Pioneer DVR-109 == New SuperDrive? — #2
That is a good assumption to make, but we will have to wait for confirmation from new Power Mac owners.
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Pioneer DVR-109 == New SuperDrive? — #1
Just wondering if this was the same drive introduced with the new 2.7 G5 PM's and if I could go out to Newegg and buy the drive for $55. Just wondering if that coincides with today…
AltiVec sucks — #17
Oh, here's the article. It's actually on MacNN's front page.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwor...gr-mw01Altivec2
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In this second article of a three-part ser…
AltiVec sucks — #16
AltiVec is used extensively in bio science software, especially gene mapping and sequencing. I wanna find the article again, but it was a comparison of gene mapping software betwe…
AltiVec sucks — #15
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Originally Posted by SVass
If the truth be known, altivec was probably designed to optimize certain operations (blur?) in Adobe Photoshop as that was used to benchmark co…
AltiVec sucks — #14
You can program for AltiVec in C and even C++, it's just that assembly is as low level as you can get save for binary, which makes it much more efficient and faster.
AltiVec sucks — #13
Using Altivec amounts to the same as using SSE (MMX wasn't useful and AFAIK not really used) -- you have to write apps to use it. So most of the things that use it have relatively …
AltiVec sucks — #12
Whoa.
And here I'd0 thought for years that He-Who-Was-Hinks was some kind of programming genius. If he doesn't even know what single-precision and double-precision floats are, and…
AltiVec sucks — #11
If the truth be known, altivec was probably designed to optimize certain operations (blur?) in Adobe Photoshop as that was used to benchmark computer speed in advertising. Anyway,…
AltiVec sucks — #10
The only thing that sucks worse than AltiVec is not having AltiVec ... at least in my experience owning G3 and G4 machines.
AltiVec sucks — #9
Quote:
Originally Posted by macintologist
http://spl.haxial.net/weblog/index.php?p=85
Can somebody refute this jerk?
This guy is a douché. He's been ranting about Macs…
AltiVec sucks — #8
Very nice, starman
SVass, this isn't the first time that jerk has blown things out of proportion
Ganesha, If only that idiot had guests comments enabled could that trash of his…
AltiVec sucks — #7
Need to code in assembly? Mac OS X has a framework for AltiVec programming and 10.4 will auto-optimize code for AltiVec.
AltiVec sucks — #6
One of the project I worked on last year was very CPU intensive. Without going into the gory details, I optimized the code to determine at runtime what kind of system it's on. The …
AltiVec sucks — #5
Quote:
Originally Posted by macintologist
Yea but this guy is making like Apple are outright liars which is so false. Isn't somebody here an expert and can refute his BS?
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AltiVec sucks — #4
1. You certainly don't need to write in assembly to call AltiVec when programming on a Macintosh. Apple makes it VERY easy to code.
2. As a real life scientist, I use single prec…
AltiVec sucks — #3
Yea but this guy is making like Apple are outright liars which is so false. Isn't somebody here an expert and can refute his BS?
AltiVec sucks — #2
I don't believe that the speed increases Altivec promised have been realized.
AltiVec sucks — #1
http://spl.haxial.net/weblog/index.php?p=85
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AltiVec (a.k.a. Velocity Engine and VMX) is a steaming pile of doggy doo. It is a real pain in the ass to use, and u…
AltiVec sucks — #18
iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3)
My 733 G4 peaks at 10.4x
My friend Andy's 1.8ghz Dell peaks at 4.5x
Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, but c'mon, my old iMac used to encode a…
AltiVec sucks — #19
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Originally Posted by sek929
iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3)
Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, but c'mon, my old iMac used to encode at 4x.
The AltiVec enhanceme…
AltiVec sucks — #20
Add me to the list of users who have recoded scientific apps and achieved significant performance gains over scalar code. The original rant is of dubious merit, even childish.
-…
AltiVec sucks — #21
Well, there are a few mistakes right off the bat:he is focused on floating point operations only. A single Altivec unit will work on a vector of 4 (single precision) floating point…
AltiVec sucks — #22
Quote:
Originally Posted by sek929
iTunes Encoding (192Kpbs MP3)
My 733 G4 peaks at 10.4x
My friend Andy's 1.8ghz Dell peaks at 4.5x
Yeah I know iTunes is an Apple program, b…
Apple's Profit Rises More Than Sixfold — #48
Quote:
Originally Posted by resuna
I've seen iMacs moving pretty well at CompUSA and Micro Center when I've been there, and the new iMac is pretty good. I was fairly down on it …