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It's good that Apple got the mini port part of the standard (i kinda figured they would). Of course, this also means that the haters will be here shortly to preach about how VGA is superior and that Apple is dumb for not supporting it, or that HDMI…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison If it's not clear to people where the next gold rush is let's make it clear. It's mobile computing and I'm not talking about laptops. I 4 years the nation will see Wimax and LTE vying for customer dollars …
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Quote: Originally Posted by RBR The dual core Atoms are hyperthreaded (each core) and with two cores should be capable of running at least some apps simultaneously instead of using app switching like the iPhone. In my experience, the iPhone CPU i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GregAlexander I agree. There are 2 different approaches to a small netbook device a) take the current MacBook offerings and make a smaller one, cut back speed, some functionality, but pretty well stick OSX on it as…
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This article made me laugh a little. Consumers don't automatically go for low cost during a recession. They go for whatever has the best benefit/cost ratio within their means. Netbooks do not have the best benefit/cost ratio. Their form factor p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cameronj Not that I disagree with that definition, but can we all stop using wikipedia as a source? I mean, there's absolutely no way to verify that the content was written by someone with any knowledge! 1) Wikiped…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii I don't think this article is quite right. Carbon is not the lower level C API that Cocoa (the higher level Objective C API) is built on - that is Core Foundation. Carbon really can be totally removed and lea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digiology Looks like they're really trying to push the OS's footprint down, I bet its with the long term expectation of the OS being installed on smaller devices (like a netbook). I don't think so. SSDs quickly app…
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Quote: Originally Posted by blogorant To the chagrin of the fanboy faithful, Apple market share skyrocketed after transitioning to the Intel processor family. Might another transition do the same for iPhone performance? Apple's market sha…
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Intel is just complaining because apple ditched their chip sets for nVidia on the Macbooks. They could have made their completely ridiculous argument a year ago if they wanted to. Browsing the web does not require a powerful processor, and intel h…
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If the mini display port connector does indeed support all the features of the full sized connector (which seems to be the case), and it's freely available for use (which also seems to be the case), it will become standard because there will be no r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar Ease of access doesn't matter. Why should Apple make things easier to access? Who in the world needs to take out a laptop hard drive or battery? Making the hard drive easier to access would make the case we…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stompy Full size DisplayPort is roughly the same size as USB or HDMI. "Any of the laptops" is an overstatement. Apple engineers chose between a mini-displayport or "easy access to the hard drive, battery, and RAM?"…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stompy The mini port is less than half the size of the regular port, still not sure why the size reduction is so critical... Simply because there is no room for the full connector on any of the laptops. It's ju…
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I find the new design and manufacturing process absolutely impressive. I know the tech is decades old, but no one has used it for notebooks before. It kinda sucks that low end model wasn't updated this time around, but I'm sure that we'll see a $9…
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Quote: Originally Posted by thesmoth Sorry, that price was WITH educational discount. All prices i've listed are WITH educational discount. The low end macbook is now 1150 with edu discount. Ah, that makes more sense then. Kinda sucks
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Quote: Originally Posted by thesmoth Yes well I think our 'monopoly money' was worth either more than the US dollar, or close to it (i.e: significantly higher than it was previously) for at least a year. A lot of companies adjusted prices for the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by thesmoth The prices of Macbooks never went DOWN when our money was worth more, so why is it going up now? Let me guess, you're a brain-dead mac fanboy right? Thanks for the economics lesson. I don't recall the Ca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bregalad The rumors say they'll introduce a $799 or $899 MacBook and they go and RAISE prices?? In this economy?? No wonder the stock is getting hammered. I should have sold yesterday. You should never take rumor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shaun, UK Assuming this is correct why not combine the MB and MBP into one product line with 15/17 inch versions configured with either a 'consumer' or 'pro' spec, with a 13 inch MBA and 10 inch Mac Tablet for those wh…