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gekko · 06-23-2003, 04:23 PM

Ok, time for the big wrap up. Stream is up, but getting pounded, as is everything else at Apple. Might want to wait a couple hours, it will start over at about 4 PM CST.

Panther - http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/
In the meantime, they showed off Panther and all the new features. Ships before the end of the year for $129. No surprise to anyone. There are a ton of new things added to Panther that won't make much sense unless you actually see them demonstrated in the keynote. The best OS just got better

Safari - http://www.apple.com/safari/
The final version of Safari is out. No huge differences, but it is out of the beta phase. Over 5 million downloads to date.

iChat AV - http://www.apple.com/ichat/
The public beta of iChat AV is out. Adds support for webcams, and audio chatting (I think).

iSight - http://www.apple.com/isight/
Apple released a webcam. Not just a webcam, the best webcam the world has ever seen. 640x480, 30fps. Steve Jobs did a fullscreen video chat with a guy in Paris. It's just sick. Of course, it's not cheap either. $149, so don't get it unless you're really going to use it. But like everything else, as time goes on, it will get cheaper. Though, I must say, if you see what it can do, $149 makes sense.

PowerMac G5 - http://www.apple.com/powermac/
Yes, the world's fastest personal computer

Motorola is really the reason the G4 chip barely gained any speed as the years went on, so Apple pleased all Mac fans by giving it to IBM, and damn they did a good job. 2.0 ghz G5 chip (3.0ghz within 12 months), with speeds comparable to 3.0 ghz Intel chips (will get to that later). Of course, it still supports dual processors

Apple finally updated the FSB, which was a big problem earlier. they basically had DDR RAM but a bus too slow to take advantage of it. Didn't make much sense. But they have a 1ghz FSB, surpassing the current 800mhz FSB used on PCs. Also has support for up to 8GB of RAM, AGP 8X, PCI and PCI X, FireWire 400 and 800, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, Optical and Analog audio In and Out, 4X SuperDrives, and a new aluminum case. Has 9 fans, and it still very quiet, quieter than the current G4s. Shipping this August. Of course, you weird PC fans probably wonder how powerful it is, after all, that's been the major downfall of Macs, right?

The G5 was tested with both single and dual processors against a 3ghz P4 and Single/Dual 3.06ghz Xeon. They tested them on both floating-point and interger calculations. The G5 lost in single processor interger calculations to both processors, but won in the other 3 tests.

System throughput

Single processor speed

The tests were done by VeriTest, using SPEC CPU2000 industry standards. They also used Unix for both, making the tests even more accurate. Here are the published results, but it's just technical mumbo-jumbo going more in-depth into how the test was performed. http://www.veritest.com/clients/repo...erformance.pdf

And of course, there were other tests.

06-23-2003, 04:23 PM	#13
gekko Knight gekko is offline Now Playing: Posts: 3,890	Ok, time for the big wrap up. Stream is up, but getting pounded, as is everything else at Apple. Might want to wait a couple hours, it will start over at about 4 PM CST. Panther - http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/ In the meantime, they showed off Panther and all the new features. Ships before the end of the year for $129. No surprise to anyone. There are a ton of new things added to Panther that won't make much sense unless you actually see them demonstrated in the keynote. The best OS just got better Safari - http://www.apple.com/safari/ The final version of Safari is out. No huge differences, but it is out of the beta phase. Over 5 million downloads to date. iChat AV - http://www.apple.com/ichat/ The public beta of iChat AV is out. Adds support for webcams, and audio chatting (I think). iSight - http://www.apple.com/isight/ Apple released a webcam. Not just a webcam, the best webcam the world has ever seen. 640x480, 30fps. Steve Jobs did a fullscreen video chat with a guy in Paris. It's just sick. Of course, it's not cheap either. $149, so don't get it unless you're really going to use it. But like everything else, as time goes on, it will get cheaper. Though, I must say, if you see what it can do, $149 makes sense. PowerMac G5 - http://www.apple.com/powermac/ Yes, the world's fastest personal computer Motorola is really the reason the G4 chip barely gained any speed as the years went on, so Apple pleased all Mac fans by giving it to IBM, and damn they did a good job. 2.0 ghz G5 chip (3.0ghz within 12 months), with speeds comparable to 3.0 ghz Intel chips (will get to that later). Of course, it still supports dual processors Apple finally updated the FSB, which was a big problem earlier. they basically had DDR RAM but a bus too slow to take advantage of it. Didn't make much sense. But they have a 1ghz FSB, surpassing the current 800mhz FSB used on PCs. Also has support for up to 8GB of RAM, AGP 8X, PCI and PCI X, FireWire 400 and 800, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme, Optical and Analog audio In and Out, 4X SuperDrives, and a new aluminum case. Has 9 fans, and it still very quiet, quieter than the current G4s. Shipping this August. Of course, you weird PC fans probably wonder how powerful it is, after all, that's been the major downfall of Macs, right? The G5 was tested with both single and dual processors against a 3ghz P4 and Single/Dual 3.06ghz Xeon. They tested them on both floating-point and interger calculations. The G5 lost in single processor interger calculations to both processors, but won in the other 3 tests. System throughput Single processor speed The tests were done by VeriTest, using SPEC CPU2000 industry standards. They also used Unix for both, making the tests even more accurate. Here are the published results, but it's just technical mumbo-jumbo going more in-depth into how the test was performed. http://www.veritest.com/clients/repo...erformance.pdf And of course, there were other tests.