These guys are quick. The screenshots are no longer available by request of Apple's legal dept. This is the same as when the G5 was leak. Man I guess I have to get up pretty early in morning to beat these guys.
They drop price on the powerbooks recently. They may be trying to get rid of excess. This could indicate the introduction of a new Powerbook. Now, it is definitely possible the 970 will appear in a Powerbook. Generally, PPC are designed to be low power processors. Apple wouldn't really contrained to keep out of notebook. If fact, the G3 appear in both notebooks and desktops when it was originally release.
Open Formats are definitely better. Much of Microsoft monopoly on Windows and Office is dependent on closed formats such as.doc. If a set of open formats for images, text, databases, music etc. , companies could focus more on features then reverse engineering Microsoft formats.. These open formats could be regulated by National Institue of Standards and Technology.
Expect Microsoft to fight this though. One it would threaten Microsoft monopoly. Two, Microsoft bring in revenues on the licensing of it formats.
"Our goal is to stay with a frequency doubling every 18 months or so, and get into the 2GHz range for PowerPC, but at very low power consumption of, say, 20W," said Dirk Wristers, director of device/integration for Motorola's MOS-13 wafer fab, according to an EE Times report. "The frequency could be higher if we were at higher power."
This statement indicates why they have been slower than Intel/AMD. They basically designing to meet notebook specification. Notebook processor always lags behind desktop counterparts because of power consumption. In fact, the centrinos only top out at 1.6 Ghz which is basically in the ballpark of Motorola current G4 at 1.25. Considering they primarily sell to embedded application hardware such as switches where low power consumption is a needed, they will never be able to keep pace with Intel/AMD in terms of desktop processors. This may be why Jobs is pushing the sale of notebooks.
Theoretically you could use any operating/language you want. The key question is:
Do you want to learn a new language/os or focus on the science?
In my lab, we use a Labview/MacOS/Gpib combination for our development? It simple to use and it works. It is a little on the expensive side but you get that money back in time saved. It so simple, undergrads can learn it and develop useful applications. We also have Windows/Basic system that is use to control a commercially develop experiment. Though I need extra features for the experiment, I refused to learn to develop with it because I don't have the time. I am here to focus the science not on learning programming languages.
If you insist on switching over to an open source solution. Then tried Linux/ C or C++. But be warned, aside from serial ports, you may have trouble get other DAQ boards to work.
People hear are asking for an open hardware system that functions as well as a Mac. But, that request is problematic because the functionality is directly related to proprietary nature of the platform. Apple hands picks it hardware, it knows how it will behave and thus programs it OS and application around it. It then releases, those spec to third party developer so they can do the same. X86 doesn't have this advantage. You have all these variations out there that it is impossible to guarantee perfect functionality. Windows still has issues, Linux-x86 still has issues. No matter how much faster they are they still won't match the Macintosh on functionality. Thus 970 processor looks to be a better candidate than athlon-64
(feel free to assign -1 troll)
Millions of mac users today are dismayed by the announcment of whoever that he won't be developing his ever popular word processing app for the Mac. Oh!! how will they ever type another document? Analysts suggests, this may be the end of the mac platform.
Just from this guy's little blurp, he is very ego-centric. This guy is putting a personal gripe over any possibility of moving his app one level above obscurity. That's ok I'll continued using Word.
The only solution is to run Virtual PC with Red Hat Linux. This will run slow because it does it through x86 emulation not native ppc. . Generally, emulators are only use if the application does not have native linux support and thus you have to run another OS. But there are few apps that run only linux and not on MacOSX. With the Fink project andXdarwin or OroborOSX, a lot of linux/unix apps have been successfully ported to MacOSX and are fully functional. ex. Kde, Open Office, Gimp, and MatLab
Worms are trying to take over your mind
Viruses are trying to erase your mind
And your user is trying to 86 you for the next best thing.
You would be neurotic too!
What we did today? We subverted the United Nations. We broke international law. We have hurt the credibility of American leadership. We alienated key allies and partners. This all for what could happen. 9/11 has really brought out the coward in many of us. We are blindly following Bush's miltiarism. As of a few minutes ago, I no longer have a choice but to give my support because we can not lose to a tyrant, we can not have another Vietnam for the American soldier, for the Iraqi citizen.
YellowDog release has some significance. I work at a physics lab that is predominantly Macintosh. Most of the client computers are running Mac OSX. But for our server, we run LinuxPPC (if any1 remembers that one)on an old 9600. Soon, my tenure will be up and many of the students at the lab cringe at the thought that they will have to maintain it using only the command line (GUI interface was that great when I originally install it). So, a distribution with a straight forward installation and GUI may be needed. I had envisioned using OSX on an Xserve, but this may not be an easy sell with the boss.
