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« on: July 18, 2006, 09:27:29 AM »
Interesting. smile.gif

Peering inside the aluminum ball: Woodcrest, Conroe, and the "pro" Macs

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/har...e/promacs.ars/1
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« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2006, 12:54:00 PM »
QUOTE(kelly @ Jul 18 2006, 04:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Interesting. smile.gif
Peering inside the aluminum ball: Woodcrest, Conroe, and the "pro" Macs

I can't believe i just been reading 5 pages on the internet... completely.
That doesn't happen often.

Very interesting yes, let's just wait for another month or so smile.gif

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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2006, 01:38:30 PM »
Yes, interesting indeed. Thinking.gif  thanx.gif
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« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2006, 03:51:45 PM »
Well, my next purchase is probably going to be a MacBook Pro - my Ti is getting very long in the tooth at 4 years old and is at the moment sitting completely disassembled on my dining room table, halfway through a PCMCIA cage replacement (not a job for the faint of heart - http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/33.13.0.html if you want to see what's involved!)

It's CD/DVD drive isn't working either, I'm hoping it was simply disconnected by the service people who replaced the hinges recently!

Anyway - interesting speculation and those new top end machines should be screamers. My dual 2.5 G5 is only two years old in September though, and still very capable, so I can drool all I want but can't justify something new.

Wonder what they'll look like? Perhaps something in black? Smaller? Brushed aluminum but different? Can't see them making them in shiny white plastic - too many of us park our machines on the floor and they need to be somewhat tougher cosmetically than the iMacs.

It will be interesting, no doubt!
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« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2006, 02:05:22 AM »
Just hope my 9600 holds on til the second iteration of the desktops appears.

I'll bet they do what they did with the notebooks, offering a black version for more money.  smile.gif
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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2006, 05:48:13 AM »
QUOTE(Paddy @ Jul 18 2006, 10:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
...and is at the moment sitting completely disassembled on my dining room table, halfway through a PCMCIA cage replacement...

Wow... and why are you doing this?
I mean, what does this PCMCIA card do? and with what do you upgrade?

Kinda dumb to show this on a website rolleyes.gif


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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2006, 01:04:32 AM »
It has to be Woodcrest. Conroe dosent support dual CPU enviorments, so that would lock people into two cores. That is no good for the people the Mac Pro is targeting.
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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2006, 02:17:46 AM »
Marcel, my son managed to break the eject button/lever off the PCMCIA slot. I use it a lot when travelling - I have a PCMCIA adapter for my compact flash cards for my camera which is much neater (a little bigger than a credit card) and smaller than a USB card reader like I use with my G5. One thing that annoys me about the new MacBook Pros is that they use the Express Card 34, which is too small to use for a CF card adapter; the only card readers available are for other formats which are smaller than the CF card. I keep hoping they'll see the light and include an Express Card 54 with the next version...not that anyone seems to have made a CF reader/adapter for them either yet. (May have to just get another FW/USB 2.0 reader!)

As for the PCMCIA slot - no eject button = no ability to use the thing, since I wouldn't be able to get the CF card out of the adapter! The replacement cage was all of $19 - I hate to think what they'd charge to install it, since it really means dissassembling the entire Powerbook!

I got it all back together and discovered that the DVD drive really wasn't working - it must have broken in the fall that broke the hinges and I forgot to test it. The hinges I had replaced by PowerBookMedic.com - that required removing the display and playing with glue; not something I really wanted to try and potentially screw up!

So...had to overnight a drive from NewEgg (the nice new dual-layer Pioneer) since I'm leaving on vacation soon and installed that today, which thankfully didn't require anywhere near as much dissassembly!! Put it all back together and had a momentary panic attack when it made the required noises but had no video. Took it back to the dining room table and discovered I'd managed to forget to put the display cable back in! Whew!

