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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If they drop to 11.6", they will probably have to drop the resolution down from 1280 x 800 to 1024 x 640. Every 11.6" screen on a notebook/netbook today is 16:9 and 1366x768.
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Proprietary storage is not cool, Apple.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Reporting purposes such as what? The article relates to the sales of a specific subcategory of computers knowns as PCs, not to "computers" broadly. Perhaps the posters here who object to the iPad being call…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss IIRC from my computer science classes from years of yore, a computer is defined as a CPU + storage + input/output. If it's go those characteristics, it's a computer. Religious definitions not required. T…
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Not surprising- Apple builds many prototypes that it does not use.
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For what you do, upgrading the RAM would probably be a better use for the money.
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Actually, I'd love to see Apple use a touchscreen version of the dual-mode display created for the OLPC XO-1: Quote: 1200×900 7.5 inch (19 cm) diagonal LCD (200 dpi) that uses 0.1 to 1.0 W depending on mode. The two modes are: Reflective (backl…
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Just to butt in on the conversation... Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism That is nonsense. And show us this "Your iPad is probably too slow to play this movie correctly? message. VLC on my old iBook gives me that "your CPU is too slow t…
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Both 27", I presume? You won't notice a difference for most office tasks, but the quad-core will handle multitasking a little bit better. It's also more "future proof," but they'll both be equally obsolete in 4-5 years. You don't mention any sort…
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More storage would solve the only real issue I have left with the iPad. Video takes up space, and 16/32/64 is kind of sad.
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Quote: Originally Posted by PB With Apple's experience on portable design, such changes are trivial to implement if they decide to get rid of the optical drive. These days portable processing power is more important than a built-in optical drive.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LBV Has anyone considered the possibility of using the NVIDIA Optimus in conjunction with the Arrendale chipsets? They won't. Apple developed its own, proprietary, version of switchable graphics tech for the 15 and …
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Call local computer stores and see if they have a recycling program that takes that old hardware. Put the software up on ebay or Craigslist. Or don't ask me- I can't throw this stuff away, either!
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 What a delightful choice of screenshot. I was just trying to find her with Google Image Search. No luck.
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They are incredibly useful things to have if you work with a lot of loose hard drives. However, I've found them to also be pretty cheaply made and prone to failure, especially the power bricks that they use. You might look for a cheaper one, in the …
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They're all the same, buy the cheapest one.
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Unless you're connecting enterprise-level storage to enterprise-level storage (RAID to RAID), your transfer rate will be limited by the read and write speeds of the drive(s) involved. Writes are slower, and in practice that works out to 300-400 Mbps…
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The Phenom II X6 1090T performs comparable to Intel's i7 860 or 870. This new 1100T will be a few percent faster. In other words, six physical cores roughly match four cores with hyperthreading. The X6 is AMD's somewhat brute-force play to get ba…
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You're limited by the speed of the drives involved. Fast RAID arrays would help. They'd also cost a lot and require actual computer skills to set up.
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The Crucial RealSSD C300 is the fastest, but to get that speed, you have to buy the 256GB version (the 128GB version has fewer channels) and pair it with a 6Gbps SATA controller.