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  • On May 6, 1998 the iMac changed Apple -- and the entire world

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    CheeseFreeze said:
    The iMac is due for a redesign, having had the same design since 2007 (with some evolutionary changes). Apple is playing it too safe and other brands have proven to be really good at industrial design as well (but never had the same reaction as Apple). 

    No more chin but bevel-less. Something fresh and new.
    I agree regarding the chin, it needs to go.

    I like the minimal bezel design that companies like Microsoft and HP have gone with for their all-in-one computers.





    CheeseFreezeBeats

  • Samsung, Micron, Hynix sued for alleged DRAM price fixing

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    tzeshan said:
    Apple doubled the base memory of iPhone to 32 GB from 16 GB in iPhone 7. Since Apple is the leader in smartphone, all Android smartphone copycats followed. 
    Smartphones with 32 GB (or greater) base memory:
    • Nokia Lumia 930 - April 2014
    • Oppo Find 7 - May 2014
    • Blackberry Passport - September 2014
    • Samsung Galaxy Note 4 - October 2014
    • Google (Motorola) Nexus 6 - November 2014
    • Lenovo P90 - January 2015
    • HTC One M9 - April 2015
    • Sony Xperia Z3+ - April 2015
    • LG G4 - April 2015
    • Meizu PRO 5 - September 2015
    • ASUS Zenfone 2 Deluxe - September 2015
    • ZTE Axon - October 2015
    • Motorola Moto X Force - October 2015
    • Huawei Mate 8 - November 2015
    • Vivo X6 - December 2015
    • LeEco Le 1s - February 2016
    • Acer Liquid X2 - February 2016
    • BLU Vivo 5 - February 2016
    • Xiaomi Mi 5 - April 2016
    • OnePlus 3 - June 2016
    I think just about every smartphone manufacturer switched their flagships to 32 GB or 64 GB base memory before the iPhone 7 came out.
    cornchipwatto_cobra

  • 'iPhone SE 2' rumored to retain iPhone 5 styling minus headphone jack, launch in May

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    The report also suggested the adoption of the A10 Fusion chip in the device, which will enable support for HEIF and HEVC media capture.

    ...

    A different report claims that the "iPhone SE 2" will come with the A10 processor, and 2GB of RAM, with 32GB or 128GB storage configurations. When the iPhone SE launched, it had the same processor as the iPhone 6s -- the A9. If Apple is looking at a design philosophy similar to the original iPhone SE, the "iPhone SE 2" may have the A11 Bionic, as debuted in the iPhone 8 and iPhone X.
    Given the A11 already has considerable thermal limitations in the iPhone 8, fitting it into an SE device probably wouldn't have been a good idea.

    The A11 is severely thermally constrained and is only able to achieve these scores when the devices are cold. Indeed as seen from the smaller score of the iPhone 8, the SoC isn’t able to sustain maximum performance for even one benchmark run before having to throttle.

    -Anandtech

    irelandmuthuk_vanalingamlostkiwi

  • Missouri school touts success with iPad Pro curriculum, saves nearly $600K annually on har...

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    jbdragon said:
    KITA said:
    foggyhill said:
    But, but, but, but... I love crap, I love chromebooks,
    I love saving $50 bucks up front and paying $200 dollars off the back and getting less,
    were will we be without the craptastic in our lives.

    (yes, this is sarcasm).
    Why the hate for Chromebooks? They seem to be very successful for K12.

    I think the implementation this school has done with their iPads is interesting, but in university, an actual macOS or Windows laptop would still be required.

    I can't imagine an engineering student at this school using an iPad Pro as their only device. This is one area a 2-in-1 computer, such as Microsoft's Surface, would be very well suited for (take notes in OneNote, type on a real keyboard in Word, open up a model in SolidWorks, etc.).
    Chromebooks are a no-show in the rest of the world!!!   But ignoring that, ok you go to K-12 using Chromebooks and then what?   Is that going to be at all useful in College?  How about in the real world?  Anyone using a Chromebook out in the real world?   Maybe a few old people who need something simple to use.  I think the kids are at a disadvantage growing up using a Chromebook.  At least iPads are used outside of schools and in businesses for some things.  They're also out in the real world in far greater numbers.

    That's nothing to ignore, Windows has the largest share outside of the US. However, that's not really my point.



    I don't really see how using ChromeOS would make a difference. It's the software and fundamentals that you're learning that matter. If you're still using Office (or equivalent) on a Chromebook, then you'll be able to do that on just about any other platform.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • 2018 iPhone may sport three-lens camera system to boost image quality

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    supadav03 said:

    All 3 lenses on Huawei P20 have OIS. Wonder if this will be the same with the next iPhone. The P20 camera is getting really good reviews.
    Just wonder how many lenses are really necessary. Feel like we’re getting into razor territory “our new razor has 5 blades!” Google’d Pixel has a pretty great camera, mostly on par with the X & S9, while only having 1 lense. I’d be surprised if this triple lens prediction comes true. 
    The Pixel 2 and 2 XL use dual pixels on the rear camera for depth. 

    "The Pixel 2 doesn't have dual cameras, but it does have a technology called Phase-Detect Auto-Focus (PDAF) pixels, sometimes called dual-pixel autofocus (DPAF). That's a mouthful, but the idea is pretty simple. If one imagines splitting the (tiny) lens of the phone's rear-facing camera into two halves, the view of the world as seen through the left side of the lens and the view through the right side are slightly different. These two viewpoints are less than 1mm apart (roughly the diameter of the lens), but they're different enough to compute stereo and produce a depth map."



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    supadav03