The ad's for the game programming schools make the jobs look cool but fail to tell you about how much time that you spend at work working 80+ hours a week is not fun even more so when you don't get overtime for it.
for now it may be that way but what about 3 - 5+ years form now when m$ Is still working the replacement for vista and systems with 2 cpus are in normal machines and high end desk systems have 4?
How do you get 4 cpu systems to work in xp? How will this per sockets thing work with cpu socket based CO-Processors?
If windows vista lasts as long as xp did in a few years we may see a lot more systems with 2 cpu sockets and 4 on the high end we then people may have to dump vista for linux or some other os to get the full power of there hardware.
nforce 570 and 590 AMD as well as 590 Intel does the same thing and it has 2 gig-e ports with teaming the KillerNic's pci bus will not let it hit full gig-e speeds.
will people who build 4x4 or want to run vista on there mac pro systems be forced to buy Ultimate? will gameing fully work with Business? Will M$ let you use 2 cpus on home and move Business / Ultimate to 4?
company that has Power Cables for $48 It use to be out in the open but now they hide it under the Power Supply Selections.
To go from one 1gig to 2gigs is $250 that is just as bad as the mac pro ram price
Video Performance Optimizer $18 seems like stuff that you can set your self in the video drivers control panel.
$29 for the restore disks that should be free or at the cost of the disks.
$49 Automated Technical Support Request System there is a new dell ad showing off someing like that and they say it comes free with all new dell systems.
as for running mac osx on any hardware They can at lest try to make it work on comman chips sets like chips sets like nvidia, intel, and ati same thing for video cards. Hard drives don't need divers just the controllers and those are part of the chips sets now days.
As for XP not comeing with SATA drivers out of the box it is that it is about 5 years old but you can add drivers to your windows install cd http://driverpacks.net/ Dell and others do the same type of thing.
People are using a 32bit os on 64bit hardware because of windows xp 64bit compatibility issues with some drivers mainly with printers and other externals devices and there is no home windows xp 64 bit.
One thing I don't like about the "Macintosh Experience"
Is there is no mid-end head less system
The mini has pos video
If you have good big monitor it kind of use less with the I-Mac Being forced to pay $400 more to be able to spend $75 to get more video ram and there are people who just want more video ram not all of the other stuff that comes with $1,699.00 system
The I-Mac also comes with a laptop cpu and that is should not be in a desktop.
The Mac pro is good for pro uses but not for gamers at its price and $300 to go from 1gig to 2gigs is not helping as well as coming with a sub par video card for $2500 and server cpus.
They are missing the mid-end head less system with a desktop cpu with cheaper desktop ram and choice of video cards.
Things like this are keeping gamers and a lot of other home uses off of Mac hardware.
It is too bad that there is no shimming meaning you will see more UAP popup and This is a major handicap and will presumably mean that many legacy applications simply will not run on the Windows Vista x64 versions. Too, new 64-bit applications will need to adhere to the new Windows Vista application standards in order to run correctly on these versions. That means that even some software written specifically for XP x64 might not work correctly.
It also locks out third-party software from patching any part of the kernel
I also wonder how many game cd copy protection systems will work under vista x64?
It is too bad that there is no shimming meaning you will see more UAP popup and This is a major handicap and will presumably mean that many legacy applications simply will not run on the Windows Vista x64 versions. Too, new 64-bit applications will need to adhere to the new Windows Vista application standards in order to run correctly on these versions. That means that even some software written specifically for XP x64 might not work correctly.
It also locks out third-party software from patching any part of the kernel
I also wonder how many game cd copy protection systems will work under vista x64?
likey they rushed this patch to get it ready for the patch day and they did not fully test it. M$ will be better off with put the updates out when they are done not on a fixed time table.
Meny apps and games need administrator rights install. I think you ment to say that most games do not need admin to run. The thing with that is they need admin so they can auto update them selfs, run the cd check crap, and for things like punkbuster for on line play.
I don't think that vista will be able to fix all of that and will popup the UAP dialog box when you try to play the game or the game will just error out if you don't run it as admin.
The Quad Core chips are not final yet and that will say support in till they are out and you may need a bios update or newer mother board rev.
Any ways AMD is Better because they say that am2 cpus will work with am2 boards not like Intel where some boards with the same chip set do not alleys support new cpus.
With the mac pro you may be able to put in quad-core xeons but apple will have to come out with a bios update to make them fully work.
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just let windows set it for you.
The ad's for the game programming schools make the jobs look cool but fail to tell you about how much time that you spend at work working 80+ hours a week is not fun even more so when you don't get overtime for it.
for now it may be that way but what about 3 - 5+ years form now when m$ Is still working the replacement for vista and systems with 2 cpus are in normal machines and high end desk systems have 4?
How do you get 4 cpu systems to work in xp?
How will this per sockets thing work with cpu socket based CO-Processors?
