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• Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo All of which proves my point, not yours. The 360 and PS3 both have a bit over 20GB/s bandwith from memory going to the GPU, the difference being that the 360's is shared so it can use up to 512MB if the developer…

  in Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report Comment by carniphage April 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo How do you know? Have you developed games for the PS3? Additional video memory bandwidth only helps if the GPU is powerful enough to take advantage of it, the amount of bandwidth available for the GPU in the PS3 …

  in Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report Comment by carniphage April 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 In a few short years mainstream users are going to stop thinking about on which device they saved a photo or a document - if it belongs to them the expectation will be that it is available on all devices wh…

  in Rumor: Apple may not release cloud-based iOS 5 until this fall Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Everyone talks about notifications. I guess because they are currently bad, and have been for a long time. But it does not take a major OS release to improve the notification system. The underlying technology to deliver, present and dismiss mess…

  in Rumor: Apple may not release cloud-based iOS 5 until this fall Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by emacs72 i don't harbour some near-pathological pessimism for a consumer electronics division so i'm unfazed as to when and by how much the company will see returns of their investment. and it's timely to see the state…

  in Hints of Apple TV gaming platform found in iOS 4.3 beta Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Responding to BAD PUBLICITY about POOR RECEPTION, Apple decide to make their next phone out of RADIO OPAQUE METAL! Sorry, but this story maketh sense not. C.

  in Apple rumored to ditch glass back for aluminum with iPhone 5 Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Mirodd I think what it really means, and it's not about being "apple-centric," is that companies, whether brick-and-mortar, traditional media, etc. need to learn to adapt to the changes and see future for what it is or…

  in Apple iOS App Store blamed for too many apps as Sony NGP is called "dead on arrival" Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by ljocampo Economics has always been meritocracy. It's the basic of basic ideology in business. Capitalism surely follows this premise. You have the skills, etc, you have a chance of getting the job. Your game has what i…

  in Apple iOS App Store blamed for too many apps as Sony NGP is called "dead on arrival" Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by VanFruniken Meritocracy is good, but the good apps are hard to find among all the lesser apps... The trouble is that the AppStore app has several shortcomings - it is buggy (filter options lock up -- and why does t…

  in Apple iOS App Store blamed for too many apps as Sony NGP is called "dead on arrival" Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 maroonTo put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon. To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape A dark reddish brown to dark purplish red. 4. Jokey euphemiz…

  in Apple iOS App Store blamed for too many apps as Sony NGP is called "dead on arrival" Comment by carniphage March 2011
• The irony of Trip's whining is that the App store creates exactly the sort of meritocratic market that was in place when he started Electronic Arts. The very early EA even applauded the developers and had their names and photos on the box-art. They…

  in Apple iOS App Store blamed for too many apps as Sony NGP is called "dead on arrival" Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Galbi RAM size is VERY important from a developers point of view, ESPECIALLY for game developers. As a game developer, I'm happy to say that 512MB is sufficient to match the PS3 and XBox360. Even with the 9X GPU …

  in Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by RichL Actually, the biggest problem with the PS3 is its lack of video RAM. Porting games to it is a real pain in the ass. The problem is not lack of RAM - but rather video memory bandwidth. C.

  in Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by DoogH I am no expert, but I do have a CS degree... You may have some facts wrong. C.

  in Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by epakrat75 Problem solved right? Maybe not because they also double the CPU cores. So, one could say that each core gets only 256MB if it's 512MB. That's pretty awful these days. Honestly, that's not how it works. …

  in Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report Comment by carniphage March 2011
• On the iPad, there's RAM consumed by the system, and a larger amount used for frame buffers and OpenGL. So doubling the amount of physical RAM will more than double the amount available to applications. C.

  in Apple's A5 CPU in iPad 2 has 512MB of RAM, same as iPhone 4 - report Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by DrDoppio I only speak from the point of view of the consumer. I've never seen commodity technology that didn't suck. Once manufacturers struggle to extract a 5% margin, they give up trying. C.

  in Apple expected to ship 6.5M iPads in first quarter, 40 million in 2011 Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum I, personally, believe that Apple will sell 60 million iPads in CY 2011. If the iPad 2 has Thunderbolt, as I hope it does -- it means that the iPad 2 can be used conjoined with a Mac as a co-periphera…

  in Apple expected to ship 6.5M iPads in first quarter, 40 million in 2011 Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by DrDoppio That would be an awesome step towards tablet OS commoditization. Odd. "Commodity" and "awesome" in the same sentence! C.

  in Apple expected to ship 6.5M iPads in first quarter, 40 million in 2011 Comment by carniphage March 2011
• Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Very possible, since, as previously stated, we’re only talking about a new copper connection to a host computer for the sake or charging and/or syncing data, if nothing else, but it’s hard to use anything on …

  in 'Engineering issues' axed Retina Display, SD card slot from Apple's iPad 2 - report Comment by carniphage March 2011
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