Assuming that this info is correct. It looks like xbox live will require the HD. Considering how integrated the HD looks, what makes you think that all 360's will not have an included HD? But ahh here is the kicker could a dvd/rw be used instead of the HD????? hmm folks could it work? So I guess the 360 hd is still up in the air.
There is nothing about backward combatibility... but I will bet that MS will have it, the backlash will be to big not to have implemented it.
As for the speed vs the cell. Well the first of a generation usally sells the best. Iomega Jazz vs the Syquest Syjet? the jet was way better from a larger company that had dominanted removeable media with syquest drives, but Iomega beat them to market with the jazz which was slower, more expensive, small capacity, and more prone to disk failure. Iomegas hard start.. 3 months. Where is syquest now? Speed vs the PS3 with the cell is a non-starter, it doesn't matter. MS will beat Sony out in this generation of consoles.
No Tiger wants to be an apple authed sales company, and be able to sell macs, and get all the marketing money that apple gives direct channel resellers.
Wrong, sequencing is not DNA fingerprinting. Fingerprinting can be done in a High School Lab and sequencing requires very expensive components and techniques.
It is exactly the same. A DNA fingerprint cannot tell if you are higher risk to cancer or illness. It cannot say this or that, anymore then a fingerprint can. It is basically the cutting up of your dna using a known agent and then using electropharises to seperate out the components. The higher ie longer the strand the less distance it will travel in the gell with electrical currant applied. You can kinda do your own experiment at home that mimics this. Take a coffee filter place ink on it and place part of the coffee filter strip in water. As water travels (electricty) along the filter (electropharesis gel) the ink (dna) will seperate.
listen to the opening sequence MP3. First that has to be the worst voice acting I have ever heard and I play japanese imports... Second can the guy go more then a sentance without using a descriptive word useless to someone who is blind?
"As the horizen falls past your canopy" "Stacks of white data chips"
Is this guy that dumb to make such a huge oversite?
ok according to the specs and the way INTEL has been doing comparisons the same mhz to mhz is all that matters. As for all the tests except the gameing tests do not use the vid card, so they are valid... This is just a non-issue.
Wow so few comments on this after 5 hours... Everyone must still be dling or it is so freakin awesome that you pooped your pants and are still in the shower...
Not a primer, over all poor article
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This may be one of the worst SLI articles I have read so far. This guy makes assumptions and passes them off as fact. He also makes some statements that belie his lack of knowledge about systems and speeds of procs as well as potential bottlenecks in the system. While SLI may be a good idea in the long run currently it is just a very expensive toy for certian gamers to brag about. Actual performance increases have been around 30% in most of the tests I have seen so far. That extra $200(6600gt) to 380(6800gt) spent on the 2nd video card combined with the extra $100 you will have to spend on the motherboard is better invested in other places on the system. upgradeing to a almost top amd64 or gasp a p4 will in the end get you better speeds in the majority of games. For sli functionality the driver has to support the game, and so far few games have been selected by nvidia to have the drivers writtin for it.
SLI does have some potential advantages that this writer has not covered. In 3d rendering, real time editing or special effects work this type of setup would be a huge boost to speed and productity. The fact that this generation of cards have programmable shaders, means that in theory these cards can pull some processing functions off of the cpu. Currently people are starting to experiment on how to use these powerfull graphic cards as almost secondary cpu's.
Currently my amd 64 3200 with a 6800gt performs amazingly in doom III and HLII at large resolutions with AA and AF. Ironically esp in HLII the bottleneck is the processor as the game has to compute the large physics calcs demanded by HLII. WIth graphics getting as advanced as they are I think we will be seeing a return to proc based performance gains, and a slow down of video card performance increases. As games will be putting more of a draw on the CPU. The graphics are real, now the environment is getting real.
Personally I feel that SLI is very much like the P4EE an incredibly expensive add-on/upgrade for very very high end gamers that do not care about price, or are easily swayed by marketing. At this point SLI makes no sense. The power is not needed at this point, the price performance ratio is way out of skew, and it's future is in doubt. Nvidia has to supply the drivers for these games, and as far as I know no games are currently being written with SLI in mind. Lets check back in a year and see how it goes and where this tech has gone. And as a parting thought why has nvidia not started using this tech in the commerical sector????
