SSD's, and hardware that takes full advantage of an SSD is awesome, but it doesn't completely transform what you can do on a computer.
It may not change what you can do, but a SSD definitely changes how much you can do and how quickly you can do it. In better than 21 years of being a computer nerd, I can't remember another single hardware upgrade that could change the perfomance of an average computer by so much as even a budget SSD can.
As a disclaimer, IANAMS(Military Strategist). The last time I checked a globe, there were some large bodies of water that separated the US from the vast majority of anyone who could threaten us with their army. In order for someone to threaten the US with an army, they must be able to bring their army to us. That requires transporting that army over the large body of water to the US. It seems to me then, that a substantial portion of the threat against the US can be diminished or removed entirely, simply by possessing a navy powerful enough to master that open space of water between the US and the previously mentioned beligerent army.
Does that require 11 full battlegroups? I don't honestly know. But think we have to be careful that we don't get so complacent in our dominance that we end up in a dangerous place in 30 years, wishing we could trade back that big pile of money we saved by decommissioning half the carrier fleet, for that half off the carrier fleet we decommissioned.
Are why prepaid carriers seem to be doing better. A few months ago when I went in for an upgrade, I found out that my old plan was no longer allowed on smart phones and we were going to need to add $30 a month per line to get our upgrade with a new contract. We decided to shop around and found Straight Talk. We did some math and discovered that we would come out ahead almost $700 over the course of two years, even with buying our own phones at retail.
So we said bye bye Verizon and have been enjoying that extra $80 a month in our budget ever since.
Ive not seen another upgrade that has affected the performance of a computer so dramatically. Maybe upgrading a computer from a woefully low amount of RAM would compare to the performance gain of a SSD. For me, it's almost like getting an entirely different laptop. Everything is more responsive, my laptop boots much quicker, and the laptop "feels" faster overall. It was so much of a difference that I couldn't go back to the spindle drive that the laptop came with. I felt like a step backwards even though I had ten times the space of the SSD. I eventually put the SSD back in and ditched the internal optical drive.
I think the parent is being sarcastic, but I seem to remember something very close to that being stated by Apple during the trial. It baffled me when I heard it. Apparently, Samsung has so closely copied some of Apple's devices that people can go into a store looking for an Apple product, walk out of the store with a product that instead of the distinctive Apple logo, has the word "Samsung" on it, and think they have purchased an iDevice.
[sarcasm] Breaking news: Intel sued by Apple for patent infringement. Apple has sued CPU manufacturer Intel claiming infringement of their patent on the design of small, compact, all-in-one devices that can run OSX. Apple filed the lawsuit in a federal court located in western Texas. They are asking for an injunction against Intel as well as an award of $5,000 for each device sold by Intel. Apple has claimed that the only reason people buy something other than an Apple device is because they can and therefore every sale of these devices by Intel represents a lost sale for Apple. [/sarcasm]
I've been able to recover data from several hard drives over the years using the "freezer trick." But I have never repaired a drive using that trick. The drives would always eventually stop working again, usually within a half hour or so..
What makes me laugh is that people from both sides are trying to take a measly two centuries(roughly) of climate data and make it mean something significant in a world with a history that is several orders of magnitude greater than humanity's entire existence.
I, for one, plan to spend my time, not freaking out or sticking my head in the sand, but instead, I plan to track down the location of the fountain of youth. There I will wait out the years, recording climate data for the next 500 millenia. When I have completed my mission, I will teleport down to the local Spacemart, purchase a "Made in Sol" time machine that was actually built from parts manufactured in the Beta Epsilon system(complete with lead paint), and I will travel back in time to let the/. community know if humanity was really responsible for global warming or not.....
".. it's much cheaper." Style has value. Macs have a very high resale rate, BTW.
Which tells me that people who own Mac's either don't like their Mac well enough to hold on to it, or have enough money to buy a new one every year or so.
FFS, buy Apple because you like OSX or you like using software made for OSX. I will even go so far as to say, buy it because you like the look and feel of a Mac. Don't buy a Mac because you think it has great hardware. If that is your reason for buying a Mac, go buy a PC and turn it into a Hackintosh, it's much cheaper.
