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5th April 2007, 11:03 AM
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How many cores would you like, sir?
The new 8 core Mac Pro
http://www.apple.com/macpro/
Sigh! Makes my machine look even more ancient than it is 
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5th April 2007, 01:30 PM
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Helluva machine!
The only drawback I can see ... is that it runs a MAC OS and ADOBE software!
And that nasty apple thingy logo on the side kind of spoils the whole effect ...
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5th April 2007, 01:39 PM
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Helluva machine!
The only drawback I can see ... is that it runs a MAC OS and ADOBE software!
And that nasty apple thingy logo on the side kind of spoils the whole effect ...
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I dunno. I've been playing about a bit with the iMac we recently acquired (It's the only machine connected to a printer that has ink in it and I needed to print a letter!) I thought I'd play with the scanner part of the printer and thought it would be a pain to use. It was a doddle. Turn on the printer, select 'scan' from the menu, put photo under scanner and hit the 'Mono' or 'Colour' button and wait... didn't even have to start any program on the Mac, it just grabbed the file and opened the folder where it was scanned into ready for me to move to my USB memory stick to bring up here to my Linux machine.
Sometimes I wish I had the money..... even for a printer! My Lexmark Z51 is long in the tooth (I bought it because it had OS/2 drivers back in the day!) and it costs $50 to replace each of the two cartridges! I could buy a new printer for $50, use it till it's dry, chuck it out and buy another one! 
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5th April 2007, 01:49 PM
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I will admit to being overly disgusted with MACs due to the stunning number of crash reports and software failure reports sitting in my desk at work.
OS 10 is a bit better, but OS9.x and Quark Xpress and Photoshop were no more than a viscious plot of agony inflicted on millions of innocent workers in the print media industry.
I think I'd actually rather run Windows!
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5th April 2007, 01:56 PM
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I wil admit to being overly disgusted with MACs due to the stunning number of crash reports and software failure reports sitting in my desk at work.
OS 10 is a bit better, but OS9.x and Quark Xpress and Photoshop were no more than a viscious plot of agony inflicted on millions of innocent workers in the print media industry.
I think I'd actually rather run Windows!
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There's a PPC machine in the office where I do some work running OS 9. I've been thinking of putting a Linux distro on it because the browser is so old I can't check my GMail accounts. I need to zip up and move to my server about 3.5Gb of data first but while it's zipping the machine is unusable and stops dead before finishing compression. I started to compress each directory containing data one by one but was told yesterday that the company will close this month so gave up. I might ask for the machine as a parting bonus :-)
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5th April 2007, 01:58 PM
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5th April 2007, 02:03 PM
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Someone at the office is actually collecting old PPCs and PowerMacs in the store room. I suggested they give them away, or just dumpster them, but the response was, "No! They might be worth something!"
I just shook my head and walked away.
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5th April 2007, 02:04 PM
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Looks like a bl**dy good price! Unfortunately, we don't get those rebate offers here and shipping charges would soon put the price up. I can walk into a large store, pay near full price but get 10-20% points on my store card (Which equals cash to spend there) or go to a discount store and get 10-15% off off the price. I save time and train fare going to the large store though 
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5th April 2007, 02:08 PM
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Someone at the office is actually collecting old PPCs and PowerMacs in the store room. I suggested they give them away, or just dumpster them, but the response was, "No! They might be worth something!"
I just shook my head and walked away.
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The iMac in question (PPC, CRT) is worth about 30,000 yen today with the extra memory that was put in. Funnily enough, the first PC I bought here, with 5" floppy disks is worth about as much as I originally paid for it. It's a geek collectors item! We chucked it out a few years ago
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5th April 2007, 02:10 PM
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the guy at the local computer shop said that at the last intel bonanza he attended, they had already presented a time line for 16 core, and it should be by next year.
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5th April 2007, 02:11 PM
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I looked these up on lowendmac.com. Even the MAC enthusiasts call 'em "Road Apples!"
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5th April 2007, 02:15 PM
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Morning, Schwim.
Yeah! Harder and harder to keep up with the Jones'!
Think I'll just start leasing the dang things.
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5th April 2007, 02:17 PM
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I looked these up on lowendmac.com. Even the MAC enthusiasts call 'em "Road Apples!"
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Maybe they'll start to ferment and wild apple users will eat them and get drunk 
It's only 22:15 but I feel the need to hit the sack and dream a little, some of my crazy, unreal dreams again..... Sometimes I wake up more exhausted than when I went to bed, they take so much out of me they feel more real than the "life" I'm enduring now!
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5th April 2007, 02:22 PM
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If I could afford it I would go for it. Dual boot linux-mac is very interesting option. And 8 cores. hm.... that is maybe enough to run gentoo on it ... Well, now more serious. It's great machine and must perform great, but who needs such power on a desktop? Only a limited number of people AFAIK. I do not - therefore it would be too much waste for me - having 8 cores, while only one or two in work. Now I am perfectly happy with Celeron M 420 (1,6 GHz). Eight 3GHz cores would be up to about 15-times faster. I wonder what would I need it for...
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5th April 2007, 02:24 PM
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Alrighty then.
Just getting ready for work here, so I'll take the watch.
Go get some bunk time!
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