The FAI's rules state that a record attempt like this must start and finish at the same airfield and cross all meridians of the globe. What's more the course must not be less than the very precise figure of 36,787.559 kilometres (around 23,000 miles) which is equal in length to the Tropic of Cancer. To allow the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to catch the vital jet stream winds, the FAI rules don't oblige that record attempts follow the imaginary line of the Tropic itself but simply that the distance flown exceeds it.
with FAI being Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) - the world's air sports federation.
Go Rutan, first non-stop around the world (voyager.) First Civilain plane into space (spaceship one,)and now this
This also does not include his incredibly well known kitbuilt aircraft long and veri ez's, the Beech starship, or the numerous military projects he has done.
The new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition at 3.73GHz, again with out SpeedStep capability, idles at around 56oC with stock cooling in our open-air testbed. When loaded up with our Folding client, we see similar high-end temps at 73oC.
Your right idleing at 56 is not indicative of a heat pig since most amd 64's idle at 34 and max at 48 under load.
The new Pentium 4 6XX Sequence and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.37GHz CPUs offered a bit more performance in gaming scenarios but not enough to catch AMD's fastest Athlon 64 chips at what they do best. And again, when it comes to media encoding or conversion, 3D rendering and modeling, and most new standard business applications,
Does this not state that amd's are still in the lead, except for some business benchmarks
On the 32 and 63 bit gameing bechmarks the cost per fps is still in AMD's favor, as well as showing the p4's have incomplete 64 bit execution.
So yes I did read the tests thank you come again...
Runs hot, still going to be a cooling nightmare... And we all knew intel was putting a 2mb on die cache to speed up the proc. The only mysteries are why the 64 but extensions which look to prove pretty worthless in the long run, have been added (lic from AMD). And what took Intell so long to put the speed step tech on the desktop p4's? I mean come on it is a great way to cool those p4 heat pigs, people have been screaming for it for about a year, kinda a no brainer.. gg Intel still catchup. Not being a fan boy or anything but I will still save my money and get the AMD chips, and deal with slower excel benchmarks, since that extra 4 seconds I waste every few hours will really add up.
Notice the complete lack of comment in that statement. The only important line is the first one.
British Nuclear Fuels, which runs the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria, claimed yesterday that no nuclear material had gone missing from the site
Notice that line is unqualified. If they have not ruled out accounting, being the issue, it is not yet a fact that anything is missing. Therefore the statement is true. The rest of that comment is pure misdirection. Yes it is true that the total amount of Plutonium cannot be indentified, but they could be missing 30kg that had been amassed through the reprocessing of fuel rods.
What are Japanese patent laws? And what is the actual patent? No one knows either of these things. Japanese law may not have the "Non-obviousness" or "inventive step" clauses that America does. 2nd if it is an issue of an icon being used to access help a simple fine and software patch to remove the icon and change the access to help to something other then a button/icon.
The Microsoft/Matshusita link is tenuous, what computer hardware/software company has not worked with Microsoft at some point on a collaboritive project? Sony? IBM? DELL? Compaq/HP? Using the logic that was put forth earlier anyone Apple sues could be construed as being motivated from M$...
Lets see if anyone can get some real info on this. Instead of conjucture from a few short news blurbs that contradict each other.
Post 183... Screen capture
In seeing this irony I had to destroy it... But at least I got a screen cap of it.
But there is a Band called Blink 182 for those that do not know. And I think they have done fairly well themselves
yeah I expected it to be there too. But teh Newton in some ways was a huge success. Look what Palm did with the idea. The newton was just a little ahead of its time, and a little to early to have enough cpu power to do everything they where trying to do. Hence the change in handwriting recognition in the second model.
