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Oct 12 Event For Power Macs & Powerbooks?

Evangelion said:
Everybody knows what I was saying, so I fail to see the problem. Let's hear your Finnish then.
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Hahah fair enough. I spent a week in Finland in March, and yeah, my Finnish isn't too good :) Even the huskies didn't understand me.
 
Evangelion said:
As a non-english-speaker, I don't see any difference with non-words link "bumb" and "bump" :)
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Actually (apart from your "bumb" :) ), your grasp of the English language is far superior to that of many so-called English speakers that post on this and many other internet forums. Compared to the mangled grammar, syntax and spelling perpetrated on a daily basis across the pond, your communication skills are to be admired!
 
PM Gfx Card

Well, I've heard a couple people lament the PM's standard graphics card ... but I have to disagree. People don't buy Mac's to play games ... especially PowerMacs. There might be a couple of high end (and nicely ported) games for the Mac but let's not fool ourselves-- the only reason for a graphics card better than a 128 mb 9650 is for video games. Apple allows you to upgrade to much faster and better graphics cards. The only thing that sucks-- the graphics card is rarely the bottleneck. It's the CPU and the OS.

I'm playing Devil's Advocate here, but at the crux of the game performance problem is OS X (no app gets 100% of CPU time), the lower clock speed of PPC chips (more is more sometimes), and the lack of parallelism you can really get out of most game code to take advantage of the second CPU to compensate for overall lower clock speed.

Now, if I want to be able to play the lastest video games on my powerbook, I need to have that ship from the factory with what I need. That's a different story. I can't upgrade a PB's gfx card, but I can on a PM. So, in summation: I'm okay with the relatively skimpy 9650 as standard on a PM, but always want the latest and greatest on the PB.

With that said, Apple needs to drop the price of their PowerMac's by $500 across the board if they want to sell these things.
 
fosman said:
AND, the launch will show Steve playing Halo 2 on the Xbox 360 on his new Apple TV. Now THAT would be a kick in the MS balls!

What do you reckon?
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Steve using a Microsoft XBox on new Apple hardware? Maybe he'll just introduce the iBox to compete directly with MS in another area. ;)
 
Evangelion said:
Everybody knows what I was saying, so I fail to see the problem. Let's hear your Finnish then.
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Um, there was no problem and yes I knew exactly what you meant. I was just telling you that Bumb isn't a word.
 
cal6n said:
Actually (apart from your "bumb" :) ), your grasp of the English language is far superior to that of many so-called English speakers that post on this and many other internet forums. Compared to the mangled grammar, syntax and spelling perpetrated on a daily basis across the pond, your communication skills are to be admired!
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Most Brits don't recognize the difference between American English and British English. I'm not saying it's better-- but there's a valid and internationally recognized difference. Online forum and e-mail prose is sacrificed online in the United States as a matter of precedent. It's like a virus. Much like the iPod. Formality is a cornerstone of British society, and the language. It doesn't surprise me that Brits get upset when we hack our language to bits in an online setting. :) That's the American online community/society, not our intelligence, at stake.
 
The future for Mactels looks so good, just take a look. Here is the link

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Mac_Freak said:
The future for Mactels looks so good, just take a look. Here is the link

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Four 2.8 GHz dual-core Intel Chips? Makes my 500MHz TiBook seem a wee bit slow. :D

New PMs Wednesday!!! :D

Now if only it were real. :eek:
 
ibook updates as well ???

Are the ibooks going to get updates too? In the past couple days the stock models (in the US store) have gone from shippping within 24 hours to shipping with 1-3 days. Also, several months ago there were rumors going around that at a 14 inch wide screen ibook would show up.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1141

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=14816

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/20/apple_widescreen_ibook_deal/

Could this be one of the four new Mac configurations that Thinksecrect is talking about?

http://thinksecret.com/news/0510oct12c.html

Guess we will have to wait until Wednesday afternoon to find out?
 
Mr Maui said:
Four 2.8 GHz dual-core Intel Chips? Makes my 500MHz TiBook seem a wee bit slow. :D

New PMs Wednesday!!! :D

Now if only it were real. :eek:
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I think those are 2 Dual Core Intels with HyperThreading anabled
So it is 2 CPU x 2 Cores each x HyperThreading (2) = 8 virtual CPUs (4 physical cores)
 
Mr Maui said:
Four 2.8 GHz dual-core Intel Chips? Makes my 500MHz TiBook seem a wee bit slow. :D

New PMs Wednesday!!! :D

Now if only it were real. :eek:
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Four 2.8GHz HyperThreaded ****** old Intel Xeons more like.

Nice for threading if you don't care about performance, but a dual dual-core G5 at 2.5GHz would spank the above setup silly. Probably at 2.0GHz too.
 
Peace said:
One thing I think we can be certain about come Wednesday..

OSX 10.4.3
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Really? I'm not too sure, there haven't been nearly as many builds released as there were for 10.4.2. But hey, who knows?
 
Not long now...

to the finance call - and this is when i think Applw will talk about the new hardware, which will hit the media and eveyone will be saying "Well if the hardware was announced in the finance call, what could 'One More Thing' be?"

This will give a final media push (free at that) into Wednesday's announcement. I just think there has to be a relationship on the timing. I mean, Apple could have had the 'One More Thing' in the morning and the financial call in the afternoon on the Tuesday, but instead they decide to hold on diffeent cincecutive days....there is more going on here tha something announced on Wednesday only...
 
pigwin32 said:
Fair enough, but what do you think, I've got time to spend all day here getting an education? To paraphrase the other Steve, rumours, rumours, rumours etc. And someone else here could maybe get some remedial spelling tuition :)
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Well, sorry for the misspelling of that single word. English is my third language. ;)

pigwin32 said:
So my dear old TiBook can do HD Video, thanks for pointing that out, just saved me megabucks. Actually, a higher resolution would be great for photo viewing/editing and a little extra processing power would help as well. It is sad to see the PowerBook on the wrong side of the bell curve, I would like to see that situation redressed but I can't see it happening this time round. Apple need to refresh the PB line but realistically how much effort are they going to put into it when surely most of their effort is concentrated on getting an Intel laptop into production.
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True. Won't hear me debate that.
 
I will be so excited if this is true, I'm in the market for both a new PowerBook as well as a new iPod (but not too interested in a video iPod) - I just don't see how they would successfully implement it while keeping it managably pocket-sized. Come on new PBs!
 
Mac_Freak said:
I think those are 2 Dual Core Intels with HyperThreading anabled
So it is 2 CPU x 2 Cores each x HyperThreading (2) = 8 virtual CPUs (4 physical cores)
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Thanks! Sorry ... I admit I am PC ignorant. Being a hardline Mac loyalist since 1984 (MacDraw, MacWrite and MacPaint, bring 'em on) will do that to a person. :D
 
It would be interesting to hear from an Apple employee to see if there are any boxes marked DO NOT OPEN UNTIL x - that's how Apple traditionally ships out unannounced products to its retail stores...Anyone?
 
mongoos150 said:
It would be interesting to hear from an Apple employee to see if there are any boxes marked DO NOT OPEN UNTIL x - that's how Apple traditionally ships out unannounced products to its retail stores...Anyone?
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Isn't it odd that we haven't heard of that yet?
 
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