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Quote: Originally Posted by stevegmu Perhaps the stopwatch on my phone is off, or you are used to shoddy hardware. I transfer 5 GB files multiple times/day in under 1 min. Hmm. Calculating 5 x 1024 MB / 60 gets me 85 MB/sec, not your 100 MB se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by spacevator Think of holding a tablet in landscape or portrait rotation. Also, think of holding the tablet at oblique angles, laying flat on a table or propped upright like a picture frame. OLED has a very wide viewi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by malax Well OLED doesn't really fit that either. OLED is more like LED than eInk (or whatever they call the screen tech that MIT invented and the Kindle uses) from a visibility perspective, right? I think an OLED sc…
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I had a thought: What if, apart from WiFi, the tablet uses tethering and at the time of introduction AT&T would have tethering on the iPhone available? This prevents having the problem of needing both a GSM and CDMA chipset (or having 2 sepa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Right...lets limit sales to folks without large screen TVs already... Or the people with a beamer. I have a first-gen Mac mini 1.42 GHz as my DVD player/iTunes server connected to a 720p HD beamer projec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rickag Opps, sorry about that. The company is Adobe. for my greivous error here's Oracle Gross Margin (TTM) \t78.37 Gross Margin - 5 Yr. Avg. \t77.36 Operating Margin (TTM) \t35.46 Operating Margin - 5 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by rickag Gross Margin (TTM)\t89.87 Gross Margin - 5 Yr. Avg.\t90.52 Operating Margin (TTM)\t28.72 Operating Margin - 5 Yr. Avg.\t29.02 Pre-Tax Margin (TTM)\t30.13 Pre-Tax Margin - 5 Yr. Avg.\t31.51 Net Profit Margi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Third parties can have thinner margins. They can offer non-premium computers or they can simply offer products that Apple won't build. Thinner margins is probably not interesting for the third party. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by rickag Except Apple doesn't make much more profit than Microsoft. Apple Gross Margin (TTM)\t34.34 Gross Margin - 5 Yr. Avg.\t31.83 Operating Margin (TTM)\t18.99 Operating Margin - 5 Yr. Avg.\t15.40 Pre-Tax Ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage By rigorously enforcing compliance, Apple can avoid the situation that leaves Microsoft in such a mess; Leaving users the nightmarish task of hunting-down and maintaining the right drivers for their hardware…
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Quote: Originally Posted by roehlstation I'm going to wager that Apple won't announce anything at this expo. Perhaps some simple upgrades to existing lines if anything. As Phil will be giving the keynote, instead of Steve, I think there will …
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Quote: Originally Posted by datamodel Actually they can be quicker, for random IO loads, because the maximum seeks distance is smaller. Sun 2.5" Fibre Channel server drives do about as many random IOPS at 10,000 RPM as the 15,000 RPM 3.5" drives.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bloggerblog Thank you! Many people have been voicing this huge gap in Apple's product line on these forums for years and yet, they've been continuously trashed by Apple fanbois. However, I do have to semi-disagree with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dr_lha This might be difficult being as Apple haven't been including a TPM chip on any Intel Macs since the original ones. On the newer processors the separate TPM chip is not needed anymore, as the TPM chip is buil…