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AMD Opteron can do it 3,371 Views / 49 Replies  
If the 1.6Ghz AMD opteron 64-bit processor can best the 3Ghz P4, then there is a good chance the 1.8Ghz 970 can as well. FWIW, the 1.6Ghz Inel Banias cpu (new P3-M chip in centrino notebooks) also...
Posted by katorga, on May 6, 2003 at 12:45 AM, in Mac Desktops
Poll: tempted 3,214 Views / 72 Replies  
I'd be very very tempted to go with a dual 970, nice radeon card and 23" display, but I would really rather have a 15" or 17" 970 powerbook and 23" display.
Posted by katorga, on May 6, 2003 at 12:40 AM, in Mac Desktops
Bah humbug 4,881 Views / 97 Replies  
I do wish Apple would bite the bullet and build x86 macs. That would solve the speed argument and lower costs. OSX started out as NeXTstep which ran natively on the 486. OSX is an easy port to x86...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 29, 2003 at 05:25 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Apple or IBM 2,200 Views / 49 Replies  
Apple or IBM are the only companies that I can think of that still build fairly solid laptops, and I'd give IBM the nod over Apple in terms of build quality and sturdiness.

I have not been...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 27, 2003 at 02:01 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Poll: Intel is going to go Ghz-crazy 1,394 Views / 11 Replies  
If the AMD 64bit opteron performs as well as it seems to in early benchmarks, Intel will go clockspeed crazy to try and keep users on 32-bit Xeon servers.

I expect Intel to be at 4Ghz by...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 26, 2003 at 04:58 PM, in Mac Desktops
Some laptops work has provided me 2,200 Views / 49 Replies  
Old IBM 600 (butterfly), broken keyboard, dead backlight

IBM N50 (AIX laptop), cracked LCD

Compaq M700, bad soldered on 64MB RAM, contant parity errors.

Replacement M700, same problem
...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 26, 2003 at 12:01 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Its an appliance 2,626 Views / 79 Replies  
I have a P4 2.4Ghz box, an Athlon 1.6Ghz, a P4 1.7, and an Athlon 1Ghz, a 650Mhz P3 Laptop. Some are my homebuilds others are work supplied. All by the laptop are faster than my TiBook 800 by a...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 25, 2003 at 01:44 PM, in Mac Notebooks
XP? 1,461 Views / 27 Replies  
My 9 mo. old titanium PB is my first mac since the Quadra line, and OS X is the only reason I even considered an Apple computer. If Apple had not gone the unix route then I probably would still not...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 24, 2003 at 07:09 AM, in Mac Notebooks
15.4" NOW! 1,419 Views / 16 Replies  
A new 15" pbook will not cut into 17" sales. Not everyone wants to pay $3K for a 17". Not everyone wants a laptop as large as the 17" (or as small as the 12").


The numbre of consumers who say,...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 24, 2003 at 06:45 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Ummm 753 Views / 7 Replies  
Actually I don't one stop shop at Apple stores. I primarily use PCs. I have two Samsung 19" panels on my Linux box. They have 25ms response time, but the ghosting makes them useless for DVD or...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 23, 2003 at 02:02 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Bah humbug 1,606 Views / 30 Replies  
"What can I say, windows is just a more stable, superior OS"

Windows is junk, but it does have a very good selection of apps and games compared to OS X. But windows in 2005 is going to be much...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 23, 2003 at 01:43 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Render farms 814 Views / 4 Replies  
I'm a unix sysadmin so my needs are different, but I use PC's for desktops and a Mac for my mobile solution.

What I do is offload my processor intensive (and platform independent) tasks to two...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 23, 2003 at 02:00 AM, in Mac Notebooks
iCurve rules! 753 Views / 7 Replies  
The icurve is one of the most useful things I have got. Its perfect for powerbooks and really results in a nice solution for using a notebook as a desktop replacement. I use mine with my TiBook and...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 23, 2003 at 01:49 AM, in Mac Notebooks
970 ASAP 1,315 Views / 26 Replies  
Personally, I think single and dual 970 powerbooks are necessary as soon as possible just to remain competitive. The laptop market is one area where Apple can really entice new customers to "switch"....
Posted by katorga, on Apr 21, 2003 at 12:08 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Its a write off 1,542 Views / 29 Replies  
As a required education expense I think the purchase would be a tax write off. Do a 1 year dull depreciation on it. Also, if you could figure a way to add it to a student loan it the interest might...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 20, 2003 at 10:51 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Bah! 3,169 Views / 50 Replies  
Alienware uses off the shelf antec cases just like 90% of the PC mod market. There is nothing 'cool' about that.

Personally, I don' like Apple's desktop or LCD panel "acrylic" styles, but nothing...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 20, 2003 at 02:14 PM, in Mac Desktops
Notebooks get more popular 1,636 Views / 20 Replies  
If widescale wireless access ever becomes a reality, then the desktop will become and endangered species.

I'd like to see a laptop/desktop hybrid solution: 1-2 970 class CPU's in the laptop, 2-4Gb...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 20, 2003 at 03:37 AM, in Mac Notebooks
powerbook is fine 1,636 Views / 20 Replies  
I don't do video editing, but I do a LOT of code compiling. I find my powerbook Ti 800 is fine for 95% of what I do.

For desktop use I bought an iCurve laptop stand to lift the powerbook out of...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 19, 2003 at 06:32 PM, in Mac Notebooks
800MHZ 2,968 Views / 36 Replies  
800Mhz P4 chipsets are already announced and the usual benchmark sites are showing them roughly even with the old 533Mhz bus boxes running at equal CPU clocks (3.06Ghz). The 800Mhz bus dual channel...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 17, 2003 at 12:23 AM, in Mac Desktops
All are host 1,017 Views / 7 Replies  
To be honest I have not had a laptop that was not uncomfortably hot in the lap since my ancient PB520C '040. That covers PC's as well as Macs.

I actually sent a Dell laptop back within 5 hours...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 15, 2003 at 11:24 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Sizzle when 5,019 Views / 70 Replies  
Descibe when the sizzle occurs. All the time or during specific actions?

I have a TiBook 800Mhz and notice a distinct squeal or sizzle noise when the built in ethernet or modem are transfering...
Posted by katorga, on Apr 14, 2003 at 11:07 PM, in Mac Notebooks
 
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