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…

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. -…

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…

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…

Whitey!

Quote: Originally Posted by Randman iBlog with .mac works fine. iBlog is the single most horrible blog app available! Moveable Type is supposed to be quite good, but much …

And how about a CD/DVD burner that can burn labels?

i use blogwave studio and post to .mac. prog seems ok so far.

Quote: Originally Posted by StonedRose WOuldn't it be good to see a "surf/skate" style iPod. Vans Checkered Old Skool That would be kinda cool.

I would just be happy if the dual 2.7s help drop the price of new or refurbed dual 2.5s closer to $1999. I'd buy one of those...

I like the peppermint color, Patty

Thanks All, Darn there goes my hope that WoW performance will get a jump.

Quote: Originally Posted by testudo Here! Here! 3GHz might allow apple to save a little face, but after a year if all they can do is bump RAM, bump the video card (the default f…

I use MarsEdit (http://ranchero.com/marsedit/) and Conversant (http://www.free-conversant.com/). jclarkv

Quote: Originally Posted by badtz processor speeds isn't my main concern @ all. I'm more concerned about new technologies! PCIe, Dual Layer DVD+-RW (or BluRay, lol I doubt it)…

i got the gold one but now id voted the white

Here's my prediction: Single 2.0 512 RAM, 80GB HD, GeForce 5200, $1499 Dual 2.0, 512 RAM, 160GB HD, ATI Radeon 9600 XT $1999 Dual 2.5, 512 RAM, 160GB HD, ATI Radeon 9600 XT $2499 Q…

Black all the way!!! And U2 is so cool to start out with. The album that the iPod's colors reflect is ****in awesome!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Loren_ Well the rumor is that Apple will release a quad 2.5 Ghz machine with a liquid helium cooled core. Right, Mr. Meador.

You might have a look at MarsEdit from Ranchero. It's not free, but it's pretty nice. I use it to add entries to my WordPress blog. Setting up WP was a bit of a chore, but only bec…

processor speeds isn't my main concern @ all. I'm more concerned about new technologies! PCIe, Dual Layer DVD+-RW (or BluRay, lol I doubt it), 3 HD spaces, etc.

Comcast offers static IPs, and you can do this. However I think it's a bad idea. First the upload won't be that great, and it interfers with your normal browsing/downloading, and s…

Ever thought about trying to teach English? I don't know how tough the competition is for those jobs, but I have a friend who lived there and did that for a year and seemed to get…

Quote: Originally Posted by theolein You're bilingual in English and French (Italian as well?), you young, pretty fit and fairly good looking, according to some of the women on…