It isn't just economy CPUs. All Xeon 5600 processors are 6-core parts. The 4-core models just have two disabled. I'm sure if enterprise users could just pay the difference later on to upgrade they wouldn't be complaining.
A few weeks ago the same Agent and agency involved performed a similar raid on another company. The owner claims the following:
"They continued to ask me questions for 4 to 5 hours, and although I swear on my skin I gave them nothing but the truth, this guy repeatedly told me I was lying, and he knew I was lying, because the truth I told him didn't match the stories of the their "informant" Marcus Wentrcek. The amazing thing is that this guy was fired almost 2 years ago. So NONE of the information the FBI had was even current."
"The most damaging false statements made by the "Informant", was that we didn't have a single customer, and that anything that happened from the data center or our 64,000 IP addresses, was part of my evil empire of cyber crime. So the feds seize the data center based on that 2-year old statement from a very unreliable source.
Well, one of my customers, of which I had 300 - 400 of, was Intelimate. This is a government contractor; they provide all the phone service for prisons in 3 states. All of which lost their phone services when the FBI raided the data center. We also had a Credit Card Processor, Mortgage companies, and dozens of VoIP companies as well. The FBI effectively did tens of millions of dollars in damages to dozens of businesses within a few minutes based on bad intel, and no investigation whatsoever. I actually got a copy of the 40 page affidavit they submitted to a federal magistrate to get the search warrants...it's 90% outright lies, and 10% misrepresented truth. With a lot of "my experience as a special agent of the FBI for X number of years leads me to believe..." as excuses for a warrant."
Notebooks enable a different computing experience that people are willing to pay the extra for. Not being tied to a single location is a big selling point even if the computer will never leave the home.
Or maybe there are companies that need high end cards with 4GB of RAM. This isn't some trick to get consumers to pay more for a low end card. This is now Nvidia's highest end workstation card.
MSI have been putting out fanless graphics cards for a while now. They are midrange cards and I don't know if they are clocked lower or not, but someone is catering to a niche. I guess there are just too many issues regarding cooling for more companies to be involved and offering high-end fanless cards at retail.
The retail cost of OSX is for an operating system upgrade to an already purchased system. Apple can price how they want and have chosen this model as it works for them. I doubt anyone outside of Apple knows it's real value, but I bet it has one assigned in accounting and I expect it is alot higher than $130. Apple weren't stopping them reselling copies of OSX. They only came in when Psystar started offering modified copies in order to sell their hardware.
The problem with this is that the industry is moving towards digital distribution, and obviously indie games are already nearly always distributed in this way. If all it takes is a few minutes online to get your money back then it will be abused heavily. As for holding on to the money of customers for a month, the developer would actually be losing money through processing fees, in addition I don't know if it costs the seller to issue a credit card refund.
I just don't see how a refund model could work with digital distribution.
If you look at the SPECviewperf benchmarks for the Quadro cards and then track down some for the gaming cards based on similar hardware (there aren't many online) you should see that the Quadros can offer vast improvements in performance when working on complex models.
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You'll have 16GB unbuffered DIMMs so you aren't losing anything. With Haswell-EP using LR-DIMMs allows 3 per channel for 768GB per CPU.
It isn't just economy CPUs. All Xeon 5600 processors are 6-core parts. The 4-core models just have two disabled. I'm sure if enterprise users could just pay the difference later on to upgrade they wouldn't be complaining.
They have recently (last month) signed a deal to produce a movie based on the LEGO license.
The last I heard was that they were now trying to buy it back for 2/3rds of what they sold it for. So yeah I guess they are.
It's a per user price usually.
"They continued to ask me questions for 4 to 5 hours, and although I swear on my skin I gave them nothing but the truth, this guy repeatedly told me I was lying, and he knew I was lying, because the truth I told him didn't match the stories of the their "informant" Marcus Wentrcek. The amazing thing is that this guy was fired almost 2 years ago. So NONE of the information the FBI had was even current."
"The most damaging false statements made by the "Informant", was that we didn't have a single customer, and that anything that happened from the data center or our 64,000 IP addresses, was part of my evil empire of cyber crime. So the feds seize the data center based on that 2-year old statement from a very unreliable source.
Well, one of my customers, of which I had 300 - 400 of, was Intelimate. This is a government contractor; they provide all the phone service for prisons in 3 states. All of which lost their phone services when the FBI raided the data center. We also had a Credit Card Processor, Mortgage companies, and dozens of VoIP companies as well. The FBI effectively did tens of millions of dollars in damages to dozens of businesses within a few minutes based on bad intel, and no investigation whatsoever. I actually got a copy of the 40 page affidavit they submitted to a federal magistrate to get the search warrants...it's 90% outright lies, and 10% misrepresented truth. With a lot of "my experience as a special agent of the FBI for X number of years leads me to believe..." as excuses for a warrant."
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Notebooks enable a different computing experience that people are willing to pay the extra for. Not being tied to a single location is a big selling point even if the computer will never leave the home.
The Quadro FX 5500 is two and a half years old and still goes for $2000+ new so I wouldn't count on it.
Or maybe there are companies that need high end cards with 4GB of RAM. This isn't some trick to get consumers to pay more for a low end card. This is now Nvidia's highest end workstation card.
Intel's CEO Paul Otellini said production would start in January so expect Apple to ship sometime in Q1.
Better to be safe than sorry? It will be a lot harder to remove something (well maybe not for Apple) once it is in place.
MSI have been putting out fanless graphics cards for a while now. They are midrange cards and I don't know if they are clocked lower or not, but someone is catering to a niche. I guess there are just too many issues regarding cooling for more companies to be involved and offering high-end fanless cards at retail.
The article isn't a review of cheap cards. It is a review of the gaming and HD decoding and playback performance of sub $100 graphics cards.
The retail cost of OSX is for an operating system upgrade to an already purchased system. Apple can price how they want and have chosen this model as it works for them. I doubt anyone outside of Apple knows it's real value, but I bet it has one assigned in accounting and I expect it is alot higher than $130. Apple weren't stopping them reselling copies of OSX. They only came in when Psystar started offering modified copies in order to sell their hardware.
The problem with this is that the industry is moving towards digital distribution, and obviously indie games are already nearly always distributed in this way. If all it takes is a few minutes online to get your money back then it will be abused heavily. As for holding on to the money of customers for a month, the developer would actually be losing money through processing fees, in addition I don't know if it costs the seller to issue a credit card refund. I just don't see how a refund model could work with digital distribution.
If you look at the SPECviewperf benchmarks for the Quadro cards and then track down some for the gaming cards based on similar hardware (there aren't many online) you should see that the Quadros can offer vast improvements in performance when working on complex models.