The only thing that sucks worse than AltiVec is not having AltiVec ... at least in my experience owning G3 and G4 machines.

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…

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…

Need to code in assembly? Mac OS X has a framework for AltiVec programming and 10.4 will auto-optimize code for AltiVec.

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 …

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? …

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…

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?

I don't believe that the speed increases Altivec promised have been realized.

http://spl.haxial.net/weblog/index.php?p=85 Quote: 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…

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…

Quote: 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…

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. -…

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…

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…

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 …

Quote: Originally Posted by sworthy I just bought some more stock... I love it when the market gives me a flashing neon sign that says "BUY" Bad decision. It look like AAP…

I just bought some more stock... I love it when the market gives me a flashing neon sign that says "BUY"

Quote: Originally Posted by resuna The phrase "ate into" implies "they sold fewer eMacs and iMacs than they would have without the mini". It implies that mini sales are lost pot…

The reason the stock is down is rather simple; Apple is in danger of becoming a one-trick pony. The iPod is what is bringing in the huge numbers for Apple, and that isn't going to …

Ooo goody! My happiness is dependent on Apple's sales figures.

Quote: Originally Posted by resuna Yeh, but - (1) $2000 in 1993 is worth, what, $1200 now? Less? Other way around... it's worth more now. Kind of like how $2 in 1900 is …

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium In the summer of 1993, my father bought a 6100/60: the third-highest-end of the Macs available at the time. It cost about $2000. Today, al…

Quote: Originally Posted by E's Lil Theorem Well, if they sold more units, but made less money (remember, a lot less money), how exactly do you explain it? I may be wrong in tha…

Note that while this is true *generally*, price points do vary +/- $200 or so, and prices in general *do* drop over time within this structure - especially on laptops.