For comparison, my dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5's idle temps are around 48C and 44C, with my memory controller at 54C. Your processors are about 700 MHz faster than mine, so those temperatures sound about right compared to mine.
And when you look at the size of the heatsinks and fans required to keep them at even this temperature, it's no wonder there's no G5 Powerbooks yet.
What's resizing the screen have to do with the article? The article is about localization delaying GT4 localization meaning translating it into different languages of course.
should we grow up and get used to the fact that things are priced differently in different places?
I can walk into a store here in Canada and get Simpsons Season 4 for $45 CAD. Or I can take a day trip down to Seattle, and find Simpsons Season 4 for $45 USD. I noticed the same pattern with pretty much all other CDs and DVDs I saw in the US store. The numbers on the price tag in the US are about the same as they'd be back up in Canada - except with the differing dollars, that makes it considerably cheaper in Canada!
So if Apple's in trouble for selling iTMS songs for 20% more in the UK, should American CD and DVD retailers get in trouble for selling their products for 20-30% more than they're sold for in Canada?
Probably a bit, that's for sure... For example, shortly after I got my Mac, my friend got an internet connection at his house. We wanted to be able to chat with each other, and since iChat supports AIM I suggested he install AIM on his PC.
Otherwise we most likely would have gone with something else other than AIM.
I just looked through their web site, and never once saw it specifically stated that you could run Windows apps on a Mac, Linux apps on Windows, etc.
They did state numerous times though that "Operating system call mapping from any Unix/Linux-like operating system or any mainframe operating system to any Unix/Linux-like operating system is supported." Plus in a section talking about game systems, it's worded to indicate Xbox games could run on Xbox2. Not those exact words, but is seams fairly obvious. What other game console was x86 but is now PowerPC?:)
Anyway, this would indicate to me that this only works provided the target and host OS is the same, or similar, i.e. OSX is Unix-based, so it could run the Linux Quake as described in the article. The only thing that throws me off is the article talking about running Gimp on Windows. Methinks they were really using a native Windows binary there.
How much of a difference will upgrading from 256 meg make? I bought my Powermac G5 (Dual 1.8 Ghz) about a month ago, and haven't added any RAM. Granted, I haven't run any higher-end software like Office, but I've been satisfied with the performance I've been getting.
Contrast this with my Windows XP box at work, which has an Athlon XP 2200+ and at least a gig of RAM I think, and I find it very sluggish at times. Compared to it, my Mac with 1/4 the RAM is considerably more responsive. Maybe the key word there is "Windows":)
If I think it's running great now at 256 meg, will I be totally blown away by the performance after adding a gig of RAM?
You'll basically need to open an application then go through another procedure to maximise it
This is just an outright lie. You can click on the button at the top of your window that has the "+" sign in it.
But still, it doesn't have the same effect as on Windows, which annoys me sometimes. For example, when I click the Maximize button for this Safari window, it enlarges the window only vertically, and not horizontally as well, to fill the whole screen.
For example, I find your post amusing and I can just highlight it and drag 'n drop it to my desktop to make a text clip that I may file away or drag and paste it to a text editor later.
Could you explain how to enable that? I read this and though "cool!" but couldn't actually do it.:( I'm using OSX 10.3.5 and Safari.
Found one!:) It's at http://www.oxygen-inc.com/premium/InsaniSoft/iEx.h tm. Not quite as cool as Expose, since it only shows thumbnails and not resized windows that are still being updated, only smaller... but it's a start, and it's free!
I got myself a PowerMac a month or so ago. I've found that there were actually more things I had to temporarily unlearn going back to work, than I had to unlearn going to the Mac.
One of the main things I had to unlearn on the Mac was pressing home/end to go to the beginning/end of a line - in OSX, they go to top and bottom of the document. Ctrl-left/right arrows are what are used instead.
But after only having had my Mac a few days, I started doing Mac things without thinking. I kept (and still do!) reaching for the F9 key. You'll see what I mean soon enough.:) Aside from the eye candy (or iCandy?) aspect, that's a very useful feature - one keystroke, and you can see _every_ open window at once. A related question... anyone know of a free Expose clone for Windows XP?
I think the biggest issue for me was switching my Windows iTunes library over to Mac iTunes, since even though my music is stored on a shared network drive, Apple's pathnames are different than Windows.
Nope... They're taking over the Monster Garage show. Watch Steve and the gang take an old station wagon and turn it into a giant mobile Beowolf Cluster of XServes... complete with an air-powered cannon for shooting apples at various Redmond, WA landmarks!
My first thought to your post was "No optical drive? What's the point? Sounds useless."
But yeah, for schools that would be great since everything would be installed off the LAN. And it would be secure - no installing games from home, or no pirating the school's copy of Office on CDR...
Or similarly, it would be great for kiosk-type operation, or interactive displays at a science center, etc.
But just like my initial reaction, your average home user likely wouldn't be wanting this model.:) Still nice that it's available though.
Slashdot Mirror
Would it have been too much to have given proper credit to "Weird Al" Yankovic?
Too bad it wasn't modded down 30 seconds earlier, before I clicked on it. =(
And get this, the PowerMac G5 already uses a liquid cooling setup.
Partially correct... AFAIK only the Dual 2.5 GHz model has liquid cooling. My Dual 1.8GHz Mac has a couple massive heat sinks and a lot of fans.
For comparison, my dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5's idle temps are around 48C and 44C, with my memory controller at 54C. Your processors are about 700 MHz faster than mine, so those temperatures sound about right compared to mine.
And when you look at the size of the heatsinks and fans required to keep them at even this temperature, it's no wonder there's no G5 Powerbooks yet.
