danv2

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• I work for the Federal Government, and as a rule the organization I work for (which will remain anonymous) can only buy 5% of its purchases as non-EPEAT compliant. Therefore, Apple has painted themselves into corner on government sales at the US F…

  in San Francisco to cease Mac purchases without EPEAT certification Comment by danv2 July 2012
• Quote: Originally Posted by Leonard There's only so many cores you can use (you can only thread stuff so much), after that you need speed and not cores! Grand Central Dispatch. Solves that problem. At least in my head...I'm not sure in paper o…

  in Apple threatened Intel with 'wake-up call' over chip power consumption Comment by danv2 August 2011
• Its not so hard to imagine a system that has multiple ARM chips operating at only a fraction of the wattage of an Intel system. Three ARM chips each with a quad core could easily outperform the solo Intel chip I bet. Their best chip consumes 14 watt…

  in Apple threatened Intel with 'wake-up call' over chip power consumption Comment by danv2 August 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta And iPads aren't made by HP or Dell, either. What's your point? Then they should report on all portable computers. However, they should then include Android tablets and possibly even smartphones, as wel…

  in 'Stagnant' 2011 PC ecosystem viewed as opportunity for Apple to make gains Comment by danv2 August 2011
• Sorry, but if you are out to just ride a wave of popularity and brand good will - I think you should really be fucking put in a straight jacket. What I'm tired of is promoters taking something, cheapening it up, and then whoring it out on the street…

  in Apple clamping down on free iPad, iPhone promotions Comment by danv2 June 2011
• This is garbage. MS is flailing at this point. Feeble attempts at announcing something more than a year and a half away...the UI makes no damn sense. Its confusing, does not blend with the Windows 7 UI at all, and what's worse they are trying to con…

  in Microsoft demonstrates Windows 8 with HTML5 apps Comment by danv2 June 2011
• If analysts were outlawed I think about 5%-10% of the upper crust of the U.S.A. would instantly be out of a job. That being said, I'm all for it. Overpriced misinformation can be obtained from the bum on the street, the Burning Man Festival, and a f…

  in Android to be on 49% of smartphones by 2012, leaving Apple's iOS with 19%, Gartner predicts Comment by danv2 April 2011
• B/c Gartner is sooooo dead on in estimating anything. They are about as precise as a wrench is at neurosurgery.

  in Android to be on 49% of smartphones by 2012, leaving Apple's iOS with 19%, Gartner predicts Comment by danv2 April 2011
• Check this out. My friend is an industrial designer. He said those marks are caused by a small Dead Blow Hammer. You can SEE the hammer head in the upper right hand corner of the unit. They used a hammer on the screen for sure. He uses these hamm…

  in Shattered iPhone 4 photographed to challenge Apple's durability claims Comment by danv2 June 2010