.:[Double Click To][Close]:.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

the situation room logo

the situation room logo. to survey the situation,
  • to survey the situation,



  • Hellhammer
    Apr 22, 12:14 PM
    Make sure your homeowner's polices are up to date. I predict this new MBA will burst into flames when Turbo Boost kicks in.

    The TDPs are around the same as with previous gen, or possibly even less (the TDP of 320M is unknown). Also, Turbo Boost will only be activated if the thermals allow that. If your CPU is already running at 90�C, then Turbo most likely won't kick in.

    I doubt SB will make MBA run noticeably hotter.





    the situation room logo. The Situation Room: Your
  • The Situation Room: Your



  • myca
    May 3, 11:54 AM
    Surely I'm not the only one who's noticed that the i7 is slower than the i5, and that the Radeon HD 6970M is slower than the 6750M.

    Whaaaaa? :confused:

    Hold up
    6750M (http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6750M.43958.0.html)

    6970M (http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6970M.43077.0.html)

    Similar clock speeds, the 6970 has twice the amount of pipelines.

    Also from what I've seen in the store the highest clocked i5 is 3.1, and the i7 is 3.4.

    I'm really tempted, but these iMacs need to keep target display mode so I can feed my PC rig in there, otherwise my desk just doesn't have the space for a second display (could always get the 21.5 inch and a second 1080 display I guess).





    the situation room logo. Put your best ones in the
  • Put your best ones in the



  • Warbrain
    Sep 14, 09:06 AM
    Aperture update.
    Possible MacBook Pro update. Keeping the MacBooks the same as they are.

    That's all I see.





    the situation room logo. outside the Situation Room
  • outside the Situation Room



  • cmaier
    Nov 13, 04:10 PM
    they are using the OS X API in the context it was meant to be used in. as far as i can tell these images aren't loaded into the iPhone application itself and are rather transmitted over-the-air as the application is being used, thus they are being called by the OS while the application is being run and are merely being displayed through the iPhone application, its like saying you can't see any apple trademark icons through a VPN client.

    Or like saying that if my app has a UIWebView, I have to prevent the user from navigating to Apple.com lest he be subjected to seeing Apple's trademarked logos and pictures of Apple computers.





    the situation room logo. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with members of the national security team in the Situation Room of the White House, July 29, 2010,
  • President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with members of the national security team in the Situation Room of the White House, July 29, 2010,



  • kalisphoenix
    Aug 23, 05:36 PM
    *wishes he'd bought Creative stock this morning*





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • EricNau
    Apr 25, 01:16 AM
    It amazes me how such little things tick people off.
    Indeed. ...Like someone driving the speed limit in the fast lane?





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • aussie_geek
    May 4, 03:34 AM
    I can't see how those of us wanting to hook things up to our 27" iMac could be a that small group. I'm more inclined to believe this limitation has to do with Apple protectionism. I mean, like I said in a post a few pages up, there are no industry standard input ports (HDMI/DVI...) and the TB port is limited to only a small fraction of a ppm of the input devices on the market.

    Sure hoping for a way to work arond Apple on this one, without going the usual Apple route - with a gazillion adapters.

    Yep- I agree. There should always be one legacy port on a device. Mini display port would be the one.





    the situation room logo. on quot;The Situation Room.quot;
  • on quot;The Situation Room.quot;



  • iJawn108
    Sep 13, 09:19 PM
    I dont' think the "iPhone" would have a traditional keypad at all.





    the situation room logo. the Situation Room while
  • the Situation Room while



  • Bubba Satori
    Mar 29, 03:24 PM
    Wow, the natives are restless. IDC are just haters.

    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/1362599_02bcdea730.jpg





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • Small White Car
    Sep 4, 08:29 PM
    Just think.

    IF they come out with this media device and IF they offer HD movies online and IF it works with Windows too...

    Well then this silly Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war that everyone's gearing up to fight might be over before it starts. And the winner will be: iTunes!

    Unlikely? We'll see...





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • MacSA
    Sep 1, 06:42 AM
    A lot of people have doubts as to whether that was a genuine upgrade or some kind of mistake on Apple's part.... or perhaps someone just playing around with us.





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • Unspoken Demise
    Nov 13, 01:21 PM
    which might just mean hiring more people to work with them on a daily basis.

    Agreed.

    And at Rogue Amoeba: k bai

    With the FB guy, I was mildly interested, but now people are just gunna jump on this bandwagon. I dont care if you leave frankly.





