"So, the whole reason for going with faux 4K (3820 x 2160 or just 2160p as it should be called) in the first place, was because existing HDMI couldn't quite hit 4096 to do the real thing."
No, that's not the "whole reason" or even part of the reason. The remaining question is uninteresting.
Just what the mac community needs, ports of iPad games to the desktop. Just think of the pent-up for games on OS X, particularly ones with touchscreen UIs!
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Idiotic. You *could* just get a box that those cards are made for, not suffer the huge bottleneck, and save a boatload of money. You don't have to feel obligated to "keep it and plug it into your next machine" despite it becoming obsolete either.
There is only one IO task for which Thunderbolt is ill-suited and that's attaching a video card. No surprise it's offered as a solution on/.
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What does he do that could not be done with something other than a Mac? Why must someone prove that what Apple offers isn't what they want? It isn't a given.
Things aren't defined but what an Apple product is suited to except in a fanboy's mind. Apple doesn't build what the customer wants, they build what they want the customer to want.
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That's right. Adding a broken scrolling concept onto a horrendously non-ergonomic mouse is the last thing you want to do. Typical for Apple, though. There was never a mouse they couldn't ruin.
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"The scrolling, which is a vast improvement for many,... Autohide scrollbars, again a godsend for many users,..."
Ridiculous hyperbole and utterly false. Things worked the way they did for a reason. The changes suit an agenda, they aren't a "vast improvement" or a "godsend" to any user. They couldn't be regardless of merit.
VLIW is an embarrassing failure that was predicated on the assumption that compiler technologies would evolve to do things they couldn't. Modern processors couldn't be more removed from VLIW concepts if they tried.
There is nothing about modern processors that are in ANY way "RISC based" at their core. If that were true, modern RISC processors wouldn't need similar architectures. Sour grapes.
"Such are the fools pandering their vaunted "analysis" to the media these days."
A RAID array is not a SAN and "home SANs" are moronic. Arrays of SSDs are not a new idea. I've been using SSD arrays longer than I've been using single SSDs.
Applying traditional RAID redundancy techniques to SSD is stupid.
"1) MicroSD card only compatible with select third party applications. Not compatible with Google services. "
By "select third party applications" they mean almost nothing.
The problem is that SD cards in Android devices suck and few applications support them. Meanwhile, most users are satisfied with 16-32 GB and it's better in many ways to simply integrate that and leave the nerds to bitch and moan. You don't need more than 16GB to carry plenty of music with you.
SD in phones is "hobbled-hardware-by-design" and always has been. It does not transparently expand the storage that exists on the device, storage that you seem to think doesn't exist. With such ignorance on display, why should anyone listen to you?
Once upon a time, smartphones didn't transparently switch between cellular and WiFi. Then the iPhone came along and did it right and now it's taken for granted. Expandable storage on phones works poorly because talented people aren't committed to making it work well. If Apple supported SD in iOS, which they wouldn't, it wouldn't be the crippled POS that it is in Android and people would want it. Never underestimate the value of actually getting it right.
Customers won't demand something that works poorly when there are better alternatives. For most users adequate internal storage IS a better alternative because it just works.
No, Android is Android. Developers of projects get to choose the names, not you or Richard Stallman.
There is only one purpose in insisting on the term "GNU/Linux", that's to redirect credit to RMS. RMS never said "GNU/Linux" refers to a platform of "Linux + glibc + Coreutils + X11", he said that GNU deserved credit and he was going to throw a tantrum unless he got his way.
Who got confused about Cocoa Touch on Android and needed such preposterous clarification?
Run software only available on iOS, of which there is plenty. Duh.
I attempted to convert to Android recently and the app quality was pretty grim and the pervasive advertising disgraceful. Anyone who pretends this isn't the case has an agenda.
"Step 1: remove iMac, keyboard, mouse and power cable from the box. Step 2: plug in power cable into back of iMac and wall socket. Step 3. plug in keyboard and mouse. Step 4. plug phone cord into phone socket in back of iMac and wall. Step 5. Turn on iMac Step 6. Launch AOL."
Just like PCs of the day.
Benchmarks are for "nerds to masturbate to" when Macs lose them. They were to proof of "first desktop supercomputer" in a more favorable context. No one deceived with benchmarks more than Apple and no one worked that angle more than them.
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The typical /.'er was, in fact, born yesterday.
There was once an obscure computer that could address beyond its word size. It was called the IBM PC.
"32-bit can address up to 4GB of RAM. So 32-bit will be fine until they create a phone with > 4GB of RAM."
Right, just like the original PC could only address up to 64KB of RAM because it was 16 bit.
The level of ignorance these days is astounding. 32 bit does not limit total memory to 4GB.
Absolutely right. Article is horseshit.
But why would you assume they are different?
"Most drives" will not fail under warranty but so what? It's not informative.
Drives have early life failures. Once that period is past they will typically last a long time. That's common for a lot of things.
What evidence do you have that SSD and HDD are fundamentally different in this regard? Lacking that, your comment is worthless.
Boo hoo.
"The SSD may be replaceable, but it uses an Apple proprietary interface which limits options."
How is that remotely similar to "Lose the SSD and you have lost the Retina."?
