One of the guys at NASA actually still uses his MessagePad 2100 at work everyday. Course, it's not connected to anything mission critical.

Quote: Originally posted by Phat Bastard: I saw some footage on CNN showing the other tables at JPL and they didn't look good for Macs...saw a bunch of LCD's that weren'…

The page still does, go down a little bit to "Features". I saw some footage on CNN showing the other tables at JPL and they didn't look good for Macs...saw a bunch of LCD's that w…

Quote: Originally posted by mmurray: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html :-) Michael In case anyone is wondering what I was talking about that lin…

I was at some NASA HQ in Washington D.C once and I saw rooms full of Macs but not one winblows machine.

Quote: Originally posted by mmurray: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html :-) Michael Excellent hardware/software = excellent mission nexus5

heh. nice.

Jurassic Park: Quadras

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…

Aragorn used an AluBook in ROTK. It was really easy to miss though.

Not movies, but still Macs: Smallville: Chloe had (maybe still has) an orange iMac. 24: Everybody at CTU owns a G5.

sex and the city, g3 laptop used.

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…

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 tomshardware.com.

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

Quote: Originally posted by power142: I have a particular program (pymol) that I run a lot that I've noticed a hit from going from Rev A 17-inch to 15-inch Albook (1.25G…

Quote: Originally posted by vancenase: power142 -- doyou use the fink version or 'native' version of pymol? i'll have to do a (time) test of a revB 17" and a 15 Ti-book…

Quote: Originally posted by power142: ae86_16v - I'm not 100% certain what the L3 speed is, but even if it's only 250MHz, it's still faster than the main memory speed …

The 17" version A had L3 while the 17" Version B has L2. Here is what Barefeats has to say: http://www.barefeats.com/al15.html Notice also that the Ghz Ti surpasses the Ver A 17"…

No problems whatsoever. Just send the buyer a copy of the original invoice. With that and the terms of sale they can get it transferred over.

I know for applecare I had to send an a certified letter to apple in texas with a copy of my receipt and the serial number of the my machine and the new owner's name. Might not be…