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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii I think the 1.4GHz figure might be a bit misleading - look at the Turbo Boost 2.7GHz. That is way more than most Intel CPUs boost by. Its a dual core CPU. I suspect that it'll be at 1.4 ghz most of the tim…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cpsro Try incompetence, self-serving interests and corruption on the government side, helped in part by big money from the insurance companies. When they entered graduate school, most physicians had no idea the amoun…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin .... As far as the benchmarks go, the Intel Atom is dual 1.3GHz that dynamically clocks to 2GHz. The A6 is dual 1GHz that dynamically clocks to 1.3GHz and it's not clear what the power draw is of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Vaelian While that's true on current hardware, it doesn't have to be in future hardware. As far as design is concerned, ARM is a lot easier to implement than x86; the only thing currently keeping x86 in …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin .... This 'Swift' architecture is early days but a pretty good effort: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/4 I surprised you posted an Anandtech link to the iPhone 5 review to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sunspot42 Maybe at the moment. In 5 years? It'll be fast enough for anything anybody is going to do in Photoshop. Video editing might or might not be a problem, depending on the rest of the chipset…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta It will also lead to a massive decrease in performance - which would not be acceptable to most people. We're a long way from ARM even reaching current levels of Intel performance - and by the…
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It was fun while it lasted.
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AMD don't make their own chips anymore. Thats done by Global Foundries which is a separate chip fabricator like Taiwan Semi. Buying AMD would be buying a chip designer.
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FW was (past tense) good for fast external storage. USB 3 will be take over for fast, cheap external storage. TB will have a niche for ultimate fast but expensive external storage, as well as other uses.. I don't see much of a future …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cash907 I'd wait if I were you. Lion (and ML, for that matter) have been buggy as all get-out for me. Unless you really need the few added features like push email to iOS like was mentioned above, sti…
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I'm conflicted as to whether I should move from SL server to LIon server. There doesn't seem to be much advantage. But I'm glad to see ML server. Apple's commitment to OSX server has seemed a bit in question recently. I wouldn't be disappointed if …
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They've done it before. The iMac I'm typing this from has the NVIDIA 9400 IGP. Same as what was in the mini at that time. The IGP becomes a tool to upsell to the $1200 iMac
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Quote: Originally Posted by mjteix To be precise, some Ivy Bridge Xeon chips have already been announced, I'm just not sure exactly when they will be available (to OEMs or general public), but before the summer for sur…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I'm in the 3D medical imaging business and education field as well. Kind of interesting to see this discussion here even though it's way off topic. I'm a specialist in digital x-ray and going off on a tangent so…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro FYI There is an excellent picture archiving and communication system (PACS) server solution for Mac that integrates exceedingly well with OSiriX which is free as well. . What is it? Generally if the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Interesting. Does it integrate with your digital x-rays? No. I don't have a digital x-ray machine yet. Many don't integrate well with Mac systems. I am a specialist and get many x-rays sent to me electroni…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I guess you are using iCal Server so that you can schedule meetings among the staff members. What other services do you use that are Mac specific? I use a dental billing and electronic medical record software…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone There are even fewer people who need OS X Server than need a Mac Pro. OS X Server is essentially a set of management tools for people who don't know anything about UNIX. Technically speaking, any Mac can be conf…