Posts by randian

I'm not sure what value it is to compare Intel vs ARM floating point performance. 1000x more flops? So what, few applications use floating point. Integer benchmarks are more interesting. Another advantage to ARM is die size. You don't...

Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Global Foundries has had fabbing issues, hampering AMD. Could Apple's money and influence fix AMD's fab and schedule problems?

Quote: Originally Posted by Gary54 Fancy that. Since QB Mac does not offer the features big business needs ... there is no feature parity .... why would anyone expect that big business would be using the Mac version when its the Widows...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil "Buggy" how? Mine work perfectly fine. Not so much buggy as severely lacking in features. No R1C1 addressing, no named ranges, missing builtin functions.

Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Filevault The new FileVault will only be compelling if Apple hardware accelerates it using Sandy Bridge's new AES-NI instructions.

Quote: Originally Posted by Twelve Remember that you'll generally want your monitor at the END of the Thunderbolt cable. Which is a monumentally stupid usability decision on the part of Intel. Having to disconnect your monitor or hub...

Quote: Originally Posted by BertP If you have a storage device in the daisy chain, it will have an input and an output (for devices further down the chain for a maximum of six devices). There are a number of restrictions, such as the...

Quote: Originally Posted by PeterO The overriding problem relates to data leakage -- data that should live in the encrypted envelop doesn't always behave or stay that way. Lots of programs retain the Unix convention of using /tmp for...

I'm not talking about wear leveling, I'm talking about dirty cells. A flash cell starts out empty. Writing data to it is very, very fast. Writing new data, however, becomes slow because to do so you must first restore the cell to...

I'd consider an Apple tv, if it didn't have overscan or overscan could be turned off by the user. A lot of flat-panel TVs these days have overscan that you can't turn off. It's really annoying.