Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-26 Thread Richard Adams
Maybe the next iteration should be named 'Rat-tail file' ];{> Ciao, The Winfidel >From: Dan Palka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks) >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks) >Subject: Re: Want to sell PC laptop >Date

Re: Mac code names (was Want to sell PC laptop)

2003-02-23 Thread victoria brandon
Drew wrote: > Machines such as the Bondi iMac are indeed named after places in > California. The Bondi iMac being named after a beach, or more > accurately the color of the water at that beach (supposedly the same > as the color of the plastics). I've heard Lombard is a street in San > Francisco

Re: Mac code names (was Want to sell PC laptop)

2003-02-22 Thread Clark Martin
At 3:40 PM -0800 2/22/2003, victoria brandon wrote: >on 2/22/03 9:22 AM, Drew wrote: > >> But my favorite are the LAPTOP code names: >> >> M2 for 5300, Cooper for the 3400, Kanga (sometimes Mainstreet) for >> the 3500/G3, Wallstreet for the PowerBook G3 Series, Lombard/101 for >> the PowerBook

Re: Mac code names (was Want to sell PC laptop)

2003-02-22 Thread Scott Holder
At 03:40 PM 2/22/2003 -0800, you wrote: > > >Thank you, Drew! I've been wondering what some of these appelations >actually referred to for quite some time. Odd (or is it) that "M2" and >"Cooper" seem to have gone the way of the ivorybilled woodpecker, while >"Kanga" and so forth flourish. I woul

Re: Mac code names (was Want to sell PC laptop)

2003-02-22 Thread Andrew Kershaw
>Thank you, Drew! I've been wondering what some of these appelations >actually referred to for quite some time. Odd (or is it) that "M2" and >"Cooper" seem to have gone the way of the ivorybilled woodpecker, while >"Kanga" and so forth flourish. But another bit of idle curiosity: do these >names *m

Re: Mac code names (was Want to sell PC laptop)

2003-02-22 Thread Andrew Kershaw
>Thank you, Drew! I've been wondering what some of these appelations >actually referred to for quite some time. Odd (or is it) that "M2" and >"Cooper" seem to have gone the way of the ivorybilled woodpecker, while >"Kanga" and so forth flourish. But another bit of idle curiosity: do these >names *m

Mac code names (was Want to sell PC laptop)

2003-02-22 Thread victoria brandon
on 2/22/03 9:22 AM, Drew wrote: > But my favorite are the LAPTOP code names: > > M2 for 5300, Cooper for the 3400, Kanga (sometimes Mainstreet) for > the 3500/G3, Wallstreet for the PowerBook G3 Series, Lombard/101 for > the PowerBook G3 (bronze keyboard), Pismo for the PowerBook G3 > (Firewire).

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-22 Thread Andrew Kershaw
>And as for the whole code-name argument, Apple used code names for it's >entire machine (M2, Blackbird, Epic, etc), not just one part... > >:-) > >-- >John. Well, let's not forget that the CPUs have code names as well. The PPC 604e (with inline cache, as on the higher-end 8600/9600) was code n

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-22 Thread Joe Melinis
> From: John Cate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Is Claw - Hammer just a codename? I was under the impression it was the >> actual name of the processor. > > Just a codename. Clawhammer is the consumer version of AMD's 64-bit x86 > processor. It will be released under the brand name "Athlon 64" in > S

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-22 Thread Dan Palka
Amen. >To be honest, if the processor isn't a Motorola 680x0 or 60x, I really >couldn't care less what it's name and abilities are ** Lots of hellos from Dan Palka's Quadra 800: The power to be your best. ** -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and...

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
At 9:09 PM + 2/21/2003, Dana Collins wrote: >Dan sagely wrote: > >> From: Dan Palka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) >> Subject: Re: Want to sell PC laptop >> >> Sorry not a carpenter. Still think its funny though, as it

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread John Smith
To be honest, if the processor isn't a Motorola 680x0 or 60x, I really couldn't care less what it's name and abilities are (at least, not on this mailing list...). Of course, make it run Mac OS 7 through to 9 and I might become interested, if only for a minute. And as for the whole code-name argu

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Dan Palka
Thats cool I guess... sortof in a way. Maybe? Kindof? >Just a codename. Clawhammer is the consumer version of AMD's 64-bit x86 >processor. It will be released under the brand name "Athlon 64" in >September. > >The higher-performance server version, code name SledgeHammer, comes out >next mo

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread John Cate
> Is Claw - Hammer just a codename? I was under the impression it was the > actual name of the processor. Just a codename. Clawhammer is the consumer version of AMD's 64-bit x86 processor. It will be released under the brand name "Athlon 64" in September. The higher-performance server version, c

