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So this analyst saw an Apple owned car, ergo apple will be entering the automotive market. I think he is thinking too small. Apple is building a huge new campus and several Apple stores, clearly they are going to enter the general construction mar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slprescott I don't understand all the Carl-hate on this site. He likes Apple and is saying things that could trigger an increase in the stock's value. If you're an AAPL stockholder, that's GOOD. Carl Icahn is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon PowerPoint is such a pile of crap though, I can't imagine any forward thinking person would be too depressed about switching. It is more of a backward-compatibility issue than the quality of the so…
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Quote: Originally Posted by acatomic Can someone explain to me why does A8 chip have 3 billion transistors compared to Intel's (Haswell' i7) 1.4 billion transistors? I've seen the A8 estimated at 2 Billion, not 3. This probably includes the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Am I mistaken in thinking that is still considered DDR4 RAM? Yes, 'DDR4' and 'LPDDR4' are both different standards with very different physical implementations and protocols. LPDDR is designed for low…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Are you certain of that? We do see newer RAM hit servers first because of the increased costs but it always hits the mobile markets and with DDR4 being lower power over DDR3 it makes perfect sense for ha…
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It should be pointed out that Micron is not the only one making LPDDR4, in fact, the presentation that Mr. Margolis focuses on, though presented by a Micron employee, is just discussing the LPDDR4 standard in general (it is a JEDEC standard, which i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DTiconderoga An A8 chip would cost about $12, allowing Apple to sell an A8 laptop for $699 (and at a higher profit margin). It would also have about 120 hours of battery life. Oh, and if they put 8 cores into the thi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by scottt732 A 64-bit processor isn't a big deal unless the device has > 4GB of RAM. That's not really true. 64-bit processors have wider datapaths and registers which can make a number of computations faster. Als…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ksec I still dont get the thing about Building Fabs in US. Having a dedicated Fabs in Taiwan, would do the same Job. Assembly of the Final product is done in China, or anywhere else since transportation cost…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pdq2 Yow. Two big misses. Google GAAP earnings flat at best; Moto is a continuing (and growing) money leak. Worst of all, per click ad rev, their real bread and butter, continues to deteriorate. H…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 It isn't naive at all. iOS already supports multiple processors just fine The issue of scalability is a problem domain one not an issue for the OS. By their nature some apps won't scale no matt…
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Some rough calculations: an iPhone face is about 0.120x 0.060 meters, bright daylight is about 500 W/m^2, if you have a 15% efficient solar cell, that would be about 0.5 Watts of power. The iPhone battery is about 5 Watt-hours. If you go t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Still a text input by a non-su/wheel user should not be able to access files in "/" anyway so the third slash should trigger some defense with or without a capital "F". ? Everything is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil The only one of those that even approaches the price of this is the one that also requires an iPad to work. The rest is proprietary tech stem to stern, which kicks the price to the $6-16k…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil You can't say that this "wouldn't have been possible without the iPad", but you CAN say that no one even dared to consider it before the iPad existed. I hope to see these in many more places.…
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Problems w/ Pages: - Poor Bibliography support (I think it has EndNote support now, but that seems like a Kludge) - Inability to add in references (i.e. See Figure 3, See Table Above, See Page 10) - Poor mathematical equation sup…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maestro64 wait they are getting paid for an internship, here in the US most interns never get paid, their pay is the reward of allowing to work for free for some company. Now a co-op is a different story, y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JerrySwitched26 Do you do any work with either of these platforms? I've heard both breathless stories about the greatness of the Strawberry Pi and reviews which indicate that it canno…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So the Osborne Effect doesn't apply to 'really expensive stuff'? Sometimes. Companies and large institutions often want long-term road maps so they can plan future purchases. I…