What's resizing the screen have to do with the article? The article is about localization delaying GT4 localization meaning translating it into different languages of course.
why would I use Linux when there's Mac OS X pre-installed
That's just what I was thinking. =)
I mean I love Linux and all, but there's no way I'm going to take OSX off my Mac! Now, replacing Windows is a different story...
It's not Shatner's home town. As the poster (and the article) states,
The small town of Riverside, Iowa has long billed itself as the birthplace of James T. Kirk.
(emphasis added)
Don't you mean a beo-woof cluster?
I can imagine afterwords all those kids getting in trouble for giving everyone the middle finger...
"But teacher, I was just counting to 4 in binary, honest!"
Why would you think a patent website would have info on copyrights?
should we grow up and get used to the fact that things are priced differently in different places?
I can walk into a store here in Canada and get Simpsons Season 4 for $45 CAD. Or I can take a day trip down to Seattle, and find Simpsons Season 4 for $45 USD. I noticed the same pattern with pretty much all other CDs and DVDs I saw in the US store. The numbers on the price tag in the US are about the same as they'd be back up in Canada - except with the differing dollars, that makes it considerably cheaper in Canada!
So if Apple's in trouble for selling iTMS songs for 20% more in the UK, should American CD and DVD retailers get in trouble for selling their products for 20-30% more than they're sold for in Canada?
Probably a bit, that's for sure... For example, shortly after I got my Mac, my friend got an internet connection at his house. We wanted to be able to chat with each other, and since iChat supports AIM I suggested he install AIM on his PC.
Otherwise we most likely would have gone with something else other than AIM.
I just looked through their web site, and never once saw it specifically stated that you could run Windows apps on a Mac, Linux apps on Windows, etc.
:)
They did state numerous times though that "Operating system call mapping from any Unix/Linux-like operating system or any mainframe operating system to any Unix/Linux-like operating system is supported." Plus in a section talking about game systems, it's worded to indicate Xbox games could run on Xbox2. Not those exact words, but is seams fairly obvious. What other game console was x86 but is now PowerPC?
Anyway, this would indicate to me that this only works provided the target and host OS is the same, or similar, i.e. OSX is Unix-based, so it could run the Linux Quake as described in the article. The only thing that throws me off is the article talking about running Gimp on Windows. Methinks they were really using a native Windows binary there.
How much of a difference will upgrading from 256 meg make? I bought my Powermac G5 (Dual 1.8 Ghz) about a month ago, and haven't added any RAM. Granted, I haven't run any higher-end software like Office, but I've been satisfied with the performance I've been getting.
:)
Contrast this with my Windows XP box at work, which has an Athlon XP 2200+ and at least a gig of RAM I think, and I find it very sluggish at times. Compared to it, my Mac with 1/4 the RAM is considerably more responsive. Maybe the key word there is "Windows"
If I think it's running great now at 256 meg, will I be totally blown away by the performance after adding a gig of RAM?
Very cool. Thanks for the tip!
But still, it doesn't have the same effect as on Windows, which annoys me sometimes. For example, when I click the Maximize button for this Safari window, it enlarges the window only vertically, and not horizontally as well, to fill the whole screen.
For example, I find your post amusing and I can just highlight it and drag 'n drop it to my desktop to make a text clip that I may file away or drag and paste it to a text editor later.
:( I'm using OSX 10.3.5 and Safari.
Could you explain how to enable that? I read this and though "cool!" but couldn't actually do it.
Found one! :) It's at http://www.oxygen-inc.com/premium/InsaniSoft/iEx.h tm. Not quite as cool as Expose, since it only shows thumbnails and not resized windows that are still being updated, only smaller... but it's a start, and it's free!
I got myself a PowerMac a month or so ago. I've found that there were actually more things I had to temporarily unlearn going back to work, than I had to unlearn going to the Mac.
:) Aside from the eye candy (or iCandy?) aspect, that's a very useful feature - one keystroke, and you can see _every_ open window at once. A related question... anyone know of a free Expose clone for Windows XP?
One of the main things I had to unlearn on the Mac was pressing home/end to go to the beginning/end of a line - in OSX, they go to top and bottom of the document. Ctrl-left/right arrows are what are used instead.
But after only having had my Mac a few days, I started doing Mac things without thinking. I kept (and still do!) reaching for the F9 key. You'll see what I mean soon enough.
I think the biggest issue for me was switching my Windows iTunes library over to Mac iTunes, since even though my music is stored on a shared network drive, Apple's pathnames are different than Windows.
"All your base are belong to us"
Nope... They're taking over the Monster Garage show. Watch Steve and the gang take an old station wagon and turn it into a giant mobile Beowolf Cluster of XServes... complete with an air-powered cannon for shooting apples at various Redmond, WA landmarks!
Con: Weak, outdated, non-replaceable GPU (sigh)
:)
yeah, but I assume the type of people who'd be buying this aren't the ones who'd be craving Doom 3 at 1280x1024x32 w/8x FSAA at 100 FPS...
Loss of telescoping arm
LOL! I loved that aspect of the iLamp, but I think the 'iHangingFileFolder' still looks very cool.
My first thought to your post was "No optical drive? What's the point? Sounds useless."
:) Still nice that it's available though.
But yeah, for schools that would be great since everything would be installed off the LAN. And it would be secure - no installing games from home, or no pirating the school's copy of Office on CDR...
Or similarly, it would be great for kiosk-type operation, or interactive displays at a science center, etc.
But just like my initial reaction, your average home user likely wouldn't be wanting this model.
This isn't a "$0.99 each, or 10 for $8" deal, so this won't make a difference for the vast majority of us.
Claimed to be optical - why does it have a wire coming out the front?
Optical != Cordless.
Optical = no ball.