If windows vista lasts as long as xp did in a few years we may see a lot more systems with 2 cpu sockets and 4 on the high end we then people may have to dump vista for linux or some other os to get the full power of there hardware.
nforce 570 and 590 AMD as well as 590 Intel does the same thing and it has 2 gig-e ports with teaming
the KillerNic's pci bus will not let it hit full gig-e speeds.
will people who build 4x4 or want to run vista on there mac pro systems be forced to buy Ultimate?
will gameing fully work with Business?
Will M$ let you use 2 cpus on home and move Business / Ultimate to 4?
yet but you can buy 2 gigs of ddr 2 800 epp Dual Channel ram with SLI Ready Certification for the same price as you pay for alienware to add one gig. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2206874&CatId=2368
company that has Power Cables for $48
It use to be out in the open but now they hide it under the Power Supply Selections.
To go from one 1gig to 2gigs is $250 that is just as bad as the mac pro ram price
Video Performance Optimizer $18 seems like stuff that you can set your self in the video drivers control panel.
$29 for the restore disks that should be free or at the cost of the disks.
$49 Automated Technical Support Request System there is a new dell ad showing off someing like that and they say it comes free with all new dell systems.
as for running mac osx on any hardware They can at lest try to make it work on comman chips sets like chips sets like nvidia, intel, and ati same thing for video cards.
Hard drives don't need divers just the controllers and those are part of the chips sets now days.
As for XP not comeing with SATA drivers out of the box it is that it is about 5 years old but you can add drivers to your windows install cd http://driverpacks.net/
Dell and others do the same type of thing.
People are using a 32bit os on 64bit hardware because of windows xp 64bit compatibility issues with some drivers mainly with printers and other externals devices and there is no home windows xp 64 bit.
One thing I don't like about the "Macintosh Experience"
Is there is no mid-end head less system
The mini has pos video
If you have good big monitor it kind of use less with the I-Mac
Being forced to pay $400 more to be able to spend $75 to get more video ram and there are people who just want more video ram not all of the other stuff that comes with $1,699.00 system
The I-Mac also comes with a laptop cpu and that is should not be in a desktop.
The Mac pro is good for pro uses but not for gamers at its price and $300 to go from 1gig to 2gigs is not helping as well as coming with a sub par video card for $2500 and server cpus.
They are missing the mid-end head less system with a desktop cpu with cheaper desktop ram and choice of video cards.
Things like this are keeping gamers and a lot of other home uses off of Mac hardware.
there is no core duo 2 mac yet only the new mac pro with 2 xeons
I wonder what would have happened if wow was also the name of a terrorist group?
But they don't have the gpu power that is needed.
are willing to pay a LOT MORE TAXES to be able to keep more people locked up that long?
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ff_x 64.asp
It is too bad that there is no shimming meaning you will see more UAP popup and This is a major handicap and will presumably mean that many legacy applications simply will not run on the Windows Vista x64 versions. Too, new 64-bit applications will need to adhere to the new Windows Vista application standards in order to run correctly on these versions. That means that even some software written specifically for XP x64 might not work correctly.
It also locks out third-party software from patching any part of the kernel
I also wonder how many game cd copy protection systems will work under vista x64?
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ff_x 64.asp
It is too bad that there is no shimming meaning you will see more UAP popup and This is a major handicap and will presumably mean that many legacy applications simply will not run on the Windows Vista x64 versions. Too, new 64-bit applications will need to adhere to the new Windows Vista application standards in order to run correctly on these versions. That means that even some software written specifically for XP x64 might not work correctly.
It also locks out third-party software from patching any part of the kernel
I also wonder how many game cd copy protection systems will work under vista x64?
civ is not real time and you can take a log brake with out getting killed and with no penalty.
likey they rushed this patch to get it ready for the patch day and they did not fully test it. M$ will be better off with put the updates out when they are done not on a fixed time table.
myth Busted1 )#Goldfish_Memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_
That seem like a bad choice as usb has a lot of cpu over head firewire or e-sata wound of been better.
It also only has a basic BitTorrent client.
I wonder how it stands up under a full raid and bitTorrent load.
Meny apps and games need administrator rights install. I think you ment to say that most games do not need admin to run. The thing with that is they need admin so they can auto update them selfs, run the cd check crap, and for things like punkbuster for on line play.
I don't think that vista will be able to fix all of that and will popup the UAP dialog box when you try to play the game or the game will just error out if you don't run it as admin.
Or it may be all of the paper work. It may be the same amount of it for one laptop as it is for 100 of them.
The Quad Core chips are not final yet and that will say support in till they are out and you may need a bios update or newer mother board rev.
Any ways AMD is Better because they say that am2 cpus will work with am2 boards not like Intel where some boards with the same chip set do not alleys support new cpus.
With the mac pro you may be able to put in quad-core xeons but apple will have to come out with a bios update to make them fully work.
You need a xeon cpu for that and a server / workstation chipset
Like you have to brake the rules of scsi to make it work.