Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
News

Shuttle's foam crack could delay launch

Published on July 03, 2006

NASA inspectors have found a small crack in the foam insulation of the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, prompting mission managers to discuss whether to press ahead with Tuesday's third launch attempt or stand down for repairs. Read more

Intel Denies iMac CPU Rumors

Published on May 01, 2008

Santa Clara (CA) - Apple's announcement of its updated iMac line has fueled rumors that the company will be the first to use Intel's upcoming Montevina chip. Read more

Microsoft to open standard behind Office

Published on November 21, 2005

Microsoft took a step towards creating an open standard of technology behind Word and Excel in a move to appease governments and ensure data in documents and accounts can be accessed in decades to come. Read more

Hackers change tactics to crack open computers

Published on November 22, 2005

A major change in the methods used by hackers to break into computers has been revealed in a report issued by an influential research institute on Tuesday. Read more

Latest Reviews & Articles
System Builder Marathon: The $4,500 Super PC

System Builder Marathon: The $4,500 Super PC

Published on October 28, 2008

This month's System Builder Marathon spreads the system prices out even further to $4,500, $1,500, and $500. Is today’s $4,500 system really worth three times as much as an upper-mainstream performance machine? Read more

Can Your Old Athlon 64 Still Game?

Can Your Old Athlon 64 Still Game?

Published on October 24, 2008

We'd all love to upgrade every time a new piece of gaming hardware drops, but that's an expensive proposition. You think your Athlon 64 system is fairly quick--any chance a simple graphics upgrade can bring it up speed? We're aiming to find out. Read more

Benchmarking With Intel's NAS Toolkit

Benchmarking With Intel's NAS Toolkit

Published on October 23, 2008

We've been publishing our networked storage stories using Intel's NAS Performance tool kit as our primary benchmark. But before we went any further, we thought we'd introduce the software package and its individual components. Read more

Reality Check: 3D Graphics Take On Hollywood

Reality Check: 3D Graphics Take On Hollywood

Published on October 22, 2008

How close do PC graphics and effects get to the real world? Tom's Hardware takes a look and shows you the progress that’s been made so far, along with the tricks of the trade used by game developers. Read more

All the Reviews & Articles
Related Content
  Tom's Hardware Forums » CPU & Components » CPUs » Want a Penryn processor crack open an apple!
 

Want a Penryn processor crack open an apple!

Add a reply



Word :   Username :  
 
 Page : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Next
Previous
Bottom 
Author
 Thread : Want a Penryn processor crack open an apple!
 
Scotteq
Plays with his WEI
Profile: Honorary Poster
More Information
n°1815474
04-30-2008 at 04:29:27 PM

Last message on previous page:
I implied this pretty strongly earlier... But the Apple/PC argument seems to have center stage at the moment.


(1) Intel do not, will not, and as far as I know can not, sell AMD products.

(2) Therefore for AMD products to be used, Apple would have to drop Intel and pick up AMD as a supplier. This has not happened.

(3) The article clearly states that Intel is the supplier.

(4) The article also gives a X9** part number for this 'special' processor. This is an Intel part number. Not AMD.

(5) The article also says an Intel motherboard is being used. To my knowledge, AMD processors do not physically fit into current Intel sockets, nor are they compatible with Intel Chipsets.

(6) The article makes no mention of AMD at all, with the sole exception of the code name 'Penryn' used in one sentence.



THEREFORE IT IS LOGICAL TO PRESUME THAT THE WRITER OF THE ARTICLE DOESN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PENRYN AND A HARPERTOWN, and so this thread owes it's very existence to a typo.


This has been a public service announcement. We now return you to your PC/Apple Flame War.


Message edited by Scotteq on 04-30-2008 at 04:32:18 PM

---------------
The more I read the forums, the more I feel that a number of individuals would be well served by skipping their next GPU purchase in favor of a little "Stress relief" from the local 'Working Girls'"
Related Product

Register or log in to remove.
skittle
Profile: nimble knuckle
More Information
n°1815476
04-30-2008 at 04:33:07 PM

^thats exactly what steve wants you to believe...

 

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
300+ New Features!

 

It would be better to call it something like: "290 cosmetic changes, and 10+ new features that are useless to most users!"

 

For example... time machine... a lame rip off of volume shadow copy... fine fine its a good feature to have... except for the fact that you NEED a physical separate harddrive for it to work. Hell even bootcamp isnt free.

