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Subject: Re: Apple G5 looks nice.

Author: Hristo

Date: 23:34:42 06/23/03

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On June 24, 2003 at 02:03:12, Keith Evans wrote:

>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

Duhhh ...
I live right near Hamilton and Bascom, near EBay. :)
On a good day I might be able to tee-off into their windows! :)

Cheers,
Hristo



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