YES! It can run normal desktop apps built for x86. I've looked at the Pro and several of the other Win8 x86 tablets and find them fairly compelling. I was seriously considering a Surface Pro 2 except that the price to get the high(ish) end one ends up costing me nearly as much as an Ultrabook. If the price were more reasonable I wouldn't be wavering over buying this and an Ultra. I'm going to wait until they're in stores and I can play with them hands-on and then decide. Right now though I'm leaning towards an Ultra (but which one!!!).
In my case i had a whole slew of issues that showed up with IOS6. MMS stopped working, iMessage over data didn't work, data dropped constantly and I had to toggle roaming to regain it - just lots of stuff. None of this occurred with my iPad 2 just my 4S. I had been told that a "hard reset" would fix it and indeed the Apple store did it - which pretty much wiped out EVERYTHING on the phone but it worked great except I'd pretty much burned down my house to get there. So I pulled a backup and restored it - problems came back too. I had pretty much resolved myself to swapping hardware anyway and figured that would be a good time to burn the house.
IOS7 came out and I figured what the heck, I wasn't going to JB this unit anyway so I upgraded - just like I'd done through all of the 6.x point releases. ALL of the issues I've been able to test so far are gone! I was shocked to say the least. Now I had heard that some others were having the same issues but hadn't ever spoken to anyone face to face about it. I'd guess that apple heard about it enough to track them down and solve them - this is awesome! I still haven't tested visual VM but I suspect that's my carrier screwing up.
I'm pretty happy with the performance on my 4S. I've heard others complain however and also claim that it charges slower or doesn't hold a charge as long for them - I'm not experiencing this. I'm half tempted to stick with the 4S except I want the faster CPU and larger screen size. Maybe I'll be able to do some side by side comparisons once the hardware show up but for now the 4S is holding me fine:-)
And on the 3rd hour of a 5hour video encode when it locks up and you have to start over again you begin to realize that yes cooling and airflow are important. My CPU runs 100% on all 8 cores for hour upon hour, it needs to be cooled properly...
Sadly my CPU won't go past 4.5GHZ even on water but it's rock solid and hells yes I use that added clock when crunching video! No way in hell would the stock Intel cooler come close to this - it barely keeps the stock clock from overheating half the time. This guy simply isn't pushing his CPU at all!
When I was air cooled I used the Zalman coolers and like them except for one thing - they're razor sharp! Cut myself on them a few times and bled like a stuck pig. that's the only issue I ever had with them and mine held up to some pretty good overclocking. Water is way better though and can be near silent if you want...
You're obviously running it at stock clock speed - and losing a great deal of encoding speed as a result. This isn't for people running stock clock speeds...
Wrap yourself in bubble wrap if you must, not everyone wishes this fate for themselves. This is most certainly not the way I'd want to go out but your reaction would have us all afraid of our own shadows. Life is full of risks, I and many others drove to work in a vehicle weighing several thousand pounds and thought nothing of it but to hear your attitude we should've walked to avoid all chance of risk. Not going to happen...
Check out the one guy who's belly was struck 20ft away when he blew a landing. That is a picture of the bruise 3 days later - owwie! Or the guy who had to have both internal and external stitches when he fired up a copter with the throttle stuck open - not good!
Well, I'd be surprised if they had nothing in the rules regarding hull paints or coatings - things like that which I'd have expected this to fall under. If they had nothing in the rules about coatings or surfaces then it's wide open and I'd call it legal and no fault of their own if no one else thought to try it...
Was this a modification that was outlawed or was it simply not covered by the rules? Most racers will push rules and unless the rules are specific they will get away with things. Smokey Yunick was famous for this:-)
Yeah, i know - I didn't want to link to the video about the guy's death and the vid I linked was about the Oracle boat. 50MPH on water with the possibility of the boat flipping and pinning you is fairly scary. That water isn't exactly warm either!
Yeah, true I do. I just hear knots and for some reason always think it's slower lol. One of the things I learned when they were showing these boats they did the MPH and knots and yeah MPH was faster.
