So it’s pretty much limited to playing back media you already have and stuff you get via the Apple-approved online methods.Īnd Apple’s marketing pages for it are full of references to using the iMac G5 in the living room. There’s the lack of a TV tuner, and the apparent lack of record ability (or indeed, any video-in other than firewire).
Gimp for mac os 10.13.5 Pc#
I hope the G5 iMac + FrontRow is just Apple’s test run, because as it stands the iMac G5 is pretty useless as a PVR / media center PC for most people.
I was thinking of buying for my relativ to replace current iMac, but i scrapped the idea just because of this missing “embedded capability”įrontRow without TV receiver doesn’t make sens for the hard earn $$$. another 1/2 inch thick wouldn’t kill anyone, since no-one carries iMac… If Apple misses space, why not offer the ability to expend the thickness of the beast like a luggage with zipper. telescopic LCD iMac 15″ from my relatives is still decent at 800Mhz, which favorably compares to a PC same generation frankely… i really miss the option… the whole machine is good, but feels like handcuffed. Yeah! of course there are potentially external firewire/usb boxes that does the job, but the reason why you buy a mac and not a PC with MythTV on linux, is because it’s sexy and reliable.Īdd the appendice external grey (at best) firewire TV-tuner and yecks… it doesn’t fit in the design homevideo room (that i do not have either 🙂Ĭustomizability of imacs is reduced to barely more RAM… ok. Yes, i agree, some people don’t want the extra cost of TV tuner.īut i also agree with the fact this is really missing feature, from my own stand point. This is certainly not the case for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that if IBM could produce a triple-core 970 derivative we’d certainly have seen at least a dual-core 970 derivative in a Mac by now. I originally thought that the PPE design shared by the Cell and the Xenon was derived from the PowerPC 970/POWER5 lineage. It’s a PPC Chip, but it’s not a member of the Power/G5 family and cannot do the same kind of all purpose heavy lifting that they do.
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If you don’t code things very carefully, specifically for this chip, your programs will run dog-slow, and even if you code for this chip, because of its design there are certain tasks it will NEVER do well at despite its clock speed. However, a deep pipeline doesn’t have to spell a large die size, if you throw out the instruction window along with most of the hardware that’s intended to help the deep pipeline work well with branchy code.
At that point, you were probably thinking that deeply pipelined processors like the Pentium 4 tend to have large die sizes, and if you were thinking so then you were right. This brings me back to a statement I made at the beginning of this section, where I said that the PPE’s deep pipeline was designed to pack a lot of streaming media performance into a small amount of die space. Um … the chip (Xenon) that’s going in the X-Box, while a PPC chip is not at all really suited to typical computing work.
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