No Apple didn't invent USB but they were the first to used it in place of legacy serial ports (ADB, RS-422). Usb was inherently better because of hot swappability, plug and play, and speed. Later Dell and Compaq with little success release legacy free computers that only had USB ports.
GUI- Xerox used it on their devices, Apple copied it and brought it to computers as way to interface with them. Perhaps the concepts of GUI were orinally conceive with the invention of the mouse. But the point is Apple did it first on commercially distributed computer.(Macintosh)
Good Design- I am not talking about a cute computer. I am talking about taking taking top of the line processor, a large display, a DVD-R drive, and a hard drive and putting into a swelt 1 inch thick 5.3 pound package. Doing this for 2 years. Closest PC equivalents are IBM T40, Sony Vaio Z1, and Dell Inspiron 600m which were release this month and they still dont have all those specs. You can ask any Business traveler, who has to carry around luggage, paperwork, etc in addition to his labtop if they would appreciate good design in that respect.
PS: Watch your language. This forum is where people give their best opinion they can on the knowledge have. If you don't agree, I am sure with a little effort you think of better way to write it out without profanity. Then again maybe not.
The personal would be slow to innovate if it weren't for Apple. Apple is the only computer that is willing to think outside of the box. Other have mentioned it before GUI interface, USB, Firewire, Good Design, etc. Does anyone think Dell and the likes would really fork tons money into R&D when they too busy cost-each other? Not really but they will borrow ideas from Apple once they have been proven to sell (wide-screen Insprions, thin and light centrinos with large battery life, gigabit ethernet in ThinkPads, DVD-R everywhere etc.) To tell the truth, I don't think anyone wants to see Apple go because then would have to start innovating for themselves.
You can still buy Virtual PC 6 and not send your dollars to Microsoft. Though Microsoft bought it, Connectix will continue to sell until the transition is complete. So, there is still time to upgrade
My colleagues and I use Kaleidagraph. It does the job we need it to do. We use for everything from making graphs for our presentations to fitting data to automating with LabView. It doesn't take alot of time to learn either which is good because we mentor a lot of undergrads with no experience and we rather spend our time using it than learning it.
PS: I think the recent port was decent. It doesn't crash and everything is in the same place as the older version.
Well The counterparts for this particular model in the PC realm only sport PIII not the PIV. For instnce, the VX89 Series notebook from Sony carries only an PIII 900 processor. From my experience, a G4 generally beats out a X86 processor that has 1.5 X superiority in clockspeed. So, I definitely believe this Powerbook will outclass a notebook with 33MHZ superiority.
You can fnd the specs for this computer at VX89 Series
But the reality today is that Apple won't be able to make as much money off the hardware because people aren't upgrading as frequently as before. So the best way to make money is to start charging for the software and services that people will use on the computers they have now.
There is one important point that seems to be overlooked.
The powerbook only weighs 5.3 lbs.
I challenge anyone to find any other notebook with a 15"+, DVD-R, 60 gb hd and a radeon 9000 gpu that fits in the same slim package as the powerbook.
For the pundits that complain about power and price, you actually overlook the fact that you can take this notebook away from your desk quite frequently.
Look the best way to fight spam is to setup a dummy email account. Onethat you give to those on messages boards, buying something online, or downloading software for free. Then you get private email address for work and personal which you give to trusted people who you know. Now my mail client dowloads and sort my personal and work mail in separate folders with no spam. Every month or so I clean out the dummy account online. You don't get rid of spam, you just organize it out of the way.
If we are willing sacrifice our liberties to just gain more safety, then do we really deserve those liberties?
Many have sacrificed their lives from the Revolutionary War to the Civil Rights Movement just to secure the rights we have today. We should not diminished those rights just to gain a small measure of security from a very marginal threat.
From what I read in the past, Microsoft is selling the x-box under the actual recommended retail price (in fact they may be doing it at a lost). So, they are not make any money on the hardware itself. The real profit comes from the sale of games. So, whether you are using the xbox mods to pirate games or to setup linux boxes, you are not buying the games. Thus, Microsoft will do everything to prevent the mods from proliferating
iDVD purpose is to increase the value of Apple systems whose revenue Apple depends on. It is not to provide anyone with quality dvd editing software. If someone wants to upgrade their system with a third party burner they should look for third party software. According to the article, OWC bundled this add-on to sell their DVD drives instead of licensing a third party alternative. In essence, they stole iDVD just to add value to their drives. Obviously, Apple has every right to put a stop to it.
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These guys are quick. The screenshots are no longer available by request of Apple's legal dept. This is the same as when the G5 was leak. Man I guess I have to get up pretty early in morning to beat these guys.
