jackieonasses
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Sorry for posting one after another - but i have to address this.Yvan256 said:
What do you mean 2 hard drives? that would be even bigger and take more power. i promise. It would be huge....
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What do you mean 2 hard drives? that would be even bigger and take more power. i promise. It would be huge....
kyle
stevietheb
macrumors 6502a
redAPPLE said:
The silence? Like when a month or two in advance Apple announced that they wouldn't be selling G4 iMacs anymore...
yamabushi
macrumors 65816
Sony seems to have a habit of making laptops with weak graphics chipsets for some reason. I have noticed that they tend to lose out to the competition in graphics power but do fairly well in other areas of the hardware. This is odd considering Sony is usually fairly aggressive in their game console and portable media player hardware specs. Perhaps their investment in such cutting edge hardware could be used to produce better laptops.
It would be great if they would come out with a cell processor based laptop that ran Darwin. It would be even better if they could talk Apple into letting them use Panther with a modified GUI and a new name such as Sony OS Ten. Then make another version for IBM with a name such as IBM OS/10.
As long as Apple kept their latest OS for their own hardware and banned advertisement in Mac publications and internet sites they would stand to gain a few hundred million dollars in licensing fees as these custom operating systems took hold. Staying a generation behind would also mean that the OS version would be a mature and stable foundation upon which to add a new theme. One example of a possible GUI customization could be to alter the shape or location of common elements. Sony often uses scroll wheels in their devices so they might wish to make the dock appear as a semicircle in one corner of the screen and use a scroll wheel to navigate it.
It would be great if they would come out with a cell processor based laptop that ran Darwin. It would be even better if they could talk Apple into letting them use Panther with a modified GUI and a new name such as Sony OS Ten. Then make another version for IBM with a name such as IBM OS/10.
As long as Apple kept their latest OS for their own hardware and banned advertisement in Mac publications and internet sites they would stand to gain a few hundred million dollars in licensing fees as these custom operating systems took hold. Staying a generation behind would also mean that the OS version would be a mature and stable foundation upon which to add a new theme. One example of a possible GUI customization could be to alter the shape or location of common elements. Sony often uses scroll wheels in their devices so they might wish to make the dock appear as a semicircle in one corner of the screen and use a scroll wheel to navigate it.
BakedBeans
macrumors 68040
adamjay said:
yeah your deffo right
the next proper revision will be a big one probably, but that wont be untill the g5 (opinion)
new look, new screen technology, all top spec,
hefty price tag, will be ages imo
carlos700 said:
Ok, Ok, I fudged a bit! <hangs head in shame>
But, like OSX, XP runs much better with 768 than 512 - grant me that at least.
1024-128 = 768?
When did you drop out of school? The actual memory left = 1024-128-8 (for the controller) = 888 MB. I think it was stated many times before that intel 915G/P/X etc graphics controller can beat the crap out of every low end card on the market, unless you are atleast thinking of midrange X600 or 6600. Nvidia is also comming up with 6200 that in addition to its memory can use system memory when it requires. And well XP can easily run with 888! when mac can do away with 256!
bubbamac said:
When did you drop out of school? The actual memory left = 1024-128-8 (for the controller) = 888 MB. I think it was stated many times before that intel 915G/P/X etc graphics controller can beat the crap out of every low end card on the market, unless you are atleast thinking of midrange X600 or 6600. Nvidia is also comming up with 6200 that in addition to its memory can use system memory when it requires. And well XP can easily run with 888! when mac can do away with 256!
G5 powerbook would have won the vapour ware awards hands down!
The reason for numbers is to differentiate many products! like socket LGA775/478, bus speeds 400/533/800/1066, security bit enabled or not ie J, 64 bit enabled, Cache 512/1MB etc.... if you have so many processors and options it is better to just place a code that defines a product series!
And why dont you cry out this loud when graphics cards that you are so interested use the model numbers! 6200, 6600,or 6800 with LE, SE, XT, GT or ultra? if you wnat to have decoder then it does not make a difference to have 2.... it is because the graphics people also have a lot of different parts like RAM could be DDR/DDR2/GDDR3, core velocity, interface 64/128/256 bit and what not .... So keep your stupid rants to yourself....
