A proper GPS like the one I used in a 1 series through Europe has awareness of the direction the car is pointing, and this which road it is on, what road speed it is doing, and interpolates its location if signal is lost. The BMW GPS worked in tunnels due to being actually not shit, and using other car sensors when the GPS went down to know what's up.
True. But these days computers are commonplace. There's no need to attempt to do all your application development on a calculator. He may as well compare a wristwatch to the TI83 and say that wristwatches suck for education because you can program the ti83.
Kids these days are writing iPad apps and actually making money, rather than wasting their time fucking around with a graphing calculator.
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Better battery life, better openGL performance, new features like Fusion drive (SSD caching) and multi disk time machine are more than worth the 5 seconds you need to spend to turn the new preferences off if you don't like them.
Pay attention: that's not how apple do things. They don't do exceptions where stuff is half supported - either it works like it says on the box or it is not supported. This is why there's no Siri on older iphones (despite it being possible to make work, apple use 2 mics for better voice recognition, thus they support only on devices with multiple mics). The whole concept with apple gear is that you shouldn't have to screw around. It either works or it doesn't. They don't (attempt to) do half-assed.
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Furthermore... PCIe is already too slow for pushing textures across extensively. Most games don't do that if they can avoid it, and if you're running SLI, you're probably not running 2x PCIe 16x anyhow. This is why modern cards have multiple gigabytes of video memory. The textures are all pre-loaded into the card to avoid hammering the PCIe bus - because even if you do that on PCIe 16x, performance goes to shit.
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See above. You can.
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And as far as building a whole PC goes - you don't get OS X legally that way, which is kinda the point.
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You can speculate, or you can watch the video posted by someone who's actually DONE IT.
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Yeah, if you got a voodoo2 when they were expensive it would have lasted a while. However, if you bought a card when they were at the mid-range price point (Voodoo Rush for example), you did need to upgrade fairly often during that period because 3d was moving ahead in leaps and bounds. Between 1998 and 2002, I'm pretty sure my transition was Voodoo Rush, TNT2, Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 4200...
Performance definitely went backwards from 10.6 to 10.7. 10.7 is the Vista of OS X. A necessary architectural update, but with unfortunate consequences for compatibility and performance. Which was mostly fixed in the following release (and also later point releases for 10.7 - 10.7.4 is much faster than 10.7).
Curring edge features: interrupt coalescing, memory compression, grand central dispatch, app nap. Amongst others. Having run it since DP1 on my main machine, the only minor issues I have had have been Wifi stability (which looks to be fixed now) and blanked out preference panels in the early DPs for features they were in the process of implementing. Battery life is more than 15% better than Mountain Lion (which is already a lot better than Windows), performance seems as fast or even faster.
Btrw... android running a JVM does exactly that - wasting battery so that programmers don't have to know how to use pointers. Seems to be quite successful.
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Thunderbolt enclosure + PCIe video card. You can keep it and plug it into your next machine. not its not as fast as direct PCIe, but it is still capable of running 60 FPS or damn close on modern games. A friend has done this exact thing with his 11" MBA.
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Launchpad came with Lion, not Snow Leopard.
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Serious question: what do you do that you could not do with a mini + thunderbolt enclosure?
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The way bluetooth security works, it wouldn't be seamless.
... that the NSA, CIA and friends are collecting ALL of our personally identifying information so it can be stolen from one convenient location.
A proper GPS like the one I used in a 1 series through Europe has awareness of the direction the car is pointing, and this which road it is on, what road speed it is doing, and interpolates its location if signal is lost. The BMW GPS worked in tunnels due to being actually not shit, and using other car sensors when the GPS went down to know what's up.
They already do this. Even the Volkswagen "up" has collision avoidance radar that works at lower speeds.
The big german sedans are limited to 155mph, too. Just take a trip down the autobahn/autostrada and see how effective that is :D
True. But these days computers are commonplace. There's no need to attempt to do all your application development on a calculator. He may as well compare a wristwatch to the TI83 and say that wristwatches suck for education because you can program the ti83.
Also, you'd need your own internet.
Kids these days are writing iPad apps and actually making money, rather than wasting their time fucking around with a graphing calculator.
Better battery life, better openGL performance, new features like Fusion drive (SSD caching) and multi disk time machine are more than worth the 5 seconds you need to spend to turn the new preferences off if you don't like them.
Pay attention: that's not how apple do things. They don't do exceptions where stuff is half supported - either it works like it says on the box or it is not supported. This is why there's no Siri on older iphones (despite it being possible to make work, apple use 2 mics for better voice recognition, thus they support only on devices with multiple mics). The whole concept with apple gear is that you shouldn't have to screw around. It either works or it doesn't. They don't (attempt to) do half-assed.
Furthermore... PCIe is already too slow for pushing textures across extensively. Most games don't do that if they can avoid it, and if you're running SLI, you're probably not running 2x PCIe 16x anyhow. This is why modern cards have multiple gigabytes of video memory. The textures are all pre-loaded into the card to avoid hammering the PCIe bus - because even if you do that on PCIe 16x, performance goes to shit.
See above. You can.
And as far as building a whole PC goes - you don't get OS X legally that way, which is kinda the point.
You can speculate, or you can watch the video posted by someone who's actually DONE IT.
Yes.
Yes, it was in snow leopard. It is still cutting edge, as no other OS has anything similar throughout the OS.
Yeah, if you got a voodoo2 when they were expensive it would have lasted a while. However, if you bought a card when they were at the mid-range price point (Voodoo Rush for example), you did need to upgrade fairly often during that period because 3d was moving ahead in leaps and bounds. Between 1998 and 2002, I'm pretty sure my transition was Voodoo Rush, TNT2, Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 4200...
Don't worry, you won't.
Performance definitely went backwards from 10.6 to 10.7. 10.7 is the Vista of OS X. A necessary architectural update, but with unfortunate consequences for compatibility and performance. Which was mostly fixed in the following release (and also later point releases for 10.7 - 10.7.4 is much faster than 10.7).
Also, full screen is actually usable with multiple monitors now.
Curring edge features: interrupt coalescing, memory compression, grand central dispatch, app nap. Amongst others. Having run it since DP1 on my main machine, the only minor issues I have had have been Wifi stability (which looks to be fixed now) and blanked out preference panels in the early DPs for features they were in the process of implementing. Battery life is more than 15% better than Mountain Lion (which is already a lot better than Windows), performance seems as fast or even faster.
Btrw... android running a JVM does exactly that - wasting battery so that programmers don't have to know how to use pointers. Seems to be quite successful.
Thunderbolt enclosure + PCIe video card. You can keep it and plug it into your next machine. not its not as fast as direct PCIe, but it is still capable of running 60 FPS or damn close on modern games. A friend has done this exact thing with his 11" MBA.
Launchpad came with Lion, not Snow Leopard.
Serious question: what do you do that you could not do with a mini + thunderbolt enclosure?