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There's a big thread over at Ars on this. Even Peter Bright thinks its not a good idea. Windows 7 on ARM=fail. Why they won't adapt WP7 for tablets mystifies me.
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow Can we stop complaining about Intel's integrated graphics now? The reviews are out. Here's Anandtech's comparison of gaming performance, which includes a Geforce 320M Macbook. And OpenCL? **** OpenCL. …
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It could've used more cow bell.
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Quote: Originally Posted by shadow415 True, but "good amount of money" being equivalent to "making a living" is your definition, not mine. To me, $750 means a little extra to spend on the family and a bump up in our savings. The point I was go…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shadow415 Define "a good amount of money". Earlier this year, I wrote a quick little app (took me about 4 hours and that included learning ObjC and developing apps in XCode). After Apple's cut, it brings in a steady…
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Nice pick up and interesting thoughts DA.
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They ought to start by improving the reliability and speed of the services that MM already offers.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin It looks like it's recording the full frames but is capturing a larger image than the game resolution so at the right and bottom, it just repeats the pixels. All you should have to do is crop the recorded output…
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I must be alone in this endeavor.
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Look here:http://www.macworld.com/article/1406...odcast108.html
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Quote: Originally Posted by sranger Im my opinion this will be fine until the next version of OSX comes out and you can no longer load apps through any means other than the Mac App Store..... Just my prediction... I think it will get progre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by a_greer What I am worried about is the monopolization of the sales channel. if 90 % of apps are sold thru the app store and 2 or 3 apps that I rely on arent, sure I can still get it and will gladly pay indie devs for i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by a_greer I may just stop using Mac for good over this...now apple will control innovation on the mac just like they do on the iphone? no thanks, Steve and co make great hardware and OSes but I dont want them dictating w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Programmer ........ Apple has been shipping multi-core systems for over a decade, their OS (both iOS and MacOSX) has been aggressively optimized for a multi-processor environment -- including OpenCL. Apple's dev tools…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bigpics Just for the record, Luddites resist the advance of technology and science, while "ludites" are probably, what, tranquilizer ("ludes") abusers... .... You got me there. Also another advantage of Chr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht In the spirit of doubling down after making a rash prediction that might actually come true I will predict that the 2011 A5 is a 32nm HKMG Cortex A9 fabbed in Samsung's spanking new 32nm HKMG fab. That's pushing…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmz Some things are more significant than bullsh browser based OS. If you can't put two and two together (critical thinking, evaluation of evidence, non-ignorance) and understand why Google has proven themselves precis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Being pro- or anti-Google, or being paranoid that Big Brother, warranted or not, is out to get you is irrelevant to a browser-based desktop OS being a solid idea. I say I can see this type of OS being able to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macnyc Please tell me which hospital you work at so I can stay a million miles away! Many hospitals are windows centric. Every one that I've ever worked at. The fact that the Hp slate couldn't sell into that tradit…
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If it's true that only 9000 HP slates were sold then that's pretty astoundingly bad. I expected the HP slate to sell much better than that, but didn't expect it to rival the iPad. MS should look at the real sales figures of the HP slate and e…