"Furthermore, how about upgrading or replacing failed RAM? In that case, you are left with a $2200+ brick."
Just like hundreds of other components in PCs throughout time. Pure FUD, nothing more.
720p at 5" is "friggin' beautiful" as well and takes far less processing to fill meaning a REAL savings in GPU power over 1080p.
People who claim to see a difference between 440 dpi and 470 dpi in a phone are liars.
"So, the whole reason for going with faux 4K (3820 x 2160 or just 2160p as it should be called) in the first place, was because existing HDMI couldn't quite hit 4096 to do the real thing."
No, that's not the "whole reason" or even part of the reason. The remaining question is uninteresting.
Just what the mac community needs, ports of iPad games to the desktop. Just think of the pent-up for games on OS X, particularly ones with touchscreen UIs!
Idiotic. You *could* just get a box that those cards are made for, not suffer the huge bottleneck, and save a boatload of money. You don't have to feel obligated to "keep it and plug it into your next machine" despite it becoming obsolete either.
There is only one IO task for which Thunderbolt is ill-suited and that's attaching a video card. No surprise it's offered as a solution on /.
What does he do that could not be done with something other than a Mac? Why must someone prove that what Apple offers isn't what they want? It isn't a given.
Things aren't defined but what an Apple product is suited to except in a fanboy's mind. Apple doesn't build what the customer wants, they build what they want the customer to want.
That's right. Adding a broken scrolling concept onto a horrendously non-ergonomic mouse is the last thing you want to do. Typical for Apple, though. There was never a mouse they couldn't ruin.
"The scrolling, which is a vast improvement for many, ... Autohide scrollbars, again a godsend for many users,..."
Ridiculous hyperbole and utterly false. Things worked the way they did for a reason. The changes suit an agenda, they aren't a "vast improvement" or a "godsend" to any user. They couldn't be regardless of merit.
"fud" stands for "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt". It doesn't mean something you disagree with.
VLIW is an embarrassing failure that was predicated on the assumption that compiler technologies would evolve to do things they couldn't. Modern processors couldn't be more removed from VLIW concepts if they tried.
There is nothing about modern processors that are in ANY way "RISC based" at their core. If that were true, modern RISC processors wouldn't need similar architectures. Sour grapes.
"Such are the fools pandering their vaunted "analysis" to the media these days."
Look who's talking.
But it is not a "very large percentage".
"...whilst OS X might not be overly popular in the server market, it certainly has a very large percentage of the desktop market."
A RAID array is not a SAN and "home SANs" are moronic. Arrays of SSDs are not a new idea. I've been using SSD arrays longer than I've been using single SSDs.
Applying traditional RAID redundancy techniques to SSD is stupid.
Went to the Google store and saw this here: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=samsung_galaxy_s4&hl=en
"1) MicroSD card only compatible with select third party applications. Not compatible with Google services. "
By "select third party applications" they mean almost nothing.
The problem is that SD cards in Android devices suck and few applications support them. Meanwhile, most users are satisfied with 16-32 GB and it's better in many ways to simply integrate that and leave the nerds to bitch and moan. You don't need more than 16GB to carry plenty of music with you.
SD in phones is "hobbled-hardware-by-design" and always has been. It does not transparently expand the storage that exists on the device, storage that you seem to think doesn't exist. With such ignorance on display, why should anyone listen to you?
Once upon a time, smartphones didn't transparently switch between cellular and WiFi. Then the iPhone came along and did it right and now it's taken for granted. Expandable storage on phones works poorly because talented people aren't committed to making it work well. If Apple supported SD in iOS, which they wouldn't, it wouldn't be the crippled POS that it is in Android and people would want it. Never underestimate the value of actually getting it right.
Customers won't demand something that works poorly when there are better alternatives. For most users adequate internal storage IS a better alternative because it just works.
"no local storage == no phone purchase. its that simple."
What phone has no local storage? I guess it's not that simple.
"...and saying "GNU/Linux" all the time is far more convenient than saying "*BSD or Linux that isn't Android" all the time."
A contrived problem only you suffer from. The rest of the world understands that Android isn't Linux.
No, Android is Android. Developers of projects get to choose the names, not you or Richard Stallman.
There is only one purpose in insisting on the term "GNU/Linux", that's to redirect credit to RMS. RMS never said "GNU/Linux" refers to a platform of "Linux + glibc + Coreutils + X11", he said that GNU deserved credit and he was going to throw a tantrum unless he got his way.
Who got confused about Cocoa Touch on Android and needed such preposterous clarification?
Run software only available on iOS, of which there is plenty. Duh.
I attempted to convert to Android recently and the app quality was pretty grim and the pervasive advertising disgraceful. Anyone who pretends this isn't the case has an agenda.
"Step 1: remove iMac, keyboard, mouse and power cable from the box.
Step 2: plug in power cable into back of iMac and wall socket.
Step 3. plug in keyboard and mouse.
Step 4. plug phone cord into phone socket in back of iMac and wall.
Step 5. Turn on iMac
Step 6. Launch AOL."
Just like PCs of the day.
Benchmarks are for "nerds to masturbate to" when Macs lose them. They were to proof of "first desktop supercomputer" in a more favorable context. No one deceived with benchmarks more than Apple and no one worked that angle more than them.