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The beige G3 models were the last pro level macs to include SCSI, and it does not have built-in IDE. If you want to install a CDR, then it will have to be a SCSI model which will be much more expensive even than firewire. You might Ebay or other similar places for an older external SCSI CDR...

The benchmark application only uses one processor, but OSX using both. This means that while one processor was doing the benchmark, the other was playing an iTunes song. One good way to see what your processor is doing is to open up the CPU monitor utility. This just shows total CPU usage...

i don't have access to read this page, and my apple id account doesn't work (neither does my ADC account)

What if you were to use a Plug-In architecture style with pretty much straight C/C++ code. The shells for the applications would only be built using Cocoa or Carbon depending on which version.

i want to know how to pre-order too. I hear it takes weeks for them to process your order. Does any one know if we can redeem the coupons at the Apple stores?

The reason why the Quicksilver is so fast is because Apple is taking full advantage of the Velocity Engine. Motorola (the makers of the G4 chips) says that AltiVec (their name for Velocity Engine) is as powerful as a DSP chip but better because it is "programmable". You need to rewrite the...

I just read in the paper today that HP (number 3 in computer sales) is buying out Compaq (number 2). (The number one being Dell) Combined, they estimate that HP-Compaq will control 70% (now beating Dell) of the personal computer market. I do not believe that this will be the case, and that...

With the schools and the labs, I do not know how things are now, but it used to be (7 to 8 years ago) that Apple was giving really good discounts for students and education. I think that stopped a couple of years ago before Steve Jobs came back on the scene. During that time, a number of...

I have been in the printing industry for over 10 years, and I currently work for a service provider of prepress film for printers. We are basically an in-between for designers and printers. For years, only Mac documents were brought to us with the exception of T-Shirt designers (silkscreen)...

The real question here is if Apple will increase it's market share because of OSX, remain at the same level that they have now, or will OSX hurt and cause Apple to fail as a company. The poll above asks if Apple will increase it's market share in "niche groups". I would assume that this is...

When I use the software restore CDs on the 733 Quicksilver, it takes about 10 minutes and that is including swapping the 4 CDs. Our of curiousity, how much drive space does the XP clean install take?

OSX is going to be basically the same in version 10.1 with speed optimization, more compatibility, and a few extras like the side dock. As far as I know, nothing will be removed. Just more enhancements, and what everyone is waiting for is the speed.

Just for fun, I ran the benchmark on the 733 Quicksilver (768mb RAM) with the following applications open: Photoshop Illustrator Quark Sherlock OmniWeb ATM Deluxe Filemaker iTunes during the entire time, I was playing an MP3 with iTunes, and there was not a single pause or hiccup in...

I was just talking to a very pro Windows person this morning... He was telling me that if Microsoft does go through with this disabling thing, there will be issues in court. If Microsoft sues someone for installing a pirated version of XP, they will win, but if Microsoft disables the...

One of my employees friends (Kris) convienced her grandmother to buy an iMac. Her grandmother had very little experience with computers, but bought it anyway so that Kris could use it. This is one of the older iMacs that did not come with OSX, so when OSX was released, Kris convienced her...

My opinion is that OSX will gain marketshare with the general public. Let me remind you that XP (although very easy to use) is a variation on Windows 2000 and Windows NT, and is aim at the professional market, not for the general public. Unless I am misinformed, this means that Microsoft...

how is the performance on 3rd party G3 or G4 upgrade cards for the 7500-9600 machines? Obviously memory, and hard drive access times also makes a big difference in performance. Just curious if anyone has the same performance issues with an upgraded 604.

Changing the name and adding the asterik is called static typing. Leaving the "IBOutlet id" as default is called dynamic typing. This is something that makes Objective-C different from many other programming languages because it performs the link at runtime instead of compiling. This...

The reason I brought up this window shade thing is that I work in Photoshop about 33% of the time that I am in front of a mac. Many times I am working with a few very large files, or lots of little files. The main problem right now is that when I want to hide one of the Photoshop windows, I...

rharder, have you tried using "register" keywords. I played around with it, but I don't think that I was doing it right because it did not seem to increase the speed any. One funny thing is that I went and changed all of the doubles to floats just to see how the performance changed. It was...