I can upgrade the CPU in a G4/400 to at least 1.4GHz. There are also 1.6GHz, 1.3 dual, and overclocked 2.0 chips that can be dropped in (though the highest may not be compatible with the 400's 100MHz bus). I can upgrade an iMac G3/233 to either a 600MHz G3 or 550(?)MHz G4. A Power Mac 7200 to a G3. A Power Mac 9600 to a G4.
Upgradability? Good, I say. What PC can go from a Pentium 1 to a Pentium 3?
A Sawtooth box at my school does this. If you reboot 10.3.9, it just stops booting, I think at "starting network file system" (I don't reboot it often, so I can't say for sure). To fix this, I just hit the hard reset button on the case. Then, for some reason, it works.
Autovectorization is mostly for Apple's benefit. Few want to hand-code AltiVec...so there you go.
It probably won't help with SSE/SSE2 very much, since you need some specialized software to really take advantage of the new feature, and Linux doesn't have much of it (and where it does, like Cinelerra, it's written in asm).
The longest Apple ever supported a machine was nine years (Mac Plus, 1986, to System 7.5.5, 1995). The early PowerPC Macs were usually supported for six or seven (from 94-95, to 9.1, 2001). Many of the apparently dropped machines for Tiger are coming up on six or seven years. Not bad I say, considering all the extra "stuff" in OS X over OS 9.
I run Ubuntu on a p2/400 with 192mb RAM at school. I just did an upgrade from Gnome 2.8 to 2.10, and yes, it's faster. The biggest difference was opening the Run box. In 2.8, I could hit Alt+F2 and it would appear about 5 seconds later, and wouldn't become responsive until after I had already finished typing in it. Now with 2.10, it comes up right away and is responsive right away. Just like XFce and Windows.
The rest of the speed increases were not that dramatic, but they were there.
I use 4.0 all the time, have for several months. I got to try out 4.2 on a testing box I have at school. Bluntly, I don't like it.
What I like about XFce (at least up to 4.0) is that it isn't like the Windows interface: no single all-encompassing menu, really quick load time, only contains what the environment needs. What does 4.2 add? An all-encompassing menu and a bunch of tools that are more for systems management, along with a much longer load time (oh, but a cute mouse to see while you're waiting *rolls eyes*). So now it's more like KDE and Gnome, and thus, more like Windows.
No thanks, I'm sticking with 4.0 for as long as GCC will compile it.
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Upgradability? Good, I say. What PC can go from a Pentium 1 to a Pentium 3?
Sounds like Bastard Operator From Hell's "DUMMY MODE" to me. :)
Microsoft.com is proxied by Akami. I wouldn't be surprised if MS themselves used only one box.
Slackware 10.0, with the kernel.org 2.4.29.
That's the kernel.org 2.6.0 kernel, as is.
A Sawtooth box at my school does this. If you reboot 10.3.9, it just stops booting, I think at "starting network file system" (I don't reboot it often, so I can't say for sure). To fix this, I just hit the hard reset button on the case. Then, for some reason, it works.
Woody uses 2.2, not 3.1.
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Autovectorization is mostly for Apple's benefit. Few want to hand-code AltiVec...so there you go.
It probably won't help with SSE/SSE2 very much, since you need some specialized software to really take advantage of the new feature, and Linux doesn't have much of it (and where it does, like Cinelerra, it's written in asm).
QNX was never open source, and I don't recall them even considering it. Would be great though....QNX is my favorite microkernel.
NASA is copying Apple now?
Oh, okay. /me loses argument, heh.
Well, do consider that the Pentium 4s are now around 95% RISC, yet they have pipelines much longer than even the G5...
The G5 pipeline is 14 stages. That's considered long? Granted, the G4 is only 9...but the Pentium M is around 15 or so, and the P4 was 20, now 31.
G5 a "classic long-pipeline model?" Hardly.
Hopefully I'm not the only one who finds the PCI Express debacle absurd.
Has Netcraft confirmed it yet?
Actually it's closer to seven, sometimes six.
The longest Apple ever supported a machine was nine years (Mac Plus, 1986, to System 7.5.5, 1995). The early PowerPC Macs were usually supported for six or seven (from 94-95, to 9.1, 2001). Many of the apparently dropped machines for Tiger are coming up on six or seven years. Not bad I say, considering all the extra "stuff" in OS X over OS 9.
The rest of the speed increases were not that dramatic, but they were there.
Certainly that would've been funnier.
Don't give Taco any more ideas.
And this one is actually real...go figure.
What I like about XFce (at least up to 4.0) is that it isn't like the Windows interface: no single all-encompassing menu, really quick load time, only contains what the environment needs. What does 4.2 add? An all-encompassing menu and a bunch of tools that are more for systems management, along with a much longer load time (oh, but a cute mouse to see while you're waiting *rolls eyes*). So now it's more like KDE and Gnome, and thus, more like Windows.
No thanks, I'm sticking with 4.0 for as long as GCC will compile it.
Probably due to x86 optimization.
and what, a 1.2 or 1.4ghz processor?
You're not really using MHz to compare, are you?