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What do you use your PowerPC for?

MatthewLTL said:
Thanks for the correction. Being that I will never own a Wii I dont know much about it other than its extremely weak. It has a 700MHz CPU 512MB (maybe 1GB) or RAM and all out **** graphics
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It is indeed very weak console, this causes most problems with web browser and DivX etc. -videos, the console has actually only 88MB of RAM total and when you browse you will run out of RAM easily which of course causes problems. Also the console cannot output even 720p resolution so my FullHD TV does not get utilized very well. I have modded my Wii to play videos from external drive (among other things), problem is that it does not have power to play any of those videos I tried. Netflix and YouTube work flawlessly, thanks to dedicated apps.

Too bad you apparently cannot connect Bluetooth keyboard to this thing, atleast not third party one (I have Apple Wireless Keyboard). Inputting text with Wiimote is pain.

Gaming power is not an issue for me as I believe you can create good games without having best possible graphcis.
 
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Gamer9430 said:
Microsoft had custom made the chip specifically for the XBox. It wasn't made by IBM or Motorola, let alone Apple. It has the PowerPC architecture . Theoretically you could run OS X on an Xbox or play Xbox games on a Mac running the Xbox OS, but the Mac would be too underpowered, and the Xbox would be too over powered.

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Also, for the record, my Pentium 4 HT has a higher GHz than my G5, several G4s, and even my Late 2011 MBP. MBP has 2.4, G5 has dual 2.3, G4s have dual 1.25/1.33GHz. The Pentium has 3.xGHz, I don't remember off the top of my head.
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It was a custom tri-core design for Microsoft based on PowerPC cores. It wasn't a straight clone of an existing CPU so you can't pigeonhole it as a G4/G5/POWER4 design.

The CPU design never changed, however it went through various repackaging and die shrinks over the years to improve logic board reliability and reduce costs and power consumption. The initial Xenon was manufactured by IBM, later revisions by Chartered Silicon and Global Foundries IIRC.

Comparing GHz between Intel and other architectures is an Apples to Oranges comparison and part of the reason they assign model numbers to CPUs now. Netburst was designed to scale to high GHz, whatever you are comparing it to may not have been.
 
MatthewLTL said:
the Concept of the Wii is dumb, Although the Wii is soley a console its mosly a kids' console. Other than the Mario or Zelda Games on Nentendo they just ain't worth it in my book.
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I doubt the Nintendo executives whose product vastly outsold the PS3 and Xbox 360 thought the idea was "dumb".
 
It's the product experience that counts with consoles and the Wiiiiiiii was excellent for that. Consumers voted with their wallets. Then again they're probably just lazy. ;)
 
iModFrenzy said:
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the Xbox 360 have a tri-core not quad-core?

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600$? That's way overpriced, then again its Apple :p

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you are correct. the 360 has a 3.2GHz Tri-core PowerPC "Xenon" XCPU which also has the ATI's Xenos GPU built in (on the S and E models)
 
PowerBook G4 15" 1.5GHz: main laptop (typing from it). Web browsing, note taking in school, Photoshop, word processing, web developing and clustered rendering with Compressor. I love the keyboard.

PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 1.25GHz FW800: main machine. Web browsing, word processing, Photoshop, Final Cut, programming, YouTube, Mail, iTunes, torrents and VirtualPC

iMac G5 1.9GHz iSight: file server and web server

PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800MHz: gaming and general light usage.

Retina MacBook Pro: in Apple Store for the 3rd repair in the first 14 months. Awful Mac.
 
MatthewLTL said:
you are correct. the 360 has a 3.2GHz Tri-core PowerPC "Xenon" XCPU which also has the ATI's Xenos GPU built in (on the S and E models)
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It's important to note the architecture and therefore the performance never changed. What was originally a separate CPU and GPU got combined onto a single die and then combined with the eDRAM onto a single package on the S. Increased yields and lower power consumption reduced manufacturing costs and improved reliability.
 
mikiotty said:
PowerBook G4 15" 1.5GHz: main laptop (typing from it). Web browsing, note taking in school, Photoshop, word processing, web developing and clustered rendering with Compressor. I love the keyboard.

PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 1.25GHz FW800: main machine. Web browsing, word processing, Photoshop, Final Cut, programming, YouTube, Mail, iTunes, torrents and VirtualPC

iMac G5 1.9GHz iSight: file server and web server

PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800MHz: gaming and general light usage.

