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Subject: Re: Apple G5 looks nice.

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 23:03:12 06/23/03

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On June 24, 2003 at 01:34:11, Hristo wrote:

>First:
>I love the new platform!
>I was ready to buy one, dual 2 GHz + 2 GRam, today!!! But they wouldn't sell me
>one! Bastards.
>I was in the San Jose, Valley Fair mall Apple store this morning with the
>plastic at hand ... but, noooo. :-/ Perhaps this is better though, I can wait
>for the 3 GHz next year!
>
>Second:
>The benchmarks were misleading (!) and in some cases bordered with fraud. ;(
>I'm with you on how nasty it feels to be lied to ... !
>
>Third:
>OSX 10.3 is super nice and the developer tools make it worth the money (for the
>entire new mac) ...
>
>....
>
>I would love to run my chess move generator (altivec only) on one of those noise
>makers! :)
>... 9 fans all going on/off at will. That would be interesting to experience.
>
>Technically it is the first 64 bit DESKTOP in the world, the others were
>Workstations. This is of course a matter of semantics and I dislike that Apple
>(S.J.) is using it in such way.
>
>Regards,
>Hristo
>

Wow - another CCC person in the San Jose area. I work right at the corner of
Camden and Bascom.

Regards,
Keith



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