When jobs came back to apple the first thing he did was shit-can most of the product line, and narrow it down to laptop, regular desktop and pro desktop in 3 different specs (good, better, best), then set about producing the iMac and iPod.
The existing product lines, when Steve returned, were all pretty much scrapped ASAP.
I'm sure apple's management have prepared for the day Samsung say "fuck you" and have a contingency plan. Just because we don't know what it is, it doesn't mean it does not exist.
Cheers. And yes, I've seen 300 megabit wifi sync, but as I mentioned above in another reply, that's only good for about 4 feet from the AP, as 5Ghz range/obstacle penetration sucks.
That's why i said get a MBP retina - which was not available when i bought mine. I do sync at 300 megabit wifi occasionally, buit 5Ghz is only good for that from about 4 feet from the AP.
Please provide a reference of a non-slow, bloated enterprise app written in Java. I've never seen one. In fact, i've never seen ANY app written in Java which didn't consume at least 1.5-2x PLUS the resources it would if written natively.
You don't NEED to watch 1080p on youtube and many don't have the bandwdith for it anyhow. 360p is "enough" to watch cat videos at, etc. and a Pentium 3 will do that just fine.
Thing is for most of what people do, a tablet is more than ample processing power wise, and FAR, FAR more convenient - with its 300-500 gram weight and 10 hour battery life. Oh, unless you get a Surface Pro, which is almost a kilo and 4 hour life. And they wonder why it flopped.
Sounds like you want a Macbook Pro Retina. My 15" has 1680x1050, backlit keyboard that works. No SSD, but my ex's MBA is still fast after 2.5 yrs. Wifi works at >250 megabit depending on distance to AP over wifi N 5.8, my battery is 18 months old and at 92%.
You misunderstand my point. PCIe x4 is slower than x16. I'm saying that even when running over a much slower bus than an internal x16 slot, the GPU will still be far faster in actual use than any mobile GPU chipset (i.e., the reason you'd want to run an external GPU over thunderbolt - you have a portable machine that has no, or slow discrete GPU), because the PCIe bus transfers are infrequent as everything is cached in VRAM.
Whilst that's neat... it's no doubt much less less efficient than just exposing PCIe in the first place without going from PCIe->Encoding -> Ethernet -> Decoding -> PCIe.
If you can isolate the code to the binary blob, then that is enough. It's no longer your (kernel developer) problem. If an end user wants to run a binary blob driver for massively improved performance, they should be able to.
For the average end user, they have (time and again during the last 30 years) proven incapable of being the root of the chain of trust and maintaining the integrity of their system.
Yeah, i meant SAS. i.e., serial scsi. Point being, no other bus gives you an external PCIe capability like thunderbolt does - which enables you to run pretty much any sort of device you could plug into a PCIe slot.
Exactly my point. Portables with "SCSI (i.e., SAS), fibre channel or 10GbE dedicated ports do not exist. Hence, having a general purpose 10 gigabit external extension of the PCIe bus is a nice thing to have.
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When jobs came back to apple the first thing he did was shit-can most of the product line, and narrow it down to laptop, regular desktop and pro desktop in 3 different specs (good, better, best), then set about producing the iMac and iPod.
The existing product lines, when Steve returned, were all pretty much scrapped ASAP.
More likely, apple will just BUY toshiba, Micron, or whatever and make their own.
And find all the phones from 1996 - 2008 that used standard USB for charging. Go on...
Why the fuck would they use ext2 when they have code for both UFS and ZFS?
I'm sure apple's management have prepared for the day Samsung say "fuck you" and have a contingency plan. Just because we don't know what it is, it doesn't mean it does not exist.
Cheers. And yes, I've seen 300 megabit wifi sync, but as I mentioned above in another reply, that's only good for about 4 feet from the AP, as 5Ghz range/obstacle penetration sucks.
That's why i said get a MBP retina - which was not available when i bought mine. I do sync at 300 megabit wifi occasionally, buit 5Ghz is only good for that from about 4 feet from the AP.
Please provide a reference of a non-slow, bloated enterprise app written in Java. I've never seen one. In fact, i've never seen ANY app written in Java which didn't consume at least 1.5-2x PLUS the resources it would if written natively.
You don't NEED to watch 1080p on youtube and many don't have the bandwdith for it anyhow. 360p is "enough" to watch cat videos at, etc. and a Pentium 3 will do that just fine.
Thing is for most of what people do, a tablet is more than ample processing power wise, and FAR, FAR more convenient - with its 300-500 gram weight and 10 hour battery life. Oh, unless you get a Surface Pro, which is almost a kilo and 4 hour life. And they wonder why it flopped.
Make that 21 months old - I purchased in July 2011.
Sounds like you want a Macbook Pro Retina. My 15" has 1680x1050, backlit keyboard that works. No SSD, but my ex's MBA is still fast after 2.5 yrs. Wifi works at >250 megabit depending on distance to AP over wifi N 5.8, my battery is 18 months old and at 92%.
A core i series is worth it for AES acceleration and much much quicker video transcoding.
You misunderstand my point. PCIe x4 is slower than x16. I'm saying that even when running over a much slower bus than an internal x16 slot, the GPU will still be far faster in actual use than any mobile GPU chipset (i.e., the reason you'd want to run an external GPU over thunderbolt - you have a portable machine that has no, or slow discrete GPU), because the PCIe bus transfers are infrequent as everything is cached in VRAM.
It will still be implemented in the manner of the "winModem of buses" with far less hardware assistance.
Whilst that's neat... it's no doubt much less less efficient than just exposing PCIe in the first place without going from PCIe->Encoding -> Ethernet -> Decoding -> PCIe.
Will all become irrelevant soon anyhow. Intel is open source and they are getting better fast.
Furthermore - a GPU driver crash should not take down the OS. It doesn't on Windows, it shouldn't on Linux.
If you can isolate the code to the binary blob, then that is enough. It's no longer your (kernel developer) problem. If an end user wants to run a binary blob driver for massively improved performance, they should be able to.
That. Every single machine at the recent LAN i went to was a laptop, except for the host's computer (he didn't have far to move it :D)
For the average end user, they have (time and again during the last 30 years) proven incapable of being the root of the chain of trust and maintaining the integrity of their system.
OK so it has a nice interface. The more important feature is 3rd party applications and it falls flat there against android and iOS.
Yeah, i meant SAS. i.e., serial scsi. Point being, no other bus gives you an external PCIe capability like thunderbolt does - which enables you to run pretty much any sort of device you could plug into a PCIe slot.
Perhaps you're unaware that USB is a CPU driven bus that sucks for performance, never mind what software stack is running it.
Exactly my point. Portables with "SCSI (i.e., SAS), fibre channel or 10GbE dedicated ports do not exist. Hence, having a general purpose 10 gigabit external extension of the PCIe bus is a nice thing to have.