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22july2013 said:

charlesatlas said:

Bilirakis is a prime example of PEBCAC.

AFAIC you misspelled that acronym.

Seems right. Problem Exists Between Computer And Chair. 

While I agree with the editorial content, I’m a bit confused by the title. Nowhere in the article is their any evidence that the politicians cited can’t create PDFs. Since they are mostly lawyers I would expect many of them have used PDFs heavily in their careers. Not that important but the title seems off. 

crowley said:

I wouldn't put too much emphasis on what the nm number is: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/296154-how-are-process-nodes-defined

Intel aren't leading, but they aren't as far behind as many doomsayers would have you think.

If Apple can get class leading 5nm desktop Apple Silicon CPUs out this year it will put Intel several years behind. Right now Intel can’t get even 10nm working for desktop CPUs as evidenced by their recent 14nm release of Rocket Lake CPUs. Intel’s 7nm is still at least a year away and probably longer given their current issues with 10nm. By 2022 Apple will be at 4nm or 3nm. By 2023 Apple is almost certainly going to be at 3nm. Intel has nothing competitive. 

lam92103 said:

Their designers can't figure out how to install a cooling fan, but hey, lets build some wildly complex & prone to breaking system to automatically raise laptop height when it gets hot. 

Are you talking about the M1 MacBook Air? Apple didn’t add a fan because it doesn’t need one. It is plenty fast enough without a fan and wonderfully silent. The new MacBook Pro has a fan. Not sure what you are referring to. 

Xed said:

sirdir said:

How would he have bought the NeXT 'specifically' for that in 1995? Steve wasn't back at Apple and OS X wasn't in the work. 
He had the NeXT fo years and brought it in to proof Steve wrong. 

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to say, but my best guess is that you're confusing the stated year of 1995 when they were working on the port with the official announcement of Apple agreeing to buy NexT (because the port was clearly going to work) and getting Jobs to be the interim-CEO (iCEO) which happened on 16 September 1997.

Apple didn’t announce their intention to buy NeXT until December 1996. It is hard to believe that Apple was working with Steve Jobs as early as 1995. I’m guessing that the designer is misremembering the date.