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This is not PC in the 90s or 80s. The reason to buy PCs wer that you could build cheap PC or tailormade PCs for specific needs. An other reason was that there was more applications for WinDOS than MacOS. Apple will not cater for every taste in s…
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in personacl computers from the early 80s to quite recently performance was obtained by adding MHz to the CPU, culminating with the Pentium IV. Now we are entering the era of multi CPUs and GPU computing. If Apple can harness this better in 10.6 tha…
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10.6 with a stress on mulit CPU and GPU computing iPhone No or little hardware as Intels next generation CPUs will arrive late 2009/early 2010 and ahead of that it is the MacPro that will really benefit from the GrandCentral and other multi-wh…
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I ordered a refurbished dual G5.(one year warranty) I get close to the performace of a new macmini but the macmini cost 2 1/2 times as much. Now I also have room for a second HD internally. Now I can hold out to 2012 or so I think, then hopefull…
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To clarify my point with regard to design and price. Apple could have aimed for a entry level desktop. A size less than half of the Cube. A nice design. And a price at least 200 dollars less than the current one. Instead they made it even smalle…
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The problem with Apples low end ( the Mini) is that it is designed to be expensive. The CPU might be "green" but it also costs perhaps 3-4 times as much as say E5200 that would be as fast and really not bad even in heat output. The 2.5" is sligtly…
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Double stacked mini size would mean: Normal 3.5" drives Normal CPUs Normal DVDdrive This could mean the same performance (at least) at much less production cost Or the same cost and much more performance. It would still be a very small computer.…
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it seems that the imagination is the only limit to the iPhone http://www.faktiskt.se/modules.php?n...wtopic&t=29105 Here it measures frequency respons by Fast Fourier Transformation. FFT was pioneered by KEF in the 1970s then it costed milli…
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A touch screen would make a very nice interface to a Apple TV but 10" seem to be an overkill for that
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The Dell Studio is a design object with plenty of way more powerful Dell Computers aviable at the same price point as well as much cheaper ones of similar performance. Apple does not have a entry level mac any more, what they have done is taking t…
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800 bucks for a low end dual core? insane prices for bigger HDs the only viable option is to get a external disk as the price hike from 120-250 GB will get me a 1 TB disk Apple mini:2 GHz dual core 1 GB RAM, 120 HD nvida Go 9400M Inspiron 5300: …
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While the nehalem 2.66 is quite a bit faster then the old one introducing a new quad core for the same price as the octacore
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http://www.macrumors.com/2009/03/03/...-and-mac-pros/ Time for some pricedrops! Only the Pro seem to get that substantial upgrades, Dual cores are really not the leading edge performance wise anymore. My guess is that the iMacs are a screen and G…
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Making the case all metal and perhaps sligtly bigger to increase heat dissapation would enable the use of much cheaper desktop CPUs. The Core2 5200 cost about 100 dollars and the corresponding mobile cpu 300 dollars. that is 200 dollars for 30W less…
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The mini IS overpriced/underfeatured. The CPU is not that bad, sellng a "superdrive" that is unable to write to DVD ony to read them was OK for the B&W 300 MHz G3 back in 1999. Having a DVDROM 10 years later is Integrated graphics of a budget…
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Apple have been offering flexible desktops for a long time (since IIci at least) The run of the mill PPC 7200 had room for 4 memory sticks, two hard disks and 3 PCI cards, and the option to add more VRAM and L2 cache. Getting the 7500 and you had …
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The back of the iMac is in the order of 1/4 of a square meter, if made in aluminium that is plenty to cool of both a CPU and GPU of quite a number of watts combined. So the iMac can still be made quite and very fast I want my xMac
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Having many, many pixels behind a lens the size of a pea, and a small pea at that, is good for getting noise in low light conditions and an also for creating big files. But not for much else...
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A 300 USD phone is hardly a low end phone, at 30 dollars it is real low end. To be an iphone it has to work as a iphone GUI wise but it does not need all features. Sp soemthing like the first generation iphone, with improvement in manufacturing c…
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I agree 4 levels 1. Entry level Mini and low end laptop TVMac2? Dual cores 2. Prosumers xMac , iMac and Macbooks Quadcore (dual on the books) 3. Pro stuff ProMac Servers? and Pro Books Octacore Nehalems piles of them 4. Design corner …