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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 YIKES! Pardon my conflagration above. What I meant to say that DRAM in sockets will soon come to an end. At least in sockets as we know them today. The reason being that engineers can bett…
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wizard69, The biggest reason to keep a FW port is to support the large number of video cameras which still use it. Who knows how long that will be the case? Otherwise FW is an evolutionary dead end. I certainly agree that Ivy Bridge of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil What makes you think that the Mac Mini is anywhere near being discontinued? Of course there will be a Haswell model. What I'd really like to see is a Goldilocks model (Pro is too big, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I'd think processor (or major chip) change = non-incremental. I see your point, but from the perspective of a user, the iPad 3 actually performed poorer than the iPad 2 in some re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Nathillien You both are correct in a sense with slightly different viewing position. "Retina Display" is just a brand name Apple is using (probably patent too ) and true it is not a scientifi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Yep. They give us the fastest tablet ever made with the best screen on a tablet and the most versatile port on a tablet… And all people can do is whine. My question is what A…
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I hope the new head of the iOS team actually uses the product. It has been obvious that iOS has been designed by people who never used it. There are many crude implementations in iOS and things left out that anyone who has ever used OS X would immed…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid Why don't you buy an iPhone 5, use it for a month, then give us a full report? You know, just so you'll have something to contribute. Are you really that dense? If Ap…
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Didn't anyone at Apple actually look at whether the design could actually be mass produced? It looks like somebody slept through that class. If the back is getting dinged and scratched up in assembly, what is it going to look like after it h…
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Marvin, Thanks for the clarification. Nevertheless, I hope Apple sticks with x86 and other off-the-shelf hardware, or at least hardware co-developed with someone like Thunderbolt, and sticks to refining the system and user experience t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The Parallella hardware is interesting: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/09/28/adapteva-parallella/1 They claim quite a lot of performance from a really cheap CPU. Although x86 is …
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AT&T, indeed most of the carriers, gouge you for the privilege of tethering a device to your phone just to use data for which you have already paid. It is too bad that the regulatory agencies have not stepped in to rectify the situation.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil That hasn't been confirmed. If they were, they'd be shouting it from the rooftops, trying to make the reaction to Apple's Maps even worse. They haven't been. I did say "reportedly…
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Google are reportedly working on a separate app to be submitted to the app store. It should be interesting to watch Apple's reaction to this.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The iPhone 5 is going to create a huge strain on their supply chain, especially if they aim for 8 million units this weekend but they should be able to free up resources in October sometime. There *has* t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by christopher126 To me, on the face of it, the Lightening cable is a great improvement over the 30 pin connector which was larger, could only be put in one way, etc. If the chip in the cable is designed to st…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Well, no; just that we're not close to being able to pin down product launches yet. It's like how we know Skymont will exist, but "2016" really isn't good for setting dinner pla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil The high-end, enthusiast Haswell. Not anything suitable for a Mac Mini (laptop chips). Well, yea, but you made it sound as if Haswell were merely vaporware. I doubt either of us…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Suppose they want to keep selling any… Haswell doesn't even have a LAUNCH date. Having THIS iMac and THIS Mac Mini during a holiday season is certainly a good idea if their master plan is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast I always hear peopl say that iOS is "dated" or "stale". It's always a sweeping statement with nothing to explain what is dated and/or stale. The purpose of an OS is to allow you to do what y…