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Re: How to open 2 drives with 1 keyboard eject?

Originally posted by soosy
I've been bothered ever since they removed the eject key from the drives in the last powermac rev. I actually had a problem on a quicksilver where the drive wouldn't open even though nothing was in it! The drive even failed to show up in System Profiler!. It was extremely annoying 'cause I couldn't even boot off a system cd -- even using all the tricks to open the drive on startup wouldn't work. Running disk utility and fixing drive errors finally let the drive be recognized again. This was in 10.1.5.

Anyway... how do you think you'll control which optical drive to eject with one keyboard key?
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F12 key also ejects...and for that matter, both eject and close at the same time when I have an external drive on my Flat Panel iMac. There are open firmware methods of ejecting disks, and of course you can restart the computer holding down the mouse button to eject disks as well.
 
I am sticking with my dual 800 for a while.

Even tho I might get a geforce 4 for it if they ever go down in price O:)

Also PS is a code nightmare. It still runs in carbon so it can't take full advantage of the hardware and os....

Maybe a new processor line next year?
 
Re: How to open 2 drives with 1 keyboard eject?

Originally posted by soosy

Anyway... how do you think you'll control which optical drive to eject with one keyboard key?
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I had a Quicksilver G4 with an extra external Firewire-Burner, and everytime I pressed that button, both drives ejected the CDs...REALLY annoying :/

And another thing... didn't they discontinue the black keyboards and mice? Why do they still have that one-button-crap-mouse?
 
Re: Re: By the way...

Originally posted by iGAV
I'd have used Univers 55 and 65 bold personally... but each to their own.... :p
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Please tell me you're kidding... Univers is such a "Kindergarten Goofy Playtime" font! Look at the lower-case 'C' for god's sake! The stroke is so uneven! Myriad kicks its ass!

Oh lord, did I really instigate a font flamewar? ;D
 
I hope for apple's sake that they get those IBM G5s out soon. If this is the future of the G4, I'm sticking with windoze.
 
Originally posted by topicolo


Big deal! these busses are only SDR and therefore they only provide 1.4Gb/s of throughput........:
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STOP SPECULATING !!! YOU FONT KNOW THAT.

Seriously, can anyone offer REAL proof one way or the other ?
 
From the Apple Architechture page :

The resulting throughput between main memory and the system controller is up to 2.7GBps, more than double the throughput from the previous dual 1GHz Power Mac G4. DDR-SDRAM also increases systemwide memory bandwidth to the processors and all other elements of the system



THAT sounds like true DDR, no ?
 
GAAAA

It's so ugly! I'm so upset! The Quicksilver was so gorgeous.....

GAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Damn it all!

I don't even want one!

Sigh.... maybe it will go away.... my bad feelings about it, that is.... what do you guys think of the new look?

But then again, the Quicktime VR of the new system with the monitor is actually not so bad....

Sigh, okay, I can live with it
 
server too busy...?

Did anyone else get a 'server too busy' error? I thought this site just moved to another server to prevent that? An dnow, at 6:35 AM, it is too busy? And the those pop-under-ads...please arn, get something else, I'll even buy one of those mugs and pay shipping to europe ;)
 
Butt Ugly

This has to be the ugliest tower in years. Just garish and hideous. I hope they look better in person and I'll see today at the Apple Store.

Low end=much better deal than before.
High end = rip off. Maybe $3300 wouldn't be so bad if it shipped now, but it won't be here until mid October. It will be competing with dual P4 3Ghz PCs which will be much cheaper. $800 for maybe 25% faster? No thanks, get yourself a low end ibook for that or max out the RAM.

The middle end remains to be seen. Refurb DP Ghz have been available for $2400 for a while, so $2500 when the Ghz chip has been out for 8 months isn't that impressive. Not really sure it's worth the premium over the 867 unless the faster bus speed makes a big difference.

The good news is that there are more drive options-you can now get a superdrive on the low end and a combo drive on the high. But why can't you get a nice CDRW. I will never watch DVDs on my tower, and the CD burning speeds on the combo and superdrive are way too slow. At least give the option for a 40X CDRW even if it's no cheaper than the combo drive.

All in all a mixed bag. The high end is still too slow and expensive and it will only feel more outdated 2 months from now when it ships!
 
Re: server too busy...?

Originally posted by TheT
Did anyone else get a 'server too busy' error? I thought this site just moved to another server to prevent that? An dnow, at 6:35 AM, it is too busy? And the those pop-under-ads...please arn, get something else, I'll even buy one of those mugs and pay shipping to europe ;)
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so stop talking about it and buy one.


if it's true ddr, then it could be a really great boost.

funny thing is, i feel that with a lack of a big press announcement, it's harder for me to think of it as any sort of big jump..... hmm
 
hmm, its funny. I had thought that the enclosure looked pretty nice. Guess I'm in the minority.
 
Headphone on front!

Hey, I just noticed the headphone jack on the front next to the power button. Yay!

Now if we can usb/firewire on the front, eject buttons back on the drives and a power on key back on the keyboard. ;)

And yay for the audio in on the back as well.
 
Re: GAAAA

Ugly? Man, that thing is pretty sweet looking and I haven't seen it live yet...

Then again, I like the new Nissan Z, the prototype of the to-be Skyline GT-R, and even the current generation of the Skyline GT-R R34... ;-)

Cheers.

Originally posted by shakespeare
It's so ugly! I'm so upset! The Quicksilver was so gorgeous.....

GAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Damn it all!

I don't even want one!

Sigh.... maybe it will go away.... my bad feelings about it, that is.... what do you guys think of the new look?

But then again, the Quicktime VR of the new system with the monitor is actually not so bad....

Sigh, okay, I can live with it
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look, we all know that if the architecture does mimic the Xserve (as Apple states) then this implemtation of DDR does not give any, absolutely ZERO, performance improvement. Again, I wonder what the real improvement is of going from a 133Mhz bus to 167Mhz. We'll see soon some tests
 
Re: Butt Ugly

I realized 4-5 years ago that the high-end is always overpriced... or at least not as much bang for the buck. Which made me get a cheap iMac, which is a little extreme the other way. I'm ready for a powermac again.
 
Just to throw in my 0.02 of worthless speculation on whether it's "true" DDR or not. It's fairly commonplace in the PC/Athlon market for a drop in cache size and an increase in cache speed to go hand in hand. The L3 cache has dropped from 2MB to 1MB - perhaps this is to counter the increase in cost that arises from taking the L3 cache up to full DDR 333 speed.
 
Re: How to open 2 drives with 1 keyboard eject?

Originally posted by soosy
Anyway... how do you think you'll control which optical drive to eject with one keyboard key?
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Shift - Eject ?
 
Disappointed. The small speed increase and marginal price change are good reasons to wait until January. Not sure how Apple plans to move these machines in a sluggish economy.
 
Just curious - what's the difference between the headphone jack and the pro speakers jack? I recall reading an article that stated the Mac didn't support 5.1 surround sound and that only a sound card (which doesn't have drivers) can remedy the problem. Any comments.
 
From the Apple website:

"To harness all this power required the new system controller designed for Xserve as well as its L3 cache and DDR memory."

That doesn't sound like 'true' DDR. Rather confusing grammar, too.
 
Originally posted by maluscanis
Just curious - what's the difference between the headphone jack and the pro speakers jack?
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The Digital Audio jack is smaller than a 1/8" phone jack and doesn't carry analog signal...
 
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