Intel Mac comes very poor second to PPC

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The_Editor wrote:

Stick to your guns !!

buy the house and she will expect you to decorate it ....

And so on and so forth..  Never ending expense !!

or if you MUST buy the house, buy it on the proviso that a) you have a room for all your stuff, and if any decorating is to be done, she does it. I also find it helps to be a right mardy sod when going round DIY stores, but YMMV.

but make sure you get the Mac 1st !

I had to ditch a Mac IIci when we moved, but managed to get away with keeping the CPU box.

that reminds me - I need an ADB keyboard and mouse, and a Mac to VGA adaptor... ;-)

[Agafaster]

From the reviews, is clear that they are faster. 4 times... not in everything, but multithreaded applications get really bumped.

funny that ! hmm - lets take a ganders at the raw hardware spec for a moment, particular note paid to the speed of the CPU's interface to things like RAM...

Mac Mini G4 (1.67GHz CPU) 167MHz FSB.
Mac Mini Intel (1.50GHz CPU) 667 MHz FSB.

667/167 is 4 - the intel can talk to RAM 4 times more frequently than the G4.

I know its utterly pointless, but I wonder how things would look if the intel was handicapped to a 167MHz FSB ?

we could really do with a more modern FSB on our PPCs !

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mdma wrote:

"What makes an Amiga what it is?"

Commodore.

Hence no Amigas ever again since 1994.

I beleive Chuck D once said "Don't believe the hype".

B:-ollocks. I use OS4 most days, on an AmigaOne and it definitely feels like an Amiga to me. especially now I can drag down the (for example) Aweb screen, to check (for instance) a URL in an email on the YAM screen.

actually, your statement is doubly incorrect: Amiga was invented before Commodore got their grubby paws on it.

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heres a (slightly OT !) question, peeps:

how does OSX run on MoL ?
if you've tried it, state OSX version, Linux version, and hardware setup.

obviously the closest to my setup the better !

(which is A1XE, 800MHz 750Fx, 512MB 133MHz RAM, debian, kernel 2.4.26, Radeon 7000 32MB.)

[Agafaster]

Strictly speaking, since the AmigaOne
has 'the name' its an Amiga - it does after all have the sanction (FWIW ;-)) of the
parent company - such as they are :-P

if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

but I think its best (for the thread !!) that we should agree to differ! ;-)

[Agafaster]

I've always wondered how much battery power is used up calculating the batterypoer remaining

well, I know you only asked this in jest, but I'm gonna answer anyway:

fsck all: its just a quick lookup on a power curve based on the potential difference measured across the battery indicating the estimated Amp-hours left in the battery: big loads on the battery cause a voltage drop, partially discharged batteries also exhibit this. hurrah for voltage regulators, eh !