802.3ab specifies operation at 1000Mbps up to 100 meters over UTP with CAT5 as the minimum, not CAT5e. For a particular installation you may have other needs, but the standard doesn't require anything above CAT5.
You shouldn't be putting in either for a new installation though.
Are you running a corporate lan off the (10g) segment? if not why the F*ck do u need 10g @ home??
At home, my desktop PC, my Mac Mini, my MBPr, and my NAS all have storage devices that are 3x-10x the speed of 1GbE. I regularly push around dozens to hundreds of GB at a time. This isn't anything fancy, just standard consumer equipment I'm running. 1GbE is the limiting factor in any transfer.
Do you seriously think that changing the physical form factor of the connector is going to negate the need for the chips that make Thunderbolt cables expensive?
I don't know about other operating systems, but If you connect two or more Macs together with Thunderbolt, you get a virtual ethernet interface (just like you did with FireWire). Great if you have two Macs with fast storage, but for everything else, I'm waiting for a 10GbE Thunderbolt adapters to come down in price.
bumping a HDD or RAM on a shiny new MacBook Pro is nothing that a decent soldering iron and top-grade solder can't help you accomplish
How exactly is a soldering iron going to help you upgrade the RAM? On the non-retina MBP, it's in a normal SO-DIMM socket. Don't need anything besides a screwdriver. On the retina MBP, it's going to be all BGA chips, and no iron, no matter how decent, is going to help you there.
All high level application computing is done on a Sparc LX class portable computer manufactured by RDI Computer Corporation. See Figure 2. Key components of this computer are a 50MHz MicroSparc CPU, 32 MB's of RAM, 970 MB's of hard disk space, and a 1024x768 active matrix LCD display. (For comparison, this processor is about equivalent to a 486DX2/66 using Spec ratings as a guide.) The laptop contains an optional Peripheral Expansion Unit which is equipped with two SBUS slots and space for additional hard disk drives. The two SBUS slots contain a Datacell color video digitizer and a Performance Computer Company quad serial port expansion unit. The laptop runs SunOS 4.1.x.
Why would a hypothetical 8k iMac have Intel graphics? Only the two base models of the 1920x1080 21.5" iMac have that. Every other model (including all options for the currently-shipping 5k iMac) has a discrete GPU (underpowered as it may be) with dedicated VRAM (undersized as it may be).
Bigger issue: You can't drive an external display and charge at the same time. Eventually you'll run out of power and have to unplug your monitor to recharge.
Why not? Apple's HDMI adapter has another USB-C jack that lets you charge the laptop. This adapter should have been in the box instead of as an $80 addon, IMO.
Not a great test. 8 years out of date, and they're putting the SB X-Fi against more expensive (the Lynx22 was $600) studio-quality interface cards. Also this at the end:
Sound Blaster X-Fi - The built-in band limiting at 24KHz and rising noise floor above that make the card useless for wide-frequency testing. However, it had the best distortion performance and very low spurious signals on both inputs and outputs. This should probably be the best sounding card of the bunch.
Poor frequency response (outside normal hearing range) but otherwise good.
I'm in CA and I have Comcast Business, and I have never had any kind of domain helper or traffic hijacking (DNS or otherwise). I use their anycast servers (75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76) and they both return NXDOMAIN for nonexistant domains. The previous servers that they recommended (68.87.76.178 and 66.240.48.9) didn't either.
SMC8014? I have the same one. The trick is to not use any NAT on the device itself, disable the firewall and SPI for the static IP, and just use it like a bridge. I have mine connected to a linux box that does all the routing/NAT (and ipv6 via 6rd), just checked the stats on the modem and it's been running for 144 days without a hiccup.
The requirements we ask our volunteers to meet are as follows: (...) You are not a heavy downloader. We'd classify anything above 30GB per month as being too heavy for us to gather useful results.
That's pretty low, even for most casual users, and certainly for heavy users. I use almost 10x that per month.
