Apple generally do the design work in the US, and the manufacturing in China - but the components will have come from all over the world, as is standard with anything electronic.
This would work fine in a consumer-aimed laptop. But this isn't: It's a professional laptop, for people who have serious data to work with. People who edit raw video, or animate 3D movies with huge resource sets, or visualise scientific data. A 768GB SSD is a wonderful thing, but I'm guessing it'll be a lot less wonderful in two years... and you won't be able to upgrade without buying a new laptop.
It's called a mobile workstation. It isn't for putting on your lap, it's for taking to client sites or using in hotels with a desk. Not so much portable as luggable.
Another piece of clutter for my bag. How nice of them. I can't work out why they'd lose it - if they were that tight on space, why not lose the HDMI instead? My theory is that they want to make people buy more thunderbolt stuff, espicially their expensive thunderbolt monitor-slash-docking-station.
I did that once. Ended up evacuating the family into the garden while I researched the toxicity of the the refrigerant mist rapidly enveloping the living room. I let them back in once I'd determined that it's actually quite harmless - the only risk it poses is displacing the air in confined spaces.
Just to makea point: The 'base' ram is 8GB. Taking it up to 16GB costs £160. On EBuyer, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 in laptop form (Corsair, not unbranded) are £45 each - so that means apple is charging people a little over three and a half times as much. If you do the math for the SSDs you'll find similar. So, while the Apple engineering is impressive, there can really be no doubt that they utterly screw their customers over on price. The only other sector I can think of that gets away with that sort of thing is brand-name clothing, and for exactly the same reason.
Android spans a wide range. You can get android tablets just as good as the iPad and just as expensive, and you can get $50 Tablets of Pain with resistive screens. You can't get a $50 iPad of Pain: Apple have no ambitions to enter the low-end market. They are strictly premium-product makers.
It might be much easier to get it past the regulators if the restriction is branded a 'security' feature. They even called it Secure Boot. A little FUD, throw in a claim that removing the feature would expose users to viruses and identity theft... shouldn't be too hard to get it approved. The effect of also securing Microsoft's dominance would just be incidential, officially.
Perhaps that is their plan. Microsoft is strong in the corporate world - why wouldn't they play to that strength, and try to gain market share there before attempting to spread to the consumer arena?
Quite possible. It may just be that someone is worried that giving away all these Office installations on tablets might cut into the demand for Office on conventional PCs and portables.
And thus the people are saved from the finger-aching pain inflicted by four extra keystrokes! But you also lose the classifications. Taking a very classic example, does 'wwf' take you to wrestling or pandas? It was bad enough when one fit in.com and the other in.org.
An independant internet runs into a practical problem: The hardware has to go somewhere, and wherever it goes there will be someone governing the region who can take control of it by force - or at the very least, physically destroy it if their demands are not met.
Running a second server set would be expensive. Easier to just rig the random number generator so all they end up farming is an endless stream of worthless bottom-tier loot, and can be defeated in combat by even a new character with ease. Thus they add a new sport: Whack-a-bot.
I can think of some engineering and scientific equipment that may have use for such an interface. Slow-motion cameras, high-frequency ADCs. But not the type of stuff most home users could want or afford. For them, there is one obvious application: Docking station. Just plug laptop into two cables (Power too!) to instantly have high-resolution display, wired network, external keyboard and mouse, and whatever other peripherals you need.
Win95 OSR2.1, correct - but it wasn't a complete implimentation, just a bare-bones. It supported USB printers, but not much else. It wasn't until Windows 98 that 'real' USB support became available.
Palin's purpose wasn't to win voters, it was to energise the base. The social conservatives supported McCain before, but only on the grounds that he wasn't a democrat. He wasn't one of them, and they knew it. He'd get their votes, but lackluster support doesn't bring donations, or efforts to drive supporters to the polls, or grassroots campaigning. So he picked someone who was very much one of them as VP - an outspoken, open Christian with intense and proven pro-life views and a proudly displayed dislike of intellectuallism. It worked, winning over their support, he just underestimated how much she would terrify more moderate voters.
"Checking... hmm. According to this comment, he sometimes looks at porn, and he once said something insulting about a religion. Too much of a legal risk to hire. Next."
No, not sarcasm. That's fully how I expect employers to make their decisions. They are currently swamped for applicants, they can afford to be picky.
I doubt these are the 'l33t hack3r' type of troll. Most of them are probably at school still. The biggest problem in prosecution might be just finding one over the age of sixteen.
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The price I quoted was for an eight-gig stick, not a 2x4.
I couldn't compare, because the low-power L variant isn't readily available yet. I'm guessing though that it costs rather less than 350%.
Apple generally do the design work in the US, and the manufacturing in China - but the components will have come from all over the world, as is standard with anything electronic.
