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Yes the XServe and new PowerMacs do use DDR RAM but are unable to take any advantage of DDR RAM at all. It's been proven in various benchmark tests, Similarly equipped PowerMacs with SDRAM were just as fast as the DDR ones. The G4 chip is not capable of taking advantage of DDR RAM. Apple just...

P4 is 2 years old, P3 is 3 years old. The P2 was released in 1997. Not quite your P1 there. G3's and G4's have also advanced since their debuts as well: there are many revisions of the G3 and G4. They just advanced much slower. And yes, they are older. All the more reason for Apple to find a...

No wife here. I'm only 17, just a bit young. Life? Yup. Self-admitted geek? Yup. It's hard to keep them in balance sometimes. :eek: :D ;)

[/FLAME] Observe and comply, I beg you all. This is NOT WinXP vs. MacOS X deathmatch round infinity. We are discussing platforms, not OS's. The point of this is to run MacOS X, our beloved OS, on a potentially better platform, not convert to WinXP.

I do not believe that MacLuv said Windows was superior to OS X...just that he wished OS X was just as responsive as Windows. I will myself admit that Windows has a more responsive GUI, it is far less complicated that Aqua. I do not think for one minute that this makes Windows superior to OS X...

Never even thought of that...duh me. I think IBM just added a few extra instructions in their version, at least that's what I gathered from various articles I've read. I agree with you, to an extent. -Some hardware would indeed have to be Apple proprietary, but what really is the downside of...

Not quite...if that was the case then Apple would still be selling PPC 601's, just increasing the speed. The G4 is an evolution of the G3 is a evolution of the 604e of the 604 of the 603e of the 603 of the 601 (forgive me if I left one out? 601e? I don't think those exist though)... Just as the...

It is, it just never "caught on" so to speak... x86 "caught on", PPC didn't despite technilogical superiority. VHS vs. Beta, MacOS vs. Windows, there's more I'm sure...all same situation. PPC sells slow, so the technology advances at a comparable rate. x86 advances so rapidly due to the higher...

Interestingly enough, the AMD Opteron (and even the Athlon) has many features of RISC processors: it supports out-of-order execution, has multiple floating-point units, and can issue up to 9 instructions simultaneously. Detailed info here: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~steen/web02/opteron.html

There's one giant hole I can poke in this whole theory though: AltiVec. Too much has already been moved toward AltiVec to just drop it off suddenly, major developers and the scientific community would be outraged at such an action... It is possible that AMD could aquire a liscence to it or...

I Followed the link there to http://www.amdzone.com and sure enough in their news on the main page there is a blurb about a large amount of Apple people attending Comdex...with rumored attendance at Hector Ruiz's keynote for AMD where they are going to announce a new lisencee (I can't...

I, also, use SETi@Home. It actually does give up the processor when you run other apps, imagine that. I have it running on all three of my Macs and my sh*tty PC. It's rather funny that my 233 iMac completes half a work unit in the time my 233 Athalon completes about 7% of a work unit. BOth...

I doubt they are actually all individually sent, but in groups of all systems finshed on the same day to the USA, where they are then split up and sent off to thier new owners.

not gonna happen.

Timbuktu is cross-platform, you could control your Mac from a PC and vice-versa. It's a nice program.

If we could just get a decent PS2 emulator... :D I want GTA III soo bad but don't have the $ for a PS2 nor a decent PC box...

A friend of mine just ordered a new TiBook, it also shipped directly from Taiwan...it makes sense that a Mac you order directly from Apple comes directly from where they're assembled...If you ordered it from MacMall or something it'll probably ship from some domestic location.

I have 3 hard drives in my Tower. 1 500MB SCSI drive that is entirely dedicated as my swap partition. 1 6gig IDE HD for the System, Users, and included apps 1 45gig IDE partitioned into 2 blocks. 1 6gig block I use as a scratch disk for apps that need one and for storing backups of important...

Because it is overclocked. Nobody is denying that. It doesn't matter who did the overclocking. It's been going on for along time all over the PC market. Big deal./...

Yeah see my reply there.