Apple relatively recently acquired a company that makes CPUs for
mobile devices like the A4 Processor in the ipad. Now I am wondering
if I am the only one who is wondering if Apple has any intention of
eventually manufacturing their own CPUs for their computers instead of
looking to Intel or IBM
On 24/10/2010, at 5:19 PM, Scotty wrote:
Apple relatively recently acquired a company that makes CPUs for
mobile devices like the A4 Processor in the ipad. Now I am wondering
if I am the only one who is wondering if Apple has any intention of
eventually manufacturing their own CPUs for
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Scotty daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple relatively recently acquired a company that makes CPUs for
mobile devices like the A4 Processor in the ipad. Now I am wondering
if I am the only one who is wondering if Apple has any intention of
eventually
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Bill Brown thunder...@mindspring.comwrote:
Wow!! Take a look at this stuff!! A little expensive for a
hard drive, eh?
Bill
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At 11:19 PM -0700 10/23/2010, Scotty wrote:
Apple relatively recently acquired a company that makes CPUs for
mobile devices like the A4 Processor in the ipad.
In ?2008?, Apple bought PA Semi, a company that *designs* chips.
Like Apple, they don't fabricate (make) anything - that work is all
Does anyone know what the max internal HDD size is for a G3 Clamshell
366 mhz/FW400? I can't seem to find an answer online.
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On Oct 24, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Dan wrote:
At 11:19 PM -0700 10/23/2010, Scotty wrote:
Apple relatively recently acquired a company that makes CPUs for
mobile devices like the A4 Processor in the ipad.
In ?2008?, Apple bought PA Semi, a company that *designs* chips.
Like Apple, they don't
On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:05 AM, Scotty wrote:
Does anyone know what the max internal HDD size is for a G3 Clamshell
366 mhz/FW400? I can't seem to find an answer online.
I'm not sure but I did have a 7,200 rpm 60GB drive installed into an
old 466MHz a few years ago.
JT
On Oct 23, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Vic vma...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 22, 3:48 pm, Arnel Tuazon a.tua...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/10/10 4:14 PM, Bill Brown thunder...@mindspring.com wrote:
Wow!! Take a look at this stuff!! A little expensive
At 5:07 AM -0600 10/24/2010, James Therrault wrote:
When the PowerPC alliance dropped the ball (inability to produce
faster PowerPC G4 processors for laptops), Apple jumped ship by
switching to Intel's new Core architecture.
Don'tcha mean G5?
The roadmap called for both the G4 and G5 to
I have an 80G in one of mine, but I think it might only be 125G??? I know
this is the max in an old G4 Tower built around the same time period... I have
followed them on ebay for yrs and never have seen one with higher then 120G...
-Original Message-
From: Scotty
On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:33 AM, James Therrault wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:05 AM, Scotty wrote:
Does anyone know what the max internal HDD size is for a G3 Clamshell
366 mhz/FW400? I can't seem to find an answer online.
I belive it's 128 GB I have a 100 in my Wallstreet 300.
John
On 24 Oct 2010, at 12:33, James Therrault wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:05 AM, Scotty wrote:
Does anyone know what the max internal HDD size is for a G3 Clamshell
366 mhz/FW400? I can't seem to find an answer online.
I'm not sure but I did have a 7,200 rpm 60GB drive installed into an
On Oct 24, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Dan wrote:
At 5:07 AM -0600 10/24/2010, James Therrault wrote:
When the PowerPC alliance dropped the ball (inability to produce
faster PowerPC G4 processors for laptops), Apple jumped ship by
switching to Intel's new Core architecture.
Don'tcha mean G5?
The
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To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:07:20 AM
Subject: Re: Apple inside?
On Oct 24, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Dan wrote:
I'm thinking by next summer/fall, Apple will be offering A4
portables
Well you are right that AMD does not do PPC CPUs you could not be more
wrong about the switch to Intel being a smart move. They only did it
to boost lagging laptop sales because they were stuck with the G4
because the G5 ran too hot to stick it in a laptop and they were
loosing clock speed
I've been in the industry for 26+ years.
It's rare to see a leap that's outside the bounds of Moore's law.
The geometry of semiconductors moves in small increments, 1/4 micron,
200nm, 180nm, 120nm, 90nm, 65nm, 45nm, 32nm you get the idea.
Most vendors have hit a bit of a wall in terms of
(snip) Well you are right that AMD does not do PPC CPUs you could not be more
wrong about the switch to Intel being a smart move. They only did it
to boost lagging laptop sales because they were stuck with the G4
because the G5 ran too hot to stick it in a laptop and they were
loosing clock
The thing was though the new PPC processor apparently made the Core2
duo look like a Celeron in terms of performance and I don't know many
Apple users who want to Use Windoze unless they absolutely have to and
there are emulators that would have run XP or the Vista virus on the
PPC platform if you
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of
decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass
high
tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon
needs
to read
On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
CPU magazine claims that next year a technology and logic
combination will
be released that will be 1000 times as fast and blow everything out
of the
water.
CPU has never let me down on a prediction despite the constant
On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
The thing is Motorola/IBM did deliver on a PPC
solution that had a low energy power footprint drastically lower then
anything Intel had and that Blew even the top G5s out of the water
but
it came a few months too late because Apple in their
On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Daniel Stewart wrote:
Ultimately Apple ended
up looking like impatient dummies and paid the price.
yeah, record-breaking profits, stock at stratospheric highs, a
complete rejuvenation of the platform and more Macs sold than ever in
their history.