I'm still a little peeved that people have not caught on to what centrinoi means. In order to have the centrino label you must
1. Have the pentium M
2. Have a designated intel chipset
3. Have the intel wifi
Basically all non techy consumers/buyers want are centrino laptops. At the launch of centrino everyone wanted the centrino models not the exact same non-centrino model without the intel wifi(some even went as far as to buy the centrinos knowing the intel solution was not a good match and bought pcmcia cards which was higher expense and from what I heard a support nightmare.) Even if the non-intel wifi solution was better for them. This is marginalizing other wifi solution providers. Sure Intel claims you get better power managment with there solution but what percentage of actual battery life does this provide.
At least intel is taking it from behind now that they finally have to admit that mhz really means nothing when comparing different types of cpu's...
I'm going to guess time travel... teh Time travel episodes always where the worst, great way to get people to watch.
Although to prevent flameagethe time travel episode that brought back Tasha Yar and placed her in the past was a great way to bring the character back.
How do I start the Slacker 100. 100 slackers with blogs and websites that didn't cash in on the Tech boom to get free schwagg. Heck we can start small with a free bottle of Bawls, and Ipod mini's.
Ever played CS on a good server??? High level players can do this all day in counter-strike without hacks. granted alot of us have 3 years of practice on it.
Did you read my post. How is a thought out discussion on the mini, in which I state I will most likly buy one trolling? and sry I missed the $25 differnce on the estimated memory price. Apples web site was being hammered and I couldn't get into the store to check the price. To me trolling is correcting a $25 dollar estimate and not reading the post in which I state I will most likly buy one.
When I checked apples site it said 128 I checked 3 times, it has apparently changed. But the box only has support for one stick of mem, so it will still cost at least $100 to get it up to 512 which is a useable amount of ram. 256 will not cut it with itunes or iphoto running. I mentioned the adapter but it still does not have svideo in which is needed for DVR. Yes I know the g5 is a heat monster which is why there is no laptop g5. My point was if this had a g5 I would be willing to shell out 599 in a heartbeat for it.
The MAC Mini...
Initial thoughts OMG I NEED THIS. Run a kvm switch and place it next to my pc, and I got the best of both worlds. Then it started sinking in, hmm g4 128mb of ram no keyboard or monitor. Well assume 499 for the base model 200 for a monitor and 50 for a keyboard and mouse and you are up to $749. kick up to 512 mb of ram and you are around $850. Well for 1299 you can get a much faster g5 with a 17inch lcd and 512mb of ram and a video card that will run circles around the mini's. So where is the cost savings? Is the mini really worth it?
Call me jaded but back in the powerpc days I watched apple release products that the OS would not support 1 year down the road. With the g4 virtually gone from apples lineup and the new architecture of the g5 (64 bit) How long is the g4 going to be supported, or is the OS going to fork into a 64bit and 32bit versions similar to the early ppc days? Granted the situation is not completely identical as from what I know(limited) you cannot work in both a 32bit and 64bit environment at the same time, unlike the extra code for the risc chipped PPC's.
I can see alot of uses for a mini. It is a great appliance not a desktop replacement. It would be great to serve you itunes, and wireless itunes. It could make a great T.V. set computer but the svideo adapter is extra (apples site is being hosed right now so I cannot get the price for it.) But lacking svideo in and out no DVR out of the box which is a disappointment. Apple really could have cleaned up with built in DVR. It could make an assume techtool for fixing macs or networks with it's light weight and cheapness. (much cheaper then a laptop.)
One use that you might see is a nice cheap server array using firewire drives for storage. You could cheaply build your own budget server array with these.
Yes I will most likly buy one, and might even try and convince my parents that they need one. I can convince them to buy one with a wireless keyboard mouse and wifi to connect to the network I built at there house, and have them connect directly with the vga/dvi input on there 52 inch dlp T.V.
I think that you will see this machine sell well for 9 months sales drop after that, and then be removed from the lineup after 1.25 years.
Hits
cheap initial cost
Has some uses
great appliance potential
Will get alot of PC users into the MAC
Misses
No svideo in/out so no out of the box DVR...
low amount of base ram 128mb
g4 proc ( $100 more with a g5 and I would be first in line for this thing)
Other news... Apple has there own office suite big suprise there (yawn not really) they needed it, lets see how there WORD killer actually works. We all now the there version of powerpoint is way better, and is now in version 2. The new iPod will sell like crazy... awesome price for a usb mem stick with an mp3 player built in. Lets see if Apple can clean up Motorola's horrible user interface with the co-branded phone (which is still not actually seen) they just used a (hacked) version of a phone they did with mtv last year. The real one is still out on the horizon.
