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Quote: Originally posted by adezero wouldn't 4 gigs of ram be overkill? OS X finds a way to use all the RAM you can cram in there. As far as I can tell, the ratio of virtual to real memory each process uses is based on how much RAM you hav…
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Quote: Originally posted by kupan787 http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10247 ---------- If this pans out, it could make things very interesting for single threaded apps. That'd certainly do the trick, wouldn't it? That is, of cours…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer More cores and more parallelism per core is the way of the future. Frequency scaling (at the rate it was seen through the 80s and 90s) is not sustainable, but throughput scaling is. As this trend becomes m…
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Quote: Originally posted by theapplegenius It's totally a gaming card. So more pixel pipes and shaders. IMO they should make Quadros standard across the line. Low-end ones are cheaper and will be much more useful. The quadro has little per…
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Quote: Originally posted by ZachPruckowski Maybe as a BtO option. Honestly, I don't see Apple spending more than $300 on the low-end Mac Pro and $400 on the high-end for a video card. Last time it was $60 on the low end and $150 on the high e…
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Quote: Originally posted by JeffDM Doubling the frequency with a particular CMOS device approximately multiplies its power consumption by four. Doubling the processor cores in theory doubles the power consumption, though CoreDuo only takes 5W m…
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I don't see the point of having more than 2 cores. It seems to me that the only reason to do this is to avoid upgrading processor speeds.. just add another core and theoretical processing power goes up, right? When doing things that can only r…
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Thank God for single processor programs. When they get into an infinite loop, I can use my other processor to end that process with 't3h quickness' great for php programming while drunk CHEERS!
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Oh lord no, not a white remote! Seriously, the remote's the size of a stick of gum.. if it were black, wouldn't you lose it? I'm not an apologist, I just don't see the point
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They shouldn't make cell phone + driving illegal, what they should do is have cell phone logs admitted as evidence automatically. That way, if you get hit by one of these idiots, you get into court and point to a piece of paper and walk out with …
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Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison HD DVD's dominance over Blu-Ray I thought blu-ray was winning.. hrm.. I'll check back when we get to page 40
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Quote: Originally posted by tonyallsopp I'm not particularly fussed about having iPod functionality on my phone, but having a phone made by Apple is what I've been waiting for for years. The only feature I think is completely neccessary is built …
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I'm so confused right now.. why would I want an iPod in my phone? I've dropped on my phone, stepped on it, slept on it, thrown it off a 2 story balcony, and forgotten to charge it to the point where the battery became useless. If it were an iP…
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what was this thread about again?
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Firewire has a lower refresh rate than USB (125Hz).. It may even be less than bluetooth (80Hz) I'd had to go with a huge thumbs down on firewire in a mouse.
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Quote: Originally posted by Chucker You couldn't be more wrong. I was trying to point out how pointless DX 9 is on a GMA .... screen door on a submarine? ... tits on a bull? ... Am I getting through to you at all? Oh, I got it: A sea…
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Quote: Originally posted by Chucker You had Direct X 9 in 1997, while everyone else only had DirectX 3? I'm sorry I'm not impressed by "features". I suppose you're the kind that buy a fully-loaded geo metro and add aftermarket rear ob…
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Quote: Originally posted by Chucker Because gamers require highly customizable computers, which are very low-margin for Apple. Don't like a component any more? Replace it. What does Apple get? Nothing, because they merely resell the component, so…
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I'm a developer and a stockholder too, I don't understand what your problem is with gamers.. they buy more computers than anybody else. Somebody help me out here, why is Apple catering to gamers such a bad thing? Will Halo 3: Solitare Editio…
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Quote: Originally posted by Chucker This is simply completely wrong. The GMA 950 has many modern features of dedicated graphics chips. It fully supports Core Image, for instance. The problem with the GMA 950 isn't with its acceleration feature…