FYI: There's a 'bug' in the very design of the SSD that doesn't allow read _and_ write at the same time (IIRC).
There's a firmware update for it so that under certain conditions pieces of software do not completely lock up while waiting for the device but that greatly reduces read and write speed individualy (IIRC).
Now... What if they took 'one' core i5 and underclocked it and sold them along with a laptop called a MacBook at the frequency they underclocked it at?
You could always just underclock the whole thing, which is what Apple does anyways. If you think a core i5 in a MacBook performs as good as it does in a Dell then you realy got it wrong.
And I thought people only bought a Apple 'Pro' type if they wanted to do something 'Professional' with it. Can't say one can do CAD with a regular GeForce... Hell... 1650x900 res? GLHF with doing some professional HD shit.
As for portability... You can even get a Precision in a 14.1 inch variant if you like. Big fscking deal... That 15.4 inch display is 1920*1200 inch.
But wait... If you can't have a flashy UI and a flashy design than that must automatically mean that a Dell won't be able to leverage the same 'quality' of design as an Apple computer could. Excuse me while I roflmao.
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Have you submitted the latest Asus EEE PC line-up? No? Then shut up...
Yeah... GLHF... I noticed the silicon design fault ridden GeForce 9400M's... Buy that and you can throw it away in a years time. Failure rate is 80% in the first year of regular use.
I suggest you wait 'till there's a different GPU offering!
It is called evlution; keep up or die. Which, by my book, is Good (TM).
Linux usage keeps increasing at an ever increasing growth rate. That must mean something.
The Linux ecosystem is getting better and better. That must also mean something.
That means that inferior tech dies. Luckily there is something called Wine, Gnome, X, LibC and Qt... So what is the problem with backwards compatibility again?
Exactly! These devices have a great potential, but as a Linux fan, I'd love to get a (preferably atom) tablet with a Wacom touchscreen. While I will be using KDE >4.4.0 on the sucker (it needs some processing juice), Xournal and Inkscape will be perfectly epic:)... and a hell of a lot cheaper ^^,
And humans like to fill in for themselves what they do not know.
"How did we got here and what is all this?" -"Oh, God created us and this is a testing ground to see if you are a good person or a bad person. If you are good you will go to a cloudy place called heaven and if you are bad you will go to the earths core and burn there which they call hell" "Ah I see"
That's why I said about. I do not live in the US, I like here:
And the prices where old, but here a MacBookc costs 899 euro's, Shuffle 55 (two months ago at a large mall here (BCC) 79 euro's) and Mac Mini does, yes, costs 599.
Totally my fault. Totally my bad. But it's a fact that these things are becomming cheaper every year.
Yeah, but your back from home. You are exhausted. Now you must go upstairs to get your laptop and your adapter, bring it downstairs (I'm being maybe a bit extremisch to explain this), maybe hook it up to the AC (iPad's standby mode is one month) and then boot it up and then...
Well... Or you can just grab the iPad instead that has no fanholes that shouldn't be covered by your legs (!) and go with the flow.
You see, do you grab your laptop each time you want to read the newspaper, or a book, or listening to your music, or when you'r watching tv and you need to look up quickly what's on at channel 4, etc?
It is way more instantly usable. It is not a laptop. It is not a desktop. It is a new device that tries to convert everything that you aren't doing digitally yet to something digital. Hence the books. Mayeb you want to play chess when someone's over, or just grab the iPad and launch your chess app and do it against the other player (or whatever, maybe a bit extreme too),
It becomes a household object and not someonbe's laptop you aren't suppose to be using before asking.
That's the point.
No I will not be getting it. No I hate the iPod. No I don't use anything that they ever made.
But you need to get the point. I am not a marketing person (maybe the wet dream of one right now); I am just trying to explain something to you.
Oh and I will buy such a product, onces it has a decent touch-sensitive touchscreen for drawing with Inkscape...
Yes fsck Apple, but such new genre of computers I do realy like and I do realy want and I do see the point of their excistense...
Yes it sucks. But if it acquires a monopoly then open web standards will become the defualt. Then OpenGL becomes the default. Etc. Etc. Etc.
So then all other operating systems get a chance to become compatible with the big fat de-facto and then Mine (Mine is not an emulator) can be created and then Linux can finally become very compatible and by extend usable and by more extend makes your computer running Linux/*BSD/whatever capable of being used in the social world.
The avarage users (a.k.a. everyday people) are using what is being banged through their throats.
They don't buy computers because they want to have a computer so they can do something with it... no. The avarage user is forced to use computers because all of their friends are using Facebook and he is the only one who doesn't. The avarage user doesn't need e-mail because he can also read paper, but he must because nobody sends the person paper mail anymore.
All businesses started using word processorts because they kicked the shit out of typewriters in terms of productivity and it was the future. Then Microsoft came and said: "Hey guys, take our word processort for free!" and then the CEO said "Hey that's cheaper! Use that instead! Money Money Money!!!!!!!!"
Than Microsoft got their hold of the market. Not because it was better software, but because it was free of charge. Then Microsoft's practises came into effect. Bill Gates was far more interested in business and the economy and was excited about the strategy/theory of having your product become more succesful, the more it was used.
Then came the Embrace, extend and extinguish into effect because Word could read all the other docs, but all the other word processorts couldn't read Word.
So then all companies where slowly required to acquire Word. But in order to run Word you must have the Microsoft OS too.
Now the avarage user is required to have a computer. Is required to have Word. Is required to have Microsoft's OS. Is now locked in product.
The only way to absolutely kill Microsoft is becomming compatible with it, but not the other way around.
Enter Apple, the company who makes Mac OS X, has Microsoft Office but also their own shit. Mac OS X is now also compatible with Exchange. Apple computers can now also run Windows. They can run Linux.
But can anyone run iWorks on Windows? Can anyone run Mac OS X on a computer that's not made by Apple? Bingo!
And now you can see Apple getting tremendous marketshare. Each keynote highlights that extremely rapid growth of succes.
iPod shuffle costs about $80, a Mac mini costs about $499 and the cheapest Macbook about $800 and the prices of the lowest end keep lowering.
Now what does Linux need? To get the avarage computer users to run the Linux OS. Luckely Apple is using some standards. OpenGL, Acid 3 browser, UNIX, Posix...
And then there is Google with it's services and open shizzle.
Apple must crush MS and get the largest marketshare. It is then that all other operating systems get their fair share and fair competition...
The iPad is primarely for being on your kitchen table or on the sofa, so that when you get home late and you lay down in your couch, you can grab the iPad, do a quick mail, listen to a relaxing song and put it away.
Or when your cooking (!=pizza) you can quickly grab it, browse for how to make your food and just cook while looking at it.
It's not designed to kill laptops/desktops. It is also not realy multi-tasking user-space apps...
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FYI: There's a 'bug' in the very design of the SSD that doesn't allow read _and_ write at the same time (IIRC).
There's a firmware update for it so that under certain conditions pieces of software do not completely lock up while waiting for the device but that greatly reduces read and write speed individualy (IIRC).
There is not 'a' core i5. Here's a list of all the models:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_microprocessors
Now... What if they took 'one' core i5 and underclocked it and sold them along with a laptop called a MacBook at the frequency they underclocked it at?
Think. Correctly.
You could always just underclock the whole thing, which is what Apple does anyways. If you think a core i5 in a MacBook performs as good as it does in a Dell then you realy got it wrong.
And I thought people only bought a Apple 'Pro' type if they wanted to do something 'Professional' with it. Can't say one can do CAD with a regular GeForce... Hell... 1650x900 res? GLHF with doing some professional HD shit.
As for portability... You can even get a Precision in a 14.1 inch variant if you like. Big fscking deal... That 15.4 inch display is 1920*1200 inch.
But wait... If you can't have a flashy UI and a flashy design than that must automatically mean that a Dell won't be able to leverage the same 'quality' of design as an Apple computer could. Excuse me while I roflmao.
Have you submitted the latest Asus EEE PC line-up? No? Then shut up...
Dell Precision workstation (just pick a model) Including even an i7 and a QuadroFX card. Red Hat Linux optional for about 3/4 of that price.
That makes even a MacBook 'pro' make a run for its money.
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Yeah... GLHF... I noticed the silicon design fault ridden GeForce 9400M's... Buy that and you can throw it away in a years time. Failure rate is 80% in the first year of regular use.
I suggest you wait 'till there's a different GPU offering!
Oh dear... what a risk... Insert disc/flash storage device and install from that again.... oh boy...
Fscking hell... is this Dig.com?!
No it is not: DirectX fscks with interoperability due to it's proprietary nature...
Let's see... Every non-Windows OS has OpenGL, but defo not DirectX.
nVidia drivers have OpenGL 3.x by default. ATI/AMD has an experimental OpenGL 4.0 driver already.
You were saying?
It is called evlution; keep up or die. Which, by my book, is Good (TM).
Linux usage keeps increasing at an ever increasing growth rate. That must mean something.
The Linux ecosystem is getting better and better. That must also mean something.
That means that inferior tech dies. Luckily there is something called Wine, Gnome, X, LibC and Qt... So what is the problem with backwards compatibility again?
Lol, Chrome software rendered is faster than IE9 hardware accel. 'Nuff said... Not to mention CPU load from the graphics driver. Kthnxbye
I'll give you reasoning: WebGL, a Khronos Group standard.
I'd say get wealthy, start a political party that wants to revert back all laws to where it started and get elected. That is democracy!
Instead of reducing the amount of computation we do in IE to make it faster, let's just look for more processing power instead!
Exactly! These devices have a great potential, but as a Linux fan, I'd love to get a (preferably atom) tablet with a Wacom touchscreen. While I will be using KDE >4.4.0 on the sucker (it needs some processing juice), Xournal and Inkscape will be perfectly epic :) ... and a hell of a lot cheaper ^^,
And humans like to fill in for themselves what they do not know.
"How did we got here and what is all this?"
-"Oh, God created us and this is a testing ground to see if you are a good person or a bad person. If you are good you will go to a cloudy place called heaven and if you are bad you will go to the earths core and burn there which they call hell"
"Ah I see"
Lol.
Correction: I live here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands
That's why I said about. I do not live in the US, I like here:
And the prices where old, but here a MacBookc costs 899 euro's, Shuffle 55 (two months ago at a large mall here (BCC) 79 euro's) and Mac Mini does, yes, costs 599.
Totally my fault. Totally my bad. But it's a fact that these things are becomming cheaper every year.
Yeah, but your back from home. You are exhausted. Now you must go upstairs to get your laptop and your adapter, bring it downstairs (I'm being maybe a bit extremisch to explain this), maybe hook it up to the AC (iPad's standby mode is one month) and then boot it up and then...
Well... Or you can just grab the iPad instead that has no fanholes that shouldn't be covered by your legs (!) and go with the flow.
You see, do you grab your laptop each time you want to read the newspaper, or a book, or listening to your music, or when you'r watching tv and you need to look up quickly what's on at channel 4, etc?
It is way more instantly usable. It is not a laptop. It is not a desktop. It is a new device that tries to convert everything that you aren't doing digitally yet to something digital. Hence the books. Mayeb you want to play chess when someone's over, or just grab the iPad and launch your chess app and do it against the other player (or whatever, maybe a bit extreme too),
It becomes a household object and not someonbe's laptop you aren't suppose to be using before asking.
That's the point.
No I will not be getting it. No I hate the iPod. No I don't use anything that they ever made.
But you need to get the point. I am not a marketing person (maybe the wet dream of one right now); I am just trying to explain something to you.
Oh and I will buy such a product, onces it has a decent touch-sensitive touchscreen for drawing with Inkscape...
Yes fsck Apple, but such new genre of computers I do realy like and I do realy want and I do see the point of their excistense...
Yes it sucks. But if it acquires a monopoly then open web standards will become the defualt. Then OpenGL becomes the default. Etc. Etc. Etc.
So then all other operating systems get a chance to become compatible with the big fat de-facto and then Mine (Mine is not an emulator) can be created and then Linux can finally become very compatible and by extend usable and by more extend makes your computer running Linux/*BSD/whatever capable of being used in the social world.
The avarage users (a.k.a. everyday people) are using what is being banged through their throats.
They don't buy computers because they want to have a computer so they can do something with it... no. The avarage user is forced to use computers because all of their friends are using Facebook and he is the only one who doesn't. The avarage user doesn't need e-mail because he can also read paper, but he must because nobody sends the person paper mail anymore.
All businesses started using word processorts because they kicked the shit out of typewriters in terms of productivity and it was the future. Then Microsoft came and said: "Hey guys, take our word processort for free!" and then the CEO said "Hey that's cheaper! Use that instead! Money Money Money!!!!!!!!"
Than Microsoft got their hold of the market. Not because it was better software, but because it was free of charge. Then Microsoft's practises came into effect. Bill Gates was far more interested in business and the economy and was excited about the strategy/theory of having your product become more succesful, the more it was used.
Then came the Embrace, extend and extinguish into effect because Word could read all the other docs, but all the other word processorts couldn't read Word.
So then all companies where slowly required to acquire Word. But in order to run Word you must have the Microsoft OS too.
Now the avarage user is required to have a computer. Is required to have Word. Is required to have Microsoft's OS. Is now locked in product.
The only way to absolutely kill Microsoft is becomming compatible with it, but not the other way around.
Enter Apple, the company who makes Mac OS X, has Microsoft Office but also their own shit. Mac OS X is now also compatible with Exchange. Apple computers can now also run Windows. They can run Linux.
But can anyone run iWorks on Windows? Can anyone run Mac OS X on a computer that's not made by Apple? Bingo!
And now you can see Apple getting tremendous marketshare. Each keynote highlights that extremely rapid growth of succes.
iPod shuffle costs about $80, a Mac mini costs about $499 and the cheapest Macbook about $800 and the prices of the lowest end keep lowering.
Now what does Linux need? To get the avarage computer users to run the Linux OS. Luckely Apple is using some standards. OpenGL, Acid 3 browser, UNIX, Posix...
And then there is Google with it's services and open shizzle.
Apple must crush MS and get the largest marketshare. It is then that all other operating systems get their fair share and fair competition...
Games will be replaced by WebGL and the like ;)
You forgot to add "Totally Hot (TM)" to the most expensive mobile homes and also that mobile homes are the latest trend.
The iPad is primarely for being on your kitchen table or on the sofa, so that when you get home late and you lay down in your couch, you can grab the iPad, do a quick mail, listen to a relaxing song and put it away.
Or when your cooking (!=pizza) you can quickly grab it, browse for how to make your food and just cook while looking at it.
It's not designed to kill laptops/desktops. It is also not realy multi-tasking user-space apps...