Ok why no broadcast this year... hmmm....
This is a type of spam that they actually have some legit legeal backing to go after. The problem is that this can and does expose minors to pornography. I am not against porn, but this is a good place to start and can help make a real legeal precident, to finally effectivly go after spam.
Its funny but the US government has failed to see the one way they actually could go after this type of spam. In much the same way that the FCC can "censor" public television and radio. The FCC is allowed to censor because the radio spectrum (boradcast TV and radio) is a limited bandwitdh, and they must allow the best use for the most people. Using this arguement it is suprising that no one has tried to enforce limits on what you can do with any US top level domain. Or used this arguement to enforce internet traffic in the US. Granted I do not know alot about the specific infra-structure of the internet, but I would assume that the government has invested some money into the infrastructure that would give them some leeway to enforce FCC type broadcast restrictions on the net.
It was about the DVD's not the movies
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Fairly good list, although reading through there selection choices, they seemed to randomly favor the Criterion Collection versions for the higher quality, where in others they fawned over the extras.
2 fairly obvious missing titles where "The Matrix" and "Moulin Rouge!" The Matrix was a seminal DVD that spawned so many of us umm geeks... to invest in DVD's, that and the trasnfer was excellent and the extras where much better then the majorty of DVD's out there. "Moulin Rouge!" is strangly missing since one is is a great transfer, and secondly the extras are some of the best work done using DVD tech. The whole dance scene can be viewed from mulitple angles in real time allowing you to see how the entire scene was pulled of. Baz Lermans commentary is also excellent. For the record I am not a huge fan of either of these movies, but I felt it very odd that neither of them appeared on the list.
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Assuming that this info is correct. It looks like xbox live will require the HD. Considering how integrated the HD looks, what makes you think that all 360's will not have an included HD? But ahh here is the kicker could a dvd/rw be used instead of the HD????? hmm folks could it work? So I guess the 360 hd is still up in the air. There is nothing about backward combatibility... but I will bet that MS will have it, the backlash will be to big not to have implemented it. As for the speed vs the cell. Well the first of a generation usally sells the best. Iomega Jazz vs the Syquest Syjet? the jet was way better from a larger company that had dominanted removeable media with syquest drives, but Iomega beat them to market with the jazz which was slower, more expensive, small capacity, and more prone to disk failure. Iomegas hard start.. 3 months. Where is syquest now? Speed vs the PS3 with the cell is a non-starter, it doesn't matter. MS will beat Sony out in this generation of consoles.
Gee maybe becuase they sold the whole PC MFG dept?
No Tiger wants to be an apple authed sales company, and be able to sell macs, and get all the marketing money that apple gives direct channel resellers.
Wrong, sequencing is not DNA fingerprinting. Fingerprinting can be done in a High School Lab and sequencing requires very expensive components and techniques.
It is exactly the same. A DNA fingerprint cannot tell if you are higher risk to cancer or illness. It cannot say this or that, anymore then a fingerprint can. It is basically the cutting up of your dna using a known agent and then using electropharises to seperate out the components. The higher ie longer the strand the less distance it will travel in the gell with electrical currant applied. You can kinda do your own experiment at home that mimics this. Take a coffee filter place ink on it and place part of the coffee filter strip in water. As water travels (electricty) along the filter (electropharesis gel) the ink (dna) will seperate.
http://www.gmagames.com/sod.html
listen to the opening sequence MP3. First that has to be the worst voice acting I have ever heard and I play japanese imports... Second can the guy go more then a sentance without using a descriptive word useless to someone who is blind?
"As the horizen falls past your canopy"
"Stacks of white data chips"
Is this guy that dumb to make such a huge oversite?
ok according to the specs and the way INTEL has been doing comparisons the same mhz to mhz is all that matters. As for all the tests except the gameing tests do not use the vid card, so they are valid... This is just a non-issue.
