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Mac laptops score 3 out of 4 at NASA — #3

Quote: Originally posted by mmurray: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html :-) Michael Excellent hardware/software = excellent mission nexus5
MacNN PowerPC by Nexus5 Sun, 4 Jan 2004 - 10:28

Joke Thread — #2

two guys walked into a bar... youd think the second guy would have seen it coming!
MacNN Games by d4nth3m4n Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 23:44

Joke Thread — #1

It's been awhile since we had a joke thread. Here are a few to get things started: Two blondes were taking a test. They sat down, stared at their papers. The first question read:…
MacNN Games by Stogieman Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 22:55

Canada/US Final at World Juniors... — #6

This worries me not. Canada dominates the world in hockey, as is proper. We will destroy the US. At least we'll be able to beat them in SOMETHING for crying out loud. I'm glad …
MacNN Games by Phat Bastard Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 15:15

Canada/US Final at World Juniors... — #5

Quote: Originally posted by acadian: Montoya stood up and stole that game against the Finns for you. It'll be interesting to see how he stands up to 4 lines of raw Canad…
MacNN Games by Agasthya Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 13:40

Canada/US Final at World Juniors... — #2

Quote: Originally posted by acadian: Montoya stood up and stole that game against the Finns for you. It'll be interesting to see how he stands up to 4 lines of raw Canad…
MacNN Games by brapper Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 13:24

Canada/US Final at World Juniors... — #1

Montoya stood up and stole that game against the Finns for you. It'll be interesting to see how he stands up to 4 lines of raw Canadian power in the final though. Should be an inte…
MacNN Games by acadian Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 13:19

Mac in the movies — #5

Um from the top of my head: School of rock - Couple of FP iMacs How to loose a guy in 10 days - Couple of FP iMacs One Hour Photo - PowerMac G4 MI:2 - powerbook G3 The net - old 1…
MacNN PowerPC by Zoom_zoom Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 04:16

Mac in the movies — #4

Aragorn used an AluBook in ROTK. It was really easy to miss though.
MacNN PowerPC by willed Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 04:15

Mac in the movies — #3

Not movies, but still Macs: Smallville: Chloe had (maybe still has) an orange iMac. 24: Everybody at CTU owns a G5.
MacNN PowerPC by WiggMuffin Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 02:17

Mac in the movies — #1

Recall any movies where Mac are featured ? Last one I remember was in Femme Fatale where Anthonio Banderas was downloading photos. Only managed to get a glimpse of the Cinema Displ…
MacNN PowerPC by yeopsiber Sat, 3 Jan 2004 - 01:53

What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #1

It seems as though some earlier PowerBooks had 1MB of L3 cache, whereas the newer ones have only 256k of L2. What's better? Are the newer ones actually not as fast, at least in ter…
MacNN PowerPC by selowitch

What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #2

It is very hard to describe the performance trade off based on cache. I can tell you this is entirely upto the progams you used. L2 cache are on-die, which means the interconne…
MacNN PowerPC by belldandy

What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #4

Quote: Originally posted by selowitch: It seems as though some earlier PowerBooks had 1MB of L3 cache, whereas the newer ones have only 256k of L2. What's better? Are th…
MacNN PowerPC by power142

What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #5

Just thought I'd mention that the same program totally smokes anything else I've seen on a Power Mac G4 with dual 1.42GHz chips - 2MB L3 cache per chip. Unfortunately, I haven't ha…
MacNN PowerPC by power142

What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #6

Quote: PC2700 >>>>>>>> PC133 In the PC world (and for G5 computers) this is true. However, the G4 does not support a DDR bus. Hence,…
MacNN PowerPC by Riemann Zeta

What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #7

Virtual PC, at least in the Connectix incarnations, was optimized for 512k cache, so any machine with only 256k, whether L2 or L3, is noticeably slower running VPC than a machine w…
MacNN PowerPC by Davidarm

What's Better: 256k L2 or 1MB L3? — #8

Quote: Originally posted by anaphora68: From what I have heard L2 is much faster than L3, so you go for a higher l2 count. There is good discussion on this over at tomsh…
MacNN PowerPC by ae86_16v
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