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Quote: Originally Posted by Misa At any rate, Intel is dreaming if they think their ATOM parts have any value beyond being used in cheap linux routers/micro-servers. As someone who has actually used an Atom device based on the new Bay Trail c…
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Tech Bubble 2.0 is in full effect. Spend money now boys, because your stock is going to crash in the next 18 months when everyone figures out that you don't have a product, you don't have adequate revenue, and you sure as hell don't have a P/E rati…
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Quote: Originally Posted by schlack want to see Intel succeed, but they've missed the mobile boat. they should buy ARM; license their IP and handle manufacturing for customers, a one stop shop for reference and custom ARM processors. Intel al…
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He didn't give them stock, he gave them the opportunity to buy pre-IPO stock. Which they did. A small distinction, but still distinct. And they might as well have given it to them at $10/share.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bryan Tianao Call in Xerox management as a witness; companies copy all the time... as some nutJob once said "good artists copy, great artists steal!"... just don't copy us tho, coz we can't handle it. And by "nutJob…
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[QUOTE]I don't know how they can't use accelerometer data alone. If you are in a car, the motion is perfectly horizontal at fast speeds. When you step out of a car, the phone is going to be moving very slowly and being bumped up and down as you walk…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Link/Citation? Don't need a link or citation - anyone with any experience in building electronics can see what the big bits in the middle are - large capacitors and a transformer - exactly what one …
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Quote: Originally Posted by y2an It's an interesting and fun exercise but flawed. It's buying parts at retail prices so yes a hobbyist would have trouble besting Apple's price. However the article mentions manufacturing costs so if the objectiv…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PhilBoogie OWC sells a 960Gb PCIe SSD for $1,199 And I'm sure this $14k machine price will drop considerably if they could also just order the GPU chips instead of the whole card. Never mind configuring the bare…
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Dear EU: We promise not to unlawfully sue anybody for the next 5 years, so that you don't drop the fine hammer on us. And in 5 years when we start suing again, and you bring back your antitrust action, we'll promise some other crap that we have no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 It's not really overnight because there are very few apps that will take advantage of the processor. It's a move that future proofs the 5s so it'll will be relevant in 2 years time when all the iPhones t…
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With 64 bit being no gain to existing smartphone users, its hard to envisage a fast open source led move to 64 bit. Here it is going to be harder to impose. If all you're concerned with is memory address space, then there is no gain to existing sma…
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Guy with press megaphone is perpetually wrong about secretive company's future products, yet still is listened to by large amounts of people. Are we sure this guy's name isn't John Dvorak? He's been making bad predictions about Apple for decades...
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I'm still trying to figure out how Infineon, the company that made the 3G radios that are in these products, doesn't have a license to 3G technology and isn't getting their pants sued off instead of their customers. Oh wait, it's because Infineon i…
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[QUOTE]Hey, numnuts. You do realize that Samsung was making smartphones before the iPhone came out, right?[/QUOTE] Ad hominem attacks weaken your argument. But that's okay, because your argument doesn't have any strength to begin with. Yes, Sams…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan Was that courier tablet even close to being a physical prototype? How practical would it have been? Looks like it would be quite heavy and not sure how it would close. Would each display have its own…
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Yet another attempt by Microsoft to shove their garbage UI down the throats of people that didn't buy their OS. Microsoft, if people wanted to see text clipped on the right edge of the screen, they'd buy your phones and tablets. But they ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 Did just take 7% of the market with it in Q1, and win 8 is selling almost as fast as win 7. So overall not that bad. Okay. Yes, Windows 8 licenses are selling almost as fast as win 7. Now,…
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Microsoft seems to forget that everyone basically universally hates PowerPoint presentations. So yeah, not having PowerPoint might actually be a feature.
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100M licenses sold. 50M copies deleted, with Win7 SP1 installed afterwards. Yeah, well done, MS.