I HOPE that this will keep this Ti going for a while now - it's been an expensive little beast over the last year, (though mostly due to damage inflicted by a less-than-careful 14-year old who is no longer allowed to use it anywhere but the dining room table) - the hard drive died a month after the 3-yr warranty was up last summer. dry.gif tongue.gif
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2006, 04:38:21 AM »
QUOTE(Paddy @ Jul 21 2006, 09:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Marcel, my son managed to break the eject button/lever off the PCMCIA slot. I use it a lot when travelling - I have a PCMCIA adapter for my compact flash cards for my camera which is much neater (a little bigger than a credit card) and smaller than a USB card reader like I use with my G5...

...Put it all back together and had a momentary panic attack when it made the required noises but had no video. Took it back to the dining room table and discovered I'd managed to forget to put the display cable back in! Whew!

...the hard drive died a month after the 3-yr warranty was up last summer. dry.gif tongue.gif

Oooh... ok... now i know what you mean with a PCMCIA card (sort off) smile.gif
That must have been a scary moment, finding out your screen doesn't boot anymore, i can imagine the feeling.
When i sold the processor and installing it at this guy's place, the computer didn't boot anymore... seems we still didn't press hard enough on the processor for it to snap in it's socket rolleyes.gif
Scary moments wink.gif
Sometimes i think they calculate things to brake down just after warranty, lucky anough, a harddrive is not to hard to get.
The PowerBooks are way to much attractive, that's why your son just can't stop himself playing with it.
In a way, it's all Apple's fault wink.gif

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« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2006, 05:59:36 AM »
I have had to do surgury on a number of laptops, although not the newest MACs yet.  It's always tense.  I've taken to storing the screws in staged bins so I can find the correct screws to put back in.  I also like to take digital pictures sometimes if there is something I'm not sure of putting back in the correct sequence.  Sometimes you have to retrace your steps and take it all apart when you've not made a correct connection.
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« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2006, 08:31:14 PM »
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I have a PCMCIA adapter for my compact flash cards for my camera which is much neater (a little bigger than a credit card) and smaller than a USB card reader like I use with my G5
eek2.gif Sounds like a lot of work just to get the images out of the camera! Didn't it come with a USB cable? I can't remember the last time I took the card out of either my or my wife's camera. I just connect it to the Mac(s) and they get sucked right off the card by ImageCapture and loaded into a folder I have specified. I understand that iPhoto can do some of that, also. I do have to keep up with two extra cables, but I've never had either one break an 'eject lever'! smile.gif

I'm sure you must use the cage for something else, of course. Congrats on doing the repairs!

gunug, flying and repair work have a few similarities:
You should never have screws left over after re-construction ( especially if it is a helicopter ).
You should always have an equal number of takeoffs and landings.
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2006, 09:35:36 PM »
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Didn't it come with a USB cable? I can't remember the last time I took the card out of either my or my wife's camera. I just connect it to the Mac(s) and they get sucked right off the card by ImageCapture and loaded into a folder I have specified.

doesn't that eat your batteries?  Tried the usb cable route one time, batteries gave out mid way.....never again!
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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2006, 04:33:58 PM »
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doesn't that eat your batteries?
Not that I can tell. Even with my 'old' camera, it doesn't take more than a few minutes to download the images. And I normally have only 4 - 6 at a time and that takes less than a minute. All my batteries are rechargable, also. There's always a set in the charger or in the a carrying case when mobile. My camera tends to use the batteries a lot faster than my wife's, newer one, mainly because it drives the lens out of the body or back in every time it's turned on/off.

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« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2006, 02:56:20 AM »
Then there are some of us that have hundreds of pics on large cards and need to pick through them instead of waiting for a camera to download everything. Much easier/quicker to load the chip and open it as a folder, then select those you really want.
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« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2006, 03:43:48 PM »
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Then there are some of us that have hundreds of pics on large cards...
I am not responsible your erroneous habits/behaviors! harhar.gif ( Many leave it at "He is not responsible." )

Are you saying that you only delete the images you want to download? Or that you never delete any of them? I think I'd rather doo that on my Mac, from my own HD/Folder than trusting them to a portable, easily stolen device powered by batteries that you apparently get little use from...but as they say...

"You can lead a horse to water, but that doesn't mean he can recite the Gettysburg Address!" Or something like that... dntknw.gif
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