A 15inch MacBook Pro has Core i7-3720QM CPU(2.6 Ghz boost to 3.6Ghz, 8 GB DDR3 RAM(1600 Mhz), 750 GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive, and a Geforce 650M with 1 GB of dedicated RAM for $2200. I can get an Alienware M14x with the exact same CPU, exact same size and speed of RAM, same size but FASTER hard drive(they don't offer a 5400 RPM option), and the exact same video card but with twice the video ram, for $650 less than the Mac.
Let me put it another way. If I add $49 to the price of the Mac and spend it on the Alienware, I can get the next fastest CPU, max the RAM at 16GB, and add a 256 GB SSD!
Holy apple tax batman! Are they making macbooks out of gold plate these days? $2000 is upper mid to high end Alienware money. You Mac fanboys might have had a reason back when apple used ppc hardware. But now that Apple uses the same stuff as everyone else in the PC world, there's no excuse for this kind of price gouging. Unless you are telling me that OSX is worth the $800 - $1000 difference in hardware.......
Microsoft's point is also perfectly good. Banning Xbox360 will do serious damage. If you want to play any current generation AAA games, then your choice is Sony's PS3. There is Wii, but it doesn't have the games.
I play current AAA titles on my PC just fine, thank you very much. In fact they even look better than the 360's version.
And on the PC, I can download custom maps for my games. I can download custom skins and custom sounds for my games. And I can use a keyboard and mouse for FPS, instead of the absolutely retarded dual-analog sticks (seriously, how can you play when your aiming is as smooth as a robot walking on ice?)
Seriously, why would anyone play games on a console anymore? You can do so much more to your games on the PC.
This....a thousand times this. My buddies with consoles rag on me for not having an XBOX 9000 or whatever the newest console is. I usually answer them by thanking them for helping me find something that I could care less about than a new iDevice being launched which used to be at the top of my list of "Things I couldn't possibly care less about." Almost everything ends up being released for the PC and in the end, I can do whatever the hell I want to do with my PC instead of doing only MS or Sony "approved" things with my console.
You have obviously never had to fix a Mac. Incidentally, Apple branded hardware is nothing more than regular PC hardware with an apple logo on it. Silly fanboi. There is no difference in hardware. I got the same parts in a Dell that you got in a MacBook pro. Mine came without the walled garden and I payed half as much as you did. And let's not forget my Razr, which cost less than your flashy iPhone, does the same stuff and has two hour more talk time.
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a place I could go to look things up on the internet? You could type things into a text box and it would look through the internet and give me a ranked list of answers. If only there was someone who did that.... Perhaps they might even make money from selling advertisements based on the search terms. Yeah...if that existed, it would be so cool....
Last time I looked(a few seconds ago), Motorola was being sued, not Google. Google was not even thinking about buying Motorola when those devices were made. So how is this Google hate even relevant?
Base MSRP for Toyota Prius: $24,610 - 51 MPG Highway, 48 MPG City Base MSRP for Ford Fiesta: $13,200 - 40 MPG Highway, 28 MPG City
The Prius costs $11,410 more but gets 11 MPG Highway and 20 MPG City better than the Fiesta.
Disregarding anything other than Highway or City driving, a Fiesta requires 2,500 gallons of gas to go 100,000 miles on the highway whereas a Prius only requires 1961(rounded up) gallons. The difference? 539 gallons. 100,000 miles in the city requires 3571 gallons in a Fiesta and only 2084(rounded up) in a Prius. The difference? 973 gallons.
You want to know why a Prius is a hard sell to most working class people who cant afford to be environmentally conscious for the hell of it? The Prius only saves them about $3900 in gas, at best(City Driving), over a Fiesta assuming a 100,000 mile lifetime but the Prius costs 11,410 more than the Fiesta. Added to that, the idea that you will need to change the batteries out in the Prius at some point which is another $2,000 and you might start to see why it's a hard sell.
