Yup, I still have my old 9500 and 9600. My wife was using the 9500 with a 400MHz card until a couple of months ago. It was being used with the case off for the last FOUR years, because of that design. Didn't have to take the power supply out though (thank god!). One thing that annoyed me. When I went to MacWorld in Boston in 1996 and spoke to the head of the case design team, and asked him why they designed it with so little thought to memory upgrades, he said that if I wasn't happy I shouldn't buy a Mac!!! Amazing.
My G4's, of course are much better. The G5 seems like half a step back though.
It's nonsense about Intel being lobied. Compac has stated that Firewire will be a big part of their stratagy. IBM has announced products. So have other computer makers.
The thing about this is that Inlet is scared of Firewire. They need to sell CPUs to be viable. Firewire negates that need. Intel would like us to wire our home networks of audio, video, home protection, coffee makers, air conditioners, heating systems, and other devices to a computer. Firewire allows us to do without one, perhaps using the Tv screen to set the devices.
The FCC has already MANDATED a firewire port on all future HDTV devices, set-top boxes etc.. What will this do to Intel in the post pc world that is being spoken about? Is there any wonder they don't want to support it any longer?
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Yes, it's true about the packets, but the hub holds the 1.0 packets until they equal a 2.0 packet. Only then are they sent out. This does damaging things to streaming video or audio. There are other problems as well.
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Yup, I still have my old 9500 and 9600. My wife was using the 9500 with a 400MHz card until a couple of months ago. It was being used with the case off for the last FOUR years, because of that design. Didn't have to take the power supply out though (thank god!). One thing that annoyed me. When I went to MacWorld in Boston in 1996 and spoke to the head of the case design team, and asked him why they designed it with so little thought to memory upgrades, he said that if I wasn't happy I shouldn't buy a Mac!!! Amazing.
My G4's, of course are much better. The G5 seems like half a step back though.
It's nonsense about Intel being lobied. Compac has stated that Firewire will be a big part of their stratagy. IBM has announced products. So have other computer makers.
The thing about this is that Inlet is scared of Firewire. They need to sell CPUs to be viable. Firewire negates that need. Intel would like us to wire our home networks of audio, video, home protection, coffee makers, air conditioners, heating systems, and other devices to a computer. Firewire allows us to do without one, perhaps using the Tv screen to set the devices.
The FCC has already MANDATED a firewire port on all future HDTV devices, set-top boxes etc.. What will this do to Intel in the post pc world that is being spoken about? Is there any wonder they don't want to support it any longer?
Yes, it's true about the packets, but the hub holds the 1.0 packets until they equal a 2.0 packet. Only then are they sent out. This does damaging things to streaming video or audio. There are other problems as well.