The casinos have to deal with the Nevada State Gaming Control Board that regulates Nevada's gaming industry. Will we see some thing like that for on line games with real cash money in them?
a few other things to make them better priced next and more in line with other x86 hardware. all systems now days come with DVD burners/CD-RW apple should be able to get that for the same price as cdwr / dvd drives. $75 to go from 512mb to 1gb is way to much.
The I-Macs use laptop parts and the $999 i-mac with 512mb and gma 950 with a cdwr / dvd should be dropped in price or removed as for a $100 more you get 1gb of ram, faster cpu with more l2, DL dvd burner / cdwr and ATI Radeon X1600 graphics.
The mini at $ 600 is a little high for a older core 1 cpu and only 512mb system ram with gma 950 and a $800 system with 512mb of ram and gma 950 with a older cpu like that is a ripoff.
The macbook black should have a real video card or a Turbo Cache / hyper memory card at the $1500 price level as there are other laptops at that price with them.
The Mac Pro is overkill for people who need a desktop system with video better then the low end on video in the mini and FB-DIMMS for ram do not help it too and only an nvidia 7300 in a $2000 desktop system?
Apple should replace the mini with a mini tower with DESKTOP PARTS and pci-e slots that can take a full pci-e x16 video card with other slots left over and maybe low end on board video as well. You can keep the same base price as the mini upping it to 1gb ram and a newer cpu. Maybe even push the old mini down to the g4 mini price levels.
system. People do not want to be tied to the screen in a AIO + they use laptop parts. Get rid of the mini and replace it with this you start at the mini base price upping the ram to 1gb going to desktop parts.
$600 - $1700 or more ? the mini starts at $599 with desktop parts you can boost the base ram up to 1 gb at that price. use desktop cpu cpus that cover the full range form low to high end on board video with a pci-e x16 slot with x1 slots? or 2 pci-e x16 slots 8x, 8x in sli / cross fire mode with x1 slots? or x16, x4, x1 set up with on board video? or some other setup like the ones I listed 4 ram slots put firewire 800 on the pci-e bus if you have a free lane if not put it on the pci bus.
For the mac pro apple can add more quad-cores and push down the price of the dual dual-core.
The mac pro should move to a new chipset with 2 full pci-e x16 with a x16 slot in x4 mode maybe even have 2 of them. firewire over the pci-e bus maybe have on board pci-e sas / sata hardware raid or make it easy to use the disks in the case with a pci-e card. no FB-DIMMS DDR 2 ECC / or DDR 2 ram. 2 cpus. maybe have pci-x at the cost of 4 pci-e lanes.
With AMD cpus 1.6GHz memory does make sense as it is linked right to the cpu with having to use the same bus as the cpu uses for dual-core to dual-core on die traffic + cpu to chipset traffic.
as other things like the xbox 360 and ps3 as you need to do paper work / sign up for cell phone service and that takes a lot longer then selling other things. also that will make selling them on ebay a lot harder. The I-phone may even have a forced data plan.
there are easier ways for video game / pinball operators to rip you off like turning off extra balls, replays, ball savers, setting the outline posts to hard, setting the game rules to very hard, setting the tilt setting to make it very ease to tilt, turning off post save on uk games, and more.
But most of them just don't fix the games and let brake down and that can cost you as a player.
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the card have DRM that only works with windows vista on oem systems that pay m$ for the right to use the cards.
also how do they lock them down to the oems only?
what happen if you put non dell ram, video card, or other things in to a dell system with a cable card? will that lock you out?
The casinos have to deal with the Nevada State Gaming Control Board that regulates Nevada's gaming industry. Will we see some thing like that for on line games with real cash money in them?
a few other things to make them better priced next and more in line with other x86 hardware. /CD-RW apple should be able to get that for the same price as cdwr / dvd drives.
all systems now days come with DVD burners
$75 to go from 512mb to 1gb is way to much.
The I-Macs use laptop parts and the $999 i-mac with 512mb and gma 950 with a cdwr / dvd should be dropped in price or removed as for a $100 more you get 1gb of ram, faster cpu with more l2, DL dvd burner / cdwr and ATI Radeon X1600 graphics.
