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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta . . . . .All of which ignores the fact ... So you ... dream up a scenario which is completely CONTRADICTORY to the facts? So what? ... ... Get it? ... proving you don't have a clu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella Apple will be integrating SSDs into all new Macs. Since Apple buys these chips in freaking huge quantities, they will be able to offer a generation of Macs that will be able to offer performance at a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell Many people and companies are using the mac mini's as servers. There are companies that have hundreds of them on racks connected together. The mini probably was stealing the X-serve's business. You can get almost…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella Apple should replace the XServe with the iServe. Can I assume it would run iOS Server Edition?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum I think that everybody's desktop lines will disappear in 5-10 years. Sure, there will be existing installations! But the new solutions being marketed will not place a desktop (or floortop) at every w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 It won't disappear. It will change. Apple is driving innovation in the consumer sector. Macs, iPads, iOS. The first real stroke is the new Air. Don't you get it? I don't get it at all. You…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wiggin The iPod really exploded when they began offering multiple models. . I think that the iPod really exploded when Windows users were given the ability to use it. Wasn't that when it really took off?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mario Watch the desktop line disappear in a 5 - 10 years. It is entirely reasonable for Apple to get out of the lines where they have lost, and get more heavily into lines where they make gobs of money. I think t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by roehlstation You can Rack mount a Mac Pro, it's the same case they used at Virginia Tech before the Xserve even existed. The Mac Pro has available 12 CPU cores and support for 64 GB of RAM now, I'd rather run it on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum By getting out of the server hardware business -- Apple is able to get into the server business. This might be a very good thing! . That is wonderful. By inserting the adjective "hardware", w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmz Yet you comment on it? He was certainly NOT being rude in the slightest. If so, I apologize for being thin-skinned.
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Do you pay attention to the news? Perhaps you missed the news about Unisys? That was just the latest. No need to be rude. Thanks for the info on Unisys. I'll google it. I rarely follow enterprise news …
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Quote: Originally Posted by kwatson 'xactly. They have tons of cash to address the corporate market seriously for a change, and they shrink away. This move is a CLEAR indicator of Apple's direction, and I think it's a phenomenal mistake that will…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fishstick_kitty So, battery life going from 6 hrs to 4 hrs just because of Flash isn't surprising to you? That is enough to make me un-install flash on my mac at home...it is absolutely, staggeringly unbelievable that…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macintoshtoffy It is good that Apple is no longer bundling it - I'm not anti-Flash, just doesn't make sense to ship something with Mac's that Apple cannot control and backup with their own engineering. That makes se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wildag I'm also highly amused at Apple Insider's constant barrage of Flash bashing articles, while their main advertising banners at the top are made in Flash. Uninstalling Flash, or installing ClickToFlash means Apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BUSHMAN4 Two hours worth of battery time is a nice bonus for passing on Adobe Flash, especial with skyfire now available and HTML5 being used in more than 50% of all applications. Yeah. 2 hours is a lot. But doe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cubert Most importantly, many porn sites use Flash. True. Interestingly, the "Android is for porn" meme never really took off any more than the Flash is for porn meme. Maybe that is because so many millions …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando I'm actually surprised Chrome isn't using the GPU for video playback. Yeah. What's up with that? Is Chrome somehow less capable? I've been using it lately, and it seems about the same as other browser…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum With my background, "big iron" means mainframes with lots of compute power. As I see it, a server farm, needs lots of storage, I/O, caching, bandwidth, parallelism, redundancy. This is better provi…