Well unfortunately I can't show you the G4 I saw in person... but I can direct you to look at the open-case photo of it on Apple's site. Note the 4 little speaker wires going up to the "vents". Oh, maybe they're "powered vents":-)
Gentlemen, when you get your hands on one of these you will see that they are in fact speakers. The one at the top is a speaker, yes, and the other 4 are smaller higher range speakers. Just like the 4 cones on the Harmon/Kardon soundsticks. In fact they may be the same cones. As far as Apple's site referring to the built-in speaker, I can't address that, unless they are referring to the whole thing as one speaker. That would make sense... when you buy Harmon Kardon soundsticks, they'd refer to it as 2 speakers and a subwoofer... not 9 speakers.
/. keeps down-modding my posts about this bit of info which I think is pretty informative...
the holes on the front aren't vents, they are little speakers.
The fact that you refer to the 4 new speakers on the computer as "holes for firewire or usb" pretty much sums up the value of all the comments you just made.:-)
I would just like to acknowledge the restraint exhibited by the/. community in posting to this thread. I know at least ONE of you wanted to ask about an iPod linux distro...
Your analogies to race cars are particularly ironic, considering the fact that OS X is immensely faster than YDL. No, I'm not saying OS X is a faster OS than Linux at large, but unfortunately YDL is hopelessly slow... I don't know if it's a bad port of gcc, or the Linux kernel, or what. Refer to another post by me in this thread "YDL Is better in theory than in practice", to take a look at speed comparisons I did a while back. I don't have specific numbers because it was just something I did when I was bored, but I invite anyone to bench a shell app in YDL against a shell app in OS X. Not even close.
I've made extensive use of YDL, running on a few different hardware configs over the years, from a 300mhz beige G3, to a dual 1ghz silver G4. Although theoretically it should have some nice advantages over RedHat and other Intel distros, it's just too slow. There's no reason why a 500mhz P3 running redhat 7 should outperform a 667 G4 running ydl 2.1 on things like mp3 encoding and complex pgsql selects, but it does. I tested the two side-by-side once, hoping to get a strong argument for linux on a RISC architecture, and it blew up in my face. I'm convinced it's the fault of YDL and not the architecture. When I moved my web and DB servers (apache, php, pgsql) over to OS X, the speed increase blew me away. It's just a better kernel.
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Well unfortunately I can't show you the G4 I saw in person... but I can direct you to look at the open-case photo of it on Apple's site. Note the 4 little speaker wires going up to the "vents". Oh, maybe they're "powered vents" :-)
Gentlemen, when you get your hands on one of these you will see that they are in fact speakers. The one at the top is a speaker, yes, and the other 4 are smaller higher range speakers. Just like the 4 cones on the Harmon/Kardon soundsticks. In fact they may be the same cones. As far as Apple's site referring to the built-in speaker, I can't address that, unless they are referring to the whole thing as one speaker. That would make sense... when you buy Harmon Kardon soundsticks, they'd refer to it as 2 speakers and a subwoofer... not 9 speakers.
/. keeps down-modding my posts about this bit of info which I think is pretty informative... the holes on the front aren't vents, they are little speakers.
The fact that you refer to the 4 new speakers on the computer as "holes for firewire or usb" pretty much sums up the value of all the comments you just made. :-)
These 'vents' in the front might actually not provide much added ventilation... because they are speakers. :-)
I would just like to acknowledge the restraint exhibited by the /. community in posting to this thread. I know at least ONE of you wanted to ask about an iPod linux distro...
Your analogies to race cars are particularly ironic, considering the fact that OS X is immensely faster than YDL. No, I'm not saying OS X is a faster OS than Linux at large, but unfortunately YDL is hopelessly slow... I don't know if it's a bad port of gcc, or the Linux kernel, or what. Refer to another post by me in this thread "YDL Is better in theory than in practice", to take a look at speed comparisons I did a while back. I don't have specific numbers because it was just something I did when I was bored, but I invite anyone to bench a shell app in YDL against a shell app in OS X. Not even close.
I've made extensive use of YDL, running on a few different hardware configs over the years, from a 300mhz beige G3, to a dual 1ghz silver G4. Although theoretically it should have some nice advantages over RedHat and other Intel distros, it's just too slow. There's no reason why a 500mhz P3 running redhat 7 should outperform a 667 G4 running ydl 2.1 on things like mp3 encoding and complex pgsql selects, but it does. I tested the two side-by-side once, hoping to get a strong argument for linux on a RISC architecture, and it blew up in my face. I'm convinced it's the fault of YDL and not the architecture. When I moved my web and DB servers (apache, php, pgsql) over to OS X, the speed increase blew me away. It's just a better kernel.