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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer I don't think I was mischaracterizing. When I presented the pre-order numbers you felt the blu-ray pre-orders were disproportionately high because the kind of people who pre-order movies are the home theatr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison What an outstanding value. I think Apple would be crazy not to start delivering some AMD solutions next year with Llano. I like Intel as much as anyone but truth be told a lot of my work leads to the com…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/a...1055t-reviewed Let's see how AMD does and if they show any signs of closing the gap with Intel chips in performance. Here is another but more objective review. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by iMacmatician Intel has the lead in single-threaded performance but that's becoming less important over time. Intel's lead in single-threaded performance was mainly due to turbo modes when making Intel-Mhz/AMD-Mhz…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac This is how much difference one week will make. Cinbench scores will be updated next week. Thuban without HT, but with real threads, all six of them. Please try to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by troberts Maybe we will get our X-Mac when Apple starts using AMD processors. Apple can price it low enough that people should be happy about it being "way less" than a Mac Pro while still being high enough for Apple to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross The Tegra is a good chip, but no better than anything else in its class. At any rate, we're not talking about phone ARM chips, but x86 chips. I don't think Nvidia is making Tegra II for the cell phones. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac AMD doesn't have hyperthreading, they use good old fashioned silicon. But for certain applications it does beat Intel's 2 core chips. Even the new Nehalem cpus. Overall Intel's current cpus are better…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I'm not following you here. To be clear, ARM A9 (Core)= Cortex (Family) = ARM v7 (Architecture Version). Also, Tegra first arrived using ARM11 = ARM v6 ≠ Cortex. The next release is Tegra 2 and will …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Let's get the latter part out of the way first. There is no way that Nvidia is going to produce x86 chips, because they have no license for it. That's out. Via makes crappy cpu's. they can't compete, and it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It doesn't sound like you're talking about notebook processors in any regard. Just having the fastest chip per dollar won't make AMD dominate in any realistic sense. Without being able to compete with Intel o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross AMD's entire history has been based of "ifs". If they only came out with this on time. If only the speeds were higher. If the power requirements were lower. If, if, if. Intel was in the same shoe. Have you…
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Apple using AMD will definitely lower cost/price of Mac mini and iMac for sure. I love using MacOS not intelOS. I would enjoy it even more when I can have MacOS running pc for less $. This is feasible by going with AMD. Cut cost and increase pro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ltcommander.data From those benchmarks it looks like Thuban is still slightly clock for clock slower than Nehalem despite a 1.5x core count advantage. But regardless, it does show AMD really closed the performance le…
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Quote: Originally Posted by igxqrrl While it saddens me that you feel my argument has no merit, I would like to point out that usually upgrades are available to very high performing chips that, at this time, AMD cannot compete with. We can hop…
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LOL... I think apple knows blu-ray. Just don't want to use it, yet. That's all. At one point, I was hoping iTunes to let me keep all my digital movie library within iTunes, but I think apple is ignoring that as well.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Yes, home theatre enthusiasts are more likely to pre-order films, but you cannot extend that to mean that only home theatre enthusiasts pre-order films; Apple allows people to pre-order films on iTunes as …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Thanks, Captain Spin! Create your own definition of the market and then dismiss the numbers as negative, based on how they fit into your made-up definition. Spin what?... The emperor's new clothes? 50…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer James Cameron says that 50% of Avatar pre-orders are for the blu-ray version. But please Apple, just keep waiting for"sales to really take off" before you adopt it I wonder who would pre-order a movie…
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That's a lot of efforts just to get to a Walmart. Is Walmart a magic store in HK or in Asia? In the states, Walmart is not the best place to go to seek best deals on Blu-ray movies. Even Best buys/Frys have better deals on new releases for the o…