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I Don't think Apple can Compete with this.

bubbamac said:
It's got something we don't see in the Mac world - shared RAM. The article isn't too clear about it, but it does state that the video RAM is 128 MB of shared memory. That leaves 768 for the processor - about the minimum you need to run XP.
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Woah, let's stop here. Whoever says WinXP needs 768MB of RAM never used XP at all. I've been running with 512MB for over a year and I run a lot of apps at once (iTunes, Opera, Trillian, World Community Grid Agent, ImageReady, Filezilla and Multi-Edit, all at the same time).

I'm not defending XP (it's still an unsecure OS with lots of holes), but saying that it requires 768MB of RAM to be actually useful is just useless bashing.
 
brap said:
Apple could compete with this, they just aren't right now. Something big is brewing in Powerbook world... consider the iMac silence before the G5 came out.

What is a point, though, is that I'd love to see Apple using bleeding-edge technology again. 100GB HDDs, 5400rpm or no, are the kind of numbers which matter. Hitachi 80GB/7200s are also way overdue. But this has been discussed many, many times before 🙄
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Since OS X supports it natively, couldn't Apple use Raid 0 in their next powerbook? Would two 4200 RPM HDs require about as much power as a single 7200 RPM HD? (but be a lot faster, not only because of the few added RPMs but mainly because of the faster average seeking of the two HDs compared to one?)
 
I wouldnt run a Geforce 6800 go in a powerbook.. if you look the only portables that use them are 10lbs +!!! you'd get a whole lot less battery life, and a whole lot hotter machine! The most I could see is the mobility 9800... even that I don't think was designed for thin and light, but its performance is great... though I do agree the Geforce Go 6200 would be a good option for the PB 12" but it will not happen until we see PCI Express. (its PCI-E only)
 
this laptop isnt that great, but apple really has to get with it on their portables. bigger faster optical and hard drives are available and i dont see why they dont use them. they fail to recognize that a 100gb drive even exists when i asked several different apple authorized repair places, and they told me that the larger drives are physically bigger, and wont fit. last time i checked, almost every modern laptop drive including the larger ones are and always have been 2.5".
 
nosen said:
What kind of response did you think you would get? 🙂

Personally, I don't even keep track of what goes on in the PC world because I have zero use for a PC. It would be the same thing as me keeping track of the cost of dump trucks, even though I have no use for one and no intention to ever buy one.
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Hahahaha thats a very cool point 😀
 
Funkatation said:
I wouldnt run a Geforce 6800 go in a powerbook.. if you look the only portables that use them are 10lbs +!!! you'd get a whole lot less battery life, and a whole lot hotter machine! The most I could see is the mobility 9800... even that I don't think was designed for thin and light, but its performance is great... though I do agree the Geforce Go 6200 would be a good option for the PB 12" but it will not happen until we see PCI Express. (its PCI-E only)
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NVIDIA's releasing the NVIDIA GeForce 6200 for AGP systems. I'm not sure if they will do this for the Go 6200. But it will be good to see in the 12-inch.
 
brap said:
Apple could compete with this, they just aren't right now. Something big is brewing in Powerbook world... consider the iMac silence before the G5 came out.

What is a point, though, is that I'd love to see Apple using bleeding-edge technology again. 100GB HDDs, 5400rpm or no, are the kind of numbers which matter. Hitachi 80GB/7200s are also way overdue. But this has been discussed many, many times before 🙄
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this message, ladies and gentlemen, is just begging for it.

"...consider the iMac silence before the G5 came out."

MWSF05 = G5 Powerbooks! Yeah, Baby!!! 😛
 
integrated graphics with shared RAM. . . . um i dont see a single mac with such a poor quality graphics card. so for multimedia i do not see how they can compete. not to mention, its bigger, slower and runs windows 🙂 i finally found a PC that runs as fast as my 867mhz G4. . . its a 3.2GHZ P4 desktop!!!! though that might be a little unfair since the PC has 1GB of ram to my 640 and uses a 7200RPM Serial drive to my 4200 RPM drive, but well a 1.whatever intel is going to be slower than any G4 on the market right now! some people just see numbers and dont realize what they actually mean, the G4 and the P4 are very very different chips!!!
 
I like a small and thin laptop. Why? So I can pick it up in one hand (while its closed), and tuck it under my arm. I tried to do that to a neighbor's laptop and nearly broke my arm. 8 lbs and ~1.6" thick, if not more. Wow.

The 1" thin is kinda bragging rights, because 1.1" and I wouldn't care too much. But 1.5" and you really notice it.

Plus, a lot of the super-thin laptops out there don't have a lot of drives built in, like a CD drive. I use my drive enough that if I have to go hunt around and find it, its a pain. And if I'm traveling, it is one more thing to get lost/stolen/broken. A laptop needs to be all-in-one. Floppy drives can be tossed out, because they aren't too common anymore, but if you have to go find a CD/DVD drive to import your latest CD, heck, that's a pain. </rant>
 
redAPPLE said:
this message, ladies and gentlemen, is just begging for it.

"...consider the iMac silence before the G5 came out."

MWSF05 = G5 Powerbooks! Yeah, Baby!!! 😛
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yea sure and they will light on fire whenever you go into photoshop 😉
 
This notebook is a turnoff. 😛

I don't even have to state why, the posters before me have already stated the obvious. 🙂
 
wPod said:
i finally found a PC that runs as fast as my 867mhz G4. . . its a 3.2GHZ P4 desktop!!!!

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1.whatever intel is going to be slower than any G4 on the market right now!
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wPod said:
i finally found a PC that runs as fast as my 867mhz G4. . . its a 3.2GHZ P4 desktop!!!! !
1.whatever intel is going to be slower than any G4 on the market right now!
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Is this in your opinion? Or is there actual benchmark tests to back up this?
 
I doubt an 867 MHz PowerPC G4 is going to outperform the Intel Pentium 4 Processor 540 or even the latest Pentium 4 Processor 570.
 
raeble said:
Is this in your opinion? Or is there actual benchmark tests to back up this?
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Sarcastic remark maybe. 🙂


Why do people get in a huff, when someone post something stupid? 😕 🙂
 
carlos700 said:
I doubt an 867 MHz PowerPC G4 is going to outperform the Intel Pentium 4 Processor 540 or even the latest Pentium 4 Processor 570.
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No kidding... On another note... What the heck is with the numbered processors? I need a decoder ring to figure out what is a 540 or 570.
 
Raven VII said:
Sure, Apple can compete with that.

It's called Mac OS X.

Oh yeah!
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Yeah, this is true, if only they could advertise it. I saw the first mac ad in years yesterday for an imac g5 on the back of Time Magazine and of course the ipod was right with it.
 
Mac anyday..

hcuar said:
In my opinion the stats are apples to oranges... The main selling point for a Mac (especially to someone who doesn't game) is no viruses / spyware.
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Not just that. The sheer productivity. I don't game but use a Mac all the same and do not intend to use MS Office. Yet. I pick a Mac any day because the UI and the stability make me far more productive than I would be on those other ugly boxes.
 
hcuar said:
In my opinion the stats are apples to oranges... That's what I usually explain to people. The main selling point for a Mac (especially to someone who doesn't game) is no viruses / spyware. Number two is the fact that they can still purchases MS Office and be compatible.
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Apples to Lemons is what I say. 😛
 
hcuar said:
No kidding... On another note... What the heck is with the numbered processors? I need a decoder ring to figure out what is a 540 or 570.
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The reason why is simply they can't produce megahertz numbers...so to make the simple minded customer think they are actually improving (they are just not in down-right speed) so they incorporate those numbers.


kyle
 
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