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How do WARF know that Apple uses this particular implementation of branch prediction an not one that they doesn't have a patent on? Branch predictions are nothing new, they've been around in all out-of-order processors for decades, and Apple hasn't …
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The reason they scrapped Home on iPod way back when was due to the fact that Hitachi's 1.8" disks was very slow and wasn't made to support the load such a feature would demand. It worked though, and I tried it during the beta, but it was very slow. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by uncore Why some sites says Tegra 3 has 5 cores? It does. The fifth core is a very low power ARM7 core that is used for low performance tasks (think of it as a processor for the original iPod), and when nothing heavy…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hoss the Dog ]Had MS kept those shares, they would be a $15B shareholder, nice "penalty" for losing/settling the case, but I understand they sold out a few years later. Great timing MS : ) Those share were non conv…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber If it was trademarked by Salesforce, and the trademark was acquired by Apple, how can others just appropriate it willy-nilly and defend their actions by saying it is too generic? One must understand that…
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Excellent of Nintendo to show the world how to be innovative and not steal a single thing from Apple. Kudos!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Microsoft didn't pay off Apple's debt. Apple actually had about $1b cash on hand at the time. The idea that it was ever a "charity deal" only got started after the fact. Apple made a $800 million loss in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Apple uses Imagination for their iDevice?s GPU and decoders. They have been making efficient chips that can decode high-profile 1080p that is found in Blu-ray discs for awhile now. Considering the AppleTV is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Joe hs I know it's all about streaming, but how much local storage does this thing have? It's most certainly not zero. One suggested 16 GB but I find that very hard to believe at the 99 dollar pricepoint. 16 GB woul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingKuei Is the A4 processor or its PowerVR core just not able to handle 1080p output? The A4 general processing core does not come even close to render 1080p in real time. That's something that's hard for a 2 GHz C…
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I've always wondered how FaceTime would work to devices that doesn't have telephony, such as computers and iPod touches. How does the initiating device know where to call? I thought that FaceTime uses telephony for discovery and handshaking. Does an…
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I just remembered that the PlayStation 3 only has 256 MB RAM.
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Dobberpuhl is 64 years old and probably well behind his prime as a technician, but he's probably a great team leader. I'm more worried by the lower level staff from PA Semi leaving Apple.
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Quote: Originally Posted by NeilM Back on the subject of the A4 SoC, which is more interesting and certainly more significant than the preceding several pages of flaming, I see no reason to assume that its processor section is necessarily multico…
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Quote: Originally Posted by illimiter How many people use Spotify or Pandora to stream music on their iTouch/iPhone? Not many. Most people just sync in music from iTunes. Spotify isn't available for most markets, and not for large markets such…
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While the "Apple A4" most likely is ARM-based (I see absolutely no technical reason why is shouldn't be), it's curious to know that IBM has been developing a new PowerPC core named "A2". Coincidence? Probably,
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What actual evidence are there for quad core CPUs in these new machines? Is there info in these plists that actually say what CPU and GPU they are using or is the "evidence" we are talking about just really speculations taken from Intel's current ro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by walshbj haven't heard about zfs in months. Since before leopard. ZFS will be a supported, non bootable, read/write filsystem on Mac OS X 10.6 Server. And probably unsupported on Client.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer indicates to me a new set of Frameworks and dylibs that are used across many applications instead of having custom dylibs per application that added bloat to the general applications. Exactly! If they m…
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Streaming photos they say.. I can't find any trace of such functionality in either iPhoto, iTunes or my AppleTV. What am I missing?