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Intel has almost always been the bigger name; some people today still don't know who AMD is.
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But think of the possibilities for the battery you could install with all that space. Check out this classic smartphone mod that someone did a few years back for impressive battery life.
Yup. And a pretty dang heavy dream at that. LOL!
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I have no idea where this picture originated but it would probably be pretty accurate considering the cooling it would have to implement!
But think of the possibilities for the battery you could install with all that space. Check out this classic smartphone mod that someone did a few years back for impressive battery life.
AMD has somehow always been the odd one out, despite them being the one putting money into R&D and innovating. Back then AMD was the better performer, only when dual core cpus came in AMD fell behind. Some of Intels main technologys come from AMD, thats also the reason why AMD had a big patent dispute with intel and got a lot of money. I like AMD for those reasons!
At the moment I think AMD is doing pretty well on the console market, Xbox One and PS4 both use chips from them, Nintendo still sticking with IBM and PowerPC.
On the high end desktop PC market AMD is in trouble, has been for a while. As far as I know on the GPU side competition is as always, AMD introduces new card, NVIDIA introduces faster, AMD responds with faster card and NVIDIA...
On the high end desktop PC market AMD is in trouble, has been for a while. As far as I know on the GPU side competition is as always, AMD introduces new card, NVIDIA introduces faster, AMD responds with faster card and NVIDIA...
True on the GPU side of things I've seen..
It seems a lot of gamers that build there own PCs always choose AMD over Intel, I've heard people say AMD is a lot better with cheaper prices. While I don't exactly agree on the "lot better", they definitely are a little cheaper than expensive Intel core chips.
It seems a lot of gamers that build there own PCs always choose AMD over Intel, I've heard people say AMD is a lot better with cheaper prices. While I don't exactly agree on the "lot better", they definitely are a little cheaper than expensive Intel core chips.
At the moment its AMD with their r295x, I really like how they push each other
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I'm just imagining a PMG5 heatsink in one..
Yes with a good copper heat sink for good heat dissepation 10 pounds would be feather light
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At the moment its AMD with their r295x, I really like how they push each other
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Yes with a good copper heat sink for good heat dissepation 10 pounds would be feather light
Advertisement for the PowerBook G5: "Such a light composition... just floats above the lap. A feather in your backpack, it only fills about 9/2s of a regular laptop in a carry case. Its performance is out of this world. It starts at only $2500, with a 1.8 GHz G5, and goes to $3100 with a 2.5 GHz G5. Weighing in at 17 lbs., it is one of the world's heavi- I mean lightest desktop replacements. With fans so silent, you'll only hear them always.* The battery holds about 6 minutes, lower than any one else's product! We even put a built-in display for you! Enjoy heat in the highest aspect, with the new PowerBook G5. Fun. I meant fun, not heat.
*Higher-end models include a pLCS (Portable LCS) and are gas-powered.
I got that sports site running well on my pb g4 12" 1.33 that I just bought when I was in the states. After 20 seconds or so I was browsing that site while listening to spotify and had another window with MR loaded on.
the secret is to have webkit for leopard.... a version ending with .69
1.5.8 and 768Mb RAM ftw!
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Over the past months my PPC have seen less usage as the net is so loaded down with "crap" scripting & auto-playing video ads. This workstation I'm on a Q6600 is brought to its knees(fans roaring with 80% load on all four cores for ~2-3 minutes) on some sites like FauxSports/ESPN/MLB.com/NHL.com/Yahoo/Guardian/Telegraph UK/Washington Post... DailyFail err DailyMail is the worst 2-3 video ads loading & playing at the same time WTF?!?
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yeah, In sweden that doesn't happen. In the states it's a bloody mess with the video ads.... I guess you could try using project tor (it works on ppc, I've tried it) and make yourself appear to be in sweden or something... your ads should be gone
Reading this thread gave me a fond sense of nostalgia, and yet it's only been about a year since I retired my trusty power mac g5. Those machines work fine until you try to use the internet lol.
I'm not really saying anything new but I can see where you guys are coming from and feel your pain. I hope you're able to eventually get some new hardware, it's nice
I'm not really saying anything new but I can see where you guys are coming from and feel your pain. I hope you're able to eventually get some new hardware, it's nice
Oh, my ppc macs do internet just fine
I'm not really saying anything new but I can see where you guys are coming from and feel your pain. I hope you're able to eventually get some new hardware, it's nice
For a lot of us, it's a matter of pure nostalgia. If you look at my signature you'll understand what I mean
It sure happens in sweden, i used to have all of these crazy ads before i got Adblock a few years ago.
no, these are horrible flash ads that makes most computers overheat. I just got back from the states and the difference is like day and night
In general, yes. But there are things you can do to mitigate that. A lot of the tweaks that I've made to T4Fx originally were to wring more speed out of the browser when I was using Tor.
Now, the Tor Bundle won't run on a PowerPC Mac so you have to use Vidalia in conjunction with Torbutton. You can tell Vidalia via it's torrc configuration file to only use certain nodes and certain sockets, to switch identities within a certain time frame and so on. Some Tor nodes are slower than others, some just blow all together. It's just based on what the node operator set up.
For me, the major downside of Tor is that Google is constantly changing as your IP changes. Note that you can't determine which IP address you get to use nor can you control your specific Tor exit node. All you can control is what range of nodes to use.
One last thing to add. You don't need to use a Mozilla based browser to use Tor. Just fire up Vidalia and make sure your proxy in System Preferences>Network is set to the correct port for SOCKS. Any browser you use will then be running on Tor.
Of course none of this is as secure as using the Tor Bundle or Tails, but if you want that kind of security you aren't using a PowerPC Mac.
Oh! You want to see slow? Start Vidalia and let it connect to the Tor network. Then start and configure the JonDoAnym network using the JAP application to use localhost only. Set your apps to use a specific port that you set in the JAP application.
Result? Your applications communicate to the JAP application. JAP talks to localhost which goes out to the Tor network. Essentially you are using Tor as a tunnel to the JonDoAnym network. Tor anonymizes and encrypts your data and when it comes out of the Tor exit node it goes straight to the JoDoAnym network and gets anonymized and encrypted again. You can be in Phoenix, while your exit node is in Sweden, then hits the JoDoAnym network and finally exits the other end in Germany or somewhere.
All of that though DOES equal SLOW!
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Advertisements don't make computers overheat... At least they didn't 6 years ago back before I used Adblock Plus
Advertisements don't make computers overheat... At least they didn't 6 years ago back before I used Adblock Plus
Advertisements don't make computers overheat... At least they didn't 6 years ago back before I used Adblock Plus
I think he was being sarcastic as ads use an extra-ordinate amount of resources...
It's mainly due to people that believe (falsely) that a bunch of shiny sh-crap will make their site look awesome and will make people want to go to it.
That may have been true during the early 1990's, but today I would hope people find it as annoying as I did in the 1990's.
There are ways to make a site look good without using useless resource hogging code.
I guess I don't follow the comment regarding Internet use. My June 2004 G5 (Dual 2.5) browses the web just fine using TFF.Reading this thread gave me a fond sense of nostalgia, and yet it's only been about a year since I retired my trusty power mac g5. Those machines work fine until you try to use the internet lol.
I'm not really saying anything new but I can see where you guys are coming from and feel your pain. I hope you're able to eventually get some new hardware, it's nice
TenFourFox since their version 19 release has all plugins, including Flash, disabled with no way to turn them on. That's why it runs just fine.
Absolutely!
I have come to realize how little I used Flash to begin with (even on current systems).