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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Q: Are the tower placements for CDMA (I assume these were the previous AMPS towers) also ideal for GSM on the 850MHz spectrum? Doubtful. GSM has a 35 km limit, while CDMA doesn't, so any towers that were s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by John.B All things being equal, CDMA may or may not be a superior technology for voice calls but HSDPA is a far superior technology to EV-DO for cellular data. That may be true if you've got coverage, but AT&T su…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hillstones The infamous PowerBook 5300 incident never made it out of the labs! There never was a recall for batteries that were never used in production models. This isn't true. While the problem never occurred, to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Yes I was actually mentally think more like .5 %. I would have to see numbers that show Apple was hiding a LOT of failures. Any device I plug into the wall has the potential for sparking. It has to be …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison If the magsafe is say %20 defective then it's certainly a problem but if it's only %5 defective them the risks are mitigated by the amount of laptops save from untimely death being yanked from where they are…
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Yeah... this ad's not so good. "You'll like a PC if you're a tech geek who cares about specs over everything else." Now that's got mass appeal.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 Charles, this is an old thread now and you might not see this, but you just don't know what you're talking about here. Do you really think these sorts of "you're a doo-doo head" posts strengthen your argu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by CU10 STFU, the is plain BS. Any Ni-Mh (it won't be Li-Ion from 1999) battery would have packed up. It's just a simple case of chemistry which cannot be changed. Actually, Li-Ion batteries have been used in compute…
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Quote: Originally Posted by CU10 I hear your argument here, and I only hope Apple will bring the price down on Mac Pros for folks with your needs (or buy used). Or the MacBook Pro, which at least has an ExpressCard slot to give a bit of future…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 I guess your just a troll or an astroturfer Nope, I'm not a troll (and I don't know what an "astroturfer" is) - I'm just a long-time Mac user who has become frustrated with their hardware offerings as of …
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Doesn't AI already have a front-page article on MS's new ads? Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider What happened to "Total Cost of Ownership"? Macs have a higher TCO as well. When components in a PC become outdated or you need a new fea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Roos24 Sure, but the Infineon chip that Apple uses in the iPhone 3G misses the 1700 MHz band that T-Mobile uses in the US. Good luck. It will work just fine with T-Mobile's 1900 MHz GSM/EDGE. The data speeds won't b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by italiankid I hope LG gets rid of the gradient displays that have been on the iMac 24" Why would Apple go with LG again? PRICE! Samsung is so much better. Not true. The panels Apple gets from LG.Philips are IPS…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lepton Hey, guess what? LG is a big player in the emerging OLED market. Check out the LG announcements, they are putting out a 15" OLED panel starting about now. Think about that in the lid of a MacBook Air, making …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 "People are finally starting to realise that the "smartphone market" or the smartphone segment of the cell market is poised to become the entire market." Not unle…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jeffharris Well, it broke SIMBL plug-ins: SafariStand AND Concierge. I'm bummed and pissed! The way those "plug-ins" (they're actually hacks - Safari doesn't have a plug-in interface) work makes it extremely unlikel…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Apple doesn't play well with others. It is not Apple's responsibility to ensure compatibility with third party hacks.
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Quote: Originally Posted by devin Apple has always provided a single solution that people either use and love, or have no use for. This is their niche. This obviously doesn't reach everybody under the sun, but it does provide a perfect solution…
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They've got a point. For $600 plus the price of an ExpressCard, you can get a cheap Dell laptop with FireWire support. With Apple, you'll have to pay $1999 for this (yes, I know the old MacBooks are still available for now - but that won't last).…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE and who need a waterproof phone?! I had a phone get destroyed once from being in my pocket while I walked somewhere through the rain. I'd guess that water damage due to rain, dropping it in a puddle, et…