Posts by G-News

Ordered April 13, arrived today. I'll be nice and put the blame on Eyjafjallajökull and not TNT for taking 10 days to ship it to Switzerland...

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Finally got a call back from TNT that said my MBP had left Pudong Aiport on April 24 (after getting stuck there on the 19th), today it has reportedly arrived in Brussels, so it should only be a matter of days to get to Switzerland now....

I had the dubitable joy of setting up a Blackberry Bold 9700 recently for my boss. Never seen anything as heterogenous and complicated to set up. Sure, you can change about every setting of that phone yourself, but it's a PAIN to use. So...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tegeril Ooo, my mistake, reading comprehension fail Also for the shipping curious, my laptop did this: Shanghai -> Alaska -> New Jersey -> Massachusetts. Looking at the tracking...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tegeril Weird. I did not order the first day, selected a 17" with antiglare, and my laptop is on the truck for delivery today. It actually shipped MUCH earlier than their estimates (April 26-30 for...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kaelig Any news about the ssd model/brand apple is using in its new mbp ? Judging by the speed test results from barefeats.com, I doubt it's any of the above mentioned brands (OCZ, Crucial, Supertalent)....

No need to go ad hominem. Obviously I'm not an engineer and AMD may very well surprise the industry, like they have before. It's certainly not a bad idea for Apple to keep their options open, I'd just be rather surprised if AMD managed...

Quote: Originally Posted by iMacmatician Quad-core goes to as low as 30 W but that'll probably be a low clock speed like their 1.6 GHz 25 W mobile Champlain coming soon. There's also dual-core at 30 W. Of course AMDs future products...

With Apple putting so much emphasis on battery life for all the portable devices, I have a really hard time believing they're going to switch to AMD anytime soon. Their mobile chips power consumption is about twice as bad as a comparable...