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Quote: Originally Posted by nicolbolas well, this shows that its faster, but this is access times, when you try running something CPU or GPU intensive, show me the benchmarks. that being said, a lot of people wouldn't need this speed. also,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Well I disagree. Sure Llano isn't going to beat SB in a CPU race. Not now and certainly not when it arrives on the market. But Llano only has to be faster than a mobile Core 2 Duo cpu to find a nice n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I see these chips as game changers. For example when the Zacate chip is out it could successfully replace the Core 2/NVidia combo in the current AIRs. All they would really need out of Zacate is a sligh…
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Remember the Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies? The villain was written to be a hybrid of Murdoch and Jobs. If a British warship sinks off the coast of China next month, we should all start getting worried.
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Quote: Originally Posted by matthewmspace But she can't add office/warranty to it like she can in the regular area. You can add the same Applecare warranty coverage to refurb Macs as you can to new. As for Office, she'd probably get a better d…
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Apple also doesn't stack discounts. Meaning, an education discount can't be combined with a sale like Black Friday. As far as I know, that is. If her education discount is only $50 off the $999 Macbook, she should buy a refurbished one- they're $…
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Quote: Originally Posted by matthewmspace Should she buy it next Friday (because of Black Friday) or wait until January? Thank you. Her educator discount probably trumps whatever sale Apple will have.
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I think Apple should take its $60 billion in cash and build its own factories, completely under its control. And build them anywhere except China.
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Frankly, I would not buy a new computer from Apple (unless I were a student or otherwise able to swing a large discount). Refurb all the way.
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Quote: Originally Posted by simtub Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "Desktop chips will range from dual 2.5 GHz Core i3s to quad 3.4 GHz Core i7s. Regular notebooks will get dual 2.5GHz to 2.7GHz Core i5 and i7 chips in the first batch…
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If you want a performance preview, Anand got ahold of a Sandy Bridge engineering sample and tested it.
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They must have a hell of a profit margin if they figured only 5000 would cover the development and tooling costs.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Any particular reason you think this? Its only advantage over the Macbook, increased portability, doesn't matter at all to schools. Its disadvantages- much slower CPU, no optical drive, no lock slot- de…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Same reason they killed off the iPod mini; they came out with something better. And what is this something better? The 11" Macbook Air? Schools and universities aren't going to buy that.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Good luck. It should have died in fall 2008. It's more likely to die now. Apple won't kill the plastic Macbook. It sells too well.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism To add what Melgross stated, AnandTech reported that the Toshiba controllers were great in handling garbage collection, which may be why Apple uses them. The Toshiba controller Apple picked is good at garb…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Maybe. Apple often doesn't offer the highest option on lessor machines, but they can take them if third parties make them. It may be possible here. It would be nice, but it might simply be too expensive from A…
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So the 256GB is thicker. It must be double-sided. That presumably answers the question of why it wasn't offered as an option on the 11"
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R It's worth noting that google is built on commodity pc hardware running linux, with some crazy fast networking gluing it together. When they need to scale, they buy more commodity PC hardware. Google go…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland Linux. Bingo. There's no telling what hardware they're using, but it doesn't matter.