Not a sailor but I thought they went fastest going nearly directly into the wind? No? My understanding and observation is that they actually go faster than the measured windspeed too which is wild!
These boats have hit 50MPH on the water - not KNOTS, MPH! That's some pretty serious speed from just the wind. Really interesting stuff I think ad I'm far from a boater.
These boats are heavily heavily instrumented and tested - it was also not just one boat. I think that maybe they figured out that doing this was an advantage of some sort and thought they could get away with it. It's being made to sound really miniscule but one cannot help but wonder why they did it and then even denied having done it after being caught.
It's a cool race to watch and these boats seriously fly. When i watched the Oracle boat was stomping another boat pretty good and had a multiple knot advantage over it's competitor. If I were on the rules committee I'd be taking a VERY close look at the rest of those boats, I doubt this was the only change..
Actually i watched some of the races in the run up to the cup and found it pretty interesting. The boats are sailing at as high as 50MPH with hulls nearly fully out of the water. There's tons of telemetry and the announcers are doing a decent job of explaining what's going on - it's actually fun to watch and you can see it takes a great deal of skill. Scoff if you want but I for one found it interesting, adding all of this telemetry really does add to it I think. It helps too that the boats are so damned advanced and fast!
I'd also ask if they're really "thriving" or just getting by... the ones that apparently can live around high levels of arsenic are the ones that intrigue me!
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The car isn't made of plastic, it was sail trim and not the entire car. Not the first building to do this and even residential homes have been accused of doing the same to neighbors siding when low E windows are installed...
Interesting, first I'd heard of that - thanks! I'm not at all surprised that the weapons existed, if indeed that proves it, but at the time our Govt. took raw intel and used it as the basis to send us in. I don't think the CIA was quite ready to make that case but they wanted to go and bent things to their ends. A mess from end to end for sure. I miss the days when reporters just reported facts...
Oh, so you want Skype? A P2P service with end to end crypto that uses a central login server and a distributed directory service? Sorry, Microsoft bought them and centralized their servers. They are also dropping the supported APIs real soon now (and breaking them). I hope you didn't build your business on this service (many did). Skype, was sketchy in that no one knew exactly what went on under the hood and people were starting to break into it's traffic management and directory services but i don't think I ever saw anyone break it's end to end crypto. And no before anyone posts links code running on a user's machine tapping into his keystrokes and video doesn't count. So far as I ever saw reported MITM on Skype wasn't possible. Moot now, the service is completely different and I've not seen anything to take it's place come along:-(
Apple is claiming that this patent wasn't critical, look how easily they removed it and worked around it, and thus they should owe little money for their infringement. Plaintiff claims that indeed this was a HUGE deal and that Apple lodging so many complaints after having removed a super duper critical feature to prevent infringement demonstrates just how critical it was and thus they should now be owners of half the company. Or something along those lines - both sides are trying to downplay or play up the importance of this thing. This is part of the settlement process and the little guy is licking his chops at the potential windfall from the fat sow with the Apple in it's mouth.
Doing the math - that was a whopping 100K calls per month about FaceTime with no context whatsoever as to if it was an increase in volume or not. That's a couple hundred calls a day from a wold of users (literally), want to bet Apple has logs from prior to this change that don't support what the Plaintiff thinks is a slam dunk increase?
Okay, they have logged over a half million complaints that had something to do with FaceTime. How many did they log prior to this? How large an increase, if any, was this? Were the additional complaints having to do with something specific that leads anyone to believe it had to do with this change? did these complaints start immediately after the change? Simply the fact that a company the size of Apple has logged that many complaints doesn't seem unusual at all, this article lacks a great deal of context around those numbers.
Not far fetched IMO, Skype used to be far more secure. Relaying most certainly gives a central monitoring point.
Govt agencies have apparently complained that iMessage's encryption stops them, does FaceTime enjoy the same sort of crypto? I've only recently used FaceTime and found it's performance acceptable but I too cannot help but wonder.
