microsoft has for Apple is the Office suite and internet explorer. Apples creative apps come from companies such as Macromedia, Adobe, Procreate, and Apple itself, just to name a few. Not to mention that Apple has its own Office suite, Appleworks, that is more than adequate for most users and is compatible with Microsoft Office.
Here's a slightly off topic question for you, does the current beta of Warcraft III support wide-screen's (eg have a 1600x1024 screen resolution). No one seems to know, but blizzard's site says that it will most likely only support 4:3 aspect ratios.
Actually Quantum's Fireball Plus LM (and earlier) ATA drives had their mechanics directly related to their SCSI counterparts. On that note, the Plus LM was the most reliable ATA HDD I've ever owned, not only reliable, but fast as well.
rather than communicate all world changes to all the clients, only communicate changes to the clients that are within their "scope" of the game. this will keep network usage down, and system load on both the clients and the server down.
Naturally, this model might not work depending on the type of game you are designing, but generally for MMORPG's, you should be good.
Actually, on the powermac, theres only one cable to disconnect for power and video. =)
Ever opened up a Power Mac G4? It makes PC cases look like total crap. One latch on the side and the case swings open, with flat-out easy (literally) access to the mainboard, and open access to all the drives and power supply. Not to mention that the cables come secured to the sides of the case from the factory, so you don't have to work around them.
remember also the cost of replacing failed drives, as opposed to a quality DRAM module that (under proper conditions) would never fail.
Hopefully the robots will run on Windows. If they put them on Mac OS X we're all screwed. =)
The altivec engine (which is what gives the G4 its juice) can crunch out tons of operations at rediculous speeds. The problem with this is, if the programs are specifically optimized to take advantage of these engines, then the program will run like it would on a fast G3. However, when a program (like Maya or Photoshop or Cleaner or many others) is optimised for Altivec and DP, it **blows away** anything else in it's price range. Still, If I were doing serious 3D work, I would be doing it on the SGI for all of the reasons (besides the senseless G4 bashing) above.
Let me just make a point that an Apple Logic Board (motherboard for all you PC users) is by *no means* the same as a PC one. It is entirely designed in house by Apple; and this added quality is refelected in the price. A replacement apple logic board for a uni-north new-world class computer (on its own, no processors, ram, etc.) can cost upwards of $800!
Well you can put 2mb in a lisa, but, Linux m68k, as I recall, needs a 68020 or better, and a Lisa is 68000.
Final Fantasy 10? I'm happy an emulator came out that is fast enough to run FF8 on my Power Mac! I'll be damned if im going to buy a ps2 just to play ff10! ok ok...im going to go and invade one of my ps2 owning friends life for a few days and play the game through there. I just hope the promises that it is as "revolutionary" as ff7 are true and it is really a great game. ff7 is still my all-time favorite final fantasy.
Not to mention that Minidisc is a 140MB format...
Very sorry to report that under ie 5.1 on mac os 9.2.2 these nasty ads work. why is it that all of the pointless annoying technologies always work on this thing but nothing useful ever does?