Reply #10: My wife's eMac sports the Nvidia chip.

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It is pretty fast for a bottom line computer.

You need to check out YellowDog Linux. The Navy is using it on its Xserve boxes.
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ As far as I am concerned, YellowDog is the best Linux distro for the Mac.


FireWire is taking over the movie industry. It is fast and a lot easier to use than SCSI. Don't get me wrong, I love SCSI, but addressing and the 6 device limit was a hassle.
Let's face it, it is a lot easier to carry around a FireWire or USB cable than a SCSI cable. Could you imaging SCSI on an iPod?

It wouldn't take much effort to plug in a SCSI card in your Mac, people do it all the time.

the G5 will come with:

High-speed AGP 8X Pro graphics bus Compared with the AGP 4X interface, the Power Mac G5’s AGP 8X Pro graphics bus effectively doubles the maximum transfer rate and doubles the amount of data transferred in a single AGP bus cycle. The 66MHz AGP 8X Pro bus strobes eight times per clock cycle, achieving a 533MHz data rate and a maximum bandwidth of 2.1GB per second — ideal for the ultrafast graphics cards it ships with, like the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra.

The new OSX will conform to Pixar standards.

Of course if you want to develop for UNIX:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/

If you want some nifty Nix apps:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php