Dell
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Subject: Re: Apple inside?
Date:Sonntag 24 Oktober 2010N
From:James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
On Oct 24, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Dan wrote:
Eventurally and partly due to the ALTIVEC squabble, IBM took over
most
Apple went with Intel in a premature attempt to boost laptop sales which was
their second best seller after ipods. The Cell procssor would have been perfct
for laptops which why the made one specifically for that purpose. I have no
idea how an xbox has anything to do with PPC based laptop.
On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Her use of the conversational alternatives reminds me that were rich
text to
be legitimized on LEM we could use text formatting such as font or
color to
intercut and clarify for those who are challenged by comparing the
Bruce I was talking about how things were perceived when it was
revealed that they would have had a far better product if they had
waited and your comments are misleading since the vast majority of
Apple's record sales and stock increases over the last several years
have been generated almost
On Oct 23, 2010, at 2:40 PM, John Callahan wrote:
Recently I had the temerity to ask what all the conversation about
IS the world about to change ? is and although I have read
thousands of comments about the subject failed to receive an answer.
Either no one knows or I have somehow done
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Richard Gerome wrote:
I have followed them on ebay for yrs and never have seen one with
higher then 120G...
120 GB was the largest physical drive made, although the software
supports a drive up to 131,072 MB (128 GB).
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The thing was though the new PPC processor apparently made the Core2
duo look like a Celeron in terms of
On Oct 23, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
I took a video project to the talent's home tonight. They brought
out an
early Intel Mac laptop.
The files were Quicktime. The small resolution overview played fine.
The
wide screen HQ files were only 1024 wide or so but played
On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:56 AM, James Therrault wrote:
IBM was supposed to adapt PS2 to run on the PPC chips
There WERE versions of that Microchannel machine which supported PPC.
Usually sold as part of IBM's AIX products.
Much as Apple's Network Server products supported AIX.
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Subject: Re: Max HDD size for G3 Clamshell
Date:Sonntag 24 Oktober 2010N
From:Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
I have an 80G in one of mine, but I think it might only be 125G???
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
I know, witch third party CPU upgrades 2 GHz is possible
without overclocking – altough I'm not sure if they aren't
overclocked by
default?
1.42 was the fastest chip which Freescale (successor to Motorola) was
making in the end.
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:07 PM, daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple went with Intel in a premature attempt to boost laptop sales
which was their second best seller after ipods. The Cell procssor
would have been perfct for laptops which why the made one
specifically for that purpose.
On Oct 24, 3:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
(in my case: one of each...I never use Dashboard, couldn't live
without Spaces).
That makes two of us. I started using Desktop Manager in Tiger before
Leopard even reared its spotted head, and was very grateful when Apple
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Richard Gerome wrote:
I have followed them on ebay for yrs and never have seen one with higher
then 120G...
120 GB was the largest physical drive made, although the software supports a
drive up to 131,072
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:56 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
There are some open firmware commands that are supposed to it it
but I was never able to make that method work for me :-)
The so-called LBA48 property may be added persistently (meaning it
is available at boot-time) on some desktops
On 2010/10/24 04:05, Scotty so eloquently wrote:
Does anyone know what the max internal HDD size is for a G3 Clamshell
366 mhz/FW400?
I put a 120 GB drive in a Tangerine iBook and it worked fine without
partitioning it.
Tina
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On 2010/10/24 00:35, Brian Christmas so eloquently wrote:
The end of this race is a long way away yet.
The finish line is constantly being moved, there is no end.
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On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:47 AM, schaf...@comcast.net wrote:
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but I still think that Apple dropped the ball with
regard to option to power sucking G5 chips for laptops. Neither IBM
or Motorola could do it but maybe a
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:56 AM, James Therrault wrote:
IBM was supposed to adapt PS2 to run on the PPC chips
There WERE versions of that Microchannel machine which supported PPC.
I think he meant OS/2.
Josh
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On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:56 AM, James Therrault wrote:
IBM was supposed to adapt PS2 to run on the PPC chips
There WERE versions of that Microchannel machine which supported PPC.
I think he
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:54 PM, James Therrault wrote:
AIX was in use on Macs way before the PPC days. I remember a developer using
it in 1990...
AIX is IBM's proprietary frankenunix, you're thinking of A/UX, which was
Apple's port of System V:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
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On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
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Subject: Re: Apple inside?
Date:Sonntag 24 Oktober 2010N
From:Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
The thing was though the new PPC processor
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com
wrote:
The thing was though the new PPC processor apparently made the Core2
duo look like a Celeron in terms of performance and I don't know many
Apple users who want to Use Windoze unless they absolutely have to and
I kind of figured that was the case or someone would have put a bigger one
in it I'm sure...
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Sent: Oct 24, 2010 3:38 PM
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Max HDD size for G3 Clamshell
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:06
Hey John,
Can it be done on a Clamshell???
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Sent: Oct 24, 2010 3:56 PM
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Max HDD size for G3 Clamshell
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:06 AM,
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Jeff Bequette jbeque...@tconl.com wrote:
What were the HDs for the Apple and early (Plus, SE, etc.) Macs?
The Commodore computers? The ADAM Home Computers?
I wonder because I have a Commodore Plus/4 and a C=64 as well as an old
ADAM Home Computer. I know
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Her use of the conversational alternatives reminds me that were rich text
to
be legitimized on LEM we could use text formatting such as font or
The only computer from Radio Shack that I remember was the "Tandy Apple Clone" ... Never knew they made others too???-Original Message-
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