"What happened to that "laptop GPU card" standard, anyway?"
It's used on many high-end "gaming" laptops, like the Dell XPS series, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, etc. But it's not much of a standard. The cards vary in power requirement, heat output, and even size, so there's no guarantee that you can stick card X in a laptop that came with card Y.
Why don't you just buy a television? 42", 1080p TV's cost under $2000 now, that's at least a grand less than Apple would charge for the exact same panel (with only one DVI input, of course).
Most optical drives are no louder than a stand-alone DVD player, and any decent HTPC would be playing videos from its hard drive or even a backend fileserver.
As for your Mac mini, its processor isn't the bottleneck. Shitty Intel graphics are, and any modern graphics card (Geforce 7- series, Radeon x1k series) should handle MPEG4 and h.264 in hardware.
Yeah. It's not even that hard to build a silent PC- a mobile processor cooled by only a large heatsink, fanless power supply and video card, and a single low-RPM fan to exhaust heat out the back. The only noise would be from the hard drive, and that can be controlled with rubber mountings and such.
And since relatively slow processors and low-end video cards today have more than enough power for HD video, building such a HTPC shouldn't even be that expensive. The costliest component is a nice looking case.
No shit. The headline and summary completely misrepresent the article. It doesn't even make sense... Sun taunts HP with Sun's founders, Hewlett and Packard?
Well, the motherboard should support the new processors just fine, as far as electrical and bus compatibility. It may well require a firmware update to work, but unless Apple plans to redesign the Mac Pro's motherboard in January, they will have to make such an update. If they don't make that update available to existing Mac Pros, someone will get their hands on it and release it. Likewise, if Apple modifies the firmware to exclude newer CPUs, someone will hack it pretty quickly.
I can think of one other reason why Clovertown may not work in a Mac Pro- heat. Woodcrest has a TDP of 65W; Clovertown, which is little more than two Woodcrests stuck together, is 100+W. Being obsessed with quiet/silent computing, Apple may be running the Mac Pro's processors hot already so the fans spin very slowly (I don't know how hot the Mac Pro's processors get- I suspect, with those huge heatsinks, they actually run pretty cool).
Clovertown and Kentsfield are identical except for the socket and bus speeds they use. So, yes, Clovertown is the quad core version of Woodcrest (like Kentsfield, it's actually two dual-core processors on one package) and will work fine in the Mac Pro (unless Apple does something silly and uses firmware to block upgrades).
You'll be able to use all four cores, but it is marketing speak. I'm pretty sure all of the 965-chipset motherboards will support quad-core processors, which means this "bullet point in the spec list" applies to a couple dozen mobos, some of which have been on sale for the last month.
In Fark-speak, submitter is an idiot.
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Arclinux also includes (or included) a Tetris game diring installation, except, for me, the Tetris game crashed. It didn't affect the installation, though.
We can't see motion faster than 30fps, either, yet anyone will tell you that 60fps looks much smoother. Likewise, refresh rates higher than 60Hz on a CRT shouldn't matter, but in reality 75Hz is better.
The term "dual core" is completely meaningless with respect to graphics cards- due to the parallelized nature of the core, it's the exact same thing as doubling the number of pipelines/shaders. In other words, if you want a dual core GPU, just wait and buy the next generation card.
If a user bought two crappy Dells in a row, computer #3 would be an HP or a Gateway, but you're illustrative of the fact that Apple's established customers will just keep buying Macs. If Apple is satisfied with its current user base, quality problems are not a problem- people bitch on the internet and get another Macbook. However, if Apple is trying to create "switchers" and expand, quality problems will lead to single-purchase customers who go back to other brands.
Then again, Apple's overall quality level is probably the same as any other computer manufacturer, and their customer support is better than average.
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The point is to make books and newspapers that can only be read for a limited time.
This kind of shit has gone on long enough and been tolerated by the ignorant populous... but somehow, I don't think DRM'd books are going to fly.
Mwahahahaha
Ordinary people get inconvenienced... but not scanner-armed newspaper pirates like me!
"What happened to that "laptop GPU card" standard, anyway?"
It's used on many high-end "gaming" laptops, like the Dell XPS series, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, etc. But it's not much of a standard. The cards vary in power requirement, heat output, and even size, so there's no guarantee that you can stick card X in a laptop that came with card Y.
