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You continue to belittle both SMP and AltiVec when they have obvious benefits. As has been discussed in other threads, the iApps and much of the system software would be pretty slow in OS X without G4 AltiVec optimization (especially iDVD). Furthermore, SMP is very beneficial even when you...

ElDiablo: My thoughts exactly. See this thread.

Maybe you didn't read part of my post. Apple does not have "bicycle" hardware, in terms of the processor, anyway (bus and RAM speed are very inferior on the Mac I will admit, and hopefully these will be addressed in the upcoming PowerMac update). But the Mac and the G4 processor still hold...

You mean it died with the Classic Mac OS. New Macs still have PPC G3 and PPC G4 processors. :p (We need a : picky: smiley.)

What does that have to do with fun?

Couldn't you compare it to something you KNOW is fun (like playing DDR for 2 hours straight)?

Didn't you imply that we had to by your previous question?

Do YOU think that's a bad thing?

Yeah, looks serious. :) Heck, I'll give him a few bucks from my PayPal account.

rharder, this boot screen being shown is in place of the little smiley Mac icon that appears on your screen BEFORE the boot panel appears. I will definitely miss the Classic Mac startup icon, though. That's been on the Mac ever since it was created, and it will be sad to see it go! *sniff*...

gibbs -- I appreciate your comments. What I don't appreciate is people like azosx who vastly overinflate the situation, making things like the price of OS X seem outrageous (when it is, in reality, perfectly acceptable), and things like Apple's dismal hardware seem outrageous as well (when...

The main problem with European prices is that Apple is a U.S. company and bases their prices on U.S. dollars. So probably a few months ago, the dollar was equal to about 1.2 euros, so the price would be about right. Now since the dollar is less than a euro, the european prices seem...

Hahahahahaha. I can see that now. Ohh, that would be so funny. :)

As you yourself have pointed out many times, Apple is holding the G3 chip back just so that it doesn't steal the G4's "thunder". While Apple may try to make people understand the reality of the megahertz myth (and it is really a myth about megahertz), Apple still knows that clock speed is the...

Agreed on all points, here, but the G4 still has many performance advantages over the G3. While not many non-Apple applications don't take advantage of the Altivec engine (except Photoshop), the performance benefit from the operating system itself, and all of the other iApps is very...

This thread is supposed to mimick the Question-Answer thread that died a while ago. Basically, I'm going to start out with a question, and every subsequent poster has to respond to the previous question with another question. For example, if I post the question "Who is the most insane...

What shred of difference does it make?

I must say, though, after using it for a bit on my mom's iBook, it is REALLY fast and looks *almost* as good as OmniWeb (aqua form elements still look waaaay too huge).

Hmmm...... My long-standing complaint (unfortunately) still stands – text fields are still way too slow. One upside is that the cursor is now always in the right place when typing in text fields, whereas they used to be a little too far to the left. Good to know they're still working on...

.Mac/iTools is not something that I am obligated to pay for when buying OS X. OS X is completely functional without .Mac. I prefer to continue my membership to .Mac, however, and so I will fork over the money to do so. Point being that OS X has not cost near $400, and still will not be...