Why not update the 17" model as well. It older than the current line of Power Macintosh G4. That one is the one everyone is sure will be updated.
They drop price on the powerbooks recently. They may be trying to get rid of excess. This could indicate the introduction of a new Powerbook. Now, it is definitely possible the 970 will appear in a Powerbook. Generally, PPC are designed to be low power processors. Apple wouldn't really contrained to keep out of notebook. If fact, the G3 appear in both notebooks and desktops when it was originally release.
Open Formats are definitely better. Much of Microsoft monopoly on Windows and Office is dependent on closed formats such as .doc. If a set of open formats for images, text, databases, music etc. , companies could focus more on features then reverse engineering Microsoft formats.. These open formats could be regulated by National Institue of Standards and Technology.
Expect Microsoft to fight this though. One it would threaten Microsoft monopoly. Two, Microsoft bring in revenues on the licensing of it formats.
"Our goal is to stay with a frequency doubling every 18 months or so, and get into the 2GHz range for PowerPC, but at very low power consumption of, say, 20W," said Dirk Wristers, director of device/integration for Motorola's MOS-13 wafer fab, according to an EE Times report. "The frequency could be higher if we were at higher power." This statement indicates why they have been slower than Intel/AMD. They basically designing to meet notebook specification. Notebook processor always lags behind desktop counterparts because of power consumption. In fact, the centrinos only top out at 1.6 Ghz which is basically in the ballpark of Motorola current G4 at 1.25. Considering they primarily sell to embedded application hardware such as switches where low power consumption is a needed, they will never be able to keep pace with Intel/AMD in terms of desktop processors. This may be why Jobs is pushing the sale of notebooks.
Try these site for linux gpib drivers http://pcitco25.cern.ch/SI/lvbv/lvbv_drivers3.htm http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net/
Theoretically you could use any operating/language you want. The key question is:
Do you want to learn a new language/os or focus on the science?
In my lab, we use a Labview/MacOS/Gpib combination for our development? It simple to use and it works. It is a little on the expensive side but you get that money back in time saved. It so simple, undergrads can learn it and develop useful applications.
We also have Windows/Basic system that is use to control a commercially develop experiment. Though I need extra features for the experiment, I refused to learn to develop with it because I don't have the time. I am here to focus the science not on learning programming languages.
If you insist on switching over to an open source solution. Then tried Linux/ C or C++. But be warned, aside from serial ports, you may have trouble get other DAQ boards to work.
People hear are asking for an open hardware system that functions as well as a Mac. But, that request is problematic because the functionality is directly related to proprietary nature of the platform. Apple hands picks it hardware, it knows how it will behave and thus programs it OS and application around it. It then releases, those spec to third party developer so they can do the same. X86 doesn't have this advantage. You have all these variations out there that it is impossible to guarantee perfect functionality. Windows still has issues, Linux-x86 still has issues. No matter how much faster they are they still won't match the Macintosh on functionality. Thus 970 processor looks to be a better candidate than athlon-64
(feel free to assign -1 troll) Millions of mac users today are dismayed by the announcment of whoever that he won't be developing his ever popular word processing app for the Mac. Oh!! how will they ever type another document? Analysts suggests, this may be the end of the mac platform. Just from this guy's little blurp, he is very ego-centric. This guy is putting a personal gripe over any possibility of moving his app one level above obscurity. That's ok I'll continued using Word.
The only solution is to run Virtual PC with Red Hat Linux. This will run slow because it does it through x86 emulation not native ppc. . Generally, emulators are only use if the application does not have native linux support and thus you have to run another OS. But there are few apps that run only linux and not on MacOSX. With the Fink project andXdarwin or OroborOSX, a lot of linux/unix apps have been successfully ported to MacOSX and are fully functional. ex. Kde, Open Office, Gimp, and MatLab
Worms are trying to take over your mind Viruses are trying to erase your mind And your user is trying to 86 you for the next best thing. You would be neurotic too!
What we did today? We subverted the United Nations. We broke international law. We have hurt the credibility of American leadership. We alienated key allies and partners.
This all for what could happen. 9/11 has really brought out the coward in many of us. We are blindly following Bush's miltiarism. As of a few minutes ago, I no longer have a choice but to give my support because we can not lose to a tyrant, we can not have another Vietnam for the American soldier, for the Iraqi citizen.
just my humble opinion
YellowDog release has some significance. I work at a physics lab that is predominantly Macintosh.
Most of the client computers are running Mac OSX. But for our server, we run LinuxPPC (if any1 remembers that one)on an old 9600. Soon, my tenure will be up and many of the students at the lab cringe at the thought that they will have to maintain it using only the command line (GUI interface was that great when I originally install it). So, a distribution with a straight forward installation and GUI may be needed. I had envisioned using OSX on an Xserve, but this may not be an easy sell with the boss.
