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Nothing. If you want a camera and video playback, Apple wants you to spend more on a touch. And they know you will.
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Ontario could easily go into a Mini or notebook but ultimately it depends upon performance. It isn't exactly ckear where Ontario tops out clock rate wise but i suspect it could go into AIR and deliver better…
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If the release of a new model means we'll finally see refurbished first-gen iPads in the store, great. Personally, I couldn't care less about Facetime.
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See, I knew Programmer would reply to that post and do a much better job than I could.
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Maybe I don't know as I'm not a programer. Ars had an interesting article a while back on gpus. Apparently Wall Street is one industry that is in big demand for higher end gpus. They do there financial mod…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac You make a good point. But that begs the question, would those apps that need to do number crunching benefit from OCL? If so then they would benefit from a powerful GPU. Maybe, but even with open CL, t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R intel computers, with Intel Inside and graphics by AMD Radeon stickers. Ouch for Intel. Nope- there's an alternate sticker which only says "Radeon" for Intel's pet manufacturers to use.
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac There is this belief that the Intel's new IGPs are 'good' enough and that they are going to cannibalize sales of discrete GPUs. Do you need a GPU capable of teraflop of computing performance to browse the web…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Well then Intel are cheating us. Do you think you get double the performance or twice the battery life with each die shrink? Amdahl's Law, pal. The processor is only one component in a very complex sys…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Or keep the price but bump it up to 320 GB. I think the higher-capacity 1.8" drives are all 5400 RPM, intended for computers and not media players. Perhaps it's a battery life concern.
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So, not as good as the iPhone camera. Hopefully it at least takes sharp photos.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chris_CA That would be 'Apple's new fourth-generation iPod shuffle". The third gen shuffle had no buttons and was smaller than the 2nd gen shuffle. I think everyone is just pretending the buttonless model never exis…
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Awesome, the base model gets all the goodies. I was expecting it to just be a rebadged previous-gen.
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So what's the user agent for Safari on a Mac running 10.6?
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That's not bad at all. A healthy improvement over Nehalem.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism What do you mean? If this is a new Shuffle with a display then it would have a visual menu. Since they allowed playlists in the last build (which are known by the audio feedback reading off the playlist names…
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Quote: Originally Posted by antkm1 ok, how do you get to a menu...tap four times, up up down down left right left right tap? ANNOYING! If it's the new shuffle, then... what menu?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ensign Pulver The whole tiny square touch screen is the control. Tap once to pause, once again to resume, twice for next song, three times for previous song. Completely usable without looking. Slide finger up or dow…
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Blizzard doesn't make terribly demanding games. It should run fine. Maybe not at max details.
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Intel's level of support is irrelevant. USB 3.0 is on the market and the ports will be built into many computers sold next year.