G3s all gone

[mangis]

Right on Gigawire! Death to the G3!!

Hard to believe that people want to hang on to yesterday's technology.

The G3 had its day. and is still alive on the ibooks, but altivec is definitely the way. My new dual gig smokes! And I sadly continue to run my bronze powerbook in OS 9 cuz it plain don't work good in OS X.

 

[gambit]

Question?!?!

Im how do you add pics to your username, ones like yours krossfyter

 

[arn]

Re: Question?!?!

Originally posted by gambit
Im how do you add pics to your username, ones like yours krossfyter

The picture beside your name is an "avatar" and are only available to users who have posted >= 500 (meaningful) posts. (ie... don't post junk... )

arn

 

[krossfyter]

yep. take it from me gambit. don't post junk around these places and you will be all right. arn will lay the smack down on you if you do.

 

[sjs]

Krossfyter,
Go to google.com and type in: PC market share, or try similar entries until it pulls up what you want.

For example, C/net on 10-17-01 shows:
Dell 13.8%
Compaq 10.4%
IBM 6.6%
HP 6.4% etc.

Business Week on 8/1/01 shows Apple at 3% of US market.

In cars, BMW is just over 1% of the US market and doing quite well.

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Keep the (real) faith!

 

[gambit]

bummer

I wanted to add a pic of wolverine(cant find a nice one of gambit)

 

[buffsldr]

Re: bummer

Originally posted by gambit
I wanted to add a pic of wolverine(cant find a nice one of gambit)

FYI: This would be an example of a junk post.

Note this is not CartoonRumors.com

 

[buffsldr]

Originally posted by mangis
Right on Gigawire! Death to the G3!!

Hard to believe that people want to hang on to yesterday's technology.

The G3 had its day. and is still alive on the ibooks, but altivec is definitely the way. My new dual gig smokes! And I sadly continue to run my bronze powerbook in OS 9 cuz it plain don't work good in OS X.

I think there are really two different discussions going on about G3s. First, "Death to the G3" can mean that any given user chooses to rule it out of his or her own office/home. Second, it can also mean apple should take it out of its lineup.

Is anyone so arrogant here to think they can comment on the second interpretation above? Do you really think you could walk into apple and staighten them out as if you knew more. If so, that is awesome, I will send my taxes to you. You've got to be some sort of marketing/finanical genious.

 

[GigaWire]

Is anyone so arrogant here to think they can comment on the second interpretation above? Do you really think you could walk into apple and staighten them out as if you knew more. If so, that is awesome, I will send my taxes to you. You've got to be some sort of marketing/finanical genious.

i will be so arrogant. as i have said before, the G3 as it CURRENTLY is will not be a success as Apple finishes its move to OSX. Not only that, but at the current rev pace, it will take at least 3-4 revs of the G3 based products before running OSX becomes a viable option. it's like running win 98 on a 486, it works, but not really. Jobs, as has been pointed out in many articles, is a visionary leader, not a business leader. Since his arrival in 97, market share for Apple has steadily declined. Apple needs someone that will capture greater marketshare, because with greater marketshare, comes greater hardware and software support from 3rd parties. this business of Apple as the bmw computer is ridiculous. the PC market is cutthroat, unlike the high-end car market. To succeed Apple needs products that by the numbers look on par with wintel boxes. Ask your average PC buyer what a gigaflop is. Then ask him about gigahertz.
Jobs wants OSX to be the OS of the future, and in many ways it is, but without the reasonably priced hardware to run it (iBook, iMac 1). OSX is the core of the digital hub. But if you can't run OSX, then the whole hub strategy is superflous. iPhoto only runs on OS X last time i checked.
death to the G3!

 

[AlphaTech]

Hey GigaWire... you don't think that a new iBook or 600MHz G3 iMac can handle OS X??? Give it enough memory, and it does just fine. It may not be the powerhouse/speed demon that a G4 system is, but it's not road kill either.

I wouldn't even consider installing OS X onto a G3 of less then 350MHz, unless it has RAM out the whazoo. That pretty much eliminates the beige G3 systems and some of the PowerBook G3 systems. I KNOW people running it on PowerBook G3's at both 400MHz and 500MHz and it runs great for them.

 

[krossfyter]

Originally posted by sjs
Krossfyter,
Go to google.com and type in: PC market share, or try similar entries until it pulls up what you want.

For example, C/net on 10-17-01 shows:
Dell 13.8%
Compaq 10.4%
IBM 6.6%
HP 6.4% etc.

Business Week on 8/1/01 shows Apple at 3% of US market.

In cars, BMW is just over 1% of the US market and doing quite well.

____________________
Keep the (real) faith!

wow. thanks for helping me out here. i was really trying to find these numbers. thanks man.