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  • Oculus founder says no Mac support coming until Apple builds 'good' system with better graphics

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    bkkcanuck said:
    If Oculus requires such high power graphics in the computer - they are positioning the devices to be so much of a niche product that they will likely position themselves out of the market -- at least for many years to come.   Therefore their support at this time is not very important in the overall scheme of things.  Not many Windows machines will have that type of graphics power - only really the serious gamers....
    Don't forget that initially the iPhone crippled cell networks when people discovered how easy and enjoyable mobile browsing could be. It placed demands on the networks which couldn't be handled. A performance issue. I would look at these computing requirements as a factor that will push computing packaging forward. That is, the possibilities driving the hardware, no the other way around.
    singularity

  • Oculus founder says no Mac support coming until Apple builds 'good' system with better graphics

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    LTDAN said:
    As much as I love Macs, Palmer Luckey is (mostly) right on this one. OS X is optimized for OpenCL rendering, and OpenGL support (required for Mac gaming) is severely outdated. Not even a Mac Pro with a top of the line, upgraded graphics card will bring good performance in OS X. On top of this, Windows users benefit from DirectX, which completely destroys OpenGL. However, Palmer Luckey is wrong when he says Apple doesn't build good systems. The same Mac running Windows makes it just as good as any PC with equivalent specs. In other words it is not a hardware problem, it's a software problem. Apple knows this, and it's the reason why they developed Metal in the first place. Now if they could only put it to good use...
    I agree. The general view is that Macs are amazing as Windows boxes, and are generally better than an equivalently spec'd PC from another Vendor. That and the industrial design is without peer.

    redgeminipacornchipargonaut

  • Oculus founder says no Mac support coming until Apple builds 'good' system with better graphics

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    smartmammal said:
    If a high-end consumer computer is not good enough to run your product, then you are doing it wrong.
    What a load of rubbish. There are plenty of high consumer pcs out there that are fast enough. They're just not macs. 


    singularitysdrls6Sgoldfish

  • Court overturns Apple's $120M patent win against Samsung

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    SpamSandwich said:
    fallenjt said:
    The stupid patent system called it Prior Act because Apple filed it 1 day after...bullshit!
    Fortunately, we now have "first to file" instead of such a heavy reliance on prior art.
    The way I understand it, first to file merely resolves the question of who invented something first. A patent is prima facie valid and the first to file is the inventor. Prior art can still invalidate a patent. 
    singularitygatorguy

  • Court overturns Apple's $120M patent win against Samsung

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    techlover said:
    SpamSandwich said:
    The GDP of Ireland (as of 2013) was $232.1 billion. That's a nearly negligible cost for Apple. They could buy the entire country, exit the EU and attract other global companies with close to zero tax rates. Every large company on the planet would love this. Plus, they'd have instant access to an English-speaking, generally well educated population of nearly 5 million. I'd even move there if they followed the political model of the Free State Project (in the US).
    Do you honestly believe that the GDP of a country is its entire value and can be purchased for that amount?
    Considering there's about 2million dwellings and the average house price is about 190,000 euro, that makes the housing stock 380 billion euro alone. which is something north of 400billion USD.

    That's just the houses.

    I know it's a joke but i guess on forums you'd expect nothing less. The stakes are so low
    :smile: 
    colinng