It will most likely be very expensive. The Earth Simulator was nearly $300 million dollars and that's just for the machine! I don't understand why people keep spending that much money when they could build a G5 cluster with the same overall speed for easily 1/10th the cost.
I do understand that there are some things that the NEC computers are better at simulating and processing than a G5 cluster like the one at Virginia Tech, but for overall price/performance ratio these NEC computers cannot come close to matching Apple's G5 clusters.
Someone mentioned fixing the speeder matte issues, which I'd agree is an improvement... but that's the kind of thing which has no effect on the story.
That's what most of the improvements/changes are - cosmetic. Most of them really do not have an effect on the story and the ones that do just flesh it out, like the Jabba/Han scene in IV. People seem to really only be upset at the Greedo/Han thing (which really doesn't matter in my opinion; it doesn't change the story or who Han is. He was always firing in self-defense) and Hayden added as Anakin. Big deal, it still does not affect the story that much, it just makes it have more continuity.
Also, iTunes' visualization is the best. I've never seen any other free visualizations that even come close and I've played around a lot with WinAmp, WMP, and RealPlayer.
Not that visualizations are really that imporatant overall, but it is a very nice touch. I never get sick of iTunes' visualizations (it is pretty graphics-intensive though if you try to run at full-screen).
"No, but 3 million more people bought iPods than the mp3 player you designed. Maybe they're on to something."
I love the iPod (although I don't own one). If I were to buy a portable music player I'd buy an iPod. I was just making a purely logical point. Nothing more.
What in the world is a teragig? Is that some sort of tree-huggers' jam session?
Gigabyte?
Check!
Terabyte?
Check!
Teragig?
Che...
Oh no, wait! Not found.
I'm guessing that Dell is destroying these to take them off the market.
More like taking them apart and trying to figure out just how the Apple engineers fit so much into such a tiny box. This is just a cheaper way for Dell to buy and take apart the iPods.
...and does it really matter to 90% of the population who don't own a BMW?
I don't know where you live but 10% of the cars on the road around here sure aren't BMW's and I highly doubt that 10% of the people own BMW's. I've even lived all around the Seattle area and even in Redmond 10% of the cars aren't BMW's -- it's more like 40%. Anyway, I just wanted to comment about something.
$1307 + operating system + software + headache + crashes = about the same price but probably more. I guess the good side of building a similar-to-G5-but-not-quite-the-same Opteron-based system is you get free and unlimited tech support, as long as you can figure it out yourself!
"Ask not what your PC can do for you, but what you can do for your PC."
Look at how even 2.5GHz has to be liquid-cooled to be stable enough with the old transistor fabrication process.
What's wrong with liquid cooling? It is the future of computing. Fans are good but Apple is really trying to change the personal computer. What they do design-wise and technology-wise usually influences the overall computer market (e.g., end of floppy drives; WiFi; 64-bit processors). Apple is breathing life into computers (although IBM could just make more efficient processors that don't put off as much heat but eventually we will need liquid cooling or something other than just fans to keep our computers cool).
It could also be the new iMacs though (As Apple has stopped producing the current model as of this week).
Apple is actually releasing a cell phone/PDA/digital camera running their new "Tiger" OS on a single 1.8 GHz 64-bit processor. It uses a hydrogen fuel cell with a built-in hydrogen scoop (no need to ever recharge). In a pinch you can use it as a parachute if you ever happen to mindlessly wander off a plane while using it. Also, if your non-Mac aquaintences ever happen to make fun of Apple you can hit them with it.
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Don't you mean 200GB? I do remember my first 200MB hard drive though (actually 240). Man, it was hard to fill!
It will most likely be very expensive. The Earth Simulator was nearly $300 million dollars and that's just for the machine! I don't understand why people keep spending that much money when they could build a G5 cluster with the same overall speed for easily 1/10th the cost.
I do understand that there are some things that the NEC computers are better at simulating and processing than a G5 cluster like the one at Virginia Tech, but for overall price/performance ratio these NEC computers cannot come close to matching Apple's G5 clusters.
Someone mentioned fixing the speeder matte issues, which I'd agree is an improvement... but that's the kind of thing which has no effect on the story.
That's what most of the improvements/changes are - cosmetic. Most of them really do not have an effect on the story and the ones that do just flesh it out, like the Jabba/Han scene in IV. People seem to really only be upset at the Greedo/Han thing (which really doesn't matter in my opinion; it doesn't change the story or who Han is. He was always firing in self-defense) and Hayden added as Anakin. Big deal, it still does not affect the story that much, it just makes it have more continuity.
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Also, iTunes' visualization is the best. I've never seen any other free visualizations that even come close and I've played around a lot with WinAmp, WMP, and RealPlayer.
Not that visualizations are really that imporatant overall, but it is a very nice touch. I never get sick of iTunes' visualizations (it is pretty graphics-intensive though if you try to run at full-screen).
"No, but 3 million more people bought iPods than the mp3 player you designed. Maybe they're on to something."
I love the iPod (although I don't own one). If I were to buy a portable music player I'd buy an iPod. I was just making a purely logical point. Nothing more.
What in the world is a teragig? Is that some sort of tree-huggers' jam session? Gigabyte? Check! Terabyte? Check! Teragig? Che... Oh no, wait! Not found.
What in the world is a teragig? Is that like a tree-huggers' jam session? A gigabyte, yes. A terabyte, yes. But a teragig?
And 3 million people are always right...
I'm guessing that Dell is destroying these to take them off the market.
More like taking them apart and trying to figure out just how the Apple engineers fit so much into such a tiny box. This is just a cheaper way for Dell to buy and take apart the iPods.
...and does it really matter to 90% of the population who don't own a BMW?
I don't know where you live but 10% of the cars on the road around here sure aren't BMW's and I highly doubt that 10% of the people own BMW's. I've even lived all around the Seattle area and even in Redmond 10% of the cars aren't BMW's -- it's more like 40%. Anyway, I just wanted to comment about something.
The comparison should be $1307 versus $1999.
$1307 + operating system + software + headache + crashes = about the same price but probably more. I guess the good side of building a similar-to-G5-but-not-quite-the-same Opteron-based system is you get free and unlimited tech support, as long as you can figure it out yourself!
"Ask not what your PC can do for you, but what you can do for your PC."
Look at how even 2.5GHz has to be liquid-cooled to be stable enough with the old transistor fabrication process.
What's wrong with liquid cooling? It is the future of computing. Fans are good but Apple is really trying to change the personal computer. What they do design-wise and technology-wise usually influences the overall computer market (e.g., end of floppy drives; WiFi; 64-bit processors). Apple is breathing life into computers (although IBM could just make more efficient processors that don't put off as much heat but eventually we will need liquid cooling or something other than just fans to keep our computers cool).
It could also be the new iMacs though (As Apple has stopped producing the current model as of this week).
Apple is actually releasing a cell phone/PDA/digital camera running their new "Tiger" OS on a single 1.8 GHz 64-bit processor. It uses a hydrogen fuel cell with a built-in hydrogen scoop (no need to ever recharge). In a pinch you can use it as a parachute if you ever happen to mindlessly wander off a plane while using it. Also, if your non-Mac aquaintences ever happen to make fun of Apple you can hit them with it.