The mini at $ 600 is a little high for a older core 1 cpu and only 512mb system ram with gma 950 and a $800 system with 512mb of ram and gma 950 with a older cpu like that is a ripoff.
The macbook black should have a real video card or a Turbo Cache / hyper memory card at the $1500 price level as there are other laptops at that price with them.
The Mac Pro is overkill for people who need a desktop system with video better then the low end on video in the mini and FB-DIMMS for ram do not help it too and only an nvidia 7300 in a $2000 desktop system?
Apple should replace the mini with a mini tower with DESKTOP PARTS and pci-e slots that can take a full pci-e x16 video card with other slots left over and maybe low end on board video as well. You can keep the same base price as the mini upping it to 1gb ram and a newer cpu. Maybe even push the old mini down to the g4 mini price levels.
pci-e has a lot less cpu over head then usb.
also where are the firewire flash ram sticks.
The road system in simcity 4 rush hour add on was ok but it was missing a lot things.
there is 32 bit windows ver of simcity 2000
they had web filtering software but they let it expire.
that is what is wrong with windows and oems they should give free disk and stop useing restore partitions.
a forced 2 year voice and data plan will stop that.
system. People do not want to be tied to the screen in a AIO + they use laptop parts.
Get rid of the mini and replace it with this you start at the mini base price upping the ram to 1gb going to desktop parts.
$600 - $1700 or more ? the mini starts at $599 with desktop parts you can boost the base ram up to 1 gb at that price.
use desktop cpu cpus that cover the full range form low to high end
on board video with a pci-e x16 slot with x1 slots?
or 2 pci-e x16 slots 8x, 8x in sli / cross fire mode with x1 slots?
or x16, x4, x1 set up with on board video?
or some other setup like the ones I listed
4 ram slots
put firewire 800 on the pci-e bus if you have a free lane if not put it on the pci bus.
For the mac pro apple can add more quad-cores and push down the price of the dual dual-core.
The mac pro should move to a new chipset with 2 full pci-e x16 with a x16 slot in x4 mode maybe even have 2 of them.
firewire over the pci-e bus
maybe have on board pci-e sas / sata hardware raid or make it easy to use the disks in the case with a pci-e card.
no FB-DIMMS DDR 2 ECC / or DDR 2 ram.
2 cpus.
maybe have pci-x at the cost of 4 pci-e lanes.
The xserve can have FB-DIMMS.
With AMD cpus 1.6GHz memory does make sense as it is linked right to the cpu with having to use the same bus as the cpu uses for dual-core to dual-core on die traffic + cpu to chipset traffic.
and it is just a smarter bios
as other things like the xbox 360 and ps3 as you need to do paper work / sign up for cell phone service and that takes a lot longer then selling other things.
also that will make selling them on ebay a lot harder. The I-phone may even have a forced data plan.
BIG BUCKS! BIG BUCKS! No whammys! No whammys! STOP
also does it have a ram controller build in?
maybe the pbx at the Recruiter
having a bigger screen is big boost and the old mac may have a hard time driving one with an external dongle
there are easier ways for video game / pinball operators to rip you off like turning off extra balls, replays, ball savers, setting the outline posts to hard, setting the game rules to very hard, setting the tilt setting to make it very ease to tilt, turning off post save on uk games, and more.
But most of them just don't fix the games and let brake down and that can cost you as a player.
When will Google Earth have this in it?
What about pinball?
vp + vpinmame would be cool on this!
http://www.vpforums.com/
that would be better and it will have less system cpu over head.
also some chipsets like the nvidia ones have build in firewalls
no it was the Mac Gyvered dialing systems that made it work with out a DHD.
and www.tigerdirect.com price was about $50 less then bestbuy for a psu.
ISP would love to make you pay per system. so people will want to go the router way and only use 1 ip.
In some metropolitan areas the big building block the gps single
also major roads in metropolitan areas have in road traffic sensors.