Did Jack Thompson become the new CEO of the Red Cross or something? Are people over there so bored that they have taken up whether blowing someone away through a game is a violation of the law?
NPR did a retrospective that compared Jobs to Tesla and Edison and I started yelling at my radio when I heard it. Tesla was a genius, Einstein was a genius. Edison? Maybe. Steve Jobs was an innovator and perhaps even extraordinary. He certainly has contributed a great deal to the modern age of computing and digital devices. But a genius? I doubt that. Anyone can take an existing device and simplify it, make it shinier, or easier to use. Steve Jobs was just better at that than most people. I might even go so far as to say he was better at it than almost anyone else. But nothing he did was beyond that scope of work or what I would call "revolutionary."
Before the Apple fanbois go postal, the iPhone wasn't a true invention. Neither was the iPod, iPad, iMac, or pretty much any other apple iDevice. They were refinements of technology that already existed. They were good refinements to be sure, but nothing more than that. Smart phones existed long before the iPhone did, just like computers existed long before the first Macs, just like MP3 players existed long before the first iPods.
Instead of puffing him up and placing him on some god-like pedestal, remember Steve Jobs for what he was: a great designer, a great marketer, and someone who brought high technology to the masses.
I didn't find out until late Saturday afternoon and by then, all the stores in the area were sold out. Over the course of the next two days, I went from one bogged down retailer website to another until I had amassed three confirmation orders via email, for HP Touchpads. All three were canceled via email yesterday, including the one from CDW that actually charged my debit card. There are still several retailers(Newegg, Circuit City, ect..) who have them in stock(verified via telephone), but have not lowered their prices yet. There is also the matter of anyone who didn't sell their stock and returned them to HP instead. Hopefully I'll end up with one by the time this is all said and done.
I don't have a need for a touchpad for the same reason I don't have a need for an iPad. But, for $99, I think I could find a use for it. =)
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SSD's, and hardware that takes full advantage of an SSD is awesome, but it doesn't completely transform what you can do on a computer.
It may not change what you can do, but a SSD definitely changes how much you can do and how quickly you can do it. In better than 21 years of being a computer nerd, I can't remember another single hardware upgrade that could change the perfomance of an average computer by so much as even a budget SSD can.
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Affected not..... Effected....
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As a disclaimer, IANAMS(Military Strategist). The last time I checked a globe, there were some large bodies of water that separated the US from the vast majority of anyone who could threaten us with their army. In order for someone to threaten the US with an army, they must be able to bring their army to us. That requires transporting that army over the large body of water to the US. It seems to me then, that a substantial portion of the threat against the US can be diminished or removed entirely, simply by possessing a navy powerful enough to master that open space of water between the US and the previously mentioned beligerent army.
Does that require 11 full battlegroups? I don't honestly know. But think we have to be careful that we don't get so complacent in our dominance that we end up in a dangerous place in 30 years, wishing we could trade back that big pile of money we saved by decommissioning half the carrier fleet, for that half off the carrier fleet we decommissioned.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_aircraft_carrier
Are why prepaid carriers seem to be doing better. A few months ago when I went in for an upgrade, I found out that my old plan was no longer allowed on smart phones and we were going to need to add $30 a month per line to get our upgrade with a new contract. We decided to shop around and found Straight Talk. We did some math and discovered that we would come out ahead almost $700 over the course of two years, even with buying our own phones at retail.
So we said bye bye Verizon and have been enjoying that extra $80 a month in our budget ever since.
Ive not seen another upgrade that has affected the performance of a computer so dramatically. Maybe upgrading a computer from a woefully low amount of RAM would compare to the performance gain of a SSD. For me, it's almost like getting an entirely different laptop. Everything is more responsive, my laptop boots much quicker, and the laptop "feels" faster overall. It was so much of a difference that I couldn't go back to the spindle drive that the laptop came with. I felt like a step backwards even though I had ten times the space of the SSD. I eventually put the SSD back in and ditched the internal optical drive.
