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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast Yeah, Lion sure is expensive. $29. Yikes. Yea, plus $900 for me to upgrade my old PPC software. Worth it in the end, but Lion plus iCloud vs MobileMe is a lot all at once...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dlux I think that right there is enough to discredit the rumor. Thunderbolt is welded to Intel's x86 chipset. No, it is a separate (relatively huge) chip from Intel. Not until next year's Ivy Bridge will it (and USB…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dagamer34 The 13" should ditch the optical drive and stick in a larger battery and discrete graphics. Problem solved! I'm with you, but I expect Apple calls that the 13" Mac Book Air (minus the discrete graphics). …
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Quote: Originally Posted by antkm1 sometimes the differences suck on the iPad. I really hate how they moved most of the useful buttons in Safari (i.e., forward, back, bookmarks and send to) to the top of the screen... Yea, that one bugs me as…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaHarder You're obviously unfamiliar with various Android devices, and how they actually function. An honest question: so Android does not use any bitmapped resources? Because that is the issue with resolution inde…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaHarder Because there's so much more that the iPad's additional screen real-estate could used for... Oh Well, there's always Honeycomb, which is designed from the ground up for tablet/slate use. You mean a better u…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaHarder ... the APPS are what are optimized, the UI is essentially the same in both look/function, even down to the (rather wasteful) icon spacing utilized on the iPad. Evidently we have a differing opinion on what…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DaHarder ... and that screen -shot is of an iOS app (the Mail App to be specific), something that is indeed a different experience on the iPad... which happens to be exactly what I posted. Now go ahead and try to ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Aeolian Neither does my Blueberry. Yea, until I ate mine...
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I don? think the iGP in Sandy Bridge will be good enough for Apple to forego using Intel?s solution. Will it even support OpenCL, something Apple seems hellbent on including in every Mac even though it?s been…
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A nitpick: The current processors have graphics "on package." As is shown in the picture in the article, the CPU package contains two chips (pieces of silicon): the CPU, and the GPU + memory controller. Sandy bridge will only have a single chi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bowser Further, there are literally BILLIONS of receptors in the retina, with MILLIONS in a linear inch. There is no way a display of 326 ppi is higher resolution than the millions of receptors in a linear inch in the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by slapppy I love using Safari. Problem is that's it's pretty much useless for corporate sites. Well just about any site that uses active-x, sharepoint or gov sites. Tends to break or lose functionality with most .net and…
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How about all of the people who cannot have a camera at work? They already cannot buy an iPhone, but now they might be relegated to an iPod Shuffle? Time to buy a few extra iPod Touches I guess...
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Quote: Originally Posted by teckstud Whoever doesn't think Macs aren't more expensive is just plain stupid. Sorry, it's not so simple. Try to price out a Dell similar to a top-of-the line Mac Pro with 8x 2.93 GHz Xeon 5570, 12 GB Memory: …
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I am curious too -- you see, the processor that Apple is using has finally been released 'officially' by Intel (a week or two ago), and Intel claims that the integrated memory controller in the higher-end CPUs (the 2.9 GHz for instance) is capable o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MyopiaRocks Forgive the nerd-speak... Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of Kalman Filtering, which is the best mathematical system for such estimations (if you want a book, the best is, "An Introduction to Kal…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mania Its so hard to use a browser without Adblock Plus anymore... Yes, thank goodness AdBlock is finally available for Safari: http://code.google.com/p/safariblock/ - Matt
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Quote: Originally Posted by bobo28 Actually I think you are close to what Steve has in mind. A combination of an Xserve, Time Capsule and Apple TV: a "whole home server" seems like Apples near future. Set it up and go from anywhere in the hous…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aaple I totally agree with this. Think about the potential benefits of a mid-tower vs. an iMac: customizable display and greater potential for storage and upgrades. I might be missing something, but what percentage of …