I know, I'm taking the title thing too far, this will be the last one I promise.
The Mac article is done and has been done for a while, the publication date is October 8th. I pushed it so far back so I could hopefully have more Mac articles done, giving you all a nice continuum of Mac articles for a while; unfortunately things don't always work as planned. At this point ATI has been the most cooperative when it comes to supporting the Mac section; they've always been good to send me Mac related products and later this month I will be making a trip up to ATI's Marlborough, MA offices to talk to their Mac team about what they're working on. NVIDIA on the other hand has been far less helpful, I've been requesting their new 6800 Ultra DDL since before the wedding and have yet to receive anything firm. I will get through to them, it's just going to take a little more time. One of the first product-review related articles will be a GPU roundup, I just need NVIDIA to cooperate so I can actually make it happen.
Next up: hard drives. I told you all I was going to work on a follow-up RAID article before I got married and I meant it, but what I wasn't prepared for was how massive the project was going to get. The innocent little RAID article has now turned into a massive set of HDD Guides, about 10 in all, to be published starting the end of this month and continuously throughout the end of this year. What's going to be covered? Everything. Desktop, gaming, server performance, SATA, ATA, SCSI, controllers, RAID, everything. The project is so big that I had to split it up, like I said, into around 10 individual articles or guides (not sure which I'm going to call them yet). I have already put in requests with all of the hard drive manufacturers and I have already started receiving drives. Controllers have also been requested and they will hopefully be fulfilled soon. I expect to start initial benchmarking by the end of next week; I'm waiting for some more motherboards and CPUs to arrive at our place here in Branford before I can start benchmarking.
Over my blog hiatus I also brought on a new editor to AnandTech, he's someone that most of you have probably already heard of and he'll be contributing content about once a month. More on him later...
This month should be relatively interesting, there are a couple of NDAs coming up that you'll hear more about in the coming weeks.
Take care and enjoy the weekend.
The Mac article is done and has been done for a while, the publication date is October 8th. I pushed it so far back so I could hopefully have more Mac articles done, giving you all a nice continuum of Mac articles for a while; unfortunately things don't always work as planned. At this point ATI has been the most cooperative when it comes to supporting the Mac section; they've always been good to send me Mac related products and later this month I will be making a trip up to ATI's Marlborough, MA offices to talk to their Mac team about what they're working on. NVIDIA on the other hand has been far less helpful, I've been requesting their new 6800 Ultra DDL since before the wedding and have yet to receive anything firm. I will get through to them, it's just going to take a little more time. One of the first product-review related articles will be a GPU roundup, I just need NVIDIA to cooperate so I can actually make it happen.
Next up: hard drives. I told you all I was going to work on a follow-up RAID article before I got married and I meant it, but what I wasn't prepared for was how massive the project was going to get. The innocent little RAID article has now turned into a massive set of HDD Guides, about 10 in all, to be published starting the end of this month and continuously throughout the end of this year. What's going to be covered? Everything. Desktop, gaming, server performance, SATA, ATA, SCSI, controllers, RAID, everything. The project is so big that I had to split it up, like I said, into around 10 individual articles or guides (not sure which I'm going to call them yet). I have already put in requests with all of the hard drive manufacturers and I have already started receiving drives. Controllers have also been requested and they will hopefully be fulfilled soon. I expect to start initial benchmarking by the end of next week; I'm waiting for some more motherboards and CPUs to arrive at our place here in Branford before I can start benchmarking.
Over my blog hiatus I also brought on a new editor to AnandTech, he's someone that most of you have probably already heard of and he'll be contributing content about once a month. More on him later...
This month should be relatively interesting, there are a couple of NDAs coming up that you'll hear more about in the coming weeks.
Take care and enjoy the weekend.
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Tim West - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
yeah, Mac users really dont care that much about speed vs. PC's. That what the PC users care about.People buy Macs becuase of ease of use, ease of integration of new hardware with old, the software, and the style. I'd venture to guess the majority the Mac desktops dont even have one single FPS shooter game on them. Meaningless. Typical Mac user would think that was wasting time when they could be doing something useful.
I use both (G5 for everything but games, 3000+ AMD for games ) so I delve into both worlds, but Pick one to sell and it would be the PC, hands down.
OS X / Apple hardware is the best....if I want gaming I fire up the AMD.
DarylF2@yahoo.com - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
Most Mac users don't care too much about cross-platform benchmarks; we'd use our Macs even if PCs were twice as fast because of the other benefits to us of the Mac platform (stability, security, consistency, AppleScript, iLife apps, UNIX frameworks & tools, etc.).I think a more useful series of Mac articles would be based on tools that we use: word processors, bitmapped graphics software, vector/PostScript drawing software, font managers, scanners, printers, note-taking software, web browsers, text editors, UPS options, input devices, video cards, etc.).
Some useful Mac benchmark/comparison articles, IMHO, would be: iBook/PowerBook vs. iMac G5 vs. PowerMac G5 (with office apps, graphics apps, web development apps, C/C++ software development tools, games, etc.), storage interface options (IDE vs. S-ATA vs Firewire 400 vs. Firewire 800 vs. USB 2.0 vs. SCSI), LCD vs. CRT displays (color accuracy, color gamut coverage, brightness, contrast, etc. with an eye on specific areas like graphics work, text editing, general office use, and perhaps gaming), etc..
Prognathous - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
How about some Mac vs. PC benchmarks? The web is full of many biased comparisons with highly questionable test methodology. An anandtech set of benchmarks would be much more believable.Prog.
cooldadd - Saturday, October 2, 2004 - link
Seeing you are in Branford, if you have any offtime and want a non-tech diversion (or actually tech from a century ago), check out the Shore Line Trolley Museum (East Haven) which runs the historical Branford Electric Railway ... See http://www.bera.org/main.htm for more info. My inlaws (now deceased) used to live on the CT shore and we and our kids had a great time there. Nice excursion!mikecel79 - Saturday, October 2, 2004 - link
Your lab is in Branford? Cool. That's like 10 minutes from me. I used to live in East Haven (Branford's arch rival) but moved to Hamden about a year ago...Looking forward to the Hard Drive guides.
ViRGE - Saturday, October 2, 2004 - link
Let me guess, you brought Jason on as an editor to continuously put out IT/Server articles?Robert - Saturday, October 2, 2004 - link
Hey,How is it up there vs. NC? The house? etc. Good to see that you're getting some "work" done ;)
ksherman - Saturday, October 2, 2004 - link
sounds wonderfull... Does the Mac GPU roundup include benchies vs PC GPU's?ProviaFan - Saturday, October 2, 2004 - link
I'm looking forward to the new Mac articles and the hard drive, um, whatever you'll call them. Don't get too caught up in "work" though and forget to spend quality time with your wife (somehow I don't think you'll need to be reminded). ;)Anonymous - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
Wow! You have got busy schedule ahead my friend. Keep up the good work! :)