Looking at a Development Mactel

We've pointed to pictures of this before, but ThinkSecret is now pointing to new pictures of Apple's Mactel Developer platform that is supposedly currently shipping to developers: "The Apple Development Platform ADP2,1, as the systems are officially designated, features 3.6GHz Pentium 4 processors with 2MB of L2 cache operating on an 800MHz bus with 1GB of RAM."

According to ThinkSecret, Windows XP currently runs on the systems, but by looking at the picture, you can tell that it doesn't seem to fully support the hardware, as the Windows XP desktop only takes advantage of about half of the large Apple flat-screen plugged into the unit.

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Source: http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0506intelmac.html

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We've pointed to pictures of this before, but ThinkSecret is now pointing to new pictures of Apple's Mactel Developer platform that is...

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The screen issue might also stem from the Apple displays lack of scalers.. So if you are at a non-Apple display resolution, you get that..

June 23 2005 at 3:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jake

uh, what the hell is a "mactel"? Apple trademarked that stupid word so people WOULDN'T use it. I don't call my G5 a MacPPC. If I wanted to be specific, i'd call it a PPC Mac and I would call my future mac an intel mac, but mactel? Stupid!

June 23 2005 at 3:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iFelix

The Thinksecret site is slow but was running as of now... The video card is (according to the article) provided by a Silicon Image Orion ADD2-N Dual Pad x16 which there is very little information about.

June 23 2005 at 11:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

C.K. Sample, III

Al, looks like they've been /.ed.

June 23 2005 at 11:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Has ThinkSecret stopped responding for anyone else, or just me?

June 23 2005 at 11:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Randy

re the XP being part screen, it's one of two things: there's no driver for whatever video card is in there or whoever installed XP didn't bother to bump the resolution: that looks like it was installed and snapshotted (meaning it's only at 640x480 or 800x600). No idea what card is in there tho... could be either or.

June 23 2005 at 11:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply