Reply to: imac - $ to £ this sucks..

[scooterscot]

My post was on-topic and I found you a 13% discount...

right you are, however upgrade options are not available as if you were buying new...

my options take me to £1700 or thereabouts... all in a few days work i suppose

[ratewhore]

thank you! Finally on-topic response!

My post was on-topic and I found you a 13% discount...

[scooterscot]

I got a Macbook pro a couple of months ago after last using a Mac in 1987 or thereabouts. I considered getting one from the US - there's a thread on here somewhere but decided against it in the end.

Get Parallels and there's no reason not to use a Mac now, it's a great bit of kit, very well made and lots of nice touches. I'm typing this on my new work HP latpop which seems to have been designed by a moron compared to the Mac.

thank you! Finally on-topic response!

[interested]

I’m seriously thinking of buying one of these imac’s 24” screen 2.16GHz looks the business and I don’t play games so do not need demanding graphics, just a reliable machine that does not have to download a new patch every time I switch it on. Really tired of windows now need a change.

So I’m all ready to make a purchase but why does the same machine in the in the US cost £350 less?!!

Sucks…

I got a Macbook pro a couple of months ago after last using a Mac in 1987 or thereabouts. I considered getting one from the US - there's a thread on here somewhere but decided against it in the end.

Get Parallels and there's no reason not to use a Mac now, it's a great bit of kit, very well made and lots of nice touches. I'm typing this on my new work HP latpop which seems to have been designed by a moron compared to the Mac.

[AtW]

Eh snaw, you're so predictable, better re-read on what latency is

[TheOmegaMan]

And how successful has SKA been using your real world measure. And given this success what makes your opinion more valuable than a dog terd ?

[snaw]

So my advice to you is to stop doing what you doing and get out for a change - maybe you will appreciate that there is real world out there.

HTH

ROFLMFAO

This coming from the 40 year old virgin who can be found posting here night and day on such illuminating topics as what he's just eaten for lunch. Priceless.

[AtW]

This is a very good illustration how the techies are clueless when it comes to real world where they fail utterly.

Quality means jack all if you can throw enough quantity at it - WW2 is a good example: with all the qualitative superiority that Germans had on the Ost front they failed because quantitative superiority trumps quality: naturally Soviet Union lost a lot more men and equipment but that was just enough to win the war.

Same thing with x86 vs Motorola or even vs Itanium that was supposed to replace "bad" x86 architecture - Itanic has got really nice clean architecture with lots of registers, so what if it is slow as a dog, backwards compatibility sucks, too hot etc - all that supposed qualitative superiority means nothing and despite billions put into it.

So my advice to you is to stop doing what you doing and get out for a change - maybe you will appreciate that there is real world out there.

HTH

[DaveB]

x86 vs PowerPC = VHS vs Betamax.

In neither case did the better technology win. Success for x86 and VHS was based on succesfull exploitation of the market and good business practices*, not superior technology.

*Good for the company practicing them, not nesseserily for everyone else.

[snaw]

Actually I knew about pipelines every since I worked on optimising assembly code for V and U pipelines of Pentium processor

Learn how to lose with dignity bogey, you need this skill when argueing with me

Actually I think Bogey has bitch slapped you, big time. Your problem is your instruction set lacks the ability to fathom when you've been beat.

You state x86 is superior architecture, you claim this based on the success of x86. You seem to be confusing quality with quantity (Or longevity, or sales etc).

Be an interesting world if we used that as a basis for judgement, many many things in life which we consider superior would by your logic be considered inferior, since they weren't the most successful or been around the longest ...

[scooterscot]

Success (that was not artificial, ie monopoly) is a sure sign of superiority.

Does Tesco have superior architecture in terms of logistics, etc? The results on the market seem to suggest that they do.

Nah they just have the best Operational Researchers, every time a product approaches low stock level the supplier is informed electronically, they just made the effort to discover which path would take the less time. The path that takes the least time… now I don’t like Intel architectures on the premise of the number complex simultaneous arithmetic calculations it attempts to perform, I prefer it simple, small moves, keep it simple keep it stupid. That will be the winning combination in the end…

[AtW]

Actually I knew about pipelines every since I worked on optimising assembly code for V and U pipelines of Pentium processor

Learn how to lose with dignity bogey, you need this skill when argueing with me

[bogeyman]

Is that right? So, then original Pentium M was much cooler (and with faster IPC) comparing to Pentium 4 only because of implementation?

Does it not occur to you that this implementation (deciding how long pipeline will be, whether parts of chip can be powered off) is actually inherent part of architecture, that obviously needs to be implemented?

Been Googling (err SKA-ing) have we?

I suspect you didn't know what a pipeline even was until 5 minutes ago.

Now, If you'll excuse me I have work to do.

[ratewhore]

Thanks but I already have a MacBook.

I want a compact, headless, powerful desktop Mac with desktop-grade hard drive and video. A product that Apple is steadfastly refusing to make at the moment.

That was aimed at the OP...

[AtW]

That's an IMPLEMENTATION issue, not an ARCHITECTURAL one.

Is that right? So, then original Pentium M was much cooler (and with faster IPC) comparing to Pentium 4 only because of implementation?

Does it not occur to you that this implementation (deciding how long pipeline will be, whether parts of chip can be powered off) is actually inherent part of architecture, that obviously needs to be implemented?