carl0s Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 So unlikely, it sounds like an April Fools or something. Don't know how I managed to miss this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Its true, and old news by now m8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted June 13, 2005 Author Share Posted June 13, 2005 Yeah I know. just quite surprised. Has to be a good thing! Say hello to faster (finally) and cheaper OS-X toys. I think I'll pick up a Mac-Mini-Intel when they arrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I should think it'll make Mac products far more accessible and their platforms a lot cheaper for people to try etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I think Apple have also been saying not very nice things about the power behind the PS3. Now whether thats to please there new bedfellows or what I don't know. Maybe they are going to release a console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 It was on the cards for a while, especially with the release of Darwin (the open source copy of Jaguar etc), but it always left off the GUI side of things... I personally will be buying it when it comes out, I miss my old G4 powermac, it was a lovely machine to use. Gav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I should think it'll make Mac products far more accessible and their platforms a lot cheaper for people to try etc. I've never properly used an Apple, wouldnt mind finding out what the fuss is all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Awesome machines granted but worth the extra expense? I always found that hard to justify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I found that jaguar was brillaiant for me... It had the nice to use GUI for SupraChick and the kids, and then had the UNIX commandline and power underneath which suited me down to the ground, but I bought an athlon as upgrade from my G4.. £2500 for a power G5 or £800 for the Athlon64 powerhouse I've got.. Gav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 We've just done got an Athlon. Not an uberPC by any means but I'm finding it a joy to use at the moment. 600 squid here and picked it up from an Evesham store saving myself 40 odd pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I went for broke at the time I bought my athlon... 2800 Athlon 64, 4GB Ram, 2TB of disk SATA, Radeon 9800, DVD writer (single layer), 48 speed writer. Can't argue with that for the cash, specially not given the price of the apple G5.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Flinkin Blip, thats some spec right there. We got a 3200+ but only 512mb of ram, 160gb of disk. Got a dual layer DVD rw thingy though and the gfx card (nvidia 6200 pci-e) hasn't stumbled at all yet. Where did you buy from? Looks like we missed out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 I bought all the bits from ebuyer.com Usually have some good prices, but it is all kit, so self assembly, but it is not very difficult. Gav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted June 14, 2005 Author Share Posted June 14, 2005 I went for broke at the time I bought my athlon... 2800 Athlon 64, 4GB Ram, 2TB of disk SATA, Radeon 9800, DVD writer (single layer), 48 speed writer. Can't argue with that for the cash, specially not given the price of the apple G5.. bloody hell dude, how many drives have you got in there? 10x200gb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzeh Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 I think it'll be a great thing, Apple machines are very nice but so expensive. Hopefully they will keep as stable as they are on powerpc when the switch over. (well relatively stable hehe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 bloody hell dude, how many drives have you got in there? 10x200gb? 8x250gb actually *grin*, crazy thing is I don't actually use it all, I must be around the 700gb mark only.. ah well.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 The best thing about Apples OS X is that it runs on my most favorite OS ever - BSD. That means it's stable, secure, can run most UNIX applications (including X11) and of course OSX itself. I can't wait to run it on a dual boot with Winblows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 4GB Ram, 2TB of disk SATA Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Sounds like for a company server, no individual in their right mind would ever use that much disk space unless maybe they were pirating DVDs or high-definition TV or something. I've used Mac software, not extensivly, there are some great touches but I've never seen anything that would get me to ditch my windows pc in favour of a mac, especially when it comes to gaming, the PC is in another league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 To be honest, I only got that much because I could afford it at the time, I had a budget of £1000, so I put the rest into storage, and needless to say, I do copy movies onto my storage system so the kids can watch them round the house without needing to use the original DVD's (And yes, most of the movies on my machine I do own, a few are downloaded, and the rest is tv programs I've recorded off my tivo and sky+) Also at the time, I was doing a lot of video editing for work, and if you have ever worked with uncompressed broadcast quality you will know how quickly it chomps thru disk space. Gav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 700Gb of stuff... Jesus. My MP3 collection which I've had for over 5 years is only 2.5Gb I know theres probably a lot of films and software there but that is a whole load of data. Gaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 700Gb of stuff... Jesus. My MP3 collection which I've had for over 5 years is only 2.5Gb I know theres probably a lot of films and software there but that is a whole load of data. Gaz. You should see the SANS I got sat downstairs. 12 x 72Gb in each unit, two units linked via fibre. = 1728Gb - total monster when it was made - over three years ago. It's not used now. I really ought to do something with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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