Anything is faster running software designed for it. Motorola never wrote a compiler for the G4. Intel writes probably the best in the industry. IBM is in beta stages of one for the G5 and early results are showing improvements anywhere from 50 to 300% with it. What this adds up to is that...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3105444.stm
"Beatles sue Apple over iTunes:
The Beatles' record label Apple Corps is suing Apple computers over the use of the Apple name and logo to promote music products. The Apple Corps label says Apple computers' online music store iTunes -...
0roo0roo, I believe the Beatles no longer own Apple Corp... I think it is EMI.
Neither is this a back catalogue issue with Michael Jackson/Sony (there was a recent tie-up)
It is simply a trademark dispute between Apple Computers & the current owners of the Apple Corp. name. And this...
Sorry BoomAM - should have included a link to the Education page of Apple's UK Online Store:
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukInd
Just type in your educational establishment's name & location & hit 'I Accept'
"i went to the apple shop in brum"
BoomAM - I think you mean you went to a reseller of Apple computers in Birmingham, UK. Your complaint (apart from being unlucky enough to buy a faulty Mac) is with the reseller not Apple. You should have bought with the education discount from the Apple...
This thread is funny - two different interpretations of the original question being answered simultaneously - isn't anarchy fun!
Q1. Why are Apple Macs used by set designers? (24, Buffy)
Q2. Why are Hollywood producers & TV stations moving down from Avid to Mac rather than Wintel?
The...
Dman, you are right that Windows is much more stable than it used to be. I was repeating what Mac users say & then telling the guy to make his own mind up from personal experience. I was actually telling him not to accept ANYTHING uncritically - including what mac users claim. I guess I...
This useless benchmark gets brought out time and time again at this point. Most of the time some better informed person takes the trouble to explain why it is so inaccurate - and gets ignored. The PCWorld benchmark demonstrates two things: How lousy Premier performance was on the Mac before...
Interesting Eug... but do you really think there will be an almost doubling of power usage with the 25% increase in clock speed from G5 2.0GHz to 2.5GHz? Is that the kind of exponential relationship overclockers work to? I'm afraid I have no experience of overclocking. This PCMag benchmark...
I found some PCMag figures for Photoshop comparing an Apple Dual 2.0GHz G5 with a Dell Precision 650 workstation with Dual 3.06-GHz Intel Xeon processors, 512K Cache & an Apple Dual 1.4GHz Power Mac G4:
Apple Power Mac G5: Neck-and-Neck with Intel PCs
I quote from the second page:
"Adobe...
AMDs short-term competitor is Intel... but if IBM keeps this up... with Sony & Microsoft using IBM chips for their games boxes... who knows.
I'd really like to know what CPU literate members think of these chips & their future.
Another article at ElReg continues the theme:
IBM fabs 90nm G5 using strained silicon
"Transistors made from strained silicon are said to get a 35 per cent performance boost over regular transistors of the same size. The technique works by adding a layer of silicon over a layer of silicon...
What do the CPU cognoscenti make of IBMs recent 970FX achievements?
IBM 90nm G5 chip to 'outrun' Prescott, Athlon 64
"IBM's technically as yet unannounced PowerPC 970FX has won the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award for Best Desktop Processor. And according to MR editor-in-chief...
Mac4Hire quotes a guy saying we don't know why our software runs faster on the G5 yet... and be cautious about benchmarks in the real world... which is sound advice, except Mac4Hire then links another benchmark!
Hey Mac - burn that candle at both ends...
Hi Mac4Hire, struggling to think clearly again are we? Let me help you one last time - the quote was from a guy who suggested all benchmarks came down against Apple unless doctored by them. I gave an example of people testing their own software & finding the G5 fast. That is all. No one...
Seems like we can rely on you for arrogance & playground insults
No, because you never get ECC unless you specifically ask for it. End-users don't need ECC RAM - servers do.
Logic seems to be failing you here. I'll spell it out for you: if you have ever looked up RAM in a magazine in order...
I'd be interested to know what you make of this then:-
A benchmarking article entitled "Apple G5 Smokes Intel Competition" by the writers of Vectorworks
http://www.architosh.com/features/2004/g5-interview/2004-interv-g5nem-1.phtml
Troll - well that's rich coming as it does from a guy that's just been boasting about trying to get a rise out of Mac users at the MacWorld Forum. I've not been here long but have yet to read anything informative written by yourself.
I understand Virginia Tech put their requirements out to...
Somehow I doubt the error correction software program they wrote at VT consisted of running the calculation over and over until they got a repeated result. Anyway, they are now replacing the towers with the new 90nm G5 xServes which have ECC RAM. M4H (which I believe stands for Mac 4 Hire)...
Hey, it's Forum Diarrhoea Man... 17,000 acts of mindless juvenility & still counting. M4H sorry man, didn't mean to suggest you can count, I know it's automated for you.
That Xeon will certainly not "stomp it into the ground"
Look here: http://www.architosh.com/features/2004/g5-interview/2004-interv-g5nem-1.phtml
The writers of Vectorworks did an assessment of their own software on Xeons, P4s and G5s - there was some serious stomping going on but it wasn't...
Actually, I understand it uses a Hitachi microdrive that costs twice the price of the mini-iPod. I have read on photography fora that people are buying them just to open & take out the drives for their cameras. If that is the kind of deal Apple has managed to get out of Hitachi I would say...
When Virginia Tech first announced the Big Mac Supercomputer there was much discussion about the fact that the G5 towers do not use ECC RAM. Srinidhi Varadarajan, assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, had to write a program to do the error correction in software. Discussion...
ECC - Error Correcting Code
Both parity and ECC (Error Correcting Code) are forms of error detection for memory modules. Parity is a simple form of error detection that adds an extra bit for every 8 bits on a memory module. This extra bit records whether there is an even or odd number of 1's...
Hmmm... about as bright as saying:
If it wasn't for Intel, Microsoft would just be a Mac developer
If it wasn't for copper wire your car wouldn't run
If it wasn't for oxygen...
As for the vulgarity, am I correct in understanding that's a side-effect of using Windows?
How d'ya blow yer budget faster than by buying Macs?
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 - $2,999.00 ($2,699 - education)
Panther Mac OS X 10.3
1GHz frontside bus/processor
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 128-bit SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
SuperDrive Pioneer A06 4 x DVD-R/RW...
REALLY WIERD MAN! They talkin' 'bout "good manners"... WTFs that?
Ya don't see that commie @£$%X! in these PC groups. Makes ya feel weird when ya go home to beat up yer kids.
If PC users ever git an ejucashun ahm gittin out ma shotgun n' pumpin' the Dell fulla led!
This was posted to another discussion. I'll post it here because I keep seeing the same erroneous, unresearched comments that Apple computers are expensive:
"the cost, the cost..."
I keep reading about this over & over in these fora, yet you never give any facts with the comments. Every time...
"the cost, the cost..."
I keep reading about this over & over in these fora, yet you never give any facts with the comments. Every time I compare Apple's prices with Dell's they look very competitive. What I usually read is someone comparing Apple's prices with what they can make a PC for...
Seven years using a variety of Mac Oses - no anti-virus software - carelessly downloading & opening without a care.
Never got spyware
Never had my homepage hijacked
Never ever had a virus
"the day will come"
well I'm still waiting...
Some fanboy's gonna come along now & say: "Well you COULD...
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