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8295455 Send message Joined: 16 Dec 05 Posts: 53 Credit: 390 RAC: 0 |
Now that the Intel Macs are announced, when will we see BOINC for OS X as a universal binary? ID: 229864 ·  |
 AthlonRob  Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 378 Credit: 7,041 RAC: 0 
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Now that the Intel Macs are announced, when will we see BOINC for OS X as a universal binary? I do believe they're working on that issue right now. However, I think we still have a month or so before the new Macintoshes are available... Rob ID: 229871 · |
Shaktai  Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 211 Credit: 259,752 RAC: 0
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Now that the Intel Macs are announced, when will we see BOINC for OS X as a universal binary? New iMacs are availble now (though supply may be limited due to demand). The new MacBook Pro (Powerbook replacement) in February sometime. Both use the new low power dual-core intel chips. Applestore (website) shows shipping in 1-3 days for the iMacs and just "February sometime" for the MacBook Pro.  Team MacNN - The best Macintosh team ever. ID: 229918 · |
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Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 19 Jul 00 Posts: 3898 Credit: 1,158,042 RAC: 0
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Not only will you have to see the BOINC Client as a universal binary you will also have to see the science applications too ... at least for the near future Steve did it to you and I big time ... worse, we will no longer see the advantages of Altivec for Einstein@Home (for example)... ID: 230001 · |
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Shaktai Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 211 Credit: 259,752 RAC: 0
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Not only will you have to see the BOINC Client as a universal binary you will also have to see the science applications too ... at least for the near future Steve did it to you and I big time ... worse, we will no longer see the advantages of Altivec for Einstein@Home (for example)... Can't blame it all on Steve. IBM didn't exactly do their part in meeting expectations. It was a business decision, and maybe a good one considering the lack of progress from IBM and Moto. Only time will tell. Still, while we loose altivec, the new development tools should help make it possible to take advantage of the Intel chip, and the upsides to Intel's new technology as well, not the least of which is lower power consumption. At least we can hope. Life is always a compromise, but we still have OS-X and it keeps getting better. Team MacNN - The best Macintosh team ever. ID: 230038 · |
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Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 19 Jul 00 Posts: 3898 Credit: 1,158,042 RAC: 0
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Perhaps... But, Apple has always competed on being "better". The only diffence between buying a Dell with the "duo" chip and an Apple will be OS-X ... not a compelling argument to me ... Science performance will be equal, why spend the extra dollars? As a matter of fact, AMD is even more attractive now ... The PowerPC chips were never about performance per watt ... performance pure and simple ... Its like buying a formula 1 race car and complaining about its gas mileage ... ID: 230134 · |
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8295455 Send message Joined: 16 Dec 05 Posts: 53 Credit: 390 RAC: 0 |
Here's how I see it: Steve is stupid, but he's the de facto Cult Leader now that Wozniak and Raskin are out of the big picture. That leaves three options for crunchers: (a) Two Quad G5s at $3,300 apiece guzzling down hundreds of watts and work units; (b) three Intel iMacs at $1,700 each dissipating plenty of heat and stuck in OS X; or (c) wait a few months, hack a Linux distribution onto an Open-Firmware compatible Cell-based computer for $300. I'm putting my two SETI-cents on the PlayStation 3 and Kubuntu. It seems such a shame that the transition had to take place now that the optimized G5 clients and workers are now rising above the Intel 3GHz Xeons... ID: 230147 · |
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