This would work fine in a consumer-aimed laptop. But this isn't: It's a professional laptop, for people who have serious data to work with. People who edit raw video, or animate 3D movies with huge resource sets, or visualise scientific data. A 768GB SSD is a wonderful thing, but I'm guessing it'll be a lot less wonderful in two years... and you won't be able to upgrade without buying a new laptop.
It's called a mobile workstation. It isn't for putting on your lap, it's for taking to client sites or using in hotels with a desk. Not so much portable as luggable.
Another piece of clutter for my bag. How nice of them. I can't work out why they'd lose it - if they were that tight on space, why not lose the HDMI instead? My theory is that they want to make people buy more thunderbolt stuff, espicially their expensive thunderbolt monitor-slash-docking-station.
I did that once. Ended up evacuating the family into the garden while I researched the toxicity of the the refrigerant mist rapidly enveloping the living room. I let them back in once I'd determined that it's actually quite harmless - the only risk it poses is displacing the air in confined spaces.
Just to makea point: The 'base' ram is 8GB. Taking it up to 16GB costs £160. On EBuyer, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 in laptop form (Corsair, not unbranded) are £45 each - so that means apple is charging people a little over three and a half times as much. If you do the math for the SSDs you'll find similar. So, while the Apple engineering is impressive, there can really be no doubt that they utterly screw their customers over on price. The only other sector I can think of that gets away with that sort of thing is brand-name clothing, and for exactly the same reason.
Android spans a wide range. You can get android tablets just as good as the iPad and just as expensive, and you can get $50 Tablets of Pain with resistive screens. You can't get a $50 iPad of Pain: Apple have no ambitions to enter the low-end market. They are strictly premium-product makers.
It might be much easier to get it past the regulators if the restriction is branded a 'security' feature. They even called it Secure Boot. A little FUD, throw in a claim that removing the feature would expose users to viruses and identity theft... shouldn't be too hard to get it approved. The effect of also securing Microsoft's dominance would just be incidential, officially.
Perhaps that is their plan. Microsoft is strong in the corporate world - why wouldn't they play to that strength, and try to gain market share there before attempting to spread to the consumer arena?
Quite possible. It may just be that someone is worried that giving away all these Office installations on tablets might cut into the demand for Office on conventional PCs and portables.
And thus the people are saved from the finger-aching pain inflicted by four extra keystrokes! But you also lose the classifications. Taking a very classic example, does 'wwf' take you to wrestling or pandas? It was bad enough when one fit in .com and the other in .org.
Who exactly benefits from this other than ICANN and the registrars? Because I'm fairly sure it isn't the public in general.
A politician lied about the intent of a bill? How could such a thing happen?
An independant internet runs into a practical problem: The hardware has to go somewhere, and wherever it goes there will be someone governing the region who can take control of it by force - or at the very least, physically destroy it if their demands are not met.
If the government really understood the internet, they'd have destroyed it before AOL started offering public access.
It's more of an issue for those who travel, and so don't always have an internet connection available.
Running a second server set would be expensive. Easier to just rig the random number generator so all they end up farming is an endless stream of worthless bottom-tier loot, and can be defeated in combat by even a new character with ease. Thus they add a new sport: Whack-a-bot.
On the other hand, it's a dream for debuggers, driver-writers, kernel-programmers and DRM-breakers.
I can think of some engineering and scientific equipment that may have use for such an interface. Slow-motion cameras, high-frequency ADCs. But not the type of stuff most home users could want or afford. For them, there is one obvious application: Docking station. Just plug laptop into two cables (Power too!) to instantly have high-resolution display, wired network, external keyboard and mouse, and whatever other peripherals you need.
Win95 OSR2.1, correct - but it wasn't a complete implimentation, just a bare-bones. It supported USB printers, but not much else. It wasn't until Windows 98 that 'real' USB support became available.
Palin's purpose wasn't to win voters, it was to energise the base. The social conservatives supported McCain before, but only on the grounds that he wasn't a democrat. He wasn't one of them, and they knew it. He'd get their votes, but lackluster support doesn't bring donations, or efforts to drive supporters to the polls, or grassroots campaigning. So he picked someone who was very much one of them as VP - an outspoken, open Christian with intense and proven pro-life views and a proudly displayed dislike of intellectuallism. It worked, winning over their support, he just underestimated how much she would terrify more moderate voters.
"Checking... hmm. According to this comment, he sometimes looks at porn, and he once said something insulting about a religion. Too much of a legal risk to hire. Next."
No, not sarcasm. That's fully how I expect employers to make their decisions. They are currently swamped for applicants, they can afford to be picky.
I doubt these are the 'l33t hack3r' type of troll. Most of them are probably at school still. The biggest problem in prosecution might be just finding one over the age of sixteen.