It's not so much about having two suppliers as is having more than one customer to compete over. Apple may have 2 GPU suppliers, but ATi and nVidia have many customers to compete over. Likewise, AMD v. Intel.
Having more than one customer is the difference between winning and losing the market versus winning and losing market share. With Apple being the only real consumer of PPC outside of the embedded/server space, the motivation for IBM and Freescale to actually compete was rather poor. It's not like winning that market is exactly lucrative.
It sounds all too like the person who burgled and empty house and fell though the rotten floor boards. Then he sued.
No, it's like suing the Alcohol producers for creating the possibility of being arrested for DWI. Not, suing for being arrested. Suing for the possibility of being arrested.
FTA:
Patterson's suit said he bought an iPod last year, but does not specify whether he suffered hearing loss from the device.
Patterson does not know if the device has damaged his hearing, said his attorney, Steve W. Berman, of Seattle. But that's beside the point of the lawsuit, which takes issue with the potential the iPod has to cause irreparable hearing loss, Berman said.
Couldn't a crafty webmaster load up a javascript on an adwords page to add all the adwords links as ping fields to all the links on the page via the DOM? Then all the links on the page would generate adwords clicks right?
Does this protocol check for duplicate links in the ping? What happens if I put like 10 or 100 of the same link in the ping. With a popular enough website I could innundate other websites with garbage ping requests.
Only on slashdot do I honestly think we'll see people buying $1000 worth of Apple Intel hardware for $2000
Don't forget that Apple isn't taking Intel's marketing subsidies. So consider that difference tacked onto the prices over generic boxes. I see Apple eventually bring in AMD (maybe 2009?) into the mix to create better options for their desktops and creating some competition ala what they've done with ATi v. nVidia. It'll take time though.
Can anyone tell me why apple would choose a lithium-polymer batteries over lithium-ion.
Li-Poly batteries are moldable and can be shaped to very tight spaces. Considering that the new MBP is thinner than the old (17") PowerBook, engineering becomes easier when you can shape it. The fact that you can shape it contributes to its higher power storage density.
In terms of battery life, here's my estimate: PowerBook G4 15" - 50wh batt; 15-20w/h PPC 7447; 167MHz bus; ~4th revision custom Apple power manager; < 5h batt-life.
MBP 15" = 60wh batt; 5-22w/h ICD w/ new CPU power management; 667MHz bus; 1st revision Apple/Intel power manager (not sure how much centrino tech in there); Totally non-tech guess: ~4.5h batt-life
Bee wings don't generate lift the same way other winged creatures' wings do. Most animal wings generate lift by passing air over the lifting surface. (See Bernoulli Principle) This is done by generating forward thrust or by beating the wings in an x pattern to force air over the leading edge. Bee wings are too small by surface area for this method of generating lift to work sufficiently. It is because of this fact that it has been long said that the reason bees can fly is that they are too stupid to know that they can't. Recently (I forget, within 8 years?), slow motion video and CFD analysis has revealed that Bees fly by generating a lifting vortex. The vortex is created by the wing on the up-stroke by beating at a high frequency in a figure-8 pattern. The lifting vortex acts on the entire body of the bee rather than just the wing surface thus generating sufficient lift for the bee to fly.
That's why MS secured the rights to the design and manufacture of the chip. Basically all of the components in the xbox360 can be built by MS without the help of anyone else (albeit not as efficiently or cost-effectively). So if they want to ditch IBM, it's not really a big deal. Don't forget, IBM opened up the Power line. Future development of the xbox processor outside of IBM is perfectly doable, especially with the resources MS has.
If the switch to Intel is going to allow Apple to make their laptops thinner, lighter, more power-efficient, and more powerful, wouldn't it be a mistake to upgrade iBooks without upgrading PowerBooks?
To me an iBook release in January targets a specific group: early adopters. The primary iBook market buys laptops in August/September, just enough time for a revB. Powerbook users buy laptops when they damn well need them.(i.e. Powerbook with >1.67GHz? RIGHT NOW!!!) And, as good as Apple engineering may be, there's bound to be major gripes or bugs with the first generation of Intel Macs. So, we've seen this before: Apple would be using early adopters to beta-test their kit.
Why alienate Pro users with bad tasting 1st gen Intel macs which they are more than likely to buy immediately?
There are no numbers on that page. How the hell do you "derive that it will be at least twice as long?" And no, this isn't "very technologically advanced." Proton Exchange Membranes ain't from the future.
selling hardware to windows users is a damned good business plan for apple
In order to make OS X "Apple-only" there is TPM, right? Who's to say that MS can't come along and target Windows Vista to not install on Mactel? I mean, think about it: OS X has enough appeal that hackers might work around the TPM to install it on generic beige boxen. Does Windows? Sure, there will be Vista fanboys, but I predict very few will want to install Vista on Mactel, just on a market-share perspective. And, arguably, you might as well leave OS X on the box if you bought a Mactel. If the pirate community embraces OS X on beige box, all of a sudden Apple's OS advantage evaporates. When that happens, MS flips the switch and disables Vista on Mactel. Checkmate. Pirates dilute the OS X advantage, and you can't run windows on nice Mactel hardware.
