Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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  • peapody
    Nov 28, 08:19 AM
    first pair of decent headphones.
    grado sr60i
    http://www.opticaudio.co.uk/images/Grado%20SR60I-2.jpg


    Oh damn just looking at these make me really miss them. Dammit.


    Just listed my macbook air 11" on ebay, and picking up this UL20ft from the bay.

    12.1-inch 720p (1366x768) display with LED backlighting
    Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
    Intel Core i3-330UM (1.20GHz)
    Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD integrated graphics
    2GB DDR3 RAM 1066MHz
    320GB 5400RPM hard drive
    802.11b/g/n wireless and Bluetooth
    6-cell Li-ion battery (4400mAh, 47Whr)
    Weight: 3.3 lbs
    Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.4 x 1 inches
    Price $450!!!

    Will be upgrading the ram to 4gb and the hdd to ssd with stuff I have laying around the house. Should make a great on the go computer alternative to the $1500 "ultimate" 11.6" air.

    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5214035919_fffb1d5fc0.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyjuliette/5214035919/)





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  • Kadman
    Mar 25, 09:04 PM
    This is interesting and it'll be fun to geek around with it. However, games of this type (and most traditional console game styles for that matter) just aren't conducive to tablet control types, regardless if it's touch or motion controlled. The precision is just lacking for any serious gaming. However, casual game play shouldn't prove to be too frustrating control-wise. In this specific situation I'd be willing to go out on a limb and state that more people will buy it for the eye candy or showing off what the platform can do vs those who actually put serious play time into it. Just my thoughts.

    Still looks great and I've found my new iPad 2 demo (once it's updated) ;)





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  • drzeus
    Sep 6, 06:38 PM
    So this is interesting.

    Everything is core duo, incuding the minis.
    There is a movie announcement next week.
    I still can't help but think that the mini has been silently hardware upgraded and will be the video iPod of the coming months. Download to the mini, keep your movies on it, it gets directly connected to your TV and you potentially have an HD movie solution to compete with netflix.

    Very interesting. . .





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  • aafuss1
    Aug 29, 09:05 PM
    X3000 is the integrated graphics component of GMA965. It basically solves the problem of the GMA950 graphics having no hardware T&L. Hence why UT2004 scores sit in the toilet on Mac mini's and Macbooks.

    It'll never challenge a midrange Nvidia or ATI card, but it'll make the mini and macbook a reasonable enry level gaming platform, which it ain't now.

    See http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/G965/index.htm
    for some juicy technobabble.

    M.

    Totally agree-even low end PC's have at least a option for a add-in T&L capable card. Plus the GMA 3000 will do Core Image and Animation very well.





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  • ErikGrim
    Apr 6, 08:50 AM
    Yes, I do!
    For me, TextEdit and Preview crash on launch. I suspected Dropbox 1.1.13 but killing Dropbox didn't 'cure' the crashes.
    Not getting any of these at all.





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  • rKunda
    Sep 20, 11:19 PM
    I also still don't get how CR can give it the highest overall rating and not recommend it.

    IMO, it's down to their perception of their rep. and pride. They can't just come out and say "we were wrong" so they have to dig in.





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  • adroit
    Nov 15, 11:25 AM
    That really depends on the program, on how "parallelizable" the application is.

    The simplest way to think of it is like this: Let's say you have a program that first has to calculate A. Then, when it's done that, it uses the result of A to calculate B. Then, when it's done that, uses the result of B to calculate C, then C to D, and so on. That's a *serial* problem there. The calculation of B can't begin until A is done, so it doesn't matter how many processors you have running, all computation is held up on one spot.

    On the other hand, let's say you have an application that needs to calculate A, B, C and D, but those four values are not dependent on each other at all. In that case, you can use four processors at the same time, to calculate all four values at the same time.

    Think of it like baking a cake. You can't start putting on the icing until the cake is done baking. And you can't start baking the cake until the ingredients are all mixed together. But you can have people simultaneously getting out and measuring the ingredients.

    So that problem is partially parallelizable, but the majority of its workload is a serial process.

    Some software applications, just by their very nature, will never be able to do anything useful with multiple processors.

    This is true, but there are still many many ways to optimize the multi-core processor that's not currently being use.

    For example, I am waiting for a program to compile right now. Although I have a dual core on my computer, the compiler only compile one file at a time and usually takes about 10 min to do a full compile . If I have an 8 core computer with a multi-threaded compiler then I can cut the total time to jsut over a min + couple of seconds for linking time.

    I think the main problem with muti-threading program is that it is difficult to implement, especially for coders who only knows high-level languages. Muti-threading in low-level program such as C is not easy but at least it is straight-forward. But trying to muti-thread high-level language such as VB or C# can get you into a big headace since everything is abstracted from the programmer. To do that, you need to get into unsafe code and call a bunch of DLLs, and it's easy to get memory leaks. Basically it can start to get very complicated, very quickly.





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  • MacinDoc
    Sep 1, 02:20 PM
    Well, if AI said so, I believe it.

    And, yes, the only way to get rid of the chin is to have an external power brick and external or downgraded speakers.

    I, for one, think the iMac and Mac Mini will get Merom due to their form factors, and a yet to be announced minitower will get Conroe (just ask AidenShaw).





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  • !� V �!
    Apr 26, 03:01 PM
    It is my understanding that "Application Store" is a generic term, however "App Store" could be considered a trademark even though it is an abbreviation of the former.

    I am not saying that :apple: is right or Microsoft and Amazon is right, I am looking at this as what the term generic means. Having an abbreviation of a generic term might mean :apple: has a case, then again its a grey area.

    My prediction, the Judge will simple inform Microsoft and Amazon and Others to change it to "Application Store" and all will be well.





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  • Counter
    Nov 18, 09:29 AM
    iTunes saw much less improvements?

    Christ.

    iTunes runs perfectly well on a G4 400mhz.

    8-Cores ain't for anything remotely normal, let alone listening to music.





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  • mikemac11
    May 2, 06:18 PM
    This article is misleading. It doesn't uninstall anything. Just removes the app from LaunchPad list.





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  • random47
    Nov 27, 04:09 PM
    just bought this, Samsung galaxy tab.

    http://www.samsung.com/dk/system/news/content/2010/09/03/20368/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_2_large.jpg
    The Ipad is not yet available in my country and i think the galaxy tab is the best android device out there.





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  • soulreaver99
    Feb 22, 07:29 PM
    How are you managing your cables behind the BookArc? I just picked one up and am doing what I've been doing for years: A binder clip with everything except the display cable attached to it. I wish I could find a Mini DisplayPort to DVI cable, but those don't seem to exist.

    I'm going to post a new picture of my desk shortly.

    I hardly have any cable management. I just have a few twist ties used from trash bags!





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  • bedifferent
    Apr 2, 09:48 PM
    I noticed that I had around 15.6gb on my 25gb partition just before installing the update. Afterward I have 17.32. It could be that some settings or cache or whatever in some places have been reset. I know that my Launchpad needs to have apps placed back into it, but that couldn't take up that much space(?). Could be something else I haven't seen yet.

    All that I have on the Lion partition is the OS install. Even my Home directory is pointed to that on my Snow Leopard partition.

    Do you have "local snapshots" on in "Time Machine"? If so, it creates a hidden folder of saved data, snapshots, and it fills up quickly. You can uncheck it, then delete the hidden folder (I think it was in my Home folder). Local snapshots is still a rough beta, they're fleshing it out still.





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  • codymac
    Apr 20, 01:42 PM
    That's because you only have automatics to drive :p

    Or has never driven a Lotus.
    ;)

    But I'd guess that statement would come from someone who's only ever had rubbish cars or lives in a city where public transit is the more convenient option. Case in point:

    No, my first car had a manual transmission (on the column). It was even worse, but that's mostly because the car was a 1965 model and had no air conditioning, no power steering, no power brakes, no power windows, torn-up seats, and oddly chewed through right rear tail light bulbs at a blistering pace. That was back in the days when driving was less of a headache than it is today (I was much younger), but even then I would still rather ride shotgun.





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  • Jacquear
    Jun 24, 11:14 AM
    have fun carrying an iMac :)


    Lol! There will be someone who tries it I'm sure





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  • PilotWoo
    Sep 6, 06:37 AM
    Apple Store UK is down. "Back within the hour".

    PilotWoo





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  • Eidorian
    Mar 25, 04:00 PM
    It is always about the GPU.





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  • Chris Bangle
    Sep 1, 12:10 PM
    Why not make a 30inch macbook pro.:cool: how hard can it be.





    Apple OC
    Mar 25, 01:10 PM
    Looks like the Canadians will be commanding the "No Fly" operation in Lybia

    interesting

    http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110325/110325_cda_libya_military/20110325/?hub=CP24Home





    0815
    May 2, 04:59 PM
    MAS? The Muslim American Society? The Municipal Art Society of NY? Malaysia Airlines? Monetary Authority of Singapore?

    Confused :confused::confused::confused:

    Try MacAppStore (you know, the generic name with Mac in front of it)





    glennsan
    Aug 24, 06:38 PM
    Maybe dual optical drives like the Mac pro. This is getting standard on Macs obviously.


    :p

    The only Mac that currently has the dual optical drive is the Mac Pro. I would not think that the iMac and Mini would get a dual as well. But I will admit that stranger things have happened.





    imnotatfault
    Aug 19, 07:50 AM
    PSP interface is so cumbersome, though. Just have a laptop.





    diamond.g
    Mar 27, 01:09 PM
    All Intel machines going forward with the new Sandy Bridge CPU architecture will be EFI boot like Mac has been for some time. That probably explains why Apple will support off-the-shelf PC GPUs now. :apple:

    Curious, where is that from?



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