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No, not Cat6. Gigabit Ethernet only needs Cat5e
802.3ab specifies operation at 1000Mbps up to 100 meters over UTP with CAT5 as the minimum, not CAT5e. For a particular installation you may have other needs, but the standard doesn't require anything above CAT5.
You shouldn't be putting in either for a new installation though.
Only older machines are vulnerable
Are you running a corporate lan off the (10g) segment?
if not why the F*ck do u need 10g @ home??
At home, my desktop PC, my Mac Mini, my MBPr, and my NAS all have storage devices that are 3x-10x the speed of 1GbE.
I regularly push around dozens to hundreds of GB at a time.
This isn't anything fancy, just standard consumer equipment I'm running. 1GbE is the limiting factor in any transfer.
Do you seriously think that changing the physical form factor of the connector is going to negate the need for the chips that make Thunderbolt cables expensive?
I don't know about other operating systems, but If you connect two or more Macs together with Thunderbolt, you get a virtual ethernet interface (just like you did with FireWire).
Great if you have two Macs with fast storage, but for everything else, I'm waiting for a 10GbE Thunderbolt adapters to come down in price.
How exactly is a soldering iron going to help you upgrade the RAM?
On the non-retina MBP, it's in a normal SO-DIMM socket. Don't need anything besides a screwdriver.
On the retina MBP, it's going to be all BGA chips, and no iron, no matter how decent, is going to help you there.
Really? You couldn't just give the actual CPU?
Why would a hypothetical 8k iMac have Intel graphics? Only the two base models of the 1920x1080 21.5" iMac have that.
Every other model (including all options for the currently-shipping 5k iMac) has a discrete GPU (underpowered as it may be) with dedicated VRAM (undersized as it may be).
Bigger issue: You can't drive an external display and charge at the same time. Eventually you'll run out of power and have to unplug your monitor to recharge.
Why not? Apple's HDMI adapter has another USB-C jack that lets you charge the laptop.
This adapter should have been in the box instead of as an $80 addon, IMO.
Not a great test. 8 years out of date, and they're putting the SB X-Fi against more expensive (the Lynx22 was $600) studio-quality interface cards.
Also this at the end:
Poor frequency response (outside normal hearing range) but otherwise good.
The cheapest available option on the Kickstarter is 75GBP, or about $120 USD.
Here's a bare 10.1" 1366x768 for $89
There's also a 7" 1280x800 display with enclosure, VGA input, etc. for $129 shipped, although it's currently out of stock
I don't see how this is really bringing anything new or cheaper to the table. If they could get this manufactured and sold for a retail price of $50, that would be much more interesting, IMO.
Thunderbolt and the Thunderbolt logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S and other countries
Recent MacOS blocks DMA from Firewire when the user is not logged in:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002 (search CVE-2011-3215)
I did, because I saw the slashdot article about it two months ago.
Tasker v0.1, November 2009
On{X}: ~3 June 2012
Locale: Late(?) 2009
Apple's patent filed: June 26, 2008
Tell me more about how these apps are prior art.
I'd rather see an increase in spell checking.
I'm in CA and I have Comcast Business, and I have never had any kind of domain helper or traffic hijacking (DNS or otherwise).
I use their anycast servers (75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76) and they both return NXDOMAIN for nonexistant domains.
The previous servers that they recommended (68.87.76.178 and 66.240.48.9) didn't either.
SMC8014? I have the same one. The trick is to not use any NAT on the device itself, disable the firewall and SPI for the static IP, and just use it like a bridge.
I have mine connected to a linux box that does all the routing/NAT (and ipv6 via 6rd), just checked the stats on the modem and it's been running for 144 days without a hiccup.
Why aren't you using eSATA instead?
From that site:
That's pretty low, even for most casual users, and certainly for heavy users. I use almost 10x that per month.
It's supposedly this thing
None of the Powerbooks have SATA hard drives.
Never change, slashdot.
JBOD: All of the downsides of RAID-0 with none of the speed benefits.
Whoops, that second server should be client.