Posts by Marvin

Quote:Originally Posted by Jim W I hope you are very happy with your iMac. Pros will not be. Some are though. Here's one of them: http://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/2084 "Frankly, this 27″ iMac blows the doors...

Quote:Originally Posted by davideparrini if i cant get the refurbished should i go 13 or 15?? It depends what you need it for. The 15" is much faster because it's a quad-core processor so double the 13" and the graphics are 3x...

Quote:Originally Posted by v5v Obviously I very much prefer OS X over Windows, but to be completely fair I have to admit that I actually found the underlying OS less of an issue in a "workstation" scenario than in my personal...

Quote:Originally Posted by poke So it's kind of like saying drawings or paintings are skeuomorphic, which is absurd. Drawings and paintings aren't representations to aid recognition of functionality, they are just representations in...

Quote:Originally Posted by sog35 Apple's revenue grew almost 20% last quarter even without any new products. Their profit fell though - $11.6b down to $9.5b. Let's say that one day they made 20% more revenue next year but recorded a...

Quote:Originally Posted by Jim W A $1000 HP computer is NOT a workstation. Not even close. HP calls it a workstation: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z420_features.html#.UYEyDr9Er8s Quote:Originally Posted by...

Quote:Originally Posted by davideparrini Gotcha...but I would save 700 dollar buying it now and not back home! I'm not sure for what I use, if it worth to wait 3 months and spend 1800 euro, when I can spend 1200 euro or less...

Quote:Originally Posted by rob53 Mr. Usmanov appears to be a traditional "investor" instead of a stock market gambler. It's important to remember that this guy is already incredibly wealthy so he will invest some money for security...

Quote:Originally Posted by v5v Our primary Avid suite, once the foundation for Apple technology in our plant, is now running on HP machines. Engineering refused to pay premium coin for woefully outdated hardware so they went with...

The new Haswell processors are due to arrive June 3rd so it's likely (but not certain) that Apple will update the MBPs shortly afterwards. If they use the GT3 Haswell chips, they'll have significantly improved graphics performance and...