Not an AMD fanboy for the record
Wow so few comments on this after 5 hours... Everyone must still be dling or it is so freakin awesome that you pooped your pants and are still in the shower...
This may be one of the worst SLI articles I have read so far. This guy makes assumptions and passes them off as fact. He also makes some statements that belie his lack of knowledge about systems and speeds of procs as well as potential bottlenecks in the system. While SLI may be a good idea in the long run currently it is just a very expensive toy for certian gamers to brag about. Actual performance increases have been around 30% in most of the tests I have seen so far. That extra $200(6600gt) to 380(6800gt) spent on the 2nd video card combined with the extra $100 you will have to spend on the motherboard is better invested in other places on the system. upgradeing to a almost top amd64 or gasp a p4 will in the end get you better speeds in the majority of games. For sli functionality the driver has to support the game, and so far few games have been selected by nvidia to have the drivers writtin for it.
SLI does have some potential advantages that this writer has not covered. In 3d rendering, real time editing or special effects work this type of setup would be a huge boost to speed and productity. The fact that this generation of cards have programmable shaders, means that in theory these cards can pull some processing functions off of the cpu. Currently people are starting to experiment on how to use these powerfull graphic cards as almost secondary cpu's.
Currently my amd 64 3200 with a 6800gt performs amazingly in doom III and HLII at large resolutions with AA and AF. Ironically esp in HLII the bottleneck is the processor as the game has to compute the large physics calcs demanded by HLII. WIth graphics getting as advanced as they are I think we will be seeing a return to proc based performance gains, and a slow down of video card performance increases. As games will be putting more of a draw on the CPU. The graphics are real, now the environment is getting real.
Personally I feel that SLI is very much like the P4EE an incredibly expensive add-on/upgrade for very very high end gamers that do not care about price, or are easily swayed by marketing. At this point SLI makes no sense. The power is not needed at this point, the price performance ratio is way out of skew, and it's future is in doubt. Nvidia has to supply the drivers for these games, and as far as I know no games are currently being written with SLI in mind. Lets check back in a year and see how it goes and where this tech has gone. And as a parting thought why has nvidia not started using this tech in the commerical sector????
The FAI's rules state that a record attempt like this must start and finish at the same airfield and cross all meridians of the globe. What's more the course must not be less than the very precise figure of 36,787.559 kilometres (around 23,000 miles) which is equal in length to the Tropic of Cancer. To allow the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to catch the vital jet stream winds, the FAI rules don't oblige that record attempts follow the imaginary line of the Tropic itself but simply that the distance flown exceeds it.
with FAI being Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) - the world's air sports federation.
Go Rutan, first non-stop around the world (voyager.) First Civilain plane into space (spaceship one,)and now this
This also does not include his incredibly well known kitbuilt aircraft long and veri ez's, the Beech starship, or the numerous military projects he has done.
Rutan will most likly go down as one the most important aircraft designers of all time.
your right.. since an idle temp of
The new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition at 3.73GHz, again with out SpeedStep capability, idles at around 56oC with stock cooling in our open-air testbed. When loaded up with our Folding client, we see similar high-end temps at 73oC.
Your right idleing at 56 is not indicative of a heat pig since most amd 64's idle at 34 and max at 48 under load.
The new Pentium 4 6XX Sequence and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.37GHz CPUs offered a bit more performance in gaming scenarios but not enough to catch AMD's fastest Athlon 64 chips at what they do best. And again, when it comes to media encoding or conversion, 3D rendering and modeling, and most new standard business applications,
Does this not state that amd's are still in the lead, except for some business benchmarks
On the 32 and 63 bit gameing bechmarks the cost per fps is still in AMD's favor, as well as showing the p4's have incomplete 64 bit execution.
So yes I did read the tests thank you come again...
