Posts by RBR

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  GPU's in expansion slots are a good thin but I'm not one to upgrade a GPU after buying a machine.    So for my needs a soldered in GPU is not a big deal.  ...

Quote:Originally Posted by Marvin  At the very least, they can make the $999 model have a dedicated GPU (it could have had the same 512MB 640M in the entry iMac) instead of being a server. Any model can be configured as a server...

Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan  If Apple did everything Steve Jobs wanted the iPod and iTunes would never have come to Windows and the iPhone wouldn't have an App Store. Steve was a great man, but he wasn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  <snip> I know Apple takes these comments seriously, well at times they do, it is just that it takes forever for them to update products. Really? My experience and that of a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin  Although not as high quality due to the lenses, the iPhone's panorama feature with HDR setting could be good for this if it was combined with saving the source...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  Yep, evolutionary dead end. However one of the reasons I prefer to see an XMac with a couple of slots is that it allows users to adapt the machine to their specific needs. Thus...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  YIKES! Pardon my conflagration above. What I meant to say that DRAM in sockets will soon come to an end. At least in sockets as we know them today. The reason being that...

wizard69,   The biggest reason to keep a FW port is to support the large number of video cameras which still use it. Who knows how long that will be the case? Otherwise FW is an evolutionary dead end.   I certainly...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  What makes you think that the Mac Mini is anywhere near being discontinued? Of course there will be a Haswell model. What I'd really like to see is a Goldilocks...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    I'd think processor (or major chip) change = non-incremental. I see your point, but from the perspective of a user, the iPad 3 actually performed poorer...