I think the parent is being sarcastic, but I seem to remember something very close to that being stated by Apple during the trial. It baffled me when I heard it. Apparently, Samsung has so closely copied some of Apple's devices that people can go into a store looking for an Apple product, walk out of the store with a product that instead of the distinctive Apple logo, has the word "Samsung" on it, and think they have purchased an iDevice.
This sounds oddly like a re-branded Cruise Missile. Don't we already have those?
[sarcasm] Breaking news: Intel sued by Apple for patent infringement. Apple has sued CPU manufacturer Intel claiming infringement of their patent on the design of small, compact, all-in-one devices that can run OSX. Apple filed the lawsuit in a federal court located in western Texas. They are asking for an injunction against Intel as well as an award of $5,000 for each device sold by Intel. Apple has claimed that the only reason people buy something other than an Apple device is because they can and therefore every sale of these devices by Intel represents a lost sale for Apple. [/sarcasm]
I've been able to recover data from several hard drives over the years using the "freezer trick." But I have never repaired a drive using that trick. The drives would always eventually stop working again, usually within a half hour or so..
.... they always make me laugh.
What makes me laugh is that people from both sides are trying to take a measly two centuries(roughly) of climate data and make it mean something significant in a world with a history that is several orders of magnitude greater than humanity's entire existence.
I, for one, plan to spend my time, not freaking out or sticking my head in the sand, but instead, I plan to track down the location of the fountain of youth. There I will wait out the years, recording climate data for the next 500 millenia. When I have completed my mission, I will teleport down to the local Spacemart, purchase a "Made in Sol" time machine that was actually built from parts manufactured in the Beta Epsilon system(complete with lead paint), and I will travel back in time to let the /. community know if humanity was really responsible for global warming or not.....
".. it's much cheaper."
Style has value.
Macs have a very high resale rate, BTW.
Which tells me that people who own Mac's either don't like their Mac well enough to hold on to it, or have enough money to buy a new one every year or so.
FFS, buy Apple because you like OSX or you like using software made for OSX. I will even go so far as to say, buy it because you like the look and feel of a Mac. Don't buy a Mac because you think it has great hardware. If that is your reason for buying a Mac, go buy a PC and turn it into a Hackintosh, it's much cheaper.
A 15inch MacBook Pro has Core i7-3720QM CPU(2.6 Ghz boost to 3.6Ghz, 8 GB DDR3 RAM(1600 Mhz), 750 GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive, and a Geforce 650M with 1 GB of dedicated RAM for $2200. I can get an Alienware M14x with the exact same CPU, exact same size and speed of RAM, same size but FASTER hard drive(they don't offer a 5400 RPM option), and the exact same video card but with twice the video ram, for $650 less than the Mac.
Let me put it another way. If I add $49 to the price of the Mac and spend it on the Alienware, I can get the next fastest CPU, max the RAM at 16GB, and add a 256 GB SSD!
A clear example, if only a recent one, this is.
Holy apple tax batman! Are they making macbooks out of gold plate these days? $2000 is upper mid to high end Alienware money. You Mac fanboys might have had a reason back when apple used ppc hardware. But now that Apple uses the same stuff as everyone else in the PC world, there's no excuse for this kind of price gouging. Unless you are telling me that OSX is worth the $800 - $1000 difference in hardware.......
Microsoft's point is also perfectly good. Banning Xbox360 will do serious damage. If you want to play any current generation AAA games, then your choice is Sony's PS3. There is Wii, but it doesn't have the games.
I play current AAA titles on my PC just fine, thank you very much. In fact they even look better than the 360's version.
And on the PC, I can download custom maps for my games. I can download custom skins and custom sounds for my games. And I can use a keyboard and mouse for FPS, instead of the absolutely retarded dual-analog sticks (seriously, how can you play when your aiming is as smooth as a robot walking on ice?)
Seriously, why would anyone play games on a console anymore? You can do so much more to your games on the PC.
