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Old Pc's are wierd. lol
Lupin:
a motorola 68040 proc
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/68040/Motorola-XC68LC040RC33B.html
Mikan:
--- Quote from: Lupin on November 22, 2009, 04:58:08 PM ---a motorola 68040 proc
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/68040/Motorola-XC68LC040RC33B.html
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4GB of physical memory for something that old? :/ lol @ 33mhz.
hilander72:
--- Quote from: Mikan on November 22, 2009, 05:00:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: Lupin on November 22, 2009, 04:58:08 PM ---a motorola 68040 proc
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/68040/Motorola-XC68LC040RC33B.html
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4GB of physical memory for something that old? :/ lol @ 33mhz.
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The CPU had the capability, but most 68040 machines only used 28-bits of the 32-bit address bus. This also limited HDD capacities to 4GB, but since the largest HDD back then were less then 1GB that wasn't much of an issue either.
Xiong Chiamiov:
Old computers are awesome. That's why I love Craigslist.
--- Quote from: rheffera on November 22, 2009, 01:46:52 PM ---
--- Quote ---Yes, Apple used the PowerPC architecture throughout the 90s. Was a very good architecture up until the early 2000s when it just started to suck and Apple eventually switched to Intel.
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Which is the moment when Apple became Worthless. To me anyway.
The whole reason i liked macs was that they were different than Intel and Old Billy over at micro$oft.
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Uh huh, because different is always better, amirite?
--- Quote ---Now all an apple is is an overpriced windows pc. The OS's are interchangeable. Might as well buy a regular PC and install mac os manually :(.
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Ah, because the change in cpu architecture lowered the quality of all the rest of the hardware, gotcha. And because there are *tons* of freely-available drivers for your winmodem that'll work on OS X. Uh huh.
Trust me, it's a lot more iffy than you think. I got Leopard, I think, working on my roommate's lappy (except for wireless and suspend), but I couldn't even get past the bootscreen on my desktop.
surdumil:
--- Quote from: blubart on November 22, 2009, 01:45:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: surdumil on November 22, 2009, 11:43:44 AM ---...without need of a heat sink or forced air conduction. It uses a big metal square under the device to conduct heat into the circuit board.
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isn't that what one would call a heat sink? :P
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Noppu. The metal pad is soldered to the circuit board, so it isn't exposed to air, so it can't dissipate heat into the air directly. Instead, the heat is transferred to circuit board copper which is exposed to air to dissipate heat. The circuit board becomes the heat sink.
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