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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: cocoamix on 28 January 2003, 20:00

Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: cocoamix on 28 January 2003, 20:00: Dual 1.42 Ghz is top of the line.
Low end is a single 1 Ghz.
$200 price drops on all of them.
Apple Studio Displays have been price slashed!
A Cinema Display is now $1999, down from $3499.
There's a new 20" Sudio LCD.
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: ravuya on 28 January 2003, 22:05: Very, very nice. At this rate, it should be really cheap next month. (http://smile.gif)
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 28 January 2003, 22:15: I wish they would update the bloody ibooks already instead!
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 29 January 2003, 03:37: quote:
SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW); writes DVD-R discs at 4x speed, reads DVDs at 8x speed, writes CD-R discs at 16x speed, writes CD-RW discs at 8x speed, reads CDs at 32x speed

Let's hope this holds for more than a week!
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: hm_murdock on 29 January 2003, 06:53: wish they'd get a new frickin' processor instead of the tired, half ass G4. When that thing came out, they acted like it was the harbinger of a new age of computing. All it did was drag them down because it sucks.

GEE THREE FOREVER BABY! :D
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: ravuya on 29 January 2003, 08:33: quote:
Originally posted by Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
I wish they would update the bloody ibooks already instead!

They don't need to update them, just drop the price. Then I'd buy a couple.
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: trc3 on 29 January 2003, 10:53: quote:
Originally posted by Ravuya:

They don't need to update them, just drop the price. Then I'd buy a couple.

I think it's about time for an ibook update, I want to get a new one but im wating for firewire 800 and airport extreme.
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: psyjax on 29 January 2003, 12:22: quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy James: Mac Commando:
wish they'd get a new frickin' processor instead of the tired, half ass G4. When that thing came out, they acted like it was the harbinger of a new age of computing. All it did was drag them down because it sucks.

GEE THREE FOREVER BABY! :D

fook u

g4s own g3s hands down.
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 29 January 2003, 16:18: quote:
Originally posted by Ravuya:

They don't need to update them, just drop the price. Then I'd buy a couple.

Maybe that as well but i wouldn't mind a G4 ibook, i don't car about firewire 800, that would be a bonus, i wouldn't mind some faster RAM using DDR.

Then again i should get the 12"PB but i don't like its limitations like the lack of cache. But i might change my mind depending on what the ibooks get upgraded to.
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 29 January 2003, 16:41: You people really can't bitch about clock speed anymore. 1.42x2 = 2.84 GHz. That puts the aggregate clock speed above that of AMD!

If IBM's 970 has the same processing efficiency, and higher clock speeds, then switching to that end may be a good idea.
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: Calum on 29 January 2003, 17:29: who the hell was bitching about clock speed?
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 29 January 2003, 17:58: Jimmy James seems to be bitching about clock speed, and the G4 in general.

[ January 29, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: Calum on 29 January 2003, 19:24: yeah but he seems to be saying G3s are better, so i doubt that clock speed is the real issue.
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Post by: billy_gates on 31 January 2003, 21:36: fuck Motorola!!!!!! IBM is the biggest hardware manufacturer in the world, they must have done something right. RIght? I'm tired of Motorola holding back Apple. Hell, probably the only reason that G4's are gaining speed now is because motoral and apple and IBM are working together to make them faster. G3's all the way, BTW Jimmy, what are the G3's clock speed now, according to IBM?
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: Crunchy(Cracked)Butter on 1 February 2003, 01:44: More like Apple overclocking the moto cpu's at higher rates! (http://smile.gif)
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: ravuya on 1 February 2003, 04:59: I'll bet they could do a desktop machine, same specs as the CRT iMac, just without the display, for $200 cheaper. They really need to have an extremely cheap machine.
Title: PowerMacs updated
Post by: cocoamix on 1 February 2003, 05:30: Agreed. A prospective switcher can't even buy a new Mac for under $1000, unless you count the old CRT iMacs which they still sell.

Any machine with a G4 for under a grand would be a good item.