Apple prebuilds and supplies computers using components designed by other companies in exactly the same fashion as Dell, HP, Acer, and so on. They use their own in-house designed motherboards just like these OEMs as well - and they supply the consumer with some of their own software. Apple goes much further on the 'own software' part as they instead supply an entire OS, but thats it.
Apparently, though all my Laptop's Debian installation has done the past week is scream - very loudly - at me whenever I try to make the thing produce noise. Can be accidental too, like hitting a right arrow key and its just trying to say 'no'.
Its the sort of noise you want to avoid the thing making at any and all costs when in a public area.
Outages have lasted in excess of a day in the past. In those cases the lost time was reimbursed by several days. This has been done even on a per-server basis.
The 320 series isn't quite as impressive over the X25-M G2 series as I had originally hoped, so will likely be quite some time before I bother replacing the current one (and move that into the laptop instead).
Still, an update has been due for a long time now the X25-M G2 is ancient in SSD terms. Just hope the new controller is as reliable as the Intel one found in the old drives.
Which is a shame considering how rarely you actually need to replace (good) speakers. Buy a good set now, and you can easily keep them for a decade and they'll still be just as good compared to the competition at that point. Sound cards are no different, though integrated solutions typically do outperform ~12 year old solutions nowadays... when electrical interference isn't in someway present on the integrated (common on Line-In / Microphone ports).
Sectors die in mechanical hard drives as well - and judging by my drives - at a far higher rate than they do in SSDs. Plus with mechanical drives, you also have to cope with mechanical failures bringing the entire drive down. A badly timed bump in a laptop for example can cause severe drive damage either immediately, or make the drive fail significantly sooner. Many people say hard drives rarely die; but thats hardly true in reality. Its true that they're not that likely to die for your average person - but hard drive deaths occur plenty when used in more active machines. If you see few or no mechanicals die with your use, you'll never see a SSD die with your use. I've owned my SSD for about a year and a half - but it would only take 6 hours to do the same amount of data writes I've done during that entire time, which is about 2.1TB of written data. (SMART info) On average - I replace around 3 mechanical hard drives a year within my entire family due to a drive crash, 6 in 2010 though.
In testing, and in enterprise - those drives go through days and weeks (months!) of continuous writes at max speed. For your average person which uses their machine far less than me - theres not a chance their SSD will encounter significant wear issues.
And for the display part - Dells upper offerings beat Apples (I still need to check a few of the other OEMs though - so more options than what I'm about to give are very much appreciated).
It does require both extra investment and some careful choosing mind you (so research) - but if you want a laptop with the best tested contrast ratio, most even brightness distribution, highest average brightness, the darkest blacks - alternatively, the best colour distribution - you'd go with one of the XPS systems. Those panels also come at 1920x1080 resolution at 15 inch. Fortunately, Windows auto senses the high pixel-density of the panel and automatically re-adjusts the system DPI to 125% even on a clean installation - so object size remains a non-issue.
Bear in mind most games that show up on Mac OS are not GPU limited. WoW, advertised on Apples website - is all about CPU power. EVE Online, advertised on Apple's website - is all about CPU power. Starcraft, is all about CPU power. Diablo (the new one) is bound to be all about CPU power. Civilization is all about CPU power (once you get to ~200+ turns). The only popular example I can think of that might counter this is Team Fortress - but the Source Engine is also well known for being CPU heavy and the new processor is bound to help here.
The 13 inch never had a discrete GPU. It just used an NVIDIA provided integrated GPU. In other words - they significantly improved the processor and memory speed capabilities of the system, at the cost of a very slight reduction on GPU"performance - on a system that does not have adequate GPU resources for anything to begin with. Games should still see an overall improvement in performance; especially as most games that actually show up on Mac OS are CPU limited.
Video and music transfers though tend to more often be large and mainly sustained operations. An area Hard Drives still do fairly well at (and cheaper or older SSDs by 2 years or so actually cannot always outperform them on).
Those devices are already limited by their slow flash storage devices, not the transfer method they use. (This holds true for "USB Sticks" etc as well - pretty much only proper external HDDs may be limited by their interface)
Lightpeak could however permit certain more interesting resource sharing abilities. Possibly the iPad might be able to loan some of the resources from the desktop - and it would also likely be possible to setup the iPad as a regular secondary monitor with touch input capabilities; especially interesting since you can still sync at the same time. Currently, image feeds are severely limited by their bandwidth.
