NewbieNerd
Mar 19, 09:52 PM
I voted FFVI Advance as I've played the SNES version so many times and I expect the GBA rehash to be even better. A close call with both IV and V, the latter I'm playing right now...I just love the job system in V where you actually combine the skills you learn of different jobs, unlike III where the only point of learning 2 jobs is so that you can comfortably be one of those 2 jobs at any time.
VI was just the first, in my mind, to have great weapons/armor/relics that allowed for equiping characters to be based on preference and not just have a single piece of equipment that was hands down better than all others.
I have FFIV for the GBA, it's slathered in CHEEEESE. :) I just need to finish it. I almost shite myself when I noticed readers from Nintendo Power gave it an award for best writing/story in a game. They can't be serious? :eek:
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At least to me, compare with FFI, II, and III, the storyline in IV was WAAAY better and really lead to the great storylines that were to come in latter FFs. True, it can't compare to the storylines in the FFs since, but it was a huge step.
VI was just the first, in my mind, to have great weapons/armor/relics that allowed for equiping characters to be based on preference and not just have a single piece of equipment that was hands down better than all others.
I have FFIV for the GBA, it's slathered in CHEEEESE. :) I just need to finish it. I almost shite myself when I noticed readers from Nintendo Power gave it an award for best writing/story in a game. They can't be serious? :eek:
<]=)
At least to me, compare with FFI, II, and III, the storyline in IV was WAAAY better and really lead to the great storylines that were to come in latter FFs. True, it can't compare to the storylines in the FFs since, but it was a huge step.
Sky Blue
Mar 17, 08:06 AM
I would be embarassed as heck if I had that in my living room. I think it looks pretty crappy. I'm more for the stylish mods...like the wood mac set or something in sleek glass or something...way too kiddie or hard core rpg nerd fanboy for me
Paul
agreed, looks tacky.
Paul
agreed, looks tacky.
WildCowboy
Jun 1, 07:18 PM
Not for me...
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EricNau
May 13, 02:56 PM
I wish it would start off as a still picture, and only start playing if I clicked it.
TMay
Oct 30, 04:14 PM
Dell is putting a little pressure on Gateway with this. A detente with Apple is just a temporary measure.
Not having the premier MP3 player is a disadvantage in Gateway's goal of selling consumer products via its retail stores. In a way, Apple and Dell are "colluding" to accelerate Gateway's downfall.
Gateway made a mistake with the iMac comparison ad.
Not having the premier MP3 player is a disadvantage in Gateway's goal of selling consumer products via its retail stores. In a way, Apple and Dell are "colluding" to accelerate Gateway's downfall.
Gateway made a mistake with the iMac comparison ad.
Jasonbot
Mar 21, 09:30 AM
SO are we going to see an Xbox BD player add on soon?
impierced
Oct 22, 09:12 PM
Originally posted by technocoy
but if you read all the post he is retarded, he keeps quoting these unlimited sources, and yet he seems to be a college student or something, how could he have 4 or five dependable apple sources?? He also said that they are releasing G4 iBooks along with the powerbooks... c'mon, dude is on crack. no way in hell there will be a g4 iBook AND powerbook unless the powerbook was dual (and we know that aint happening)
technocoy
Let me clarify a few things regarding seanyepez at MacNN forums:
1. He initially quoted two independent sources and said he wouldn't have come forward unless they both provided him with the same information, which they apparently did. Then said a third backed up the previous two. Not 4 or 5.
2. He is actually 14 or 15 years old and not in college.
3. He has his email address in his sig file so he's really going to take a beating if he isn't correct at least on an announcement.
For the record I'm extremely skeptical, but until tomorrow rolls around nobody knows what's going to be announced, if anything.
Contradicting sean, someone else in the forum is saying an announcement will be comming the first week of November and the iBook will remain with a G3 processor and the PowerBook G4 will in have a Superdrive but none will have Bluetooth on the motherboard.
but if you read all the post he is retarded, he keeps quoting these unlimited sources, and yet he seems to be a college student or something, how could he have 4 or five dependable apple sources?? He also said that they are releasing G4 iBooks along with the powerbooks... c'mon, dude is on crack. no way in hell there will be a g4 iBook AND powerbook unless the powerbook was dual (and we know that aint happening)
technocoy
Let me clarify a few things regarding seanyepez at MacNN forums:
1. He initially quoted two independent sources and said he wouldn't have come forward unless they both provided him with the same information, which they apparently did. Then said a third backed up the previous two. Not 4 or 5.
