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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs once publicly called the licensing issues regarding Blu-ray a "bag of hurt." Translation: We can make money off downloads. We wouldn't get a cut of any Blu-ray disc sale…
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Quote: Originally Posted by screamingfist you two, just stop with the nonsense. no professional IT shop is going to do something this stupid. Yeah, it'd be so much better to pay almost as much for a Mac mini server. Besides, if I had a dollar …
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What's to keep people from building Hackintosh servers if they need rack mount? Pick up a 4U case, throw in a decent PS, mobo, Core i7, lots of RAM, a Silicon Image RAID controller and four hard drives. Install OS X Server and you should be good to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Zoolook You're half right. I can backup 2- GBs of photos and movies in about 30 mins - not bad for the Mac Mini. However, try downloading - Ars Technica App - WSJ - Wired - Equire - NY Times App Load up a cou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Zoolook Never mind iPad download speeds, what about iPad syncing speeds... 14 hours now, and climbing. http://discussions.apple.com/thread....t=120&tstart=0 Never seen an article here about this problem... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bwik Nope, people call Cd lossless but it's just another "uncompressed" digital format. Compared to reality, CD has poor resolution and poor frequency response. Some people can eAsily hear digital artifacts from the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmz CDs are not lossless, smart a$$ Really? I could have sworn CDs use PCM streams, which are by definition uncompressed and lossless.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism 1) Do you know of any TI graphing calc ?emulators" for Mac OS? I need to relearn to use one and I?d rather do it without having to buy one at the moment. You said you have an iPhone. You can grab the PI83 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hyperscribble In the official Apple video introduction to the new MacBook Air, Phil Schiller Explained exactly why that would lead to an awkward and uncomfortable user experience, and I couldn't agree more. Touch input…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Hmm. I know my Macbook Alu 2ghz can go at most overnight in sleep mode without power connected before it shuts down. When I say 1 to 8 hours I mean depending on how much battery you've already used. It could…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 I know I'm starting to sound like an ass, but I'm surprised people are missing the point of Instant On. It's a pretty amazing achievement. Before, you couldn't really put your laptop in a bag asleep (due to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacKeeperFunReg Yep, and then call it "Apple Mac Monster" and sell for few hundred dollars It seems that you want everything for nothing. Do you really think that such a device have some advantages over iPad or MBA? …
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Almost worth it. Now if Apple would only add a multitouch display that can flip and fold back over the keyboard like the convertible PC tablets and give it the capability to run iOS as well as Mac OS apps, I'd be willing to part with $1500 for the 1…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Interestingly, how will Apple recognise a pirated iWork 09 and you reinstalling it from a DMG? But yeah eventually pirates, jailbreaking and Cydia and repos for Macs will emerge. Hackers are probably watchin…
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This is obviously Apple's plan to stem piracy of their apps. Since they removed the serials on retail packages of iWork last year, people have been filesharing it like crazy. Now, with Lion and the Mac App Store, you won't be able to just download a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 I don't agree at all. SATA isn't just a cable, it defines the entire bus interface. If you wanted to replace it you would need to create an entirely new communication specification, including equivalent…
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This is Apple's netbook. Okay, a $1000 netbook, but it's not like that hasn't been done before. Sony had their Vaio P in the same price range.
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit They might as well close their doors if they take that strategy. If this article is correct and AMD is taking a wait and see attitude towards the tablet (read: mobile) industry then they are already 5 yea…
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Now this is the kind of guy Microsoft needs to replace Ballmer with if they don't want to continue their slow but inexorable slide into irrelevancy.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Most of those I don't think are strange and even predicted prior to the actual anmouncement of an Apple tablet. For starters, the later I/O of the 10" display allows for some really complex apps and the App S…