Posted on 10/21/2005 5:41:50 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Starting today you can order a Power Macintosh G5 which will display dual processor bars inside the task manager with still only one processor on the motherboard how does that work?
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Hopefully they'll stop doing this so much to their customers once the intel macs come out next year..... but I doubt it.
Did you even look at the pictures?
Don't have to. You asked about Apple creating proprietary designs. I gave you the reason they do such things: it ensures stability because Apple created the configuration, and therefore they only have to worry about their own designs and devices.
I think Halfmanhalfamazing is referring to the non standard power cord.
It's square, nonstandard, and you'd have to get a replacement from Apple.
And for the record I don't think this is a big deal at all. I mean how often do you lose power cords? And what ever could damage your power cord would completely hork your mac anyway.
Being a stereotypical Mac user, I never look at the female end, but now that you bring it to my attention, I should probably check to see if it's any different from the one on the back of my G5.
Lemme just pull the cord out and have a look at it here and see if its any diffe...
Take note that the new PowerMacs also have twin Gigabit Ethernet ports (with Jumbo-frame support), now support workstation-level graphics cards, and ECC RAM. I suspect they looked over everything on the box to upgrade it to "workstation-class" toughness.
A long time ago during my life as a miserable college student I zotted about 20 students. The setting; I was working into the early morning at the computer lab. I was fading in and out of consciousness. (no, not what you think, I was an engineer and this, unfortunately, was due to lack of sleep)I shook my head a few times, leaned back in the chair, and stretched my arms back. I then straightened my legs out to give them a good stretch when, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz
All the computers in the lab went down. I hit some power box on the floor with my toes and cut the power. I knew it was my fault but I just got up saying, "Hey! who did that!" and then stealthily made my escape. At least I think I was stealthy. I was pretty groggy back then.
In alot of cases that's not the case.
For example, there are some macs that will work with a standard ATX power supply. All you need is one or two barrel connectors to re-work the plug/wires.
Dell is also very proprietary. And in their case it's the same. Stability has very little to do with the equasion. It's more about trapping the customer.
Yes... well, I was.(someone corrected me on it)
I've had a problem with apple's non-standard designs for many moons. When I saw the picture it immediately struck that cord.
Though that cord is a standard, it's more of a server-centric cord type. So no astronomical pricing on this one.
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