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YES! It can run normal desktop apps built for x86. I've looked at the Pro and several of the other Win8 x86 tablets and find them fairly compelling. I was seriously considering a Surface Pro 2 except that the price to get the high(ish) end one ends up costing me nearly as much as an Ultrabook. If the price were more reasonable I wouldn't be wavering over buying this and an Ultra. I'm going to wait until they're in stores and I can play with them hands-on and then decide. Right now though I'm leaning towards an Ultra (but which one!!!).
In my case i had a whole slew of issues that showed up with IOS6. MMS stopped working, iMessage over data didn't work, data dropped constantly and I had to toggle roaming to regain it - just lots of stuff. None of this occurred with my iPad 2 just my 4S. I had been told that a "hard reset" would fix it and indeed the Apple store did it - which pretty much wiped out EVERYTHING on the phone but it worked great except I'd pretty much burned down my house to get there. So I pulled a backup and restored it - problems came back too. I had pretty much resolved myself to swapping hardware anyway and figured that would be a good time to burn the house.
IOS7 came out and I figured what the heck, I wasn't going to JB this unit anyway so I upgraded - just like I'd done through all of the 6.x point releases. ALL of the issues I've been able to test so far are gone! I was shocked to say the least. Now I had heard that some others were having the same issues but hadn't ever spoken to anyone face to face about it. I'd guess that apple heard about it enough to track them down and solve them - this is awesome! I still haven't tested visual VM but I suspect that's my carrier screwing up.
I'm pretty happy with the performance on my 4S. I've heard others complain however and also claim that it charges slower or doesn't hold a charge as long for them - I'm not experiencing this. I'm half tempted to stick with the 4S except I want the faster CPU and larger screen size. Maybe I'll be able to do some side by side comparisons once the hardware show up but for now the 4S is holding me fine :-)
And on the 3rd hour of a 5hour video encode when it locks up and you have to start over again you begin to realize that yes cooling and airflow are important. My CPU runs 100% on all 8 cores for hour upon hour, it needs to be cooled properly...
Sadly my CPU won't go past 4.5GHZ even on water but it's rock solid and hells yes I use that added clock when crunching video! No way in hell would the stock Intel cooler come close to this - it barely keeps the stock clock from overheating half the time. This guy simply isn't pushing his CPU at all!
When I was air cooled I used the Zalman coolers and like them except for one thing - they're razor sharp! Cut myself on them a few times and bled like a stuck pig. that's the only issue I ever had with them and mine held up to some pretty good overclocking. Water is way better though and can be near silent if you want...
You're obviously running it at stock clock speed - and losing a great deal of encoding speed as a result. This isn't for people running stock clock speeds...
Wrap yourself in bubble wrap if you must, not everyone wishes this fate for themselves. This is most certainly not the way I'd want to go out but your reaction would have us all afraid of our own shadows. Life is full of risks, I and many others drove to work in a vehicle weighing several thousand pounds and thought nothing of it but to hear your attitude we should've walked to avoid all chance of risk. Not going to happen...
Yeah, this can really tear you up...
http://www.heliguy.com/nexus/dangers.html
Check out the one guy who's belly was struck 20ft away when he blew a landing. That is a picture of the bruise 3 days later - owwie! Or the guy who had to have both internal and external stitches when he fired up a copter with the throttle stuck open - not good!
Well, I'd be surprised if they had nothing in the rules regarding hull paints or coatings - things like that which I'd have expected this to fall under. If they had nothing in the rules about coatings or surfaces then it's wide open and I'd call it legal and no fault of their own if no one else thought to try it...
Was this a modification that was outlawed or was it simply not covered by the rules? Most racers will push rules and unless the rules are specific they will get away with things. Smokey Yunick was famous for this :-)
Yeah, i know - I didn't want to link to the video about the guy's death and the vid I linked was about the Oracle boat. 50MPH on water with the possibility of the boat flipping and pinning you is fairly scary. That water isn't exactly warm either!
Yeah, true I do. I just hear knots and for some reason always think it's slower lol. One of the things I learned when they were showing these boats they did the MPH and knots and yeah MPH was faster.
Not a sailor but I thought they went fastest going nearly directly into the wind? No? My understanding and observation is that they actually go faster than the measured windspeed too which is wild!