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • mrkramer
    Apr 25, 01:13 AM
    Good luck with reporting my plates. I've done that to drunk drivers before, the 911 operator has told me "We're sorry sir, we cannot divert officers based on heresy." Also, see above: My uncle is the traffic court judge in the jurisdiction where I did this, good luck getting a ticket to stand.


    If your uncle lets you off for something like that I hope he gets caught and thrown in jail for corruption like he would deserve. And in most places cops do go after people who are reported as drunk, or unsafe drivers.

    The simple fact is that I should not have to obey a 70mph speed limit if I don't want to. Why would I even bother driving a car that can hit 186mph (with the speed governor removed, with the governor top speed is 155mph) at 70 mph? A Ford Fiesta can hit those speeds, what's the point of fast cars if you're going to follow the speed limit in them?


    And at your age you probably shouldn't be driving a car with that much power, you don't know how to handle it.





    the situation room logo. on quot;The Situation Room.quot;
  • on quot;The Situation Room.quot;



  • rdowns
    Sep 5, 03:56 PM
    Since my 3G 15GB iPos is about full, I want a new iPod.

    Any my stock account loves the movement - AAPL closed up $3.10 today.





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • JesterJJZ
    Apr 30, 02:59 PM
    I understand where you are coming from. With your feet planted in set in concrete, unable to fathom future developments based on the experimental or high-end tech of the day, the Blu-Ray seems endlessly of value. Much like the tape reels of the 60s.

    The BluRay is going away for one very specific reason: mechanical. By 2016 the flash memory chips for 50gb will probably be so everyday and cheap that bulky, mechanical BluRay will seem awkward. By 2019 I'd bet you can store several times more than a BluRay on medium-priced thumb-drive.

    Proof? Look back 6 years when a 1gb thumb-drive was a huge chunk of cash. Look back 10 years when a 512MB thumb-drive was almost prohibitive to buy. The future is non-mechanical.

    At the same token, by 2016 optical media capacity will also increase and be cheaper than your 50GB flash chip.





    the situation room logo. from the situation room of
  • from the situation room of



  • Anonymous Freak
    May 3, 04:46 PM
    You could just use teleport http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/

    Teleport isn't the same. Teleport is a way to CONTROL a second computer, I'm referring to a way to specifically use extra direct-connect monitors.

    Not to mention... Why would you want to use the new iMac as a display on an older computer? By the time this iMac is obsolete and ready for re-use as a display, you'll have a newer/faster/better computer to connect it to.





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • Joshuarocks
    Apr 19, 11:02 PM
    That would leave an awful lot of parents dead.

    Not you, the poster you were quoting was being sarcastic. I was drawing your attention to his sarcasism.

    Oh, sorry :) I had thought he was being rude towards me.





    the situation room logo. in the Situation Room of
  • in the Situation Room of



  • tsugaru
    Mar 22, 03:08 PM
    Now I can rid myself of my 27" i7 2009 iMac.

    Things that I would see/would like to see on the new iMacs:

    - Thunderbolt (2 ports would be nice)
    - Target DisplayPort Mode with HDMI + HDMI audio in, without needing to fully power up the entire computer (and a toggle that doesn't require an Apple keyboard)
    - USB3 (I know Intel isn't natively putting USB3 on their chipsets until Ivy Bridge, but Apple could do the right thing and add this)
    - get rid of the internal speakers as an option for more cooling
    - at least a Radeon 6850 or GeForce GTX 560 Ti (preferably the nVidia card for CUDA/HW accelerated stuff) with at least 1 (2 please) GB of GDDR5 (I'm still boggled why they even offered a 256MB 6490 on the MacBook Pro)
    - easily accessible 2.5" port for an SSD (doubt it)
    - i7-2600 at the high end (Apple won't sell the K version, unless they go nuts and allow overclocking)
    - a side mounted USB port or 2 would be nice, hell, more USB ports period (6-8) would be nice
    - a second Firewire 800 (or 1600 if Apple is feeling frisky) port
    - matte screen option (this, like the 2.5" bay, has a snowballs' chance in hell)
    - Blu-Ray (see my note on the matte screen)

    Wonder if Apple will allow for the full 32GB support that the Sandy Bridge processors can fully take, and the DDR3-1600 speeds, since they are limiting both on the MacBook Pros at the moment.





    the situation room logo. it the SITUATION ROOM!
  • it the SITUATION ROOM!