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Dan Palka
I've done it before!!! Compaq Prolinea 5100p or whatever it was. Piece of crapola. >I can think of one way to connect a claw-hammer to a PC ;-) ** Lots of hellos from Dan Palka's Quadra 800: The power to be your best. ** -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread R. P. Bell
] - Original Message - From: "Joe Melinis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:12 PM Subject: Re: Want to sell PC laptop > snip < -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Joe Melinis
> From: Dana Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dan sagely wrote: > >> From: Dan Palka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sorry not a carpenter. Still think its funny though, as it really doesnt >> have anything to do with anything. I mean, I can't even think of a way >> to connect Claw-Hammer to AMD, etc...

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Dana Collins
Dan sagely wrote: > From: Dan Palka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PowerBooks) > Subject: Re: Want to sell PC laptop > > Sorry not a carpenter. Still think its funny though, as it really doesnt > have anything to do with anything. I mean, I can't eve

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Dan Palka
Is Claw - Hammer just a codename? I was under the impression it was the actual name of the processor. >Kanga, Pismo, Wallstreet, Lombard, Pink, Have Blue > >They are code words. They aren't supposed to have anything to do >with the subject. That's what makes them a "code". ** Lot

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
At 3:04 PM -0600 2/21/2003, Dan Palka wrote: >Sorry not a carpenter. Still think its funny though, as it really doesnt >have anything to do with anything. I mean, I can't even think of a way >to connect Claw-Hammer to AMD, Personal Computers in general, or even >technology. Kanga, Pismo, Walls

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Dan Palka
Sorry not a carpenter. Still think its funny though, as it really doesnt have anything to do with anything. I mean, I can't even think of a way to connect Claw-Hammer to AMD, Personal Computers in general, or even technology. >Not to be pedantic, but a claw hammer (outside this particular co

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-21 Thread Richard Adams
ply-To: (PowerBooks) >To: (PowerBooks) >Subject: Re: Want to sell PC laptop >Date: Thu, 20 Feb 03 19:32:48 -0600 > >What in the world is a Claw-hammer? What will they think of next? >Toenail-Wrench? > > >The new AMD Claw-Hammer is far superior to the P4 and Intels 64 platform. >

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Dan Palka
I thought thats what this list was for. And G4 makes perfect sense. It is the fourth generation of PowerMacs with the fourth generation of PowerPC processors inside. iMac was originally for internet macintosh eMac = educational macintosh iBook = internet notebook PowerBook sure as heck was a po

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Justin Stewart
It's AMDs code-name for the x86-64 processor for servers and workstations. Fully compatible with x86, new 64 bit architecture. Let us not start an arguement over mac and PC? Please, no PC bashing, I understand this is a Mac list but just because my signurature has a reference to a PC product doesn'

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Dan Palka
What in the world is a Claw-hammer? What will they think of next? Toenail-Wrench? >The new AMD Claw-Hammer is far superior to the P4 and Intels 64 platform. ** Lots of hellos from Dan Palka's Quadra 800: The power to be your best. ** -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Justin Stewart
I'm sorry, that wasn't supposed to go out, damned yahoo mail. --- Andrew Kershaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >= > >***Justin, your annoyance of the moment, ;-D > >***1 - ZAGIFLAS > >***2 - ZEEKYBOOGYDOOG > >***3 - LEEGSNAGZIT > >***The national debt is at times an ally, leaving > the people t

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Scott Holder
At 12:44 PM 2/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: > > > >= >***Justin, your annoyance of the moment, ;-D >***1 - ZAGIFLAS >***2 - ZEEKYBOOGYDOOG >***3 - LEEGSNAGZIT Well, you might try a PC Swap list ;) You needn't toss H-bombs or destroy the world to make us tell you that ;) Scott Holder -- PowerB

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Andrew Kershaw
>= >***Justin, your annoyance of the moment, ;-D >***1 - ZAGIFLAS >***2 - ZEEKYBOOGYDOOG >***3 - LEEGSNAGZIT >***The national debt is at times an ally, leaving the people to fend >for themsleves, the national debt is at times an ally, leaving the >people to fend for themselves, but then, THE

Want to sell PC laptop

2003-02-20 Thread Justin Stewart
= ***Justin, your annoyance of the moment, ;-D ***1 - ZAGIFLAS ***2 - ZEEKYBOOGYDOOG ***3 - LEEGSNAGZIT ***The national debt is at times an ally, leaving the people to fend for themsleves, the national debt is at times an ally, leaving the people to fend for themselves, but then, THE PEO