Just to clarify.
.(Macintosh)
No Apple didn't invent USB but they were the first to used it in place of legacy serial ports (ADB, RS-422). Usb was inherently better because of hot swappability, plug and play, and speed. Later Dell and Compaq with little success release legacy free computers that only had USB ports.
GUI- Xerox used it on their devices, Apple copied it and brought it to computers as way to interface with them. Perhaps the concepts of GUI were orinally conceive with the invention of the mouse. But the point is Apple did it first on commercially distributed computer
Good Design- I am not talking about a cute computer. I am talking about taking taking top of the line processor, a large display, a DVD-R drive, and a hard drive and putting into a swelt 1 inch thick 5.3 pound package. Doing this for 2 years. Closest PC equivalents are IBM T40, Sony Vaio Z1, and Dell Inspiron 600m which were release this month and they still dont have all those specs. You can ask any Business traveler, who has to carry around luggage, paperwork, etc in addition to his labtop if they would appreciate good design in that respect.
PS: Watch your language. This forum is where people give their best opinion they can on the knowledge have. If you don't agree, I am sure with a little effort you think of better way to write it out without profanity. Then again maybe not.
The personal would be slow to innovate if it weren't for Apple. Apple is the only computer that is willing to think outside of the box. Other have mentioned it before GUI interface, USB, Firewire, Good Design, etc. Does anyone think Dell and the likes would really fork tons money into R&D when they too busy cost-each other? Not really but they will borrow ideas from Apple once they have been proven to sell (wide-screen Insprions, thin and light centrinos with large battery life, gigabit ethernet in ThinkPads, DVD-R everywhere etc.) To tell the truth, I don't think anyone wants to see Apple go because then would have to start innovating for themselves.
You can still buy Virtual PC 6 and not send your dollars to Microsoft. Though Microsoft bought it, Connectix will continue to sell until the transition is complete. So, there is still time to upgrade
My colleagues and I use Kaleidagraph. It does the job we need it to do. We use for everything from making graphs for our presentations to fitting data to automating with LabView. It doesn't take alot of time to learn either which is good because we mentor a lot of undergrads with no experience and we rather spend our time using it than learning it.
PS: I think the recent port was decent. It doesn't crash and everything is in the same place as the older version.
Well
The counterparts for this particular model in the PC realm only sport PIII not the PIV. For instnce, the VX89 Series notebook from Sony carries only an PIII 900 processor. From my experience, a G4 generally beats out a X86 processor that has 1.5 X superiority in clockspeed. So, I definitely believe this Powerbook will outclass a notebook with 33MHZ superiority.
You can fnd the specs for this computer at
VX89 Series
But the reality today is that Apple won't be able to make as much money off the hardware because people aren't upgrading as frequently as before. So the best way to make money is to start charging for the software and services that people will use on the computers they have now.
There is one important point that seems to be overlooked.
The powerbook only weighs 5.3 lbs.
I challenge anyone to find any other notebook with a 15"+, DVD-R, 60 gb hd and a radeon 9000 gpu that fits in the same slim package as the powerbook.
For the pundits that complain about power and price, you actually overlook the fact that you can take this notebook away from your desk quite frequently.
Look the best way to fight spam is to setup a dummy email account. Onethat you give to those on messages boards, buying something online, or downloading software for free. Then you get private email address for work and personal which you give to trusted people who you know. Now my mail client dowloads and sort my personal and work mail in separate folders with no spam. Every month or so I clean out the dummy account online. You don't get rid of spam, you just organize it out of the way.
If we are willing sacrifice our liberties to just gain more safety, then do we really deserve those liberties?
Many have sacrificed their lives from the Revolutionary War to the Civil Rights Movement just to secure the rights we have today. We should not diminished those rights just to gain a small measure of security from a very marginal threat.
From what I read in the past, Microsoft is selling the x-box under the actual recommended retail price (in fact they may be doing it at a lost). So, they are not make any money on the hardware itself. The real profit comes from the sale of games. So, whether you are using the xbox mods to pirate games or to setup linux boxes, you are not buying the games. Thus, Microsoft will do everything to prevent the mods from proliferating
iDVD purpose is to increase the value of Apple systems whose revenue Apple depends on. It is not to provide anyone with quality dvd editing software. If someone wants to upgrade their system with a third party burner they should look for third party software. According to the article, OWC bundled this add-on to sell their DVD drives instead of licensing a third party alternative. In essence, they stole iDVD just to add value to their drives. Obviously, Apple has every right to put a stop to it.
Correction the file is /Users/USERNAME/Library/Favorites/SERVER