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Daily metrics like this don't follow US consumerism all that well, do they? I would think places like Japan, where consumer trends hit hard-and-fast (probably by an order of magnitude), that a daily poll like this would be more necessary. Otherwi…
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Ahh.. the only place where the change from 3 AA to 2 AA batteries is newsworthy. We are all truly addicts.
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Quote: Originally Posted by benice Hats of to Apple for getting involved in a little bit of urban regeneration to enhance the area for everyone. It's a good thing. I dunno. I don't call yet another "Best Buy, Gap, Pier 1 Imports, Pottery Barn…
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1. This is not intended to compete with Microsoft Home Server. If anything, iTunes itself (which can share its media libraries), running on any Mac on your home network, with media backed up to a USB drive hosted on an Airport device, is most of the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChristophB I love film and I love to collect. If I add up all the sets it's probably closer to 600 than 550. I did the same with VHS and DVD. And I don't watch BDs on my Mac. I don't want to but that's my choice …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChristophB So flakey and unreliable that my Sony BDP-S1 that I bought in Oct 2006 will play ALL of my 550+ Blu-rays. Wait, let me get this straight - you have purchased $11,000 in Blu-Ray disks? (550 x $20 each)?…
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Quote: Originally Posted by delreyjones I don't think the standard kind of benchmark applies here, i.e the benchmark where we measure a computer's speed with and without the feature. If I understand GCD correctly, the main benefit will be measur…
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The proof is in the pudding - Let's see benchmarks on the same multi-core hardware, using GCD and non=GCD builds of FreeBSD. Show me the advantage in handling multithreaded software. Anandtech? Anyone?
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This is awesome - but I have a question. I'm a grad student that happens to have a conflict in my class schedule; I have to leave a stats class 20 minutes early to get to a lecture I proctor. I was going to buy a Flip camera to record the missing…
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I, for one, and quite happy to see the stock price only dipped $2 by the end of trading. To me that's actually quite a good vote of confidence, compared to some of the panics over Mr. Jobs' heath of previous months. No?
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Quote: Ireland, I hope your other "reason" isn't a tablet computer that's 11 or 12 inches diagonal, because that would be a financial disaster for Apple. Sorry, but it's a colossaly bad idea. Isn't the iPhone a 3.5-inch diagonal tablet PC? N…
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Quote: Originally Posted by krispie AppleTV on Atom - possibly. Mac mini on Atom - don't be daft! I could imagine a senario where you can purchase an Atom-based Mac Mini that is an AppleTV replacement at around $300, marketed as a "Mac Mini…
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...However, Intel's Atom processor is designed to be a low cost, energy efficient x86-compatible GPU Correction: The above article incorrectly uses "GPU" several times where "CPU" is in fact the correct term. A "GPU" is a Graphics Processing Unit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iDave iBooks and MacBooks have been upgraded every fall since the beginning of time. And this is a major screw-up every time. The Higher Education buying cycle, for both faculty and staff, and incomming students, i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mobius32us a brief interlude from all the pontificating: but why do people (as mr. wu does repeatedly) use the phrases "form factor" and "price points" when "design" and "price" would serve just as well?? every time i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by eodchop I am a loyal loyal apple and mac user. I have bought one of every major release of hardware in the last 6 years. I understand that the price of the iphone needed to be dropped, but i still cant help but feel th…