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SRQ posted:Mac Pros always used PCI-E, I have a 2006 downstairs that does. the g5 was just a mac pro with a better name
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"macbook" is still a really stupid name too
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Oct 8, 2018 22:07
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and processors so god-awful that they needed liquid cooling lmao. ibm was just throwing Apple the scraps from their server division and it shows.
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Oct 8, 2018 22:07
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it wasn't like some ricey HERE'S MY RADIATOR FROM AN OLD HEATER CORE AND MY OCZ NEON TINTED COOLANT water cooling, it was just a heatpipe. no reason to piss nails over it. every computer ended up getting one
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Oct 8, 2018 22:08
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Jonny 290 posted:it wasn't like some ricey HERE'S MY RADIATOR FROM AN OLD HEATER CORE AND MY OCZ NEON TINTED COOLANT water cooling, it was just a heatpipe. no reason to piss nails over it. every computer ended up getting one it had an active pump, aren't heat pipes passive?
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Oct 8, 2018 22:11
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i wonder if some team in cupertino is working on Apple Search ala Apple Maps
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Oct 8, 2018 22:12
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it had an active pump and the first-gen ones were literally outsourced to a car radiator company and leaked.
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Jonny 290 posted:MY OCZ NEON TINTED COOLANT also it was tinted, and it leaked a lot 
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Oct 8, 2018 22:14
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CPUs by IBM, cooling by VAG
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Oct 8, 2018 22:25
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ok i'm extremely wrong here and admit it lol just lol
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Oct 8, 2018 22:47
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yeah it was outsourced to Delphi, who makes car poo poo
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Oct 8, 2018 23:16
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the g5 was so bad that apple got desperate and prototyped a dual-cpu powerbook g4. that is, the insanely huge drawbacks of a dual processor portable were preferable to trying to make a g5 work
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Oct 8, 2018 23:26
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ppc was a disaster
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Oct 9, 2018 00:34
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 i'd proudly use this lmao
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Oct 9, 2018 00:52
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going from the g4 powerbook to the first macbookpro felt faster than the first time you used an SSD
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:going from the g4 powerbook to the first macbookpro felt faster than the first time you used an SSD we went g4 ibook to c2d blackbooks and god we partied
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Oct 9, 2018 01:00
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:"macbook" is still a really stupid name too playbook lmao
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Oct 9, 2018 01:48
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Mad Wack posted:i wonder if some team in cupertino is working on Apple Search ala Apple Maps this would br terrrrriblle
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Oct 9, 2018 01:49
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Shaggar posted:ppc was a disaster 
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Oct 9, 2018 01:56
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bring back PPC for the iPhone
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Oct 9, 2018 02:01
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the only company that didn't get totally dicked over by ppc chips was nintendo, who at least had the sense to not clock it above 750MHz.
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Oct 9, 2018 02:50
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i remember those articles going 'why did Microsoft just buy 200 G5 Towers, are they porting windows to PPC' and they were just using them as 360 dev kits.
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Oct 9, 2018 03:10
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cinci zoo sniper posted:yep, bangs (the ! operator name in their lingo)
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Oct 9, 2018 03:16
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Jonny 290 posted:it wasn't like some ricey HERE'S MY RADIATOR FROM AN OLD HEATER CORE AND MY OCZ NEON TINTED COOLANT water cooling, it was just a heatpipe. no reason to piss nails over it. every computer ended up getting one Jonny you made it so long, but finally it is your time "ricer" and it's derivatives are racist
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Oct 9, 2018 04:03
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jit bull transpile posted:Jonny you made it so long, but finally it is your time what if it's spanish rice or uncle ben's 
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Oct 9, 2018 04:34
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:also it was tinted, and it leaked a lot if you had one and the coolant started leaking the local apple store would just insta-swap it for a new Mac Pro. good times.
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Oct 9, 2018 04:49
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I was very happy to discover the game Paladins, because it was like the ONE fun game I can play on my beloved 2010 mac pro. I was happily playing a round or two every night, until I installed Mojave. Now the mouse doesn't work and the developer has dropped support for macOS because they can't make it work. 
