Limbaugh could sell new Mac

The Hill ^ | 1/26/05 | David Hill

[antiRepublicrat]

And it still won't come close to an overclocked P4.

It depends on the application. Games depend a lot on SIMD instructions and floating point math. These are areas that the PPC970 absolutely excels at, easily enough to be worth double the clock speed compared to a P4, especially since the P4 is hindered by a dearth of registers (as noted by the Unreal Tournament programmers). I'll grant the absolute speed crown if you want to talk integer performance or switch your reference chip to an AMD Opteron, but Intel is lacking.

[pageonetoo]

you don't have an argument, just a load of ...what;s found behind these...

Go fix your pc, so you can play some games... I'll be using my Mac!

[Dysfunctional]

MAC

MAC

MACS

On the other hand:
Dell does well because it offers a reasonable bang for its buck.

But they are still living on their reputation of good service and false advertising. The latest of which is the ad suggesting you get some homegrown chap as an affable, well speaking service dude. In reality you get a not so easy to understand Delhi dude/dudette that reads from a cue card and cuts you off.

[Paulus Invictus]

It does not include a monitor, keyboard or mouse. Nevertheless, it's only 6 inches square by two inches high and would be great in my brief case, with a nice plasma 15 inch monitor and a mouse. I could get some more sales that way, perhaps. Snow them with the small computer and daze them with the screen showing my CD loaded with lustrous products. I can dream anyway...

[Dysfunctional]

The problem with Unreal Tournament is Direct X; but open gl suffers no such problems.

Half-Life 2 is direct x and is cleaner still; but Carmack's Doom 3 engine may be the best game engine todate... and guess what, because of the inability to optimize the efficient and high quality lighting effects of the new Carmack engine to the coding for MAC, there will be no MAC Doom 3 version.

Pay more and stick to email for the MAC.

[N3WBI3]

Dell survives because people think they get a good bang for the buck. The fact you would have to go out and buy a nice video card to play games shows that..

[Dysfunctional]

You can order a Dell with a high end card.

[N3WBI3]

At which point it is no longer the PC people can point at and say 'its so much cheeper than a mac'..

[antiRepublicrat]

and guess what, because of the inability to optimize the efficient and high quality lighting effects of the new Carmack engine to the coding for MAC, there will be no MAC Doom 3 version.

Oh no, does this mean that this is a hoax?

OpenGL is one of the core systems of OS X, that's what you write to.

[antiRepublicrat]

You can order a Dell with a high end card.

A better video card isn't even an option for the cheap $400 Dell. But speaking of upgrade options, let's get that cheap Dell up to the abilities of the $500 Mac mini.

• $71 - Windows XP Pro (to get closer to OS X)
• $53 - Combo drive
• $71 - CD/DVD software to go with the drive (to match the included Mac software)
• $23 - Decent audio
• $27 - Firewire card
• $44 - WordPerfect Office 12 (to compare to Appleworks)

That $400 computer just went to $689, easily enough to get a keyboard and 17" monitor for your Mac mini. And you haven't even bought a decent video card for the Dell yet.

[RS]

"What's with all those UNIX admin jobs I see on Monster.com?

and the overwheming majority of the real world schools don't teach UNIX programming

Mine did. Acutally, most do, except those sponsored by Microsoft.
"

??? are you under the impression that most colleges in this world are only teaching some facet of computer programming ? If our schools are giving veterinarian or soil hydraulics engineering students coerces in UNIX programing that would explain a lot of why our educational system is screwed up.

[antiRepublicrat]

are you under the impression that most colleges in this world are only teaching some facet of computer programming ?

Any decent school will teach UNIX as it's still a very large part of our computer infrastructure, unless all you plan to do upon graduation is fix home computers and play help desk in a company. As I said, my school had dual Linux/Windows systems in the labs for teaching both.

If our schools are giving veterinarian or soil hydraulics engineering students coerces in UNIX programing that would explain a lot of why our educational system is screwed up.

Interesting you mention engineering, since UNIX is still extremely popular in that field.

[RS]

"As I said, my school had dual Linux/Windows systems in the labs for teaching both."


... ah, you DO understand that the overwhelming majority of professions in this world, although many use computers, need absolutely NO knowledge whatsoever about how they work or what type of programming they require, don't you ?

[Dysfunctional]

Sorry, what I meant is that the normal Id-Activision publication will not be done.

Activision will not put its creative label to the game because it will not offer the same experience as the PC game.

The game was delayed quite a bit because it would not really play properly on the obviously slower MAC systems.

For the reasons I stated above. The game is being released by a different publisher and has been recently shown in demo form.

Aspyr Media, Inc. is the Publisher.

[Dysfunctional]

First of all, I would not buy a cheapo Dell; but even less would I buy a MAC that does even less.

Just to question your additions: Ditch the WordPerfect/DVD software 'cause you get simply download freeware that works fine. Secondly, even-though I personally have an audigy 2 with a creative megaworks 7.1 system, most people are happy with their onboard sound. So, even that addition is a little shaky. For a system like that, firewire isn't even needed.

So, your additions are really brought to question.

And then again, the real difference between XP pro and the Home addition are aspects that are generally not used.

So, the Dell gives you a simple rig that can adapt to most other applications and hardware while the MAC gives you browsing and email with hope that your favorite game finally makes it to the MAC even-though the experience will not be the same.

[ThinkDifferent]

Activision will not put its creative label to the game because it will not offer the same experience as the PC game.

Once again, you have no idea what you're talking about. It's very common for Mac versions of games to have different publishers, and no, it's not because they're not as good as the PC versions.

[Dysfunctional]

Activision has been Id's publisher since Quake 2.

They were announced as the publisher of Doom 3 for MAC and were on board until it was apparent that there were going to be extensive delays due to optimization problems and that the game was not going to be the same experience.

This came out at Quakecon a year ago.

[CurlyDave]

Does anyone know if there is a browser for the I-Book that will handle popup blockers?

I comes with Safari, which is Apple's browser. I am using it right now, and not only does it block popups, it has tabbed browsing--once you have tried that, you will never go back.

[Lovergirl]

I love my select number bed too. Just got it b4 Christmas.
It has really helped my arthritic body alot.

[Swordmaker]

And that's the problem...I like my right-click drop-down menus, and I don't want to have to use both hands to get them.

Then what is the problem? The Mac Mini does not come with a one button mouse... it comes with a NO button, NO mouse. Use the two button you already have... it will work fine.