Posts by retroneo

Same display. The old displays on the MacBook were 250 cd /m2 (nits) too. It used to be on one of the pages on the US site too (but not the one I saved before the launch).

Quote: Originally Posted by BRussell AAC huh? Do all the other players (e.g., Zune, etc.) support AAC now? Yes, the Zune, mobile phones, PSPs and most portable players support AAC.

Quote: Originally Posted by Commodus That's just untrue. Where'd you hear that DRM consumed a lot of battery life? FairPlay is just a container for what's otherwise a normal AAC file. It's not like you're decoding an RC5 key -...

The reason your test showed better battery life than claimed is because you played unencrypted music instead of DRM encrypted music from the iTunes store. The additional processing required by the unencryption reduces the battery life...

Quote: Originally Posted by MauiMac Which system will most likely use this chip? The penryn family of chips includes chips for laptops and desktops. Yorkfield and Wolfdale are desktop. Montevina is the laptop family that includes a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Booga I'm just curious about the math where 65 is double 45. 65 x 65 = 4225 45 x 45 = 2025 The 45nm process is more than twice as dense as the 65nm process.

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider The updated chips will contain a whopping 12MB of second-level cache on a dual-core model, up 50 percent from the Core 2 Duo. I think you mean 12MB on the quad core models, as they already...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "We're the first company to ever use the iPhone name for a cellphone," the statement said. "If Cisco wants to challenge us on it, we're very confident we'll prevail." And...

There are many many ARM-based processor vendors, and only ARM-based chips have the power consumption to make this device possible. A Transmeta, Geode or VIA chip is an order of magnitude greater in power consumption. TI, Samsung,...

That decides the Nokia N95 for me. It's 5MP, carl zeiss lens, autofocus with GPS mapping for 100 countries and 3.5G HSPDA. Out March 2007.