Lucky apple never said when they are going to bring it out! if ever......jackieonasses said:
The reason for numbers is to differentiate many products! like socket LGA775/478, bus speeds 400/533/800/1066, security bit enabled or not ie J, 64 bit enabled, Cache 512/1MB etc.... if you have so many processors and options it is better to just place a code that defines a product series!
And why dont you cry out this loud when graphics cards that you are so interested use the model numbers! 6200, 6600,or 6800 with LE, SE, XT, GT or ultra? if you wnat to have decoder then it does not make a difference to have 2.... it is because the graphics people also have a lot of different parts like RAM could be DDR/DDR2/GDDR3, core velocity, interface 64/128/256 bit and what not .... So keep your stupid rants to yourself....
budugu said:
Hmm I was wondering how far I was going to have to read before someone corrected that math.
Yeah, I've been running XP on a machine(athlon 700mhz) with 384mb of ram and it's certainly not that bad at all. The problem with soooo many machines with xp is that people will install half a dozen programs that sit in the system tray and run even when they're not being used (silly little things like all their chat programs , etc.) With all those things running pointlessly at once..it can start to bog things down. A good clean setup will run on 256 decently and anything more is a bonus. 🙂
Keep in mind though this computer isn't connected to the internet at all so I don't have to worry about running a firewall / antivirus.
Justin
adamjay
macrumors 6502a
agreed, i also have an Athlon machine (1.1ghz) with 384MB ram. its not choking. as long as i'm not trying to compose an Opus, the commit charge peak (most amount of ram my machine has accessed in a session, including virtual memory) has never exceeded the Total available ram. Its a great internet machine, well fortified with Norton Corporate and Ad-Watch Pro, and only 3 things in the system tray.justinshiding said:
With that said i've noticed on both OSX and XP the differences between 256MB and 512MB are noticable. especially when booting the machine and also launching applications. Even with fast hard drives 256MB seems to take a little while longer. And also i've noticed anything above 512MB on either system isn't noticable unless you NEED that ram. I know OSX allocates it better and utilizes available ram better, but i haven't noticed improvements personally - say between 1GB and 512MB. Then again, i've never been able to use a G5 with that 4GB Ram "Sweet Spot". I think 512MB is the noticable "Sweet Spot" for every day tasks (read: if you aren't a creative professional).
Right now my PC Laptop has 1.5GB and its nice, mainly because i can turn off virtual memory and never have to worry about juggling things to/from HD.
adamjay
macrumors 6502a
i dont particularly like that VAIO, and my opinion on if its "better" than apple's current offerings isn't important.
But it is soooo funny when a thread like this pops up and all the sudden we're comparing Apple's non-existent offerings like G5 laptops.
PEOPLE THE G5 POWERBOOK DOES NOT EXIST, STOP COMPARING IT TO PC LAPTOPS! hehehe. Thats like me comparing the new HP Laptop with AMD's Turion 64bit CPU (64bit Centrino/Dothan Killer). Yea, its exactly like that because the HP DOESN'T EXIST EITHER!!!
Not to mention it will be months after the G5 PB is even announced until any of us can get our hands on one.
It seems some Apple enthusiasts can't differentiate between Current Available Technology, and wishful vaporware.
But it is soooo funny when a thread like this pops up and all the sudden we're comparing Apple's non-existent offerings like G5 laptops.
PEOPLE THE G5 POWERBOOK DOES NOT EXIST, STOP COMPARING IT TO PC LAPTOPS! hehehe. Thats like me comparing the new HP Laptop with AMD's Turion 64bit CPU (64bit Centrino/Dothan Killer). Yea, its exactly like that because the HP DOESN'T EXIST EITHER!!!
Not to mention it will be months after the G5 PB is even announced until any of us can get our hands on one.
It seems some Apple enthusiasts can't differentiate between Current Available Technology, and wishful vaporware.
budugu said:
Um, it was new math? It kind of crossed my mind that the math didn't sound right while I was typing - I have no idea why I didn't go back and even think about it.
<hangs head in shame for second time in a day>