  • ansl
    Mar 22, 04:19 PM
    I own a 2010 13" MacBook Pro and I'm loving all of its wonderfulness. However in relation to my job and my study I'm doing alot of coding and graphic work, which isn't ideal on a 13".

    If apple does pull their finger out of their tight, price-raping, tingling a*sehole and decide to put a good GPU with 1GB standard, in the 21,5" (Wishfull thinking?) they'll have my money.

    *1,850 dollars for the low-end 21,5 is ridiculous... lame danish taxes.





    berkleeboy210
    Sep 1, 10:12 AM
    saw a post on ilounge earlier.... that said this guy went to his local apple store, and they said to wait until next week (the 5th) because imacs and mac minis would have core 2 duos.

    if this is true, then this event on 9/12 will most definetely be strictly ipod/itunes related. :)





    IJ Reilly
    Aug 24, 02:11 PM
    Sorry, but I think you are taking the settlement at face value and making just a surface interpretation.

    There are already several industry analysts who have now gone on record saying this is a win for Apple.

    $100 million may be a big load of money for you, me and Creative, but it's chump change when we're talking about the fact that iPod makes $6+ BILLION PER YEAR (and growing) for Apple.

    It's like Creative accused Apple of stealing the goose that lays golden eggs. In return, Apple gives Creative one of the eggs and Creative goes, "Wow! Thanks! You can keep the goose!"

    The face-value interpretation says that Creative won because it was a pauper who now has a golden egg that's worth a lot of money. The deep interpretation is that Apple still has the goose and Creative just gave up all claims of ownership over it.

    What's so hard to understand about that?

    Nothing, but it's also not very accurate.

    First, $100 million is load of money for anyone. Time was, not so long ago, that reporting a $100 million quarterly profit was a big deal for Apple. The iPod doesn't "make" $6 billion a year for Apple. That's just revenue. Profits are a faction of that revenue.

    Second, Creative doesn't "give up" anything but a license to Apple for technology Apple was using before for nothing. No matter how you cut it, the license fee come right out of Apple's bottom line.

    If this can be called a "win" for Apple, it's in their getting this issue squared away relatively quickly, so it doesn't overhang the next generation of iPod releases. The long-term impacts of allowing the suit to drag on could have been considerable, just as it was for RIM. Especially if in the end, they lost.





    Yvan256
    Sep 10, 01:03 AM
    That's right. But, with the plugins, it plays them just fine, so in theory it should be perfectly streamable, right?

    I don't know where you got your plug-ins, but DivX under Quicktime freezes my whole computer for a few seconds when it loads the file.

    Besides, forget DivX, especially with Apple devices. Rip your DVDs to H.264/AAC.





    djdarlek
    Sep 6, 08:02 AM
    I can't remember. Anyway, I still can't see Apple magically being able to offer HD films and all this wireless streaming malarky of gigantic files at this point. I've got a 10 meg net connection, but I don't want to not be able to use the internet for 6 hours or so while iTunes downloads a 6gig movie file.

    All I'm looking for is a way to play my archive of DVD backups straight to our HDTV. Sure the quality will only be comparable with current DVDs, but for me, at the moment that is fine. In the UK I don't think you can even buy any dedicated HD players yet? I may be wrong (I think Toshiba is releasing one in October). Actually, being in the UK the whole Movie Store idea isn't going to affect us for at least a couple of years.

    It annoys me that my iTunes music collection is slowly being taken over by Podcasts. I wish there was a way of having them listed in a seperate library. I hate listening to a tune and then it moves onto a Podcast without me realising.

    I also hate the way that iTunes is being expanded into visual things. iTunes Movie Store is like saying iEars iEyes Store. I hope they rebrand the movie aspect; the 'Showtime' name to me seems perfect.

    Also, if it really is 'Showtime', I hope Apple have thought of every angle over the last year or so and release the fabled iPod Video with touch screen to compliment the streaming solution.





    damienvfx
    Sep 12, 05:18 PM
    Kind of a huge gap, don'cha think? For an extra $100 I can nearly TRIPLE the capacity? Why would I even consider a 30 GB model?

    I imagine the 80 is about the same size. I'd go with the 30 if I was in the market for a regular iPod. Honsestly though, I can't stand feeling the hard drive move in my hand with the regular iPods.