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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton I bet you anything you'll get better sound from an Apple TV and a $50 pair of powered speakers than you would get from a $150 pair of airplay speakers. There's no reason to wait. I may breakdown and just get …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler I recently installed an appleTV2 in our workout room... Previously, I had to dock the phone in order to play music or video. This wasn't so bad, but it did discourage playing things on whim. Between reps, it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler lol. Thanks for registering to keep me company in here. Apparently nobody is interested in AirPlay yet. My prediction is that it will become one of the most popular and useful features of phones and tablets.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me In the absence of mechanical failure, a HDD will last for ages... Reminds me of that saying, "if your mother had balls she'd be your dad". That's precisely why HDDs fail. I guess its debatable whether the SS…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jsk173 Well, the above is how SSDs are marketed, but a quick Google search yields a lot of articles that claim the marketing has been overstated or is even false -- i.e., info. from the manufacturers reportedly indicat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jsk173 Good luck with the new machine. How did you arrive at the decision to upgrade to the SSD? I'm about to order a new 17" myself, but I've never owned an SSD. Some of these stories about SSDs being less reliable ov…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Onhka Must be a lot of unsung brilliant creative people here. Amazing how many criticize a product that some of the great directors/studios/etc., are doing so well with it now. Love to see all your Curriculum Vitae.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning That's not what I said and you know it. Intel may have had the intention, but they don't have a chip, and won't have a chip for years to come that will go in a cellphone You said "Intel entered into MeeGo …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht .. WP7's primary tablet advantage is time to market. As in MS could field a credible tablet OS based on WP7 pretty much tomorrow if they really had to. A WP7 skin on top of Win7 is next fastest in time to mark…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Hence their port of Win7 to ARM and their unchanging view that Win7 is their tablet strategy... . Win 8 is going to be ported to ARM. Thats a year away if everything goes as planned.
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht That MS isn't unprepared for the tablet market but that their strategy differs? That Win7 is better than OSX for tablets doesn't make Win 7 a good choice for tablets and market experience has shown a poor respon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht ....They have more baked into Win7 than Apple currently has with OS X. . Thats a meaningless comparison because Apple aren't using OSX on tablets. They use iOS as you know. What point are you trying to mak…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Oh you have your underwear in a bunch about that! You are 100% correct! Nokia's gigantic and profligate R&D spend goes on more than just Symbian. Symbian "only" requires 6200 people in creat…
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This is the part of poker match where you show your cards.
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross In reading what Ahonen wrote, I'm not feeling that even with his extensive experience in the field that he really understands what's going on these days. While I see Intel, in the short run, at least, as a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning If he was a former president when they merged the project how would he have any more insight than most people writing comments here? ....t. Because he was involved with the decision. Are you really that ob…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Intel entered into MeeGo knowing that all the previous Maemo devices, and a tonne of other Nokia phones ran ARM, they weren't going to get their chips on the phones, they were going to get leverage off Nokias …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Nokia didn't really have a choice. This is not about market share. Nokia has market-share coming out of their wazoo. This was about profitability. Every useful device starts out with healthy profits …
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht They killed Symbian not Meego so they could ship their Meego tablet whenever they want. Elop indicated that there would be a 2011 MeeGo product and it wouldn't be a smartphone. The next tablet is likely ARM bas…
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Really have to wonder about Atom's future now. Is it a just a budget laptop cpu or a smartphone/handheld device cpu?