Do you have a citation? Google comes up empty on your terms
Can be fairly dangerous too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRW21FubyY4
These boats have hit 50MPH on the water - not KNOTS, MPH! That's some pretty serious speed from just the wind. Really interesting stuff I think ad I'm far from a boater.
Wind powers them so of course they're sailboats. You could scale this up but there are powered foils for actually moving cargo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DRUsuOTMHQ
These boats are heavily heavily instrumented and tested - it was also not just one boat. I think that maybe they figured out that doing this was an advantage of some sort and thought they could get away with it. It's being made to sound really miniscule but one cannot help but wonder why they did it and then even denied having done it after being caught.
It's a cool race to watch and these boats seriously fly. When i watched the Oracle boat was stomping another boat pretty good and had a multiple knot advantage over it's competitor. If I were on the rules committee I'd be taking a VERY close look at the rest of those boats, I doubt this was the only change..
Actually i watched some of the races in the run up to the cup and found it pretty interesting. The boats are sailing at as high as 50MPH with hulls nearly fully out of the water. There's tons of telemetry and the announcers are doing a decent job of explaining what's going on - it's actually fun to watch and you can see it takes a great deal of skill. Scoff if you want but I for one found it interesting, adding all of this telemetry really does add to it I think. It helps too that the boats are so damned advanced and fast!
I'd also ask if they're really "thriving" or just getting by... the ones that apparently can live around high levels of arsenic are the ones that intrigue me!
The car isn't made of plastic, it was sail trim and not the entire car. Not the first building to do this and even residential homes have been accused of doing the same to neighbors siding when low E windows are installed...
Interesting, first I'd heard of that - thanks! I'm not at all surprised that the weapons existed, if indeed that proves it, but at the time our Govt. took raw intel and used it as the basis to send us in. I don't think the CIA was quite ready to make that case but they wanted to go and bent things to their ends. A mess from end to end for sure. I miss the days when reporters just reported facts...
Oh, so you want Skype? A P2P service with end to end crypto that uses a central login server and a distributed directory service? Sorry, Microsoft bought them and centralized their servers. They are also dropping the supported APIs real soon now (and breaking them). I hope you didn't build your business on this service (many did). Skype, was sketchy in that no one knew exactly what went on under the hood and people were starting to break into it's traffic management and directory services but i don't think I ever saw anyone break it's end to end crypto. And no before anyone posts links code running on a user's machine tapping into his keystrokes and video doesn't count. So far as I ever saw reported MITM on Skype wasn't possible. Moot now, the service is completely different and I've not seen anything to take it's place come along :-(
Apple is claiming that this patent wasn't critical, look how easily they removed it and worked around it, and thus they should owe little money for their infringement. Plaintiff claims that indeed this was a HUGE deal and that Apple lodging so many complaints after having removed a super duper critical feature to prevent infringement demonstrates just how critical it was and thus they should now be owners of half the company. Or something along those lines - both sides are trying to downplay or play up the importance of this thing. This is part of the settlement process and the little guy is licking his chops at the potential windfall from the fat sow with the Apple in it's mouth.
Doing the math - that was a whopping 100K calls per month about FaceTime with no context whatsoever as to if it was an increase in volume or not. That's a couple hundred calls a day from a wold of users (literally), want to bet Apple has logs from prior to this change that don't support what the Plaintiff thinks is a slam dunk increase?
Okay, they have logged over a half million complaints that had something to do with FaceTime. How many did they log prior to this? How large an increase, if any, was this? Were the additional complaints having to do with something specific that leads anyone to believe it had to do with this change? did these complaints start immediately after the change? Simply the fact that a company the size of Apple has logged that many complaints doesn't seem unusual at all, this article lacks a great deal of context around those numbers.
Not far fetched IMO, Skype used to be far more secure. Relaying most certainly gives a central monitoring point.
Govt agencies have apparently complained that iMessage's encryption stops them, does FaceTime enjoy the same sort of crypto? I've only recently used FaceTime and found it's performance acceptable but I too cannot help but wonder.