ZylogZ80

I really feel bad for all these community projects. Why put in all of this time and effort when an SDK is right around the corner? They're going to release a solution that requires jail-brake the same month the SDK debuts? That's just senseless.

You know we'll see something more professional and better integrated after the SDK that doesn't require the BS that is jail-brake. I know some people just love to tinker but this just seems like such an awful waste of time on the part of the developers.

"How might this process be applicable for, say, quantum mechanics?"

That's actually a really great question. Two of my favorites hobbies are playing video games and reading pop-sci books, specifically quantum theory, relativity, and biology.

Games where the startling effects of black holes (time dilation or blue shifting on the event horizon for example) were brought to bear could be fascinating. Having to travel the cosmos while balancing the problems inherent to light speed travel would be incredible. Simply having a game where dealing with gravitational forces of true scale planets would be incredible. Or how about a game set on the quantum scale. Sum over histories, QED, uncertainty, all of it would open up completely new game mechanics and play.

I would love to see some "pop sci" games spring up. I'd buy whatever hardware was required to play such games (even a PS3 :) ), and I'm willing to bet more than a few other people would to.

I purchased my Mac Pro at local Apple Store in NC. I wanted the 2ghz/160gb config, but they told me they only had the 2.66ghz models in-store, that other configs are only avail online. So, I guess you can customize the Mac Pro as much as you can any other Mac in-store. Namely, RAM can be changed, but not the proc.

I opted to spend the extra $500 and get the 2.66ghz model, so I could avoid the nail-biting wait for shipping.

Are you "not into games" if you don't play games that just came out a month ago? I have a Mac, it's the best computer I've ever owned. After 20 years of PCs my PowerBook is a breath of fresh air. I play emulators on it (NES, SNES, TG-16, Genesis, Playstation, N64), I also play a few computer games - Quake 3, Doom 3, NeverWinter Nights, World of Warcraft. Games aren't my primamry use for the machine, recording music is, but I still like games and still play them.

I think people who buy computers simply to play games on them give Macs a bad rap for no reason. I play games on my Mac, and they run great. Do I care if they the newest games? No. How new a game is has no baring on how good it is. My favorite games are all atleast a decade old. To me, World Of Warcraft and Doom 3 are pretty damn new, seeing as though I prefer to play NES and SNES.

I think you can be a gamer and not have a computer than is dedicated to games. My computer's primary purpose is for music production and recording. The fact that I play games, and they run great, is just a plus. Besides, my last computer, a Pentium 4 based Dell, couldn't play anything other than 2D games, so my Mac is "better for games" than my last PC.

It's all so jarring... Less than a year ago a PowerMac G5 was the drool inducing, lust provoking, end-all-be-all of machines.

I remember when my friend got a dual 2.0 PM G5, I was in awe. I just wanted to try it, open it up, worship it.

Now it's a relic. An absurd, oversized, monoithic dinosaur. I know technology moves fast, but sometimes it's just plain disturbing.