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Netbooks still exist?
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It's strange, I've been in the Google ecosystem for awhile, and yet the only spam I get in my email is from Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and a few other smaller services I've unfortunately signed up for (which are all quite useless). For a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Bing Delivers 5 Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/none/310268-bing-delivers-five-times-as-many-malicious-websites-as-google To be fair Bing is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui Speaking of thinking ahead - while Dilger waxes lyrical about TMSC and how they are planning on working on 20nm and 16nm next, Samsung has been busy actually building a fab for 20nm and 14nm …
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Quote: Originally Posted by crazy_mac_lover Why can't Apple simply work with intel ? Because Intel is more demanding than other manufacturers. They charge more for chips and want to keep more profit for themselves.
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Quote: Originally Posted by sflocal I hope Apple locks down Xcode / Composer to only work on OSX devices. I know it's crass and in bad taste but the thought of elegant Apple-designed interfaces being used to put lipstick on a pig is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmm Notebook keyboards are nowhere near as comfortable, so I prefer a full sized keyboard, although I like the slim ones Apple uses today over the older styles. Guess you've never used a ThinkPad …
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Both will be plenty fast (both for your needs and in general). Go for the better display, you'll have to look at it more. You won't notice a speed difference, but you'll see the display difference...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Oddly enough, I cannot run Excel on the superior iPad. I can run Apple Numbers on the iPad -- but it does not have all the features found in the Mac version. I have a Numbers…
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Lenovo grew 13%. Only bright spot. Manufacturers need to smarten up, and abandon Windows. Microsoft has screwed all their partners, and their OS is terrible. Linux is more than mature enough to replace Windows, and with some love from O…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ryios People who think c# is slow because it has to translate byte code to machine code as it's executed just don't understand how .Net works. First, it goes back to PE File Format. PE File Forma…
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Just went to the Office 365 website, it told me my browser (Chrome Beta) is outdated, and I should install the latest Internet Explorer (never mind that I'm on Linux). Microsoft is going to be completely irrelevant in a few years. Apple b…
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Generally anti-virus is a waste of time on OSX, Linux, and Unix-like OSes... Just don't be stupid and sideload random apps, or browser plugins.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Why sideload it? Oh yeah, that's right; who the FRICK wants to do that EVER? Developers, people who want software that's not available on Google Play (like Firefox Aurora). On …
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Bad move by Apple. This will discourage developers, the prospect of someone else having 100% control over your revenue stream is a scary one...
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Quote: Originally Posted by jd_in_sb Sadly all decisions in favor of Apple are overturned eventually. Because most of the patents are silly. Translucent images and text selection... Really? How are these even patents t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX The tweet didn't state it was an April Fools joke. If that's the case then I like it. I just assumed that was some guady hipster "ironic" choice to make the car as "cool" as possible by making…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX After seeing this I take back what I said about not hating a company: https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/320197445306953728 Dunno, that's a pretty sweet April fools gag... Turning your bos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jazzguru Comparing Apple's competitors to the Axis powers in WWII is a bit over the top, don't you think? Kind of in line with what I expect from this forum. Reinforces the idea that Apple is …
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I doubt most of those users care...