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Mr. Schiller has just shattered all the wet dreams of prognosticators waiting for their quad-core MBPs (15" model too). Anyone with foresight should have known that no quad-core would make its way into a MBP this year --at least not in the 13" a…
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Family Guy stopped being good years ago anyway.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Dell has there Studio 15 and 17 notebooks with a Core i7 option. They go from 1? at the front to 1.5? at the back. You can get the i7-720QM or i7-820QM CPU for $999 or $1,349, respectively. That CPU bump from…
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Why would Apple have to move to 14" for 16:9 WXGA? There are plenty of 13" 16:9 WXGA displays out there. For Apple to replace the 13" MBP so quickly is nonsensical. If we see any quad-core chips in the 15" MBP this year, I'd be shocked, unless t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dreadkid08 I kinda agree I was expecting a price cut which would make the macbook somewhere within the 600-800 range probably around 700 to make more of a distance in price between the macbook and the macbook pro. Was …
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I don't understand the comparisons between the MBP and the MB. We should be comparing the new MB to the old, and the new wins in every aspect. Also, I think it looks nicer too.
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The persistent whiners about glossy screens have become too trite to deal with. I also prefer matte for displays that are good (presumably, the IPS 1440p 27" iMac will be excellent), but glossy isn't as atrocious as some of these whiners claim. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjnjn In response to the Blu-ray whining. Blu-ray uses the following video codecs: MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, en SMPTE VC-1. So the encoding of HD movies on Blu-ray is the same as what Mac OS X supports best, namely H.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Not even close. B-R players will supplant DVD players. DVD players are as cheap as they can possibly get. I remember when they were as expensive as B-R is. I don't recommend people going out and buying $25 pla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Backed yourself into a corner did we? Time for you to throw insults like anxiety ridden monkeys sling pooh. What's the point of trying to point out 2 + 2 to this fool? I've just added him to my growing ign…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nicwalmsley Here is what I am planning to buy. I would love to get some recommendations on any shortcomings to this configuration. Eg, is 2x4GB of RAM distinctly better than 4x2GB of RAM (that is, worth the extra dolla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChristophB Don't get me started on LP and SACD $$. Never really got into SACDs but spent a fortune building a vintage turntable recently and of course had to re-buy my music collection on LP.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChristophB If I didn't know your name from blu-ray.com I'd ask if you like to stir the pot much. . . I guess Best Buy opened a shop in the Isle of Patmos. Otherwise, there is no city on the planet with a BB that doe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Vision33r So where's the cheaper hardware hinted the day before? It is in the wild imaginations of rumor pundits.
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTel I worked for a company in Seattle called ModSystems that is heavily invested into by Toshiba (a.k.a. the ones that lost the HD war with Sony). Their goal is to out-do Blu-ray with kiosks that will dispense SD c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rangerdavid Wait, let me get this straight - you have purchased $11,000 in Blu-Ray disks? (550 x $20 each)? I'm sorry. I don't think I can consider a single comment you make seriously. Wow. Why? There are lots o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NonVendorFan I have the same player (now in the bedroom). It doesn't play CD's. Impulse buy actually. I went into BestBuy to get an HDMI cable and saw that it was finally out. That cable cost me $1,110. I had to g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper Sure it does, if it's tied to hardware/firmware. Say someone stole the keys to your unique hardware and copied them, Sony find out that ten zillion copies of the phony keys are being used to pirate conten…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I love posts like franksargent?s. Besides not adding a monitor to the price because he has a 37? 1080p, likely TN display with LCD backlight, I don't know of too many 37" 1080p TVs that use TN panels. .…
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater I'm starting to wonder if blu ray is even going to survive in the long run. I was reading today that overall DVD sales including Blu ray dropped 13.9%. They dropped another 13.5% the first six months of 2…