2. He is actually 14 or 15 years old and not in college.
3. He has his email address in his sig file so he's really going to take a beating if he isn't correct at least on an announcement.
For the record I'm extremely skeptical, but until tomorrow rolls around nobody knows what's going to be announced, if anything.
Contradicting sean, someone else in the forum is saying an announcement will be comming the first week of November and the iBook will remain with a G3 processor and the PowerBook G4 will in have a Superdrive but none will have Bluetooth on the motherboard.
eroda
Mar 18, 01:28 AM
ewwww fedora ewww
bloatware
go ubuntu
bloatware
go ubuntu
Nermal
Mar 9, 02:51 PM
If you are interested, more discussion on CherryOS is going on osnews and slashdot.
And here.
And here.
kwajo.com
Nov 17, 01:44 PM
Well I happen to be responsible for desktop architecture for my company, which means I have a little lab with about 8-9 pc's I use daily that I get to load the client on. I only have my 2.0ghz G5 iMac and a 866AMD at home running the client. Cheating just a bit, but it's for a good cause.
exactly, this is one competition that I don't care if you're beating me, or cheating, cause everyone is a winner in the end.
oh god did I just sound as much like a cliche as I think i did :o lol
btw, how does the speed in folding compare between the AMD and the iMac. obviously the iMac is faster overall, but I have heard things about the folding client being faster (as in more efficient) in the x86 coding, or maybe this was just an anti-mac comment made to me, I dunno
exactly, this is one competition that I don't care if you're beating me, or cheating, cause everyone is a winner in the end.
oh god did I just sound as much like a cliche as I think i did :o lol
btw, how does the speed in folding compare between the AMD and the iMac. obviously the iMac is faster overall, but I have heard things about the folding client being faster (as in more efficient) in the x86 coding, or maybe this was just an anti-mac comment made to me, I dunno
TyleRomeo
Aug 30, 12:33 PM
Originally posted by firewire2001
hey.. i went to the apple store the other day.
next to a new powermac there was a sign that said "1.25 GHZ Mac" and when going to the system profiler, it said it was 1 ghz.
However, if you look at the back of the mac it says "1 GHZ Powermac" ... they indeed do not have the 1.25 powermac on display..
just wanted to clarify.. causa all those rumors about overclocking, etc..
thanks firewire
It's probably those silly apple employees posting signs for computers they don't even know they don't have in stock yet.
tyler
hey.. i went to the apple store the other day.
next to a new powermac there was a sign that said "1.25 GHZ Mac" and when going to the system profiler, it said it was 1 ghz.
However, if you look at the back of the mac it says "1 GHZ Powermac" ... they indeed do not have the 1.25 powermac on display..
just wanted to clarify.. causa all those rumors about overclocking, etc..
thanks firewire
It's probably those silly apple employees posting signs for computers they don't even know they don't have in stock yet.
tyler
groundhog troll
Aug 31, 08:34 AM
Since they already have the Star Wars Project completed somewhere and Openstep worked on Intel, Darwin also works on Intel, shouldn't Apple just be able to "Switch" to an Intel processor without much hassel:D
Macrazy
Oct 7, 04:41 PM
Originally posted by DaveGee
Given both the mot 'g5' and the 'IBM Power4-lite' are both priced the same then I don't see why they would both be used what would the advantage be?
Dave
My mistake about " Will be the same price"
I just spoke with my friends who work at IBM. They told me that both processors are not the same price. The price is uncomfirmed yet. They think the cost will be (IBM Power4 lite) $385.00 (64 bits). They are still discuss about costs. They will not sell one piece. They required to sell for 2,000 items for this price.
They sure the cost will be (Motorola G5 PowerPC) $275.00 (32 bits). They had prototype of Motorola G5. It was year ago. Umm... I wonder why the G5 have 32bits? Why not 64 bits? Good Question.
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Given both the mot 'g5' and the 'IBM Power4-lite' are both priced the same then I don't see why they would both be used what would the advantage be?
Dave
My mistake about " Will be the same price"
I just spoke with my friends who work at IBM. They told me that both processors are not the same price. The price is uncomfirmed yet. They think the cost will be (IBM Power4 lite) $385.00 (64 bits). They are still discuss about costs. They will not sell one piece. They required to sell for 2,000 items for this price.
They sure the cost will be (Motorola G5 PowerPC) $275.00 (32 bits). They had prototype of Motorola G5. It was year ago. Umm... I wonder why the G5 have 32bits? Why not 64 bits? Good Question.
nixd2001
Oct 14, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by MacBandit
Here's an excerpt from a thread that we were discussing it in recently. I may be wrong but I think this is what you thinking of.