Retina MacBook Pro: in Apple Store for the 3rd repair in the first 14 months. Awful Mac.
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I do plan on getting a iBook G4 or a PowerBook G4 when my DELL kicks the bucket.... I rarely use my laptop and mostly use my PocketPC on the go I just need a new battery and charger for it

P.S. Does anyone know how to reset a Windows Mobile 6 device to factory settings?
 
MatthewLTL said:
I do plan on getting a iBook G4 or a PowerBook G4 when my DELL kicks the bucket.... I rarely use my laptop and mostly use my PocketPC on the go I just need a new battery and charger for it

P.S. Does anyone know how to reset a Windows Mobile 6 device to factory settings?
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A hammer?
 
ctmpkmlec4 said:
A hammer?
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as much as a mutter that under my breath doing that to any windows device and even though i wouldn't be out anything doing that to it.... I actually DO use it on almost a daily basis. I just have to restore it to factory settings because like ALL versions of windows.... It runs EXTREMELY slow it never used to.
 
MatthewLTL said:
the Concept of the Wii is dumb, Although the Wii is soley a console its mosly a kids' console. Other than the Mario or Zelda Games on Nentendo they just ain't worth it in my book.
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I don't like the concept either, but there's alot more than Mario and Zelda games on Wii. And, you get the whole GameCube game library too. :)

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I'm using my G5 as my main computer. And as such, i'm using it for most stuff that a avarage user uses their computer for. :)
 
I've got a 1.42 GHz eMac, and a 12" 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4, both get used for the same tasks; web browsing, iTunes and watching locally stored MP4's of movies and TV shows. Once in a while, the PowerBook will rip a DVD and emulate retro games, and the eMac will download a torrent and convert video in HandBrake.

Basically, my two PowerPC Macs take care of all my computing needs; I have a 2006 Intel iMac should I ever need it, but 99% of the time it only gets used for Netflix.
 
MagicBoy said:
Try the obvious program called Clear Storage. ;)

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This has merit also. 9lb Sledge should do it.
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can i install that on the device? I don't have a Windows OS to use ActiveSync

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SkyBell said:
I've got a 1.42 GHz eMac, and a 12" 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4, both get used for the same tasks; web browsing, iTunes and watching locally stored MP4's of movies and TV shows. Once in a while, the PowerBook will rip a DVD and emulate retro games, and the eMac will download a torrent and convert video in HandBrake.

Basically, my two PowerPC Macs take care of all my computing needs; I have a 2006 Intel iMac should I ever need it, but 99% of the time it only gets used for Netflix.
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Does handbrake convert videos faster than "AnyVideoConverter" or "RealConverter"?

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What I use my PowerMac for now (that it's been upgraded to a 167MHz motherboard and is now a DP 1.25GHz) Is Dreamweaver and iMovie as well as YouTube and internet, Occasional DVD Player, Music Library. Does everything i need it to do.

My eMac USB 2.0 1GHz is YouTube and web browsing. Don't do much else one it It is my main computer but the 2 things mentioned above is the most i do anyway I have not even tried iMovie since the PowerMac Upgrades.
 
MatthewLTL said:
can i install that on the device? I don't have a Windows OS to use ActiveSync

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Does handbrake convert videos faster than "AnyVideoConverter" or "RealConverter"?

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What I use my PowerMac for now (that it's been upgraded to a 167MHz motherboard and is now a DP 1.25GHz) Is Dreamweaver and iMovie as well as YouTube and internet, Occasional DVD Player, Music Library. Does everything i need it to do.

My eMac USB 2.0 1GHz is YouTube and web browsing. Don't do much else one it It is my main computer but the 2 things mentioned above is the most i do anyway I have not even tried iMovie since the PowerMac Upgrades.
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How do you use it for YouTube? My G5 barely handles it... I just nicknamed your MDD "Rockstar" 'cause it's so badass.
 
ctmpkmlec4 said:
How do you use it for YouTube? My G5 barely handles it... I just nicknamed your MDD "Rockstar" 'cause it's so badass.
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Although it's still unable to play HTML5 video and still unable to do YouView it DOES work fine using MacTubes set to use QuickTime player. DO NOT go above QuickTime 7.5.5 as QuickTime 7.6 does not work with Perian, Hence MacTubes' QuickTime setting will not work, TenFourFox's QuickTimeEnabler will also not work. Though it DOES play HTML5 a bit better (though MacTubes) than it did before, I think the bottleneck is the GeForce4 MX, I will get either a Fire GL or a 9700,9800XT or a GeForce 6200 for it. I do have a PCI GeForce FX 5500 I want to flash for it.
 
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