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Quote: Originally Posted by BigMac2 The 360 got a conventional North-south bridge motherboard, so every reading from the RAM need extra step to reach if you compare to Intel newer Core architecture with the ram controller within the CPU, SoC got…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BigMac2 One thing for sure, SoC chip could beat any conventional motherboard architecture in latency. It can easily beat RAM and CPU-GPU bandwidth too. I haven't seen any spec for the real memory bandwidth of the A5 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by InsideOut You seem to have missed one important thing. "Last year's A4 CPU used in the iPhone 4 and iPad is roughly "comparable to a single Xbox 360 core" Sweeney estimated." He never mentioned the Cortex A8, he …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike It'll depend on the load. The PowerPC-based (Cell) PPE core inside the Xenon and the Cell basically traded good branch prediction capabilities (not to mention OOOE either) for a deep pipeline to enable the high …
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo An ARM Cortex A8 at 1GHz equivalent to a single 360 processor core? I'm giving that a [citation needed] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruc...ons_per_second The whole tri-core processor outputs 19,200 MI…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Menno You're comparing a broad OS (4.0) to a specific one (2.2). How many of those 4.x iOS devices are running the fully enabled version of iOS 4.3.1 and not an "older" version of os 4.0 that has significant pruning i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy yet on MS Windows different resolutions have been standard for years and years and apps have magically adjusted and looked as good. except with LCD's where the monitor has one native resolution. but buying a b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iedsri Of course this is not surprising news, but if it's true that most developers prefer iOS to Android, why do significantly more of them now develop for Android than for iOS -- especially when by all accounts they …
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Quote: Originally Posted by RichL Why do some Apple fans feel so threatened by Android? Why is DED so threatened by Android than he feels the need to write 2,000 word rants about Google every week? How is this article a rant? I read it as just…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 And running pathetically slow with little capability to tackle the bigger jobs. I just don't think you have an understanding of just how far behind ARM is performance wise, such machines would simply not mee…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EgisCodr I guess you guys don't realize that the Tegra 2 is last year's chip. You are comparing the A5 to a chip from 2010. The next chip will be out in products in June. Code-named Kal-El, it is the first quad-core pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Zc456 Can we just admit Aqua isn't Aqua anymore? Seems kinda redundant to keep calling it that at this point. Yeah, now that the scroll-bars will change, literally the only thing left in OS X that's still at least a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets Sorry, directly addressing your points and bringing up points discussed isn't a strawman argument. The strawman argument I was referring to was already a few posts back where you first introduced the fact…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets You can buy into the technical arguments made for why they are banned all you want. It's just a big smoke screen for the real reasons, seeing as there was no "technical" reasons apple banned google voice or …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets Wonder why apple banned java, flash, anything other than cocoa on the iphone? Bans any app that duplicates functionality of their own apps? Banned third party tools and google voice, only to be allowed back …
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Quote: Originally Posted by inkswamp Huh. Google must be confused. According to every one of their fanboys, there is no such thing as fragmentation. Yeah, it's funny how I was about to post exactly that, but exactly your post was the last one …
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Quote: Originally Posted by PXT Good Lord! The user-friendly version is a 3 key combination plus the mouse. This is no way to make a user interface. I wish Apple would wake up to this. The iPhone is immaculate but OSX is a mess. To be fa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by frugality I remember watching Jobs giving a product release maybe a year and a half ago. This was pre-iPad, and the launch included a new version of the iPod Touch, and touted its functionality as a great pocketable m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alandail why is samsung trying to compete head to head with their best customer? What do they do if that competition causes Apple to use other suppliers for business they would have given to Samsung while Samsung's ow…
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Quote: Originally Posted by malax The usual saying is something like "don't attribute to malice what is simply ignorance," but in this case most of the commenters here have it backwards: Dell and HP do not believe what they are saying, they are …