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Designing computer hardware is generally faster than writing software, even if it involves making a special ASIC. Designing a new CPU or GPU, however, is far more demanding than making a new OS. OSX has fallen in the Windows trap, becoming depen…
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The battery capacity is a deciding factor here. It rules out a built-in AirPort but not Bluetooth. Both also have too limited transfer rates for wireless video transfer, and 20 GB is not much if you want to carry around quality videos. Given Stev…
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How about producing hexagonal chips? it would still make good use of the wafers and it would optimize the cross-distance/speed factor for the electrons (actually a very simplistic model). Three-dimensionally built processors is a dead end - it wo…
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As long as it runs Mac OSX *FAST*, I don't care either which CPU is used, or what the architecture is like. Unfortunately, there IS a connection..... engpjp
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[quote]Originally posted by Amorph: If you're going to go reengineering AMD designs, why not strip off the x86 translation layer while you're at it and let that Alpha-inspired RISC core shine through? You might even be able to put a (thinner…
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Might I suggest that it would be possible to pair (or more) an AMD processor with a VMX-compliant DSP processor, using one of the fast new bus protocols specifically developed for inter-chip communications? That would allow AltiVec code rewriting to…
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The arguments against the integration of AirPort and Bluetooth don't hold: using evolving versions of the two technologies on the motherboard revisions will increase neither number of sales nor revenue. Similarly, the idea that being able to choose …
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It's not quite true that Viking named new places according to their first impressions of them. And Normandie is definitely a bad example (unless the first person they met there was someone from Scandinavia!). Reading the sources that first indica…
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:-D Actually, I meant Popsicle Doll Airbag - now look out for the Stever!!! As for the iThingie - do you drag-n-drop with the headphones? engpjp
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However, the SonyEricsson form factor is murder for any kind of visual use (the "P" word, y'know). And using the phone as an MP3 player will cut the battery time drastically... engpjp
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I agree; "convergence" was an early 90'es catch-all phrase. There ARE combined devices out there, but thy are rarely succesfull: how many have fridges that surf the Internet? PDA's are conveyers of visual data while mobile phones and MP3 players …
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Jabba, The iApps and technologies you mention are from OSX. While they would make much sense on a phone/pda unit, I doubt that such a one would be capable of running OSX. OSX Lite is not feasible if you look at the technical aspects, and converti…
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NYP's article holds at least one major logical flaw: it is intermingling three different OS'es: OSX, Pixo's OS (in iPod), and PalmOS. The features in 10.2 which are mentioned as indicators that OSX is prepared for a cell phone, may or may not be …
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My apologies for the sensationalist tone in my post above. What I wanted was merely to ask whether anyone knows if it's Dorsal or not. Call it human interest.... engpjp
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*COMFIRMED!!! - BY DORSAL In a discussion
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Rhapsody never had PC/Windows emulation. There were only RUMORS of that, the infamous RED BOX strategy. Yellow Box for PC was killed, for various reasons, one of which was that developers should be encouraged to write native applications for Mac, ra…
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johnsonwax: "x86 is the least interesting rumor, though, as it really means nothing than recompiling Mac OS X and deploying on existing hardware." That must be one of the most persistent myths on the Apple boards... And in most cases a 32-bit…
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:-) Isn't it interesting how someone suddenly becomes a saint or a prophet, simply by dying or otherwise disappearing? I seem to remember that one of the things Moki advocated most clearly was a future Mac using x86 (or similar) hardware? Having …
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The natives that are restless are pounding their drums in this forum. The rest of the user flock are shellfish slowly venting their fibrils... engpjp
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[quote]Nobody, ever waits to release a product that is ready to go, ever, period, end of story. The nature of the business is that product becomes obsolete to fast to wait for a perfect time for a product release. If it's ready you start selling i…