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Mel. It's clear you're posting from an iPad. The typos give it away.
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Anand had doubts about it being a 6EU chip since it wasn't specified but I thought he was told turboboost was broken. Meh, I don't care enough to reread that article. True, but it's not a step back. Intel …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I wrote that with the intention of it coming across like it could never happen. Well, I think I just got one of the biggest shocks of my life : http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/08/u...intel-sandy-b/ http://fo…
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If true, surprised and disappointed.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It?s not about ?want? it?s about was it feasible. I want a Bugatti Veyron and a G6 but I?m not getting either. If you look at what the average family in a world can afford to spend on a ?computer? a $500 iPad…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macdad Yes, excellent advice !! Indeed the CPU is not really the only bottleneck (although some audio tasks could definitely benefit from a quad-core cpu). The reason i hadn't maxed ram before was because i was advised…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Your sequential read/write speeds will be limited by sata 1 speed but you'll still get full benefit of random read/write speeds and low latency of the ssd. Meaning you get pretty much 100% of the advantages of qui…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Some say the OS currently uses it we just don?t know it because it?s all in the background whilst others say it?s because the next version of Mac OS will require it because it will relay heavily on it for ope…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macdad + 1 the techno babble is killing me but you guys definitely seem to be on to something lol so i'm going to go ahead an ask my stupid question as i'm trying to figure out if i should upgrade my 2006 black ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tailpipe This thread has become so geeky it's terrifying. Can you try and dial it down a couple of notches so lesser mortals can understand what the heck you're saying? Wiz, Marvin, bactomac, blueeddie and nht would…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Apple isn't giving up on OCL in either scenario given Intel is providing OCL support on the CPU. OpenCL is supposed to run on CPUs, GPUs and whatever other hardware happens to be available. As long as the Sandy B…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht So the folks making this assertion has to show AT LEAST ONE USE CASE WHERE OPENCL SUPPORT IS CRITICAL. . There isn't any now but do neither you nor I are privy to Apple's future plans. Its important to re…
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@Marvin Saw your link and browsed the OCL thread at Macupdate. As I suspected, the mobile CPUs aren't close to GPUs in performance under OCL. While we don't have mobile SB CPUs to bench under OCL yet, I don't see SB able to close that gap as i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 When talking about laptops it is difficult to say exactly what we will be seeing performance wise. First most of Sandy Bridge's improvements are in the areas that compete with GPU computing. That is the th…
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In a related development, Apple has figured out what to do with their billions of dollars of cash.
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Someone stated that OCL is somehow a requirement for OS X and the Core APIs. This strikes me as false but even if it was true, so long as the OCL on CPU replicated all OCL functionality used by the OS then the per…
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Apple isn't buying Sony. Sony don't just have competing products they have competing technologies. Apple isn't going to buy Sony and show them how to make better Windows notebooks and Android phones. The PS3 is an indirect competitor to the ATV…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 ... You just get the feeling that AMDs long term goals are the same as Apples. I get that feeling too. I just hope AMD can execute and get their chips to market on time or even early. Llano should b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot In other words, AirPrint doesn't work. If it needs a hack/jailbreak... then, as an APPLE touted feature, it doesn't work. It seems odd that Apple (with access to private API's) couldn't pull …
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow After thinking about it, I think Apple will drop the optical drive from the 13" Macbook and Macbook Pro to give them both SB CPUs with low-end discrete GPUs (which is also one more way to differentiate th…