Runs hot, still going to be a cooling nightmare... And we all knew intel was putting a 2mb on die cache to speed up the proc. The only mysteries are why the 64 but extensions which look to prove pretty worthless in the long run, have been added (lic from AMD). And what took Intell so long to put the speed step tech on the desktop p4's? I mean come on it is a great way to cool those p4 heat pigs, people have been screaming for it for about a year, kinda a no brainer.. gg Intel still catchup. Not being a fan boy or anything but I will still save my money and get the AMD chips, and deal with slower excel benchmarks, since that extra 4 seconds I waste every few hours will really add up.
Notice the complete lack of comment in that statement. The only important line is the first one.
British Nuclear Fuels, which runs the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria, claimed yesterday that no nuclear material had gone missing from the site
Notice that line is unqualified. If they have not ruled out accounting, being the issue, it is not yet a fact that anything is missing. Therefore the statement is true. The rest of that comment is pure misdirection. Yes it is true that the total amount of Plutonium cannot be indentified, but they could be missing 30kg that had been amassed through the reprocessing of fuel rods.
What are Japanese patent laws? And what is the actual patent? No one knows either of these things. Japanese law may not have the "Non-obviousness" or "inventive step" clauses that America does. 2nd if it is an issue of an icon being used to access help a simple fine and software patch to remove the icon and change the access to help to something other then a button/icon.
The Microsoft/Matshusita link is tenuous, what computer hardware/software company has not worked with Microsoft at some point on a collaboritive project? Sony? IBM? DELL? Compaq/HP? Using the logic that was put forth earlier anyone Apple sues could be construed as being motivated from M$...
Lets see if anyone can get some real info on this. Instead of conjucture from a few short news blurbs that contradict each other.
Post 183...
Screen capture
In seeing this irony I had to destroy it... But at least I got a screen cap of it. But there is a Band called Blink 182 for those that do not know. And I think they have done fairly well themselves
yeah I expected it to be there too. But teh Newton in some ways was a huge success. Look what Palm did with the idea. The newton was just a little ahead of its time, and a little to early to have enough cpu power to do everything they where trying to do. Hence the change in handwriting recognition in the second model.
I'm still a little peeved that people have not caught on to what centrinoi means. In order to have the centrino label you must
1. Have the pentium M
2. Have a designated intel chipset
3. Have the intel wifi
Basically all non techy consumers/buyers want are centrino laptops. At the launch of centrino everyone wanted the centrino models not the exact same non-centrino model without the intel wifi(some even went as far as to buy the centrinos knowing the intel solution was not a good match and bought pcmcia cards which was higher expense and from what I heard a support nightmare.) Even if the non-intel wifi solution was better for them. This is marginalizing other wifi solution providers. Sure Intel claims you get better power managment with there solution but what percentage of actual battery life does this provide.
At least intel is taking it from behind now that they finally have to admit that mhz really means nothing when comparing different types of cpu's...
I'm going to guess time travel... teh Time travel episodes always where the worst, great way to get people to watch. Although to prevent flameagethe time travel episode that brought back Tasha Yar and placed her in the past was a great way to bring the character back.
How do I start the Slacker 100. 100 slackers with blogs and websites that didn't cash in on the Tech boom to get free schwagg. Heck we can start small with a free bottle of Bawls, and Ipod mini's.
Slacker #1 right here who is with me?
Ever played CS on a good server??? High level players can do this all day in counter-strike without hacks. granted alot of us have 3 years of practice on it.
Did you read my post. How is a thought out discussion on the mini, in which I state I will most likly buy one trolling? and sry I missed the $25 differnce on the estimated memory price. Apples web site was being hammered and I couldn't get into the store to check the price. To me trolling is correcting a $25 dollar estimate and not reading the post in which I state I will most likly buy one.
When I checked apples site it said 128 I checked 3 times, it has apparently changed. But the box only has support for one stick of mem, so it will still cost at least $100 to get it up to 512 which is a useable amount of ram. 256 will not cut it with itunes or iphoto running. I mentioned the adapter but it still does not have svideo in which is needed for DVR. Yes I know the g5 is a heat monster which is why there is no laptop g5. My point was if this had a g5 I would be willing to shell out 599 in a heartbeat for it.
The MAC Mini...
