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Eug Wanker · Mar 3, 2005, 10:18 PM

Heh. Apple XRAID at Intel Developer Forum

"At its developer forum, Intel touts Apple's Xserve RAID storage system, which is powered by Intel chips. The Apple storage system is sandwiched alongside more familiar Intel customers Dell and IBM."

CD Hanks · Mar 3, 2005, 10:19 PM

OH NO

Aussiemac · Mar 4, 2005, 01:14 AM

According to Intel marketing materials, the Xserve RAID uses Intel's IOP 331 chip, a derivative of the XScale processor. The IOP chip, which is used in many storage systems, is designed to speed the task of shuttling data in and out of a computer system.

If it transfers data faster than the Power PC chip, then it could appeal more to large firms.

Superchicken · Mar 4, 2005, 01:18 AM

All Macs sold today have USB as well... that's also made by intel...

Xeo · Mar 4, 2005, 01:25 AM

OMG THEY USE IBM PROCESSORS DOES OSX RUN ON PCS???!!!11

just kidding. it's interesting.

OldManMac · Mar 4, 2005, 01:34 AM

Originally posted by Superchicken:
All Macs sold today have USB as well... that's also made by intel...

USB was invented by Intel. Its components are not necessarily made by Intel. Also, the iMac was the first personal computer on the market that had only USB ports for connecting to external devices, back when it was introduced in Aug. 1998.

Eug Wanker · Jun 11, 2005, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by Xeo

OMG THEY USE IBM PROCESSORS DOES OSX RUN ON PCS???!!!11

just kidding. it's interesting.

Superchicken · Jun 11, 2005, 08:37 PM

So wait a second... lemmie think clearly... I think the Xserve RAID was like... Apple's first attempt with Intel... the Xserve RAID is the reason we're switching processors! KILL THE RAID! AHHHHHH!

Link · Jun 11, 2005, 08:53 PM

The XServe Raid has had an intel chip since it first came out, now if only it had a firewire controller so you could use that sucker as a really expensive firewire HD

Superchicken · Jun 11, 2005, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by Link

The XServe Raid has had an intel chip since it first came out, now if only it had a firewire controller so you could use that sucker as a really expensive firewire HD

Cause I wanna spend a crap load of cash for a huge ass HD.

Spliff · Jun 12, 2005, 12:31 AM

Can someone tell me what the symbol is at the end of this thread's title? For some reason, Safari in Tiger has been incorrectly drawing symbols in the MacNN forum.

What I see is a blue diamond with a question mark inside of it right after "Inside" ("Apple has Intel Inside").

Thanks.

Superchicken · Jun 12, 2005, 12:33 AM

yah I get that too

brapper · Jun 12, 2005, 02:59 AM

it's a secret symbol. you have to get to 1846 posts before you can see it. I was just let i nthe club. It's glorious.

Spliff · Jun 12, 2005, 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by brapper

it's a secret symbol. you have to get to 1846 posts before you can see it. I was just let i nthe club. It's glorious.

But I wanna know now!

brapper · Jun 12, 2005, 03:10 AM

TOOOOOO BAD!

(it's not showing for me either, but I wanted to be cooooool.)

himself · Jun 12, 2005, 03:36 AM

Originally Posted by brapper

TOOOOOO BAD!

(it's not showing for me either, but I wanted to be cooooool.)

Here's the code to see the symbol:

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Command-Return...

himself · Jun 12, 2005, 03:38 AM

okay, okay...

in safari: View > Text Encoding > Western (ISO Latin 1)

Spliff · Jun 12, 2005, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by himself

okay, okay...

in safari: View > Text Encoding > Western (ISO Latin 1)

Thanks. But why does Safari keep switching to automatic encoding even though I have it set for Western encoding in the preferences? I have to manually switch it everytime I change threads or forums in MacNN.

Is this a problem with the MacNN forums or Safari?

tooki · Jun 12, 2005, 02:37 PM

It's neither. This thread was started before we switched to Unicode, so the text is encoded as ISO Latin 1. Any posts made after the switch are saved as Unicode. MacNN now declares itself as Unicode, so the browser is correctly rendering the text as such.

The setting in the preferences is only used for websites that fail to declare a text encoding -- tecnically, something that should never happen.

This was all discussed in detail in the Feedback forum, where any continuation of the text encoding discussion is to continue.

tooki