Its a common phrase used to describe flash-like content in terms of appearance and behaviour. While its not technically powered by flash - almost all smartphone games have had an equivalent on various flash game websites for years; Angry Birds -not- an exception. The original games that Angry Birds is copied/based on was released almost a decade ago.
Not quite.
And if we examine certain groups in more detail (e.g. steam users) - then we get a weak 25% usage-base, with roughly 70% covered by Vista and 7. Most of todays XP coverage is corporate (and highly likely to be stuck with IE6 anyway) and Chinese.
XP is loosing relevance otherwise - and the market is showing it.
Thing is though that for most users, per-thread performance is the key; and despite AMDs processors being cheaper they still lose on the price/performance in most applications.
Because of the simple reason that just because a game is DX11 does not inherently mean that it will run terribly. A lot of the time though, DX10/11 modes involves introducing a whole new set of visual features at the same time - thats what causes the slowdowns.
To use a popular game - with Cataclysm, WoW obtained DX11 support. However, its not used to enhance visual detail in any way. Instead its used to enhance the performance of the game. The exact outcome of this does vary, but some machines can gain as much as a 30% increase. Likewise, Civ5 uses DX11 for two things - Tesselation, and to, like wow, otherwise enhance its framerate. The game typically runs far better with DX11 present than DX10.
Shortcut to 'View Desktop' (WINKEY + D), shortcut to resume all minimized windows (WINKEY + D), shortcut to maximize current window (WINKEY + Upp), snap current window to left half (WINKEY + Left), snap current window to right half (WINKEY + Right), shortcut to My Computer (WINKEY + E), shortcut to "Run" (WINKEY + R), shortcut to control panel item "System" (WINKEY + Prt Scr), Shortcut to start or bring up a specific program on the task bar (WINKEY + 1 through 0).
Just a short list of my daily used Windows Key shortcuts.
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Apple prebuilds and supplies computers using components designed by other companies in exactly the same fashion as Dell, HP, Acer, and so on. They use their own in-house designed motherboards just like these OEMs as well - and they supply the consumer with some of their own software. Apple goes much further on the 'own software' part as they instead supply an entire OS, but thats it.
http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm While this was for Sony Online Entertainment; its fairly safe to assume that PSN, which was the target in the attack - was hit harder.
Thought so as well, somethings not right here.
Apparently, though all my Laptop's Debian installation has done the past week is scream - very loudly - at me whenever I try to make the thing produce noise. Can be accidental too, like hitting a right arrow key and its just trying to say 'no'. Its the sort of noise you want to avoid the thing making at any and all costs when in a public area.
They're used to mainly deal with Trojans, and on rare occasion worms and other malware of similar type. Actual viruses are practically extinct.
We have spaceships?
Outages have lasted in excess of a day in the past. In those cases the lost time was reimbursed by several days. This has been done even on a per-server basis.
Strange, could've sworn they used a Marvel controller. Oh well.
The 320 series isn't quite as impressive over the X25-M G2 series as I had originally hoped, so will likely be quite some time before I bother replacing the current one (and move that into the laptop instead).
Still, an update has been due for a long time now the X25-M G2 is ancient in SSD terms. Just hope the new controller is as reliable as the Intel one found in the old drives.
What the hell.... JAPAN!
Programs like? I've seen a handful decide to ignore the setting, but nothing thats remotely new. Mac OS has big problems with it, granted.
Which is a shame considering how rarely you actually need to replace (good) speakers. Buy a good set now, and you can easily keep them for a decade and they'll still be just as good compared to the competition at that point. Sound cards are no different, though integrated solutions typically do outperform ~12 year old solutions nowadays... when electrical interference isn't in someway present on the integrated (common on Line-In / Microphone ports).
Sectors die in mechanical hard drives as well - and judging by my drives - at a far higher rate than they do in SSDs. Plus with mechanical drives, you also have to cope with mechanical failures bringing the entire drive down. A badly timed bump in a laptop for example can cause severe drive damage either immediately, or make the drive fail significantly sooner. Many people say hard drives rarely die; but thats hardly true in reality. Its true that they're not that likely to die for your average person - but hard drive deaths occur plenty when used in more active machines. If you see few or no mechanicals die with your use, you'll never see a SSD die with your use. I've owned my SSD for about a year and a half - but it would only take 6 hours to do the same amount of data writes I've done during that entire time, which is about 2.1TB of written data. (SMART info) On average - I replace around 3 mechanical hard drives a year within my entire family due to a drive crash, 6 in 2010 though. In testing, and in enterprise - those drives go through days and weeks (months!) of continuous writes at max speed. For your average person which uses their machine far less than me - theres not a chance their SSD will encounter significant wear issues.
