Recent content by chadwick

Hmmm, that doesn't work on my Mac Pro. It's the regular eject for the top drive, and Alt-Eject for the bottom drive.

My totally non-scientific benchmark of value: jboss 4.0.03SP1 (default config) starts in 8s on the Mac Pro 2.66 GHz, and a whopping 20s on the iMac 1.83 GHz.

Mine doesn't arrive until the 29th, but when it does I'll be doing a full set of benchmarks for the development tasks that I commonly do. Until then.... I twiddle my thumbs. :)

You also need driver support to do it. If they get to the point of doing that, I'm pretty sure you'd hear about it on their spec pages.

I wonder how much faster then 3GHz chips are over the 2.66GHz... Anyone seen any Woodcrest benchmarks out there?

WiFi @ Mascone was really, really crappy in early June when I was there. Hopefully it'll be better next week. :ack:

Been working fantastic for me since Friday!

They better have a quad CPU one I can order before the end of September, that's all that matters to me... While the huge cheese grater case was a necessity because of the heat, it is a very nice case to have. It'll be interesting to see if the stick with a similiar design or not. Did the...

I'm trying really, really hard not to order one myself. But then since I sold my 17" G4 a month or two ago I'm been jonezing for a Mac portable big time. :)

Do you know how that compares to say the rates you'd get with one of the Intel iMacs? I tried it out after I got mine and I was seeing a good 45 FPS in IronForge with the iMac, but I haven't played in a long time so the other places I'd have no clue about. :D

I was at the SF Apple store yesterday when they were setting them up for display and got to play with them a little bit. I was somewhat underwhelmed. The display is bright, but like others have said before, the mirror effect just gives you nasty glare all the time. The key feel, etc. was...

Don't forget that the Intel architecture's call stack makes it much easier to perform a buffer overflow attack than the PPC architecture, so there is some truth in that statement.

Oh, also. 3DMark05 on the iMac running XP gives you score of 2776. CPU score was fantastic, video score was so-so.

Well.... I dunno about OS X versus XP, but Java 5 on OS X is blowing chunks compared to the one on XP. jboss 4.0.3SP1 bootup on the iMac running XP - 16 seconds jboss 4.0.3SP1 bootup on the iMac running OS X 10.4.6 - 26 seconds :( EDIT: on OS X with JDK 1.4.2 startup time is 18 seconds...

Good, zippy. About what I would expect. I ran a benchmark inside of it and its comparing to between a 1.6 GHz p4 and a 2.0 GHz p4, so that's not bad at all. I've got two XP VMs running at once simultaneously with no problem.