Message quoted 2 times
Message edited by skittle on 04-30-2008 at 04:35:35 PM

---------------
macgirlfriend:
"Hey I don't get you people, the people on insanely mac were so much nicer"
macgirlfriend
Quoteless...
Profile: member
More Information
n°1815477
04-30-2008 at 04:34:04 PM

jimmysmitty wrote :

Ouch I never saw that..... I know the one downside to the OEM Vista is its just the one version unlike the retail that includes all the versions and you only pay the difference to upgrad from say Premium to Ultimate.


Mac only come in one version

Message quoted 1 times

---------------
Sitting on the fence... what to do?
Harry-Plopper
Profile: member
More Information
n°1815479
04-30-2008 at 04:35:37 PM

jimmysmitty wrote :

Sorry. My computer dyslexia has been kicking in a lot recently. I miss words or read the backwards...it gets annoying. But you are right. Only problem is that not every older MAC will support OSX. It does take some of the newer hardware. But still the OEM versions should count as they are plentyfull and easily accessable from a online retailer.

Either way MACS are overrated. They are just PCs now that have hardware that can specifically run OSX and thats it.




I totally disagree with the Macs are over rated bit...

1.. When have you ever, ever seen a PC look like anything Macs have done....

2.. Have you designed something on a Mac against a PC, then ripped it out to print... Macs are with out adoubt the best piece of kit for Photoshop, Desktop Publishing and image rendering than any pc.. Its built for it...

All high end graphics are done on a mac in games... I know the guy that did Hogwarts Castle in the last harry potter game... It was designed on a mac then transfered to a pc.. the pc would have taken 3 times as long to do due to its old architecture background it has to keep with..

3.. Less Viruses than any pc platform

4 Take up much less space..

5.Office on the mac is just that much better

6 It aint got Vista... Bonus

7. The keyboards are just the muts nuts...

8. They had had soft power on before any pc ever did

9.. Earlier ones even ejected floppy disk..

10. The screens are to die for..

11. Less twits us macs than PC's and girls usiing them seem to be rich totty.. :)


Message edited by Harry-Plopper on 04-30-2008 at 04:36:15 PM
LukeBird
Profile: addict
More Information
n°1815481
04-30-2008 at 04:41:23 PM

skittle wrote :


For example... time machine... a lame rip off of volume shadow copy... fine fine its a good feature to have... except for the fact that you NEED a physical separate harddrive for it to work. Hell even bootcamp isnt free.


Time Machine is an excellent integration of back-ups into an OS. Is there anything in XP or Vista that is even remotely like it?
It's simple to use, incredibly easy to back-up from (I have done), very simple GUI and gorgeous graphics ( :lol: That's important to me.... :lol:). It's an ace bit of kit, but I don't like the fact that you can't do wireless back-ups unless you buy Apple's Time Capsule, which is a real kicker for me.... :sarcastic:

Message quoted 1 times
Message edited by LukeBird on 04-30-2008 at 04:42:37 PM

---------------
6000+ Stock, GA M57SLi-S4, XFX 8800GTX's SLi Stock, 4Gb Corsair PC6400 DHX, CoolerMaster 850W, 36Gb Raptor boot drive, 2x150Gb Raptor's in RAID 0 - XFX RAID controller & 300Gb Seagate. PowerBook G4 12" 1.5GHz, Go5200 64mb, 768mb RAM, 80Gb HD, SuperDrive.
LukeBird
Profile: addict
More Information
n°1815482
04-30-2008 at 04:42:01 PM

macgirlfriend wrote :

Mac only come in one version


Nope.
How do you run an OS X server... oh yeah!!! OS X SERVER
Then there is a multi-user licence.

Message quoted 1 times

---------------
6000+ Stock, GA M57SLi-S4, XFX 8800GTX's SLi Stock, 4Gb Corsair PC6400 DHX, CoolerMaster 850W, 36Gb Raptor boot drive, 2x150Gb Raptor's in RAID 0 - XFX RAID controller & 300Gb Seagate. PowerBook G4 12" 1.5GHz, Go5200 64mb, 768mb RAM, 80Gb HD, SuperDrive.
Grimmy
Profile: Forum Veteran
More Information
n°1815483
04-30-2008 at 04:44:22 PM

Mac's are over rated. They won't run without that special hardware that tells the software, Pssst.. its okay, this sucker paid enough, you can install the OSX.

