SPLASTiK said:
I stand corrected. I've been very lucky with my Macs (knock on wood) over the years.
First Intel-based Macs released today
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I stand corrected. I've been very lucky with my Macs (knock on wood) over the years.
gumplunger said:
Megahertz/Gigahertz are only one of MANY factors in the speed of a CPU. So it's very possible for a DUAL CORE Intel 1.83 GHz chip to be 4x faster than a single 1.67 GHz IBM G4 chip
Bah, the everlasting 'speed' issue.
For everything I do with a computer my Powerbook G4 17'' 1gigahertz it's good. Don't need something faster unless I wanted to play 3D games (I don't care for this) or for heavy 3D Maya processing (don't need this either).
When time will come to buy a new one (hope to stick with this for a loooong time, given the price I paid, for now 3 years without any glitch apart from the occasional MS Word crash) they will be a lot faster than anything five minutes before. Why bother?
For everything I do with a computer my Powerbook G4 17'' 1gigahertz it's good. Don't need something faster unless I wanted to play 3D games (I don't care for this) or for heavy 3D Maya processing (don't need this either).
When time will come to buy a new one (hope to stick with this for a loooong time, given the price I paid, for now 3 years without any glitch apart from the occasional MS Word crash) they will be a lot faster than anything five minutes before. Why bother?
Brooks
Eyes Wide Open
I'm gonna start saving now, so when the second generation of these come out, I can buy one (never buy the first G of a new tech product!!!)
Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral
we are children of god
Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral said:
Everyone I know with AMD processors has compatibility problems with music software that present some weird challenges for them getting things done on a daily basis. Obviously that's a Windows issue, not AMD's fault, but worth noting.
I think in the long term we're going to see Intel leapfrog over AMD, even though AMD has some advantages right now.
gumplunger said:Okay, go have fun with your AMD mac. Oh wait...
*posts screen shot of people running OS X on their AMD Machines*
Even when you go to "About this Mac" or whatever it's called it would say AMD 64 etc. haha
http://www.osx86project.org
SPLASTiK said:
haha looks like they need to update their site, apparently they still don't know what chips Apple will use.
sorceron
ken
yea i did the whole osx86 thing. it works but not perfect. basically i didnt have any drivers for sound. though you can get sound with a sse3 capable processor, but you wouldnt be able to do any recording stuff. also the video is only one resolution unless you use the same chipset and everything they tested with. still was fun.
Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral
we are children of god
Kazrog said:
thats more complete crap.
NEVER had a chipset related problem with AMD, not with music, not with anything!
Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral said:
Perhaps you should talk to my friends then. Obviously, it depends on what software you're using. Most specifically, they have issues in Sonar.
sorceron
ken
before i swithed to mac i used only amd machines for the longest time and never had any problems. so my experience was good with them. cant say the same for the operating systemKazrog said:
i even used sonar for a little bit too. hated it though on a side note.abigailwilliams said:
Yeah, it's still in it's infant stages though. Once all the Intel version apps/drivers come out I suspect it will be a lot better in that depatment. Fun to mess around with and a lot of stuff is useable but for serious applications it'll be a while.
Hopkins-WitchfinderGeneral
we are children of god
J.DavisNJ
\m/
Question guys...This doesn't mean the regular G5s will lose support any time soon eh?? I got a G5 a few months ago. I don't think they will, since people are running Tiger on G3s still. I just want to make sure I'm still safe.. Thanks
-Joe
-Joe
J.DavisNJ said:
No, Jobs has long said that they'll continue to support all the PPCs as long as they're able. Seeing that they're still seelling PPC PowerMac G5's until towards the end of this year, I'll say they'll be supporting them for a very long time afterwards as most users will be using PPC models and they wouldn't want to screw over the entire user base.
I bet if they ever did have to make a choice which I doubt would happen for at least 5 more years if not longer, they might offer a good exchange deal for a new model. Seems like something they'd do.
NK
Complete Bastard
Kazrog said:I don't disagree with you in principle, but I can't think of a recent example of first-gen bugs with Apple machines (last 5 years or so.)
I bought a REV A B&W G3 back in '99, and the G3 started billowing blue smoke when I plugged an external FW 120 GB HD into it. Apple refused to acknowledge this problem (duh), so I ended up having to buy a 3rd party PCI FW card in order to be able to use FW on that machine, because the internal card had died. Same thing happened to a friend of mine, only with an external FW CD burner - his burner actually caught fire instead. Guess that's where the name came from
So much for my REV A experiences...
NK
Complete Bastard
Kazrog said:
A friend of mine who has a studio here has weird FW problems with his REV A G5. While the front port works just fine, the rear port has intermittent data flow issues (this is only the FW 400 port..the FW 800 port is ok)