This....a thousand times this. My buddies with consoles rag on me for not having an XBOX 9000 or whatever the newest console is. I usually answer them by thanking them for helping me find something that I could care less about than a new iDevice being launched which used to be at the top of my list of "Things I couldn't possibly care less about." Almost everything ends up being released for the PC and in the end, I can do whatever the hell I want to do with my PC instead of doing only MS or Sony "approved" things with my console.
You have obviously never had to fix a Mac. Incidentally, Apple branded hardware is nothing more than regular PC hardware with an apple logo on it. Silly fanboi. There is no difference in hardware. I got the same parts in a Dell that you got in a MacBook pro. Mine came without the walled garden and I payed half as much as you did. And let's not forget my Razr, which cost less than your flashy iPhone, does the same stuff and has two hour more talk time.
It also "just works."
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a place I could go to look things up on the internet? You could type things into a text box and it would look through the internet and give me a ranked list of answers. If only there was someone who did that.... Perhaps they might even make money from selling advertisements based on the search terms. Yeah...if that existed, it would be so cool....
Last time I looked(a few seconds ago), Motorola was being sued, not Google. Google was not even thinking about buying Motorola when those devices were made. So how is this Google hate even relevant?
is this here? seriously, how is this tech news at all?
Base MSRP for Toyota Prius: $24,610 - 51 MPG Highway, 48 MPG City
Base MSRP for Ford Fiesta: $13,200 - 40 MPG Highway, 28 MPG City
The Prius costs $11,410 more but gets 11 MPG Highway and 20 MPG City better than the Fiesta.
Disregarding anything other than Highway or City driving, a Fiesta requires 2,500 gallons of gas to go 100,000 miles on the highway whereas a Prius only requires 1961(rounded up) gallons. The difference? 539 gallons.
100,000 miles in the city requires 3571 gallons in a Fiesta and only 2084(rounded up) in a Prius. The difference? 973 gallons.
You want to know why a Prius is a hard sell to most working class people who cant afford to be environmentally conscious for the hell of it? The Prius only saves them about $3900 in gas, at best(City Driving), over a Fiesta assuming a 100,000 mile lifetime but the Prius costs 11,410 more than the Fiesta. Added to that, the idea that you will need to change the batteries out in the Prius at some point which is another $2,000 and you might start to see why it's a hard sell.
Did Jack Thompson become the new CEO of the Red Cross or something? Are people over there so bored that they have taken up whether blowing someone away through a game is a violation of the law?
NPR did a retrospective that compared Jobs to Tesla and Edison and I started yelling at my radio when I heard it. Tesla was a genius, Einstein was a genius. Edison? Maybe. Steve Jobs was an innovator and perhaps even extraordinary. He certainly has contributed a great deal to the modern age of computing and digital devices. But a genius? I doubt that. Anyone can take an existing device and simplify it, make it shinier, or easier to use. Steve Jobs was just better at that than most people. I might even go so far as to say he was better at it than almost anyone else. But nothing he did was beyond that scope of work or what I would call "revolutionary."
Before the Apple fanbois go postal, the iPhone wasn't a true invention. Neither was the iPod, iPad, iMac, or pretty much any other apple iDevice. They were refinements of technology that already existed. They were good refinements to be sure, but nothing more than that. Smart phones existed long before the iPhone did, just like computers existed long before the first Macs, just like MP3 players existed long before the first iPods.
Instead of puffing him up and placing him on some god-like pedestal, remember Steve Jobs for what he was: a great designer, a great marketer, and someone who brought high technology to the masses.
I didn't find out until late Saturday afternoon and by then, all the stores in the area were sold out. Over the course of the next two days, I went from one bogged down retailer website to another until I had amassed three confirmation orders via email, for HP Touchpads. All three were canceled via email yesterday, including the one from CDW that actually charged my debit card. There are still several retailers(Newegg, Circuit City, ect..) who have them in stock(verified via telephone), but have not lowered their prices yet. There is also the matter of anyone who didn't sell their stock and returned them to HP instead. Hopefully I'll end up with one by the time this is all said and done.
I don't have a need for a touchpad for the same reason I don't have a need for an iPad. But, for $99, I think I could find a use for it. =)