| 2013/7/31-9/16 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Industry/SiliconValley] UID:54719 Activity:nil | 7/31 Hi, I am looking for a monitoring recommendation for use at home
with my MacMini and as a second monitor for my Airbook. At this
point I dont want to buy a fancy Apple monitor -- will probably
wait for then to announce a new one -- but price doesnt really
matter [office buy], but it doesnt seem like there is any need
to spend more than $500? Historically I've just gotten a decent
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| 2012/6/27-7/27 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:54424 Activity:nil | 6/27 You can't put 16GB RAM in the new 13" Macbook Pro.
Fuck you Apple!
\_ Really? I know they say you can't put more than 8GB in the 13"
MBP, but I have 16GB in my 2011 13" MBP and it works perfectly.
\_ I thought the new ones have soldier on HD and RAM just like
the Macbook Air?
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| 2009/6/1-3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:53068 Activity:high | 5/31 History of winners and losers by *popularity*:
VHS > Beta Max
USB2 > Firewire
x86 > PowerPC > Everything Else > DEC Alpha > Itanium
BlueRay > HDDvd
\_ It's too early to tell RE: "Blue"Ray. They may both turn out to be
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| 2006/3/1-2 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:42039 Activity:high | 2/28 So this new Intel Mac Mini... didn't the old one have better
graphics and also cost less?
\_ I think Apple is overcharging for it, since the new model is $100
more from the last base priced model. As components go down in
price, so should the unit, or the specs should go up with a flat
price. However, keep in mind you do get 256MB more ram ($75),
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| 2005/6/7-9 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:38018 Activity:moderate | 6/7 Why Intel? why not AMD? They both run on notebooks(unlike the G5)
Also, does this pave the groundwork for porting OS X to all PC
machines?
\_ You know, you guys are trying to find good technical reasons
for the move. I think it's actually simpler than that. Economics.
IBM can't produce their chips cheaper than Intel, which we all
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| 2005/1/24-25 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:35870 Activity:high | \1/24 On 21264, you have 80 physical registers of which 31 are visible.
However, on P4's you have 128 physical registers, of which
8 of them are visible at one time. The rest are used for
speculative storage and renaming (to prevent WAW and WAR hazards).
So, why 128 physical registers when only 8 are exposed (I presume
they're only ax-dx, and eax-edx)? Isn't that a lot?
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| 2004/7/12 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:32234 Activity:high | 7/12 Architecture question: Are RISC programs generally larger than
equivalent CISC programs (binaries)?
\_ yes.
\_ uh oh, I anticipate yet another heated CISC/RISC debate
why can't we all get along?
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| 2002/7/1-2 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:25254 Activity:high | 7/1 What's your impression of the quality of Apple engineering? My
wife asked me this question and the best answer I had was, "well,
it's, uh, complicated." Before OS X came out, Apple had reputation
for innovation but not for delivering products in a timely manner.
Now that OS X is out, it seems that they're being taken a bit more
seriously.
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| 2001/11/29 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:23140 Activity:nil | 11/28 Has the computer architecture research been so degraded to a point
that we're more interested in finding out how big the L1/L2 cache
size should be, instead of finding doing cool things like
CISC->RISC-> ????
\_ Has the computer architecture research been so degraded to a point
that we're more interested in finding doing cool things like if
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| 2001/8/30-31 [Computer/SW/OS/Misc] UID:22301 Activity:nil 53%like:22292 | 8/30 Are there any instructional machines still running HP-UX? Any machine
names would be helpful. I need to test some code on HP-UX/PA-RISC.
\_ I think the general-use cory lab might have it
\_ They run compaq digital unix.
\_ Really?
\_ Yup.
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| 2001/8/23-24 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:22220 Activity:nil | 8/23 so why is that apple doing all the PowerPC evangelism? Is it just
because they are the only company using PowerPC for personal computers?
shouldn't the company/ies that make the PowerPC be doing some of their
own evangelism too? Something to keep up with "Intel Inside"?
\_ Apple is the only consumer PC companies with PowerPC computer.
Definitely, they are up against the Pentium <insert number here>
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| 2001/5/14-16 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:21268 Activity:high | 5/14 AMD announces mobile chips. Yay for competition.
\_ Whatever. x86 is for girls and kids, Real Men
use RISC!
\_ What do women use then?
\_ women don't use computers, they are barefoot and pregnant
and in the kitchen fetching men beers.
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