Why don't you just buy a television? 42", 1080p TV's cost under $2000 now, that's at least a grand less than Apple would charge for the exact same panel (with only one DVI input, of course).
And that's different from their current "security system" how? At Circuit Shitty and Worst Buy they just have some poor employee follow me around.
Most optical drives are no louder than a stand-alone DVD player, and any decent HTPC would be playing videos from its hard drive or even a backend fileserver.
As for your Mac mini, its processor isn't the bottleneck. Shitty Intel graphics are, and any modern graphics card (Geforce 7- series, Radeon x1k series) should handle MPEG4 and h.264 in hardware.
Yeah. It's not even that hard to build a silent PC- a mobile processor cooled by only a large heatsink, fanless power supply and video card, and a single low-RPM fan to exhaust heat out the back. The only noise would be from the hard drive, and that can be controlled with rubber mountings and such.
And since relatively slow processors and low-end video cards today have more than enough power for HD video, building such a HTPC shouldn't even be that expensive. The costliest component is a nice looking case.
Yeah, I'd like to get paid by Dell, too. I refuse to use their shitty computers, but I'll say anything for money.
That's not a dual core processor. It's also considerably slower than the 2.33GHz processor referenced in the article.
But I guess it's not surprising that someone who mistakes Hyperthreading for dual cores would actually believe that higher MHz numbers are better.
No shit. The headline and summary completely misrepresent the article. It doesn't even make sense... Sun taunts HP with Sun's founders, Hewlett and Packard?
Reading comprehension fail it... Slashdot's editors are unpaid volunteers, right?
"America's Funniest Home Videos" culled out probably 99% of the tapes they received. On Youtube, you get to see all the rejects.
TPM is built into motherboards, not processors. And very few motherboards have it.
Well, the motherboard should support the new processors just fine, as far as electrical and bus compatibility. It may well require a firmware update to work, but unless Apple plans to redesign the Mac Pro's motherboard in January, they will have to make such an update. If they don't make that update available to existing Mac Pros, someone will get their hands on it and release it. Likewise, if Apple modifies the firmware to exclude newer CPUs, someone will hack it pretty quickly.
I can think of one other reason why Clovertown may not work in a Mac Pro- heat. Woodcrest has a TDP of 65W; Clovertown, which is little more than two Woodcrests stuck together, is 100+W. Being obsessed with quiet/silent computing, Apple may be running the Mac Pro's processors hot already so the fans spin very slowly (I don't know how hot the Mac Pro's processors get- I suspect, with those huge heatsinks, they actually run pretty cool).
Clovertown and Kentsfield are identical except for the socket and bus speeds they use. So, yes, Clovertown is the quad core version of Woodcrest (like Kentsfield, it's actually two dual-core processors on one package) and will work fine in the Mac Pro (unless Apple does something silly and uses firmware to block upgrades).
You'll be able to use all four cores, but it is marketing speak. I'm pretty sure all of the 965-chipset motherboards will support quad-core processors, which means this "bullet point in the spec list" applies to a couple dozen mobos, some of which have been on sale for the last month.
In Fark-speak, submitter is an idiot.
Arclinux also includes (or included) a Tetris game diring installation, except, for me, the Tetris game crashed. It didn't affect the installation, though.
Do they need a historian? I can do that.
Still working? Why would XP stop working on Core 2 processors?
More importantly, does that mean Trinity worked for AOL?
We can't see motion faster than 30fps, either, yet anyone will tell you that 60fps looks much smoother. Likewise, refresh rates higher than 60Hz on a CRT shouldn't matter, but in reality 75Hz is better.
You don't have to use another card from the same brand. Any 6600GT will do.
The term "dual core" is completely meaningless with respect to graphics cards- due to the parallelized nature of the core, it's the exact same thing as doubling the number of pipelines/shaders. In other words, if you want a dual core GPU, just wait and buy the next generation card.
If a user bought two crappy Dells in a row, computer #3 would be an HP or a Gateway, but you're illustrative of the fact that Apple's established customers will just keep buying Macs. If Apple is satisfied with its current user base, quality problems are not a problem- people bitch on the internet and get another Macbook. However, if Apple is trying to create "switchers" and expand, quality problems will lead to single-purchase customers who go back to other brands.
Then again, Apple's overall quality level is probably the same as any other computer manufacturer, and their customer support is better than average.
You're just calling the wrong people: http://www.sco.com/