I switched to the dark side somewhat....

[Altemose]

They'd need to make 7 trips... And I'm sure Erik wouldn't want them to drop and crack his precious monitors and Quicksilver

"Freeze! Dirtbag, gently set down the computer on this special padded place mat!"

 

[Gamer9430]

"Freeze! Dirtbag, gently set down the computer on this special padded place mat!"

"Now make like a Jaguar and run"

 

[Hrududu]

"Now make like a Jaguar and run"

Wouldn't that be more along the lines of, "Make like Jaguar and kernal panic."

 

[Gamer9430]

Wouldn't that be more along the lines of, "Make like Jaguar and kernal panic."

Better yet, "make like Vista and crash"

 

[eyoungren]

If someone ever tries to steal your QuickSilver setup, it will be their last day. "Freeze! Dirtbag, drop the computer now!"

Well…not literally, but I get your point.

They'd need to make 7 trips... And I'm sure Erik wouldn't want them to drop and crack his precious monitors and Quicksilver

Accessories sir, accessories!!!

Nine or ten trips.

 

[weckart]

I see AMD as a budget processor. It works, and is pretty fast and very cheap. Intel is performance, and you pay for that.

A bit harsh IMHO. 64 bit Intel processors are known as AMD64 for a reason, thanks to the K8. While Intel is currently king, AMD has often leapfrogged it in the past in terms of performance and even lower energy demands. Those days are probably over, however, but at least we don't have to suffer the Itanium in our Winboxes.

 

[Gamer9430]

A bit harsh IMHO. 64 bit Intel processors are known as AMD64 for a reason, thanks to the K8. While Intel is currently king, AMD has often leapfrogged it in the past in terms of performance and even lower energy demands. Those days are probably over, however, but at least we don't have to suffer the Itanium in our Winboxes.

The entire Processing world owes a lot of respect to AMD. As you mentioned, they were the creators of a true 64bit architecture, which was much faster than 16/32bit and a whole lot better than IA64. Without AMD breaking barriers often, Intel would have probably just stuck to what they were doing, instead of improving upon what AMD created.

I wish that there could be one universal Architecture, which could run apps/programs that were created for 16/32/64bit, as well as Power and other prevalent architectures all under one chip. That way companies that are still using legacy software for one reason or another, or if a developer hasn't upgraded an app that was created for a certain architecture and you couldn't use it on x64, you could use it on this "universal" architecture. It's a far fetched and kinda useless idea, but us PowerPC users would surely benefit from it!

 

[MagicBoy]

I do wryly smile when I download a patch from Microsoft at work and it's labelled AMD64 in the filename. I've had colleagues ask me why there's a X86 (32-bit) download available but no "X64" one a few times.

 

[weckart]

I do wryly smile when I download a patch from Microsoft at work and it's labelled AMD64 in the filename. I've had colleagues ask me why there's a X86 (32-bit) download available but no "X64" one a few times.

Oddly enough, it seems to be a naming convention:

Linux: AMD64
Apple: x86_64
Intel: Intel 64 (was EM64T)
MS: x64

There were/are one or two others but, as AMD64 was the first actually released, it gets the nod from me.

 

[LightBulbFun]

would of been funny if apple called it AMD64 seeing as no AMD based Macs exist (there where rumors of an AMD based macbook air at some point)

 

[tevion5]

I will not switch to the dark side(Craptel) until all PowerPC's have died and been fossilized, like the dinosaurs, as long as there is still a working PowerPC Mac, I will not switch to the dark side.

So like, the year is 2476. You have been awoken from cryogenic freezing. There is one fully functional PPC Mac in existence. It costs well over $3'000'000. It's a Power Macintosh 6100.

You still game buddy?