gnaffle

39 ms·

421.
by gnaffle 14y ago
For me it works in a pinch. But if I did any serious typing on the iPad, I'd get a keyboard case for it.
422.
by gnaffle 14y ago
I agree, do you also agree that you can hardly call it a niche with those sales numbers?
423.
by gnaffle 14y ago
I think the right question to ask is: What are most people's computing needs, and are tablets a better fit to those needs? I think the answer to that question is becoming pretty obvious. Most people already have a PC, and it can do anything
424.
by gnaffle 14y ago
A niche product that last quarter surpassed PC shipments from the biggest PC vendor, HP?
425.
by gnaffle 14y ago
That's right, 4GB is the max. I'm using an Intel X25-M SSD. I don't find the memory to be a problem using the SSD. Be prepared to remove a lot of screws to get to the HDD, but the iFixit guides are great.
426.
by gnaffle 14y ago
Probably not, at least not for Apple. A large part of their profit margin comes from making only very few models that share commonality in parts. Nobody is screaming for an optical drive either, so I suspect that the old unibody laptops wil
427.
by gnaffle 14y ago
The glue is designed to come apart, especially when heated. I'd understand you if they used expoxy resin or something like that, but that's not the case. Also, Apple has an incentive to make them recyclable since they offer a free recycling
428.
by gnaffle 14y ago
I think most people buying a $2000+ laptop keep it for more than 18 months. I know I would.
429.
by gnaffle 14y ago
I've maxed out the ram, added an SSD _and_ added the biggest SATA drive I could find and fit it in the DVD tray using an adapter from iFixit. My laptop is from 2007 and it feels like a speed demon with the SSD and still can store all my med
430.
by gnaffle 14y ago
First of all Apple has a battery replacement program that is way, way cheaper than buying a new laptop ($129-199 for a MBP depending on the size of the laptop). And you'll probably be able to buy aftermarket batteries just as you can with i
431.
by gnaffle 14y ago
What cost increases? Hasn't the price stayed roughly the same, or gone down in the case of the MacBook Airs? The exception being when an entirely new product line has been introduced (like the Unibody MBPs and now the Retina MBPs).
432.
by gnaffle 14y ago
They could even ship a device with an ARM core in addition to the Intel core, and only activate the Intel core for games etc.
433.
by gnaffle 14y ago
No, they could add features, but leave out those features on older devices just like they have done previously with each new iOS release. Many if not most of the new features in iOS 6 doesn't require more processing power.
434.
by gnaffle 14y ago
Lots of iOS 6 features doesn't require more processing power. They could have easily turned off the features that did, just like they did with iOS 5 on the iPhone 3G / 3GS. But they don't have an incentive to do that, and it would mean more
435.
by gnaffle 14y ago
I know, but that's really no excuse. I don't have a problem with Apple dropping support for old hardware, but this feels a little forced on a device that's only two years old. Of course, forced obsolescence is a fact of life with commercial
436.
by gnaffle 14y ago
Nokias low-cost phones are now being pressured from chinese phone makers. What's to stop that from happening with their WP7 devices?
437.
by gnaffle 14y ago
If Nokia has blockbuster sales with WP7, or other companies with Win8 tablets, expect those companies to be on board pretty quickly. So far, though, it's not happening. Also, those companies know that Microsofts strategy can (and will if ne
438.
by gnaffle 14y ago
I agree with you on that. Although at some point regular people will ask themselves "why should I buy a phone with a crappy display when I can buy an iPhone which also has smooth scrolling and good battery life? But if Nokia can't have a sa
439.
by gnaffle 14y ago
So in other words, Nokia is now stuck in a world where they can't be competitive with other smartphones because of the software engineering decisions made by someone else. How do you think that is going to work out for them in the long run?
440.
by gnaffle 14y ago
It was only played once? Can you give a reference to that? The Think Different campaign was created in 1997 and ended in 2002, and I'm having a hard time believing they played that ad _once_.
441.
by gnaffle 14y ago
If anything, I think it's truly sad that, given all the great things Apple has made, their legacy seems to be that closed and proprietary is better. It's the IT equivalent of "greed is good". iOS would be just as integrated and nice if Appl
442.
by gnaffle 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCz_SiPD_X0 This wasn't just a single marketing campaign. It was THE marketing campaign. They even played the Steve Jobs narrated version at the Celebrating Steve event. After reading the Steve Jobs biograph
443.
by gnaffle 14y ago
> The plane would have kept flying. Perhaps it would have flown out of the storm, perhaps it would have descended. I was talking about Qantas Flight 72, not AF447. In the instance of AF447, everything would have been OK if the pilots ha
444.
by gnaffle 14y ago
I didn't say it was caused by the electronics, but it was probably caused by pilot inexperience in manual flying at high altitude (among other things). There have been other cases, for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
445.
by gnaffle 14y ago
That's true, however I think it's a good example of why we need skilled pilots that maintain situational awareness. The accident reports mentions that the pilots did not have training in high altitude hand flying, and the common belief seem
446.
by gnaffle 14y ago
From the transcript ( http://sites.google.com/site/qitranscripts/transcripts/1x10 ) - just the tidbit about 6% savings in fuel cost just by reducing airflow sounds completely implausible: "Stephen Well, the question is . . . It was almost c
447.
by gnaffle 14y ago
Both Asterisk and FreeSWITCH, both open source IP PBX projects, have conference bridges that support noise cancelling and speaker detection, and I think several conferencing services do this already. Of course, building a nice web interface
448.
by gnaffle 14y ago
..except for the law of leaky abstractions, which is what get you accidents like AF447. Until the automation has situational awareness, you still need skilled pilots. Piloting is still a high skill job, it's just that there's a surplus of y
449.
by gnaffle 14y ago
A realistic game plan would be for Microsoft to immediately recognize iPhone as a threat and immediately start improving or rewriting WM6, just like Google did with Android. Remember, Android looked more or less like WM6 and Symbian before
450.
by gnaffle 14y ago
What I expected was for Microsoft to react as quickly to the iPhone as they did to Netscape. They didn't. Google did that however, and today Android has a chance at getting the 80% market share that Ballmer talked about when he laughed abou

More ›