{"id":162,"date":"2006-01-15T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/15\/waiting-for-the-skinny-on-the-intel-macs\/"},"modified":"2006-01-15T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T13:07:51","slug":"waiting-for-the-skinny-on-the-intel-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/15\/waiting-for-the-skinny-on-the-intel-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the skinny on the Intel Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced their first set of machines based around an Intel processor, the MacBook Pro and the iMac. They&#8217;re claiming both machines significantly outperform the ones they&#8217;re replacing. Very easy to believe for the Powerbooks, since those were running 6 year old processors at three year old clockspeeds. The iMac isn&#8217;t so clear. Since they&#8217;ve all gained dual core processors, concurrent applications or usage patterns will probably benefit, and the ATI Radeon X1600 will certainly help the case, but will we really see across-the-board performance improvements of 2 times or more? <\/p>\n<p>The 2001 dual 500 Mhz G4 I&#8217;m using to write this post is long past the point of seeming dated, but I&#8217;m going to hold out as long as I can before replacing it with the latest and greatest. I had a strong inclination to pick up one of the new iMacs, but I&#8217;m worried about application compatibility early on, and quite frankly, Apple has had a poor track record with first-generation products. There&#8217;s also the drive issue &#8212; how long will I have to wait before I can get a good printer driver for my Canon Pixma IP5000 printer and my HP Scanjet 4670 scanner? I probably shouldn&#8217;t be so worried about the printer, because there&#8217;s always gimp-print, but the scanner is definitely something to watch. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, I could always hook it all up to the old G4 and use file and printer sharing to solve the problems, but then I&#8217;d be taking up even more space with computer gadgets than I am now, and one of the upgrade rationalizations for an iMac is to save space and clutter. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I still want one, but I&#8217;m trying to hold out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced their first set of machines based around an Intel processor, the MacBook Pro and the iMac. They&#8217;re claiming both machines significantly outperform the ones they&#8217;re replacing. Very easy to believe for the Powerbooks, since those were running 6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/15\/waiting-for-the-skinny-on-the-intel-macs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}