i asked this same question to a person who got the new powermac on the apple forums and it is the dvr-109. here is the info he posted from profiler. Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109…

Quote: Originally Posted by IceEnclosure I just got the DVR-A09, the retail version of the DVR-109. 16x write speeds for DVD+/-R and Double Layer recording at 6x I love it,…

I just got the DVR-A09, the retail version of the DVR-109. 16x write speeds for DVD+/-R and Double Layer recording at 6x I love it, it's WHiiiSPER quiet and fast. Burning in Tig…

The economics of scale are simply amazing. Remember the prices for the first DVD burners or the price for the G4 733/SuperDrive?

Yes it's exactly the same. There is a 109XL or something that's has some little feature better, i think it might be this in some of them... but they are all flashed the same. Rega…

That is a good assumption to make, but we will have to wait for confirmation from new Power Mac owners.

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…

Oh, here's the article. It's actually on MacNN's front page. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwor...gr-mw01Altivec2 Quote: In this second article of a three-part ser…

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…

Quote: 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…

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.

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 …

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…

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,…

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…