What the?!?

You actually use your computer, too?

Willing to install programs....so long as they increase framerate :o,
Ray

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I love you, mom.

Man, I wish I had the $$$ to own both a Mac (for email, the web, etc) and a PC (for gaming)...but I don't, so the PC gets my money. Maybe someday...

**whispers to nin: "PowerBook"**

If you ever see the slightest possibility of claiming one of these things as a business expense, don't hesitate. For everything but games, this generation of PowerBooks have incredible staying power, and are all the computer most people - including many professionals - will ever need.

Windows for gaming, and the Mac for everything else is definitely my pick. Hands down (of course, to make this work, one winds up owning some mighty fine Windows beasties as well, so it's easy to see why one could grow fond of this approach).

I wouldn't be able to have all the Mac stuff I do if it weren't for work though. Then again, you could say that I might not be doing the work I do if it weren't for all the Mac stuff I have... weird

This comment was edited on Jun 30, 02:31.

You would buy a computer solely for e-mailing and accessing the inTUHnet?

Well, isn't that what most people seem to be buying a home computer for? Gamers notwithstanding...


This comment was edited on Jun 29, 22:37.

You would buy a computer solely for e-mailing and accessing the inTUHnet?

Caring more about price, performance, and options,
Ray

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I love you, mom.

Man, I wish I had the $$$ to own both a Mac (for email, the web, etc) and a PC (for gaming)...but I don't, so the PC gets my money. Maybe someday...

There is the theory of the moebius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop time becomes a loop time becomes a loop http://www.loopz.co.uk/

nightfend,

I wouldn't be surprised if you see these 30s becoming available for the PC as Apple has moved to DVI connectors in this monitor 'refresh' specifically to address this (all of their other screens will work with PCs now).

That said, the 30" requires that 6800 Ultra to drive all 4.1 million(!) pixels, and I'm not sure if an off-the-shelf nVidia part supports the "dual-link" madness Apple is talking about.. the one they're selling will drive two of those beasts at 2560x1600, which is freakin' insane!!

Also insane is the fact that even with my educator's discount, one screen and the card comes to $5,028.00CDN (although compared to a plasma TV of similar size, a bit of a steal..).

The real gem is Tiger though. Wow. The Core Images and Core Video demos simply floored me, as did Spotlight and Dashboard. It's worth watching the keynote just to see the stuff they can do now in realtime to video and images in the OS. They're all simply amazing technologies, and put to absolute shame anything I've seen on Longhorn so far in terms of integration and elegance -- I really wasn't expecting anything even close to what they showed.

One really interesting feature Jobs didn't spend any time on was the fact that they've integrated their XGrid technology into the OS. XGrid, for those who don't know, is essentially the engine that drives the Virginia Tech Supercluster(s), and it allows any Mac running OS 10.2+ to become a node in a supercomputing cluster with practically 0 configuration. In its most basic configuration, any time an XGrid screen saver activates on the network, the XGrid server sends that machine a work-unit, and it crunches on it until the user steals focus again, so the cluster can dynamically grow and shrink, and only free cycles are used.

This is, granted, largely useless to most people (at least at this point, because you need a reason to run these kinds of calculations, and plug-ins to tell XGrid what to do), but it's some incredible technology none-the-less, and it's very interesting to think that the OS will have such a powerful distributed computing engine built right into it. Add to that the fact that you can have 64 bit processes running alongside 32 bit ones, and I think people will be able to get some serious number crunching done with this thing.

At the very least, the version of PhotoShop that integrates all of that Core Images stuff is going to be really swank. Can't wait.

edit : Here's a link to that keynote, for anyone who cares:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc04/

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I read the thread, one person claims a successful softmod. I'd bet the outcomes are similar to 9500np -> 9700 softmod, i.e. not very good.

I don't know what the evidence is for the cell phones, but this page debunks similar fears about CRT computer monitors:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/vdt14.html

Oooh, 30" LCD Display from Apple. I wish that thing would work with my PC. Not like I could afford it.

Anyway, I upgraded firefox from 0.9 to 0.9.1, but now everytime I load it up, it says upgrades available.

It will always say that because the internal version wasn't changed from 0.9 in order to avoid breaking extensions.

uuuhhh.. ok.


Anyway, I upgraded firefox from 0.9 to 0.9.1, but now everytime I load it up, it says upgrades available. Clicking "click here" does nothing.

I uninstalled the old version first like they said to.

Anyone else have this problem?

did you know that the moniter sitting in front of you, not to mention your CPU, is emmitting radiation at you right now? better get off the net and turn off your computer before you get cancer.

EDIT: do you have any idea about the effects of flouridation? its a capitalistic conspiracy.

This comment was edited on Jun 29, 13:27.

Doctors lie just like about WMD or about HL2 is last september. You can pay doctors to say anything you want.

Listen to those Hungarian guys. They are poor and beleive in science. You know that a cell phone does radiate your nads. The American doctors take bribes to write up stories to protect the cell phone industry. It is the American way.

If you doubt, I have a webpage full of medical lies, mistakes, and date falsification for HMO's and Pharmaceutical company profit.

You might also wanna know that it is a fact that Radar Guns will give a policeman cancer if he holds it close to his body for long periods of time. There is documented cases of this.

Radar radiation, cell phone radiation.

You only have one pair of nads. You better protect them if you want a son to follow in your footsteps.