The real reason they are doing this is that vista is behind and they need may also need a way to get out of Software Assurance / RTM release dates by saying that due to legal / antitrust regulations they must push back vista to test the changes out.
That may change with vista. Even with xp you also have to add your anit-spy app, your Anit-virus apps and so on. Game who say that they don't run that stuff when they are gameing are just asking for it.
You get the benefit of haveing all the os threading be done on the other core so even single threaded apps will see a benefit next to a single core system at the same speed.
Apple needs a lot more gameing hardware as well. The $2000+ mac pro can't do sli / crossfire fire and comes with low end video card in the base system plus it has high cost FB-DIMMs.
A school that has a Video Games degree is blocking sites with game in the address sounds like some PHB did that with out checking to see if it will get in the way of classes.
datacenters also have a lot more bandwidth to the internet then you can get at home. It cheaper and easier to have a lot of bandwidth in one place. Then it is to string it out to lots of homes.
That is one thing that vista will fix as it will make it easyer to have a image that will run a lot of hardware and software licensesing may force you to support different images for things like general use, engineering, Coders, and others.
also as for vendors there are only a few for video cards / chipsets. amd-ati / intel / nvidia
Apple could make a lot of sales form business users if they open up there os to any hardware. They should at least have a mid-end head less system if they don't do that.
AMD Opteron chip sets also have more pci-e lanes then Woodcrest systems have. aka in most systems each cpu links to the 2 chip halfs. amd intel r |aaa| |aaa| r |aaa| |aaa| a-|cpu|--|cpu|-a |cpu| |cpu| m |aaa| |aaa| m |aaa| |aaa| | | | | |chip| |chip| |chip Set|-ram | |chip|
There chip sets also far behind as well Bearlake-X with is a year a way is there first with 2x16 pci-e. right now they only have x8 x8 with not much left over.
Right now nforce 590 has that plus lanes left over for x4 and x1 slots. There is even a nforce 590 board with 2x16 2x1 and pci-x slots.
Also when will there work station chips sets come any close the nforce pro chip sets in number of pci-e lanes?
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The real reason they are doing this is that vista is behind and they need may also need a way to get out of Software Assurance / RTM release dates by saying that due to legal / antitrust regulations they must push back vista to test the changes out.
That may change with vista.
Even with xp you also have to add your anit-spy app, your Anit-virus apps and so on. Game who say that they don't run that stuff when they are gameing are just asking for it.
They can sent out bartpe style live cd's
You get the benefit of haveing all the os threading be done on the other core so even single threaded apps will see a benefit next to a single core system at the same speed.
In Earthworm Jim 3D and the animated series he was played by Dan Castellaneta same guy who is the voice as Homer Simpson.
Apple needs a lot more gameing hardware as well.
The $2000+ mac pro can't do sli / crossfire fire and comes with low end video card in the base system plus it has high cost FB-DIMMs.
There is no head less mid-range system.
The I-macs use laptop video cards, ram, and cpus.
That $600 mini comes with pos gma 950.
A school that has a Video Games degree is blocking sites with game in the address sounds like some PHB did that with out checking to see if it will get in the way of classes.
datacenters also have a lot more bandwidth to the internet then you can get at home. It cheaper and easier to have a lot of bandwidth in one place. Then it is to string it out to lots of homes.
You will need to get lance armstrong to take alot of steroids to be able to power a system runing windows vista.
that will not happen intill just about anyone in the usa can get high speed internet.
what about drivers?
will they just have vesa like drivers only?
I don't remember it was 8-10 years ago
I had aol up intill I got dsl then I rid of aol for good.
how meny of them have stargates on them?
That is one thing that vista will fix as it will make it easyer to have a image that will run a lot of hardware and software licensesing may force you to support different images for things like general use, engineering, Coders, and others.
also as for vendors there are only a few for video cards / chipsets. amd-ati / intel / nvidia
Apple could make a lot of sales form business users if they open up there os to any hardware.
They should at least have a mid-end head less system if they don't do that.
why can't intel give it's on board video some of it's own ram like ATI hypermemory and NVIDIA TurboCache?
AMD Opteron chip sets also have more pci-e lanes then Woodcrest systems have.
aka in most systems each cpu links to the 2 chip halfs.
amd intel
r |aaa| |aaa| r |aaa| |aaa|
a-|cpu|--|cpu|-a |cpu| |cpu|
m |aaa| |aaa| m |aaa| |aaa|
| | | |
|chip| |chip| |chip Set|-ram
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|chip|
The whole car cash seem to have planed in some way are they trying to cover up some conspiracy?
There chip sets also far behind as well Bearlake-X with is a year a way is there first with 2x16 pci-e. right now they only have x8 x8 with not much left over.
Right now nforce 590 has that plus lanes left over for x4 and x1 slots. There is even a nforce 590 board with 2x16 2x1 and pci-x slots.
Also when will there work station chips sets come any close the nforce pro chip sets in number of pci-e lanes?
HT = HyperTransport
HT 3.0 is HyperTransport v3
the mac hardware also sucks for games $2000+ system with no sli / cross fire
desktops with laptop video cards
speakers upgarads are point less as you can still rip the sound by hooking up to wires that go to the speaker cone.
The Nevada Gaming Commission rejected Diebold voting machines
and it comes with
Windows XP Professional x64
there are quite a few people who want to use windows XP x32 and go to 64 bit with windows vista.