(1) Property appreciation isn't income. (2) A lot of people can't sell their homes. If they sell it, they can't afford to buy another one.
(1)Financing against property appreciation will get you real dollars in hand. Not the home owner necessarily wants to do that. (2)Who cares? Most people didn't buy their homes in cash anyways.
Numbering your comments doesn't make them valid as arguments.
Last I read, the median income for an SF resident was $160,000.
Slightly off . . . by more than $100k. According to the census, the median household income in San Francisco is $55k.
...until you take into account the property appreciation rates in the Bay Area. The average SF home owner made more money on the appreciation of his home than his entire pay for the year. Real estate is goddamn ridiculous here, and by the time I'm settled into my well paying engineering job, I won't be able to buy a goddamn house (unless I want a 3 hour commute).
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It's not so much about having two suppliers as is having more than one customer to compete over. Apple may have 2 GPU suppliers, but ATi and nVidia have many customers to compete over. Likewise, AMD v. Intel.
Having more than one customer is the difference between winning and losing the market versus winning and losing market share. With Apple being the only real consumer of PPC outside of the embedded/server space, the motivation for IBM and Freescale to actually compete was rather poor. It's not like winning that market is exactly lucrative.
Apple Intros 1GB Nano; Slashes Prices On Shuffle
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I've got just one thing to say: "Teddybear."
-Steve Jobs to cryogenically frozen head of Walt Disney: "You're mine now! all mine..."
Couldn't a crafty webmaster load up a javascript on an adwords page to add all the adwords links as ping fields to all the links on the page via the DOM? Then all the links on the page would generate adwords clicks right?
Does this protocol check for duplicate links in the ping? What happens if I put like 10 or 100 of the same link in the ping. With a popular enough website I could innundate other websites with garbage ping requests.
Don't forget that Apple isn't taking Intel's marketing subsidies. So consider that difference tacked onto the prices over generic boxes. I see Apple eventually bring in AMD (maybe 2009?) into the mix to create better options for their desktops and creating some competition ala what they've done with ATi v. nVidia. It'll take time though.
Li-Poly batteries are moldable and can be shaped to very tight spaces. Considering that the new MBP is thinner than the old (17") PowerBook, engineering becomes easier when you can shape it. The fact that you can shape it contributes to its higher power storage density.
In terms of battery life, here's my estimate:
PowerBook G4 15" - 50wh batt; 15-20w/h PPC 7447; 167MHz bus; ~4th revision custom Apple power manager; < 5h batt-life.
MBP 15" = 60wh batt; 5-22w/h ICD w/ new CPU power management; 667MHz bus; 1st revision Apple/Intel power manager (not sure how much centrino tech in there); Totally non-tech guess: ~4.5h batt-life
Bee wings don't generate lift the same way other winged creatures' wings do. Most animal wings generate lift by passing air over the lifting surface. (See Bernoulli Principle) This is done by generating forward thrust or by beating the wings in an x pattern to force air over the leading edge. Bee wings are too small by surface area for this method of generating lift to work sufficiently. It is because of this fact that it has been long said that the reason bees can fly is that they are too stupid to know that they can't. Recently (I forget, within 8 years?), slow motion video and CFD analysis has revealed that Bees fly by generating a lifting vortex. The vortex is created by the wing on the up-stroke by beating at a high frequency in a figure-8 pattern. The lifting vortex acts on the entire body of the bee rather than just the wing surface thus generating sufficient lift for the bee to fly.
That's why MS secured the rights to the design and manufacture of the chip. Basically all of the components in the xbox360 can be built by MS without the help of anyone else (albeit not as efficiently or cost-effectively). So if they want to ditch IBM, it's not really a big deal. Don't forget, IBM opened up the Power line. Future development of the xbox processor outside of IBM is perfectly doable, especially with the resources MS has.
how the heck does that work?
Ooh Ooh! I want to learn gun-fu! Pick me! Pick me!
Why alienate Pro users with bad tasting 1st gen Intel macs which they are more than likely to buy immediately?
There are no numbers on that page. How the hell do you "derive that it will be at least twice as long?" And no, this isn't "very technologically advanced." Proton Exchange Membranes ain't from the future.
B.S., B.S., more B.S.
Dangerous times these be.</FUD>
Because, you know, you can't burn ITMS songs to a CD and play them in your car.
Oh wait...
Excellent! For that extra little bit of buzz out of my mojito. Whoa, there's no more corn kernels in my crap!
TECH SUPPORT!!!
Because compared to a 2" screen, even your 3" looks huge.
Since when are other Moto phones full iSync citizens??
Probably.
No.
No, but you can burn/re-encode ITMS purchased M4Ps to MP3 which should play fine as ringtones.
"Damnit. I've lost my keys."
"Don't worry. I've backed them up."
"Great! Lemme get a copy."
"Damnit. I've lost the computer."
(1)Financing against property appreciation will get you real dollars in hand. Not the home owner necessarily wants to do that. (2)Who cares? Most people didn't buy their homes in cash anyways.
Numbering your comments doesn't make them valid as arguments.
Yeah right, if that were the case then where are all these people who are paying their employers to to work?