EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

New Macs are coming out today. Looks like all Macheads will be seeing 
double soon!

http://www.macminute.com/viewnewsitem.php?item=20020812163422


Ned

PS: After having read EP's comments about his double blues, I'm not feeling 
too excited... yet.


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       Ned Bouhalassa

n e d @ n e d f x . c o m

Have you folks realized that the 2 new flagship G4s can only be 
configured to run under OS X.2 and beyond? As I understand it, and I 
hope I'm wrong, the new blazing boys will not properly boot an OS9.x 
partition.

Can anyone confirm this, as my info is coming from web 
security/graphics/network guys?

If we have just managed to get things ironed out under 9.1 the 
majority of the stuff we're running has not been ported to OS X.

I, too, want the new machines for plug instances, even on a G4 dual 
500 w/ 640 megs of ram find very limited use of plugins for a full 
mix. (for the record, an ultra 160 scsi chain has bumped my track 
count way up, more than 64 tracks, and the disk i/o led in the system 
performance meter way down.)

New machines may not be worth it yet... I'm interested if any lugger 
has info on this...

>Murray McDowall <murraymc@...> wrote....

>This improvement in memory spec should boost plugin instances considerably --
>eg number of compressors/ Plat verbs /VST synths you can run. G4s have been
>hobbled until now by two years out of date memory bandwidth. The Intel 845
>chipsets which were released last year for the low end P4/Celeron absolutely
>sucked compared to the 845 DDR chipsets that replaced them soon after. The bus
>speed on both versions of i845 was the same just 266 MHz DDR instead of PC133
>>>  >SDRAM.

> Have you folks realized that the 2 new flagship G4s can only be
> configured to run under OS X.2 and beyond? As I understand it, and I
> hope I'm wrong, the new blazing boys will not properly boot an OS9.x
> partition.

Well, you are the 2nd person who has mentioned this, so maybe it's true...

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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [exs] Re: Nothin' but double CPUs now!


> > Have you folks realized that the 2 new flagship G4s can only be
> > configured to run under OS X.2 and beyond? As I understand it, and I
> > hope I'm wrong, the new blazing boys will not properly boot an OS9.x
> > partition.
> Well, you are the 2nd person who has mentioned this, so maybe it's true...
Argh! Does noone ever read my posts? Just read the Apple Store page, select
a powermac, go to the BTO page and read under the OS "Both Mac OS X & Mac OS
9 are installed on your new Power Mac G4 (Mac OS X v.10.2 Jaguar, is the
default boot-up operating system). Choose optional languages other than the
country default language, if needed."

The 10.2 only thing was a RUMOR, and is unlikely to happen until at least
the G5 appears if it does at all.

~Pev

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> Argh! Does noone ever read my posts? Just read the Apple Store page, select

Right you are, bro. I should be asleep. It's obvious that I need it. ;)

>Have you folks realized that the 2 new flagship G4s can only be
>configured to run under OS X.2 and beyond? As I understand it, and I
>hope I'm wrong, the new blazing boys will not properly boot an OS9.x
>partition.
>
>Can anyone confirm this, as my info is coming from web
>security/graphics/network guys?

There was talk that the new 1U rack servers from Apple only work under OSX.xx
However, that's NOT the case with the new G4's. They all come with 
OSX v10.2 & OS9.2
Just go over to  Apple.com and see for yourself. All the tech specs are there.

Quite frankly, I think all these rumours are total horseshit .........

Regards - Colin

Not completely horse shit, Most people are referring to the 
upcoming G5 chip architecture available later this fall, it quite 
simply may be incapable of handling old OS 9 code........
especially if Apple start acquiring their chipsets from IBM........

Hopefully people some of our favorite apps will be ported over to 
OS X by then anyways..................