I agree, the aluminium is not robust. That said, I have a 17" that was given to me by my boss, after I drooled on it. No, really, I remarked how I would like one, and she said..…

How were the old Titanium Powerbooks? Any more robust than the Alumininum?

I love the look of Al, but frankly after having two Al PBs, I much prefer our iBook's case.

Don't hate your friend or cast the blame on the aluminum; that is so lame. This is in the same category as the risk you run by having open containers of drinks next to your laptop…

Quote: Originally Posted by urrl78 Don't hate your friend or cast the blame on the aluminum; that is so lame. This is in the same category as the risk you run by having open co…

Quote: Originally Posted by betasp Don't quite know what you are asking, but here is the Tiger isync compatabilty list, that includes the 910. I know this page, therefor I a…

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.

my p900 is working fine on it, it actually installs isync agent.uiq onto it.

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.

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Don't quite know what you are asking, but here is the Tiger isync compatabilty list, that includes the 910.

How is Tiger dealing with it's new iSync versus Sony Ericsson 910i -sms, dialing etc? Thanks.

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…