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Quote: Originally Posted by IQatEdo There does seem to be quite some nervousness about the price of this device - whatever it is. \ doesnt have to be one device.... netbook *and* an islate?
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Quote: Originally Posted by tiger_swimmer it cracks me up that all these PC guys at CES are referring to their tablet products as "slates." LOL I'm a pretty big apple fan (Or I wouldnt be on this board :-p), but slate has been a term for keyb…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hal 9000 What is the real benefit versus a virtual machine? I prefer to have other OSes running in a window on a separate display. On my MP? Gaming on windows and performance on linux. On windows I want DX10 (though…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jason_hildo Hi, I have a Mac Pro (early 2008 version) with a single 8800GT and I was hoping to buy a second one from the apple store and install it. My question is, do I need firmware/software updates? Will it wor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets I see more people with Dell computers doing business than your Mac showoff. It's a stereotype just like ArtieMacStrawman. There are a lot more Dells out there than Macs. That said, I go to several major c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ivan.rnn01 Show them moolah. Yes, oh Tom Cruise! :-p
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Quote: Originally Posted by ivan.rnn01 Kinda. No, I still don't believe Apple would go in supercomputing further, than to some students' experiments. What looks more probable to me is they might have had some prospects of developing OS X Server i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ivan.rnn01 It's written in black and white there: "home-built cluster" (what we else call diminutively "home-brew"). I meant industrially useful systems. Well, it is a research cluster, used in a production environ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ivan.rnn01 Mea culpa! I didn't care to look through the pages with numbers greater than 5. And the system, having been ranked 282 of 500, appeared to be on 6th. ::grins::, just pointing out that *someone* was crazy …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaveGee You forgot the childish cloak and dagger way they deal with hardware and software roadmaps. Sure it's okay to do that for us in the peanut gallery but corporations need to know as FAR in advance as possible wha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ivan.rnn01 Thanks for info, MacTripper! It's a bit unexpected then, that Apple fell in romance with ZFS after they had actually been done with PPC. Way to go Nvidia! Have any mac supercomputers ever been …
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Quote: Originally Posted by EvilTed NAS devices like the Qnap do a good job of providing a very fast device with low power usage BUT they have a propietory software interface which you cannot alter (you have to use their applications). AFAIK…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bloggerblog No such thing, it's called XRAID. This is typical Apple, and that is exactly the kind of half-baked promises that keeps IT people far away from Apple. No. Answers for what keep IT people away from apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rhowarth Re: What's needed is a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad... I don't want a great big ugly graphics pad that I have to use a pen with. The closest thing might be the Logitech MediaBoard Pro, but it woul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider In a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Michael Corkery examined the effect differing levels of disclosure had on the stock prices of both companies. His conclusion: "Openness can be healthy." W…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper Yes it is. Computer processors are now less powerful and multi-core to reduce heat as they can't get them to go any faster, which doesn't lend itself very well to 3D game programming advances which very f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac There is this thing called sarcasm. Have you heard of it? Not my day, that wooshing sound? that's it going right over my head :-p I would give my first born for a POWER6 MP though :-p
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac I yearn for the Power PC days. At least then Apple used the best cpus Motorola and IBM could produce. Not entirely, neither company was making *enough* chips for apple to divert the engineering resource…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleWiz67 THAT causes a potential MacPro buyer to get a Dell for much less money. All fair and good that many think Apple has hit a winner with making iMac useless for anything above using Firefox. Giant & obes…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Xtrail Looking for a home based 4 bay server. NOT WINDOWS BASED! Help!! What in the world do MAC people do? It should not be difficult. Lots of laptops selling. I'm lost. Any assistance welcome. T…