It is the sort of thing I was thinking of. I hadn't realised the MIPS core had been tweaked that much, but I guess they've got the volume behind it to make it worth it.
I'd wager good beer that IBM won't go that route though (the catch is you've got to work out how to get the beer if I'm wrong:D ) It sounds like too much compilication for a more general purpose CPU than the hassle is probably worth.
Hopefully, we'll find out more details before the week is out. The memory bandwidth side of things is sounding on track though!
Here's an excerpt from a thread that we were discussing it in recently. I may be wrong but I think this is what you thinking of.
It is the sort of thing I was thinking of. I hadn't realised the MIPS core had been tweaked that much, but I guess they've got the volume behind it to make it worth it.
I'd wager good beer that IBM won't go that route though (the catch is you've got to work out how to get the beer if I'm wrong:D ) It sounds like too much compilication for a more general purpose CPU than the hassle is probably worth.
Hopefully, we'll find out more details before the week is out. The memory bandwidth side of things is sounding on track though!
Bradcoe
Oct 19, 09:34 AM
No L3 means apple COULD charge much less than with L3 cache. That stuffs expensive in 2 and 3MB chunks.
Heres another point I haven't heard anyone talk about. DDR RAM prices. I don't want to think of how much 900Mhz DDR (actual 450) is going to cost. And if Apple is retarded, I REALLY don't want to think about saving $ by putting slower RAM, or even worse, a slower memory controller made by Apple into these machines. I'm slightly nervous about pricing. I see lots of reasons for the 970 to be a reason to make Mac's less money. However, I see Apple as having lots of reasons to make the 970 responsible for equally high or even higher priced macs.
Heres another point I haven't heard anyone talk about. DDR RAM prices. I don't want to think of how much 900Mhz DDR (actual 450) is going to cost. And if Apple is retarded, I REALLY don't want to think about saving $ by putting slower RAM, or even worse, a slower memory controller made by Apple into these machines. I'm slightly nervous about pricing. I see lots of reasons for the 970 to be a reason to make Mac's less money. However, I see Apple as having lots of reasons to make the 970 responsible for equally high or even higher priced macs.
applemacdude
Oct 4, 08:00 PM
[QUOTE=Nermal]Yay! One I know the answer to! :D
And, to make this post slightly more worthwhile, what was Mr Anderson's old username?
DukeStreet...Which was owned by me for a amount of time./.
And, to make this post slightly more worthwhile, what was Mr Anderson's old username?
DukeStreet...Which was owned by me for a amount of time./.
bousozoku
Nov 5, 11:45 PM
So, I just downloaded Firefox ... it looks and acts the same, and I still have that pesky little white window in Expose!
Is there a special link to get RC2, or is the giant "DOWNLOAD FIREFOX" thing RC2? Just wondering, since I'm not noticing a difference and the "About" window doesn't mention if this is RC1 or RC2.
You just downloaded the preview again. You have to do a lot of looking to get to the release candidates. ;)
The extra window is gone but...no, nevermind. :D
Is there a special link to get RC2, or is the giant "DOWNLOAD FIREFOX" thing RC2? Just wondering, since I'm not noticing a difference and the "About" window doesn't mention if this is RC1 or RC2.
You just downloaded the preview again. You have to do a lot of looking to get to the release candidates. ;)
The extra window is gone but...no, nevermind. :D
dmw007
Jun 22, 06:09 AM
It's part of the whole "Think different" approach. Now, there's "Spell different."
That must be Apple's new campaign. ;) :)
Clearly Apple is dropping hints of a an Apple branded camera due to be released next Tuesday.
Perhaps they will...... ;)
That must be Apple's new campaign. ;) :)
Clearly Apple is dropping hints of a an Apple branded camera due to be released next Tuesday.
Perhaps they will...... ;)
Falleron
Sep 30, 02:39 PM
Here is an extract from that page.
(Dual 1Ghz - DDRAM)
SMP Results:
# Threads Time Charged Time Score
2 56.9s 82.9s 163.5%
(Dual 1Ghz - NON - DDRAM)
SMP Results:
# Threads Time Charged Time Score
2 50.6s 97.7s 184.0%
(Dual 1Ghz - DDRAM)
SMP Results:
# Threads Time Charged Time Score
2 56.9s 82.9s 163.5%
(Dual 1Ghz - NON - DDRAM)
SMP Results:
# Threads Time Charged Time Score
2 50.6s 97.7s 184.0%
jimsowden
Dec 6, 05:59 PM
I thought this was a plugin for iTunes, not a stand alone app.