And for the display part - Dells upper offerings beat Apples (I still need to check a few of the other OEMs though - so more options than what I'm about to give are very much appreciated).
It does require both extra investment and some careful choosing mind you (so research) - but if you want a laptop with the best tested contrast ratio, most even brightness distribution, highest average brightness, the darkest blacks - alternatively, the best colour distribution - you'd go with one of the XPS systems. Those panels also come at 1920x1080 resolution at 15 inch. Fortunately, Windows auto senses the high pixel-density of the panel and automatically re-adjusts the system DPI to 125% even on a clean installation - so object size remains a non-issue.
Bear in mind most games that show up on Mac OS are not GPU limited. WoW, advertised on Apples website - is all about CPU power. EVE Online, advertised on Apple's website - is all about CPU power. Starcraft, is all about CPU power. Diablo (the new one) is bound to be all about CPU power. Civilization is all about CPU power (once you get to ~200+ turns). The only popular example I can think of that might counter this is Team Fortress - but the Source Engine is also well known for being CPU heavy and the new processor is bound to help here.
The 13 inch never had a discrete GPU. It just used an NVIDIA provided integrated GPU. In other words - they significantly improved the processor and memory speed capabilities of the system, at the cost of a very slight reduction on GPU"performance - on a system that does not have adequate GPU resources for anything to begin with. Games should still see an overall improvement in performance; especially as most games that actually show up on Mac OS are CPU limited.
Video and music transfers though tend to more often be large and mainly sustained operations. An area Hard Drives still do fairly well at (and cheaper or older SSDs by 2 years or so actually cannot always outperform them on).
Those devices are already limited by their slow flash storage devices, not the transfer method they use. (This holds true for "USB Sticks" etc as well - pretty much only proper external HDDs may be limited by their interface) Lightpeak could however permit certain more interesting resource sharing abilities. Possibly the iPad might be able to loan some of the resources from the desktop - and it would also likely be possible to setup the iPad as a regular secondary monitor with touch input capabilities; especially interesting since you can still sync at the same time. Currently, image feeds are severely limited by their bandwidth.
Its a common phrase used to describe flash-like content in terms of appearance and behaviour. While its not technically powered by flash - almost all smartphone games have had an equivalent on various flash game websites for years; Angry Birds -not- an exception. The original games that Angry Birds is copied/based on was released almost a decade ago.
Not quite. And if we examine certain groups in more detail (e.g. steam users) - then we get a weak 25% usage-base, with roughly 70% covered by Vista and 7. Most of todays XP coverage is corporate (and highly likely to be stuck with IE6 anyway) and Chinese. XP is loosing relevance otherwise - and the market is showing it.
Save slots is a nuisance, but there are plenty of reasons not to permit someone to save everywhere at anytime.
Thing is though that for most users, per-thread performance is the key; and despite AMDs processors being cheaper they still lose on the price/performance in most applications.
Guess why they're even coming with this statement to begin with.
Because of the simple reason that just because a game is DX11 does not inherently mean that it will run terribly. A lot of the time though, DX10/11 modes involves introducing a whole new set of visual features at the same time - thats what causes the slowdowns.
To use a popular game - with Cataclysm, WoW obtained DX11 support. However, its not used to enhance visual detail in any way. Instead its used to enhance the performance of the game. The exact outcome of this does vary, but some machines can gain as much as a 30% increase. Likewise, Civ5 uses DX11 for two things - Tesselation, and to, like wow, otherwise enhance its framerate. The game typically runs far better with DX11 present than DX10.
Shortcut to 'View Desktop' (WINKEY + D), shortcut to resume all minimized windows (WINKEY + D), shortcut to maximize current window (WINKEY + Upp), snap current window to left half (WINKEY + Left), snap current window to right half (WINKEY + Right), shortcut to My Computer (WINKEY + E), shortcut to "Run" (WINKEY + R), shortcut to control panel item "System" (WINKEY + Prt Scr), Shortcut to start or bring up a specific program on the task bar (WINKEY + 1 through 0).
Just a short list of my daily used Windows Key shortcuts.