Mac wants you to think different when it isn't different.

You have to pay extra for a floppy drive.

If Mac software wasn't so pricey... I'd be using it.

Message quoted 1 times
skittle
Profile: nimble knuckle
More Information
n°1815484
04-30-2008 at 04:45:41 PM

quick notes to the above post!

1. Likewise, when have you ever seen a mac do what a custom PC has done?
2. what are you stuck in 1997? This is a myth that has long been thrown out.
3. ... are you that dense? PC platform? OSX is a PC platform... I think you meant to say windows... which is technically correct... but it sure isnt because its so much more secure.
4. what?
5. what? office is better? office for windows and office for mac are the same damn thing.
6. but it has OSX *yuck*
7. I can use any keyboard I want
9. You do realize that apple rips everything off from the open source community right?
10. The screens have had so many issues that no series graphic designer would ever consider using one.

Message quoted 3 times

---------------
macgirlfriend:
"Hey I don't get you people, the people on insanely mac were so much nicer"
jimmysmitty
Profile: Ancient Poster
More Information
n°1815485
04-30-2008 at 04:47:08 PM

skittle wrote :

^thats exactly what steve wants you to believe...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
300+ New Features!

It would be better to call it something like: "290 cosmetic changes, and 10+ new features that are useless to most users!"

For example... time machine... a lame rip off of volume shadow copy... fine fine its a good feature to have... except for the fact that you NEED a physical separate harddrive for it to work. Hell even bootcamp isnt free.



What is this? You say that Apple copied Windows? No way...Apple so had this before and Windows copied it even though Windows had it a long time ago..........


---------------
http://valid.x86-secret.com/cache/banner/381014.png
http://www.alabasterslim.com/0/jimmysmitty.png
LukeBird
Profile: addict
More Information
n°1815486
04-30-2008 at 04:48:24 PM

Nice Apple-bashing there, I'm really impressed at how mature you lot can be... :sarcastic: :wahoo:


---------------
6000+ Stock, GA M57SLi-S4, XFX 8800GTX's SLi Stock, 4Gb Corsair PC6400 DHX, CoolerMaster 850W, 36Gb Raptor boot drive, 2x150Gb Raptor's in RAID 0 - XFX RAID controller & 300Gb Seagate. PowerBook G4 12" 1.5GHz, Go5200 64mb, 768mb RAM, 80Gb HD, SuperDrive.
skittle
Profile: nimble knuckle
More Information
n°1815487
04-30-2008 at 04:48:29 PM

LukeBird wrote :

Time Machine is an excellent integration of back-ups into an OS. Is there anything in XP or Vista that is even remotely like it?

 

Yes, volume shadow copy. It has been around for A VERY LONG TIME, and it doesnt require a separate hard drive... making Volume shadow copy much more useful for the general population

 

PS. Im not necesarily bashing apple, Im bashing apples PR campaign and the religious following they have created.

Message quoted 1 times
Message edited by skittle on 04-30-2008 at 04:51:18 PM

---------------
macgirlfriend:
"Hey I don't get you people, the people on insanely mac were so much nicer"
LukeBird
Profile: addict
More Information
n°1815489
04-30-2008 at 04:49:59 PM

skittle wrote :

Yes, volume shadow copy. It has been around for A VERY LONG TIME, and it doesnt require a separate hard drive... making Volume shadow copy much more useful for the general population


I'd never even heard of it...
Let alone know how to set it up...

Message quoted 2 times

---------------
6000+ Stock, GA M57SLi-S4, XFX 8800GTX's SLi Stock, 4Gb Corsair PC6400 DHX, CoolerMaster 850W, 36Gb Raptor boot drive, 2x150Gb Raptor's in RAID 0 - XFX RAID controller & 300Gb Seagate. PowerBook G4 12" 1.5GHz, Go5200 64mb, 768mb RAM, 80Gb HD, SuperDrive.
Grimmy
Profile: Forum Veteran
More Information
n°1815495
04-30-2008 at 04:56:36 PM

amdfangirl wrote :

BTW is a DRM chip thing



Oh...

Dollar
Ransom
Met

:ange: . o O (same thing, I just made it more colorful)