Shamus
May 12, 12:38 AM
As most have said, it is kinda fun to play around with. But what is the actual use of it? Sure, you can analyse statistical data from the net, but other than that....not much point to it.
nixd2001
Oct 14, 12:47 PM
Originally posted by MacBandit
The programs don't necessarily ened to be written in 64bit integers. The whole process can work just like Altivecs 128bit pathway or the Sony PS2s 128bit pathway. They both can take in 4 x 32bits at a time or 8 x 16 bits. I think you get the point. What it simply does is widden the pipeline so more tasks can be taken care of at once.
Probably not. The key thing large registers in Altivec can do is "break the carry bit". In other words, depending on the size of the "words" being operated, there is no carry from some bits to the next bit up for additions, etc. Creating this "split carry" architecture would take extra work, followed by the need to create additional instructions to use the capability. I think they'll stick with letting Altivec handle SIMD operations and leave the INT cores alone (IMHO).
The programs don't necessarily ened to be written in 64bit integers. The whole process can work just like Altivecs 128bit pathway or the Sony PS2s 128bit pathway. They both can take in 4 x 32bits at a time or 8 x 16 bits. I think you get the point. What it simply does is widden the pipeline so more tasks can be taken care of at once.
Probably not. The key thing large registers in Altivec can do is "break the carry bit". In other words, depending on the size of the "words" being operated, there is no carry from some bits to the next bit up for additions, etc. Creating this "split carry" architecture would take extra work, followed by the need to create additional instructions to use the capability. I think they'll stick with letting Altivec handle SIMD operations and leave the INT cores alone (IMHO).
alex_ant
Oct 8, 09:45 PM
Originally posted by Abercrombieboy
So as I might get flamed for this post, get off Apple's back. Their products are not the pieces of crap everyone on here tries to make them out to be. You pay more for Apple because they don't sacrifice quality. If you want only speed and don't care about software, OS, or hardware quality, then why are you here??? Get a cheapo PC. The new Macs are not slow computers, sure there are some PC's that are a little faster and win the old GHz race, but when you make a purchase you have to look at the entire picture. Look at everything the machine offers, value, quality, style, longevity, productivity, etc... Apple is better.
I don't think many people here are making Apple's computers out to be pieces of crap. It's just tough to say something like "Apple's computers are about the slowest there currently are" with any sort of tact.
I would also disagree somewhat with the paying more for quality comment. I don't think you really pay more for quality when you buy a Mac. What you do pay for is anyone's guess - software, R&D, or whatever - but Apple is notorious for its very high margins. Whatever you pay more for, it's definitely not the hardware, because most (all?) Macs are made in the same massive Asian factories as the big PC manufacturers' are anyway.
And I disagree that all PCs are crap as you say they are. Windows has come a long way, like it or not, and PCs are not the BSOD-every-hour computers they used to be. They've gotten a lot better in recent years, and this is why so many Macrumors posters are worried and yelling at Apple to get a move on with the faster machines.
Alex
So as I might get flamed for this post, get off Apple's back. Their products are not the pieces of crap everyone on here tries to make them out to be. You pay more for Apple because they don't sacrifice quality. If you want only speed and don't care about software, OS, or hardware quality, then why are you here??? Get a cheapo PC. The new Macs are not slow computers, sure there are some PC's that are a little faster and win the old GHz race, but when you make a purchase you have to look at the entire picture. Look at everything the machine offers, value, quality, style, longevity, productivity, etc... Apple is better.
I don't think many people here are making Apple's computers out to be pieces of crap. It's just tough to say something like "Apple's computers are about the slowest there currently are" with any sort of tact.
I would also disagree somewhat with the paying more for quality comment. I don't think you really pay more for quality when you buy a Mac. What you do pay for is anyone's guess - software, R&D, or whatever - but Apple is notorious for its very high margins. Whatever you pay more for, it's definitely not the hardware, because most (all?) Macs are made in the same massive Asian factories as the big PC manufacturers' are anyway.
And I disagree that all PCs are crap as you say they are. Windows has come a long way, like it or not, and PCs are not the BSOD-every-hour computers they used to be. They've gotten a lot better in recent years, and this is why so many Macrumors posters are worried and yelling at Apple to get a move on with the faster machines.
Alex
Unorthodox
May 19, 01:37 PM
Umm... don't we already have a thread like this?
Now that I think about it, we do. Search is your friend.
I did do a search.
I didn't find anything.
So I don't know what your talking about.
Now that I think about it, we do. Search is your friend.
I did do a search.
I didn't find anything.
So I don't know what your talking about.
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