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KernelPanic:
Just an instruction set, like SSE or MMX. I've heard it makes a big performance difference.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: worker201 ---I'm not familiar with this Altivec stuff - anyone care to save me the Google search with a little primer?
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AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple Computer, IBM and Motorola (the AIM alliance), and implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4 and IBM's G5 processors. AltiVec is a tradename owned solely by Motorola, so the system is also referred to as Velocity Engine by Apple and VMX by IBM.

AltiVec was the most powerful SIMD system in a desktop CPU when it was first introduced in the late-1990s. Compared to its contemporaries (Intel's integer-only MMX, floating point SSE, and various systems from other RISC vendors), AltiVec offered more registers that could be used in more ways and operated on by a much more flexible instruction set. However, Intel's third-generation and fourth-generation SIMD instruction sets, SSE2 and SSE3 initially available for the Pentium 4 (and also implemented by AMD in its AMD64 architectures), has many more functions than AltiVec.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altivec ;)

WMD:

--- Quote from: worker201 ---My current iBook is 14":
http://www.apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=ibook&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC
And I will never own anything smaller than that again.
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1.  Wrong link ;)

2.  You must've got your current one refurb then, as the 14" has never cost $999 stock.

worker201:

--- Quote from: WMD ---1.  Wrong link ;)
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Fucking frames :grrrr:


--- Quote from: WMD ---2.  You must've got your current one refurb then, as the 14" has never cost $999 stock.
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Yes, that's right.  Refurb is the best way to go - I'll say that for cars as well.  They've actually been tested MORE than the brand new ones, since the refurbs have to go through a much more strenuous screening process.  Anytime you can get better quality at a lower price, that's the way to go.  Anyone who complains about Macs costing too much ought to check out refurbs - the price drops to competitive levels very quickly.

Just so you all know, when I said 'stock' what I really meant was '256MB RAM and no Airport Card'.  Hope that wasn't making anyone think rice.

WMD:

--- Quote from: worker201 ---Yes, that's right.  Refurb is the best way to go - I'll say that for cars as well.  They've actually been tested MORE than the brand new ones, since the refurbs have to go through a much more strenuous screening process.  Anytime you can get better quality at a lower price, that's the way to go.  Anyone who complains about Macs costing too much ought to check out refurbs - the price drops to competitive levels very quickly.
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I'll second the notion, as my PowerBook is refurb and, according to some programs, only a few weeks older than my purchase.  Yet I got it for $400 less than the original price, and $200 less than the identical "updated" model of the current time.


--- Quote ---Just so you all know, when I said 'stock' what I really meant was '256MB RAM and no Airport Card'.  Hope that wasn't making anyone think rice.
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heh :D

Welcome to iBook is rice, the volume goes to 11 here. ;)

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