Initial thoughts OMG I NEED THIS. Run a kvm switch and place it next to my pc, and I got the best of both worlds. Then it started sinking in, hmm g4 128mb of ram no keyboard or monitor. Well assume 499 for the base model 200 for a monitor and 50 for a keyboard and mouse and you are up to $749. kick up to 512 mb of ram and you are around $850. Well for 1299 you can get a much faster g5 with a 17inch lcd and 512mb of ram and a video card that will run circles around the mini's. So where is the cost savings? Is the mini really worth it?
Call me jaded but back in the powerpc days I watched apple release products that the OS would not support 1 year down the road. With the g4 virtually gone from apples lineup and the new architecture of the g5 (64 bit) How long is the g4 going to be supported, or is the OS going to fork into a 64bit and 32bit versions similar to the early ppc days? Granted the situation is not completely identical as from what I know(limited) you cannot work in both a 32bit and 64bit environment at the same time, unlike the extra code for the risc chipped PPC's.
I can see alot of uses for a mini. It is a great appliance not a desktop replacement. It would be great to serve you itunes, and wireless itunes. It could make a great T.V. set computer but the svideo adapter is extra (apples site is being hosed right now so I cannot get the price for it.) But lacking svideo in and out no DVR out of the box which is a disappointment. Apple really could have cleaned up with built in DVR. It could make an assume techtool for fixing macs or networks with it's light weight and cheapness. (much cheaper then a laptop.)
One use that you might see is a nice cheap server array using firewire drives for storage. You could cheaply build your own budget server array with these.
Yes I will most likly buy one, and might even try and convince my parents that they need one. I can convince them to buy one with a wireless keyboard mouse and wifi to connect to the network I built at there house, and have them connect directly with the vga/dvi input on there 52 inch dlp T.V.
I think that you will see this machine sell well for 9 months sales drop after that, and then be removed from the lineup after 1.25 years.
Hits
cheap initial cost
Has some uses
great appliance potential
Will get alot of PC users into the MAC
Misses
No svideo in/out so no out of the box DVR...
low amount of base ram 128mb
g4 proc ( $100 more with a g5 and I would be first in line for this thing)
Other news... Apple has there own office suite big suprise there (yawn not really) they needed it, lets see how there WORD killer actually works. We all now the there version of powerpoint is way better, and is now in version 2. The new iPod will sell like crazy... awesome price for a usb mem stick with an mp3 player built in. Lets see if Apple can clean up Motorola's horrible user interface with the co-branded phone (which is still not actually seen) they just used a (hacked) version of a phone they did with mtv last year. The real one is still out on the horizon.
Ok why no broadcast this year... hmmm....
This is a type of spam that they actually have some legit legeal backing to go after. The problem is that this can and does expose minors to pornography. I am not against porn, but this is a good place to start and can help make a real legeal precident, to finally effectivly go after spam.
Its funny but the US government has failed to see the one way they actually could go after this type of spam. In much the same way that the FCC can "censor" public television and radio. The FCC is allowed to censor because the radio spectrum (boradcast TV and radio) is a limited bandwitdh, and they must allow the best use for the most people. Using this arguement it is suprising that no one has tried to enforce limits on what you can do with any US top level domain. Or used this arguement to enforce internet traffic in the US. Granted I do not know alot about the specific infra-structure of the internet, but I would assume that the government has invested some money into the infrastructure that would give them some leeway to enforce FCC type broadcast restrictions on the net.
Fairly good list, although reading through there selection choices, they seemed to randomly favor the Criterion Collection versions for the higher quality, where in others they fawned over the extras.
2 fairly obvious missing titles where "The Matrix" and "Moulin Rouge!" The Matrix was a seminal DVD that spawned so many of us umm geeks... to invest in DVD's, that and the trasnfer was excellent and the extras where much better then the majorty of DVD's out there. "Moulin Rouge!" is strangly missing since one is is a great transfer, and secondly the extras are some of the best work done using DVD tech. The whole dance scene can be viewed from mulitple angles in real time allowing you to see how the entire scene was pulled of. Baz Lermans commentary is also excellent. For the record I am not a huge fan of either of these movies, but I felt it very odd that neither of them appeared on the list.