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Quote: Originally Posted by Eriamjh The headlines on the internet are all parroting the 800% claim of the original article. Total... BULLSHIT. This product will NOT get you 8X more "life" from a battery. Batteries do not contain 80% of thei…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Eriamjh A voltage booster is a great idea. As long as batteries do not leak due to over discharge, it's a valid concept. Edit: After more thought, this idea has its ups and downs dependent on the application. There…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Martin Glynn Where is DDR4? Dell and HP have had it for months! Now that Intel has moved the memory controller onto the CPU die, the memory bus will depend on the CPU being used. I see no laptops on dell.com that…
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Apple would be gaining a map data store that is proven to be better than anyone else's overnight - NAVTEQ mapping is the same data behind most of the automotive industry's nav systems, and Garmin (at least until 2013). This is why BMW, Mercedes, an…
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So here's the timeline as I see it: • iPhone 6 launches, software update with Apple Pay support is released. • Apple Pay works fine in place where it's not officially supported (such as Home Depot) from launch • Home Depot realizes that they accid…
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Blech... double-height enter / return key, displacing where the backslash / pipe has been for years. No, thanks. Hopefully just a Euro layout, and the US / English doesn't have that crap.
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Quote: Originally Posted by cornchip 4000 satellites? That seems like a lot. The earth is a big place, and when your satellites are only 250 or so miles up and travelling at 18,000 mph they don't stay overhead very long. Also, each satellit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bsimpsen Geo-synchronous satellites orbit more than 22,000 miles out. Any message sent via that route traverses more than 44,000 miles. A fiber connection between Apple's most geographically disparate data centers wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland And just by coincidence he owns $1B+ in AAPL. Exactly. Large AAPL investor says AAPL is undervalued. In other news, hydroanalysis lab confirms that water is indeed wet.
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This is a loan, therefore not subject to repatriation taxes. However, as it's a bond being offered in Switzerland (who is quite fond of importing foreign currencies), they can likely pay it back with the mountain of cash that they can't bring back …
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I need to get a job as an 'analyst.' Incremental version of product will be incrementally better. That's just incredibly insightful analysis. The only issue I've ever had with TouchID as it stands today is if my finger is wet, or there is a dropl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips Some posters' glasses are always half empty. I must say I enjoy the other kind more. No matter what your philisophical view of the glass is, the glass is always 100% full unless you're in hard vacu…
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A has-been company known for not seeing the future in front of them and making spectacularly bad design and product decisions being bought by a company now being seen completely void of good ideas that weren't blatantly stolen from someone else. S…
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Everyone seems to forget that the reason why Rosetta worked in the first place is because Intel Core-series chips had so much horsepower in comparison to what Apple had been getting from IBM in the form of PowerPC 970 that they could afford to was…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pdq2 Kinda funny to see folks so worked up over this. The A8x already has a considerably higher transistor count than many Intel mobile chips, and at least some of the transistors in the Intel chips are to (essential…
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Intel's latest designs only have to to µOp translate when dealing with *very* old software. Anything that is x86-64 native (OS X is) isn't using any of that, and is running at full speed with full register use. Intel solved that back with the Pe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by chadbag They don't need to make a CPU with equivalent performance to an intel chip. For the same energy and thermal footprint, they can use many of their chips to replace a single intel chip. A single quad cor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ipen So, apple decided to stay with Intel instead of using its own A series chips for the mac line. I'll pass this time. You do realize there is a HUGE gulf in performance between Intel's Core™ parts and anythin…
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Microsoft did this a few years ago with their Bing app, where it half-rendered things over screen boundaries to hint you to scroll sideways. It was commented on over-and-over as being a layout bug. Hint to developers from other platforms: we don't…
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So they've integrated a rubbish fingerprint reader into a rubbish knockoff second-rate trackpad, and somehow this is supposed to be better? I've supported Lenovo products for years, and even with them using the AuthenTec fingerprint readers that w…