iBox (the hardware)
Cloudscout
– January 14, 2008 10:08AM
iBox
Box mini
Box Pro
BoxBook
BoxBook Pro
The more the boxes change, the more they stay the same... or don't.
(talk about the hardware here)
YDD
– November 17, 2008 10:18AM
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NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
That's very, very interesting. If the GPU and CPU can access the same memory space without memcpy acrobatics..... that's back to the standard of the vector processing mainframes.
John Willoughby
– November 17, 2008 06:18PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– December 03, 2008 05:33PM
Well, I bit the bullet and ordered a shiny new 24" iMac today. Tomorrow I might order a MacBook.
Happy Christmas to me!
TL
El Jeffe
– December 03, 2008 05:59PM
What a journey.
Sounds like you might have some spare macs. :)
John Willoughby
– December 04, 2008 06:52AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Yeah, but they all have 'Stralian accents.
El Jeffe
– December 04, 2008 07:03AM
What a journey.
And do they have to be set on the desktop, up-side down?
John Willoughby
– December 04, 2008 08:33AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
And fed Vegemite.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– December 04, 2008 02:06PM
Only tourists eat Vegemite. I can't stand the stuff.
Madaracs
– December 05, 2008 05:25AM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
And that's just because of Men at Work's [one of the best bands ever!] 'Down Under'.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– December 08, 2008 05:19PM
Got my shiny new Mac yesterday. It was made very welcome.
OMG, OMG - 100+ fps in wow (even in Alterac Valley!!! I used to get 5-6 on a good day) with the graphics maxed out. Woot! I no longer pwn the graveyard! Bless your little cotton socks, nVidia 512Mb graphics card!
Guess I should think about doing actual work on it now though...
Not so wild about the new keyboard. Don't like the feel of it. Caps lock is a bit iffy. Still, no biggy...
Ah, shiny post-purchase warm fuzzy glow...
rino
– December 08, 2008 07:31PM
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
oh -- that sounds great T. I can't wait to upgrade. Stopped in at Apple store on Sunday drooling.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– December 08, 2008 09:49PM
Oh, Joy! iPhoto loads in about 0.5 of a second. On the iMac G5 it was oh, 20+
Haven't tested importing photos yet but I think my "operation go-slow: OSX-PPC" theory is gaining credibility...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/08/2008 09:49PM by Tony Leggett.
Dave Loudin
– December 09, 2008 10:07AM
Found where it's at!
Looks like 15 in Macbook Pros have nVidia chips with
bad bumps.
John Willoughby
– December 09, 2008 10:38AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Yeah, but it's a leap to say that they MUST share the same problem as the earlier chips. You KNOW Apple looked at these chips pretty damned hard before shipping more MBP's with nVidia chips. When my 8600M went bad, it didn't just glitch when the system was hot, it died utterly and I lost video out and had a black screen. nVidia's had some driver issues on Mac OS, too, and I blame a lot of this stuff on them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/2008 10:40AM by John Willoughby.
El Jeffe
– January 07, 2009 05:56PM
What a journey.
I totally agree.
Dr Phred
(Moderator)
– January 21, 2009 05:19AM
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
White Macbook s updated today to the new nvidea chipsets.
Jeff Cooper
– January 21, 2009 05:29AM
And still with Firewire. Nice.
Dr Phred
(Moderator)
– January 21, 2009 06:05AM
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
So you now get 2GB of RAM, decent graphics, DVI, firewire and still $999. Good deal.
bahamut
– January 22, 2009 05:35PM
cook orphaned the 2.0 unibody.
oh, anniversary came and went. Brown grenades clogging the hershey highway? doesn't seem like apple can get its products out the chute.
