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The reason why Apple isn't involved in the car market yet is that this would spread them too thin. And I think rightly so. Think about it. Apple's most talented user interface designers need to: - focus on Snow Leopard, to help it differentiat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by copeland Don't worry Apple is on your side. Apple doesn't sell any desktop parts so there is no gap between laptops and desktops. Apple is crippling their "desktops" in a way (trade as much performance as needed to gai…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 You still won't be able to play Crysis on MAX settings then. Not that you couldn't! But the self-aware OneCollective won't let you! It will ensure you play some 'real life' too... It knows what's best …
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First we move from harddisks to SSDs. Then we evolve non-volatile storage via ZFS to storage pools. Some of these virtual devices will be far away somewhere on the Internet. We don't really know anymore. Then finally we will break the barrier be…
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I'm a bit frustrated by the fast widening gap between mobile and desktop systems. It's a deja vu from the G4 PowerBook vs G5 PowerMacs days... Currently available MacBook Pros can barely take 6GB of RAM (4GB officially) as total maximum, while p…
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In many cases background processes don't actually need to be running in the background (and be draining the battery). What is often enough is to merely suspend them, pausing them until the user comes back to them. Many of the examples that Palm …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage To my mind, software has much more potential for growth. I understand your point and it seems logical, but I do think that operating system software is a different beast. In a nutshell: Focussing on j…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin It's way past time for Apple to deliver something. Amen! I've been watching a few old MacWorld keynotes on YouTube today and it is interesting to listen to Jobs alluding to all the cool new products they a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Mac Pro 3.2Ghz SMP Quad Core Nehalem Snow Leopard 4 SSD in a RAID 10 configuration Nvidia GTX 295 Dual 24" Cinema Display G RAID 3TB eSATA array DAS Keyboard Revolution Mouse That does seem lik…
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The fabled 'Red Box' Windows compatibility layer, kept haunting the Apple world since the days before OSX. If Apple truly has a license to use Win32 code, that license's value is fading fast. 5 or 10 years from now, it is hardly worth anything. …
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Now this could actually work! Snow Leopard natively running any 32bit Windows application - without the need for a Windows license. 1.) Might not impact Apple software market that much If Apple touts the 64bit card for native Mac applications…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage My guess is that a $150 OEM Pack of OS X, iLife and iWork would generate more profit than a Mac Mini. Fully agree! Yet also a vast number of potential MacBook buyers will buy cheaper Acer hardware and i…
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He he meelash! Might have beat you to it, but I think you expressed it better. The problem with 'OSX on generic Intel hardware' is that this strategy has a lot of risks, with the majority of possible outcomes being Apple going bankrupt. And hi…
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I can't believe people are still discussing this as a possibility - OSX on generic Windows hardware. This is not going to happen. Not unless Apple is short of going bust. Steve Jobs was there once and has done exactly that with NeXT. NeXT was …
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Didn't Apple have some patent applications on 3D screen technology? I wonder whether the next round of iPod touch or iPhones would have a 3D display. One where no glasses are needed where the stereoscopic effect can be switched on/off through so…
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I'm sure Steve intends to come back full time. Whether that's going to happen I'm certain even he wouldn't know. It depends on how well he can get. Although his cancer was cured he had a serious illness which resulted in quite drastic surgery, …
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We know Apple 'rolls their own' soon for the iPhone / iPod ARM chips. But what if they were to do the same with Intel chips? Hmm... Instead of 6 cores on one CPU, stick with 4 but use that other area to incorporate a GPU, memory controller, et…
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You are very likely right, Phong. Just read the first paragraph of this recent Wired article to understand that Jobs does not really care about anniversaries. But from a marketing perspective doing something special at a 25th anniversary wil…
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lepton probably meant that Apple would go there sooner than most other manufacturers (as Apple can ask premium prices for premium hardware specs - not unlike OQO). Just seeing the new possibilities OLEDs offer like Samsung's super-thin semi-tra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alonso Perez If pixels were the cost driver, then large OLED screens would not be prohibitive. But they are. The problem with producing larger panels is the fault ratio. If one (or a few) pixels are malfunctioning …