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PowerPC was a solid bet in 1993. The 486 was dogshit compared to literally everything else on an IPC level, the Pentium was unproven and the first-gen was hilariously high power usage. PowerPC had a lot of big names backing it, extremely good IPC, and Apple got a controlling stake in the project by jumping in like they did. Until, I'd say, 2002 it was at least competitive with Intel and for a long period in the 90s it ran circles around it. The G3 powerbook, 1997, was mindbogglingly fast compared to even the best PC desktop. It also made for a far better multiprocessor system than Intel due to the lower power usage, a G4 450 dual from 2000 didn't use much. It all scaled quite well from lower voltage mobiles to high voltage workstations. This also had the added benefit of being able to get your chips from a shitload of sources, which kept costs down. This also meant the end user could get upgrade cards, which were a thing right up until 2003. I have a 1.8ghz dual processor card from some rando corporation downstairs I'm trying to sell. The G3 500 powerbook I have to my right makes basically no heat and can demolish a desktop Pentium 3 900. By 2004 tho lmao no, Motorola had left and IBM didn't give a poo poo about the desktop/mobile space and was just throwing Apple scraps from their server development. The last-gen G4 powerbooks shipping in 2005 were so far behind even Core Solo it was comical, and the only time I can think of where the GPU in a mobile outpaced the CPU. 1.67 G4 with a Radeon 9700 lol. Basically, it was a good idea but Motorola being poo poo and Wintel solidifying retroactively backed Apple into a corner. Had the ipod not worked out they probably woulda folded by 2006, or would have had to do the shameful of going wholly-hardware and abandoning MacOS. SRQ fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Oct 9, 2018 |
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Oct 9, 2018 07:16
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Captain Pike posted:I was very happy to discover the game Paladins, because it was like the ONE fun game I can play on my beloved 2010 mac pro. I was happily playing a round or two every night, until I installed Mojave. Now the mouse doesn't work and the developer has dropped support for macOS because they can't make it work. owned
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Oct 9, 2018 09:14
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Captain Pike posted:I was very happy to discover the game Paladins, because it was like the ONE fun game I can play on my beloved 2010 mac pro. I was happily playing a round or two every night, until I installed Mojave. Now the mouse doesn't work and the developer has dropped support for macOS because they can't make it work. paladins players get what they deserve
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Oct 9, 2018 09:17
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i own a game on steam, torment tides of whatever, that claims macos support but hasn't worked since 10.12.
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SRQ posted:PowerPC was a solid bet in 1993. The 486 was dogshit compared to literally everything else on an IPC level, the Pentium was unproven and the first-gen was hilariously high power usage. PowerPC had a lot of big names backing it, extremely good IPC, and Apple got a controlling stake in the project by jumping in like they did. Until, I'd say, 2002 it was at least competitive with Intel and for a long period in the 90s it ran circles around it. The G3 powerbook, 1997, was mindbogglingly fast compared to even the best PC desktop. It also made for a far better multiprocessor system than Intel due to the lower power usage, a G4 450 dual from 2000 didn't use much. It all scaled quite well from lower voltage mobiles to high voltage workstations. This also had the added benefit of being able to get your chips from a shitload of sources, which kept costs down. This also meant the end user could get upgrade cards, which were a thing right up until 2003. I have a 1.8ghz dual processor card from some rando corporation downstairs I'm trying to sell. ok
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Oct 9, 2018 10:35
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look man we all sperg out once in a while cut me some slack i have 90s computer opinions
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Oct 9, 2018 10:39
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its not hate its just really late 
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Oct 9, 2018 10:47
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Captain Pike posted:I was very happy to discover the game Paladins, because it was like the ONE fun game I can play on my beloved 2010 mac pro. I was happily playing a round or two every night, until I installed Mojave. Now the mouse doesn't work and the developer has dropped support for macOS because they can't make it work. You have only yourself to blame for enjoying a thing and wishing to continue enjoying that thing.
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SRQ posted:i own a game on steam, torment tides of whatever, that claims macos support but hasn't worked since 10.12. i'm not sure if this is still the case (probably, lol) but apparently fortnite for mac has/had a bug where the first match you play sends you to a black screen for a full ten minutes (you're still in the game as far as the other players and server are concerned) it works fine after that, lol
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Oct 9, 2018 13:45
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a triple-a game publisher can't be bothered to fix a major bug in one of the most popular games because the mac is so insignificant
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Oct 9, 2018 13:46
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https://twitter.com/macinteractive/status/1049577097872719872 lol good job apple
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Oct 9, 2018 13:50
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i forget the apple tv even exists as a product most of the time
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i forget the apple tv even exists as a product most of the time i have it and its ok. i like it because of apple ecosystem integration, by otherwise i imagine every dog in the yard has an equally capable streaming box for less
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