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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism 1) Because it's free. 2) Because I've used all 3. (I prefer Fusion for the reasons stated above: stability) Number 2 is a really good reason. But why bring up number 1? It sounds like a non sequitur, to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dusk A lot of reviews are out from Arrendale Notebooks and it looks bad. I am starting to feel like there will be no Apple MBP Upgrades till this summer when Intel gives us a cooler refresh of these chips. Does anyb…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 1. You'll see every publishing outfit and their dog rushing to get in on this. Print publications will be dying to monetize their material. The 2nd gold rush of the iTunes Store after apps. 2. Yes, DRM a…
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I will be really sad if new MBPs aren't announced come January 27th. I can literally hear my laptop failing by the hour (the fan is breaking down) and new MBPs soon would be perfect timing.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Olternaut That was the original poster. Then people started to chirp nonsensically at the mention of Fox. So he had a point. But anyways, HELLO? Tablet??? Sorry to go off topic again but just for the sake of c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GlynC Another prediction... from an interface point of view, the screen will go "beyond touch" and will understand the proximity of your hand/fingers from up to 50mm away. ...it'll be velocity sensitive and will ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by echosonic Isn't it funny how they can't help but inject their ideology into every aspect of everything they do/see/read/hear? I am amazed that the mere mention of Fox causes so many of them to begin blurting noises a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mi_nielsen Hi There might be more to the invitation ... iTunes is based on standard format acc and making that also the de-factor standard with the success of the iPod. And it pushed the other formats away. Toda…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ktappe Seems to me you pulled that number out of an orifice. It assumes (as did another poster) that somehow assembly costs are a very significant portion of the cost of each iPhone, something I would strongly refute. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Becko Hello and sorry for interrupt the intelligent discussion is going on, I just registered yesterday and this is actually my first post. I bought a MacBook Pro 15' Monday the 11th Jan at my local Best Buy. After a w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JustReelFilms Tell me what chip that's more energy efficient than ARM? No the Intel Atom is not one of them. ARM is not a chip. Nor is it a single chip design/architecture. You'd have to be a lot more specific.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hattig There is no technical need holding them back from switching to another architecture, only marketing and third party application compatibility. As there's no technical need to switch because of the performance an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism 1) You ignore that Apple and other PC makers will rely on some 3rd-party to design and build the CPU making me scratch my head as to why you’d even bring it up. 2) There are already issue with monopoly pos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy AMD owns x86 just as much as Intel. all the 64 bit instructions on Intel CPU's were originally created by AMD Quote: Originally Posted by souliisoul I think your comments are wrong about x86 http://en…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bartfat To ARM or AMD? What a silly question. It seems more likely, though, that Intel will want Apple to stay onboard, because that means the most desirable computers in the world will be equipped with their chips a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The Core-i7s being used are 45nm Quad-core Clarksfeilds and they are way to hot and power hungry to be a good fit. I do suspect Apple will use Core-i7 in their flagship MBP builds. Besides having the marke…
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Quote: Originally Posted by someone00 But Intel IGPs are useful for conserving battery life and higher end MBPs all come with discrete GPUs (so no need for a powerful IGP). Hopefully, the motherboard space saved by Arrandale will allow Apple to a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Another thing that is big with that latest ATI software release is the ability to shuttle the kernels between the ATI and i86 hardware in a heterogeneous way. That is a kernel can be compiled on the fly for …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 This is possibly true but not a certainty. The 17" machine might be able to handle it, or Apple could produce a 20" machine. I see this attitude all the time and I'm not sure where it comes from. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by iCreate I'd be really pissed if Apple only offered the mobiles on this list. I'm hoping for a Core i7 820QM. But I hope they introduce models with the 620QM, 720QM and 820QM. The quad core mobile Core i7s have bee…