It's an almost 50/50 split of Apple and Microsoft news. Apple's WWDC is an unavoidable news-machine outputting Snow Leopard, Safari 4, new MacBook [Pro]s and the iPhone 3GS (The 'S' is for sucks -- ed. It's a joke!). Microsoft returns the volley with their decision to remove IE completely from Windows 7 in Europe, but between all this giant game of tennis we find a quiet moment to discuss QNX and SkyOS too.
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Quite the opposite. They want MS to offer a choice between different browsers, they don't want MS to remove IE entirely. Removing IE was an initiative from MS to minimize the damage. Offering the users a choice would be much worse for them.
See http://www.h-online.com/open/EU-vs-Microsoft-Windows-7-to-be-releas...
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Microsoft did a similar stunt with the Windows version without media player.
The effect was that they didn't have to let the competition in, since that windows version wasn't really popular (for obvious reasons).
Now they're trying to do the same thing again. Formally complying to the EU verdict, while ignoring the intent.
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Come on!
That is just ridiculous, it would be like saying gaming on Linux is better than on Windows because of Linux running 64 bit nice for years.
Simply look at the available games and after that look at benchmarks of games running on 64 bit Windows with more RAM. Most games don't really use the extra RAM so far, so at this time you hardly gain performance and in the _future_ well as pointed out if you have a Windows Version there is no problem to legally get the 64 bit version and install more RAM if needed.
And to be honest installing 64 vs. buying a new PC that won't properly run most of your games is not really an option for a "gamer" -- being none myself but knowing some who play a lot.
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Yes, that was a misguided line of reasoning by myself. However, that said, one still has to wonder how the gaming market is going to react to increased pressure to move beyond the 4GB barrier, and the extra hurdles that entails.
Personally, I gave up gaming on a PC years ago (and moved to a Mac) after the pace of things all became too impractical for me, it could only possibly be worse now.
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the last time you 2 were praising apple for their "innovative" concept of the mac pro I posted a picture of a dec cpu-riser
today i can only provide you with a link (except you can wait till the weekend 
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/rebuilding-laptop-battery
these extra-wires are used for balancing/equalizing and are a must for every lithium pack with a serial configuration. and it has been done since lithium-batteries exist
as for the battery-life:
i get 5+h out of my 1 year old t400 with the 6-cell pack
with the 9-cell pack it will be 7+h
and now take a good look at the apple-hp: they have increased the capacity by 40% to get the 7+h runtime
they are again selling old technology as something completely new and innovative
and people believe it...
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It’s hard to deny their marketing is particularly good. When they want us to take note of something we do. Now if we had the benefit of knowing what everybody else was doing with such clarity it would be easier to compare. *Most* manufacturers ship complete crap though and don’t put any effort into improving.
The Apple battery is lithium-polymer, and folded into sheets instead of normal round cells. Apple do take old ideas, but I still see at least some innovation being put on top of it, as well as the boldness (good or bad) that they make decisions with (dropping replaceable batteries).
Is there any other major set of laptops that come without replaceable batteries, and yet have up to 8 hrs runtime?
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LiPoly have always been briks. LiIon are the round cells.
and LiPoly have a lower Wh/kg than LiIon, though they would only make sense if your volume-constraints are tighter than those for weight
and i hope apple this time is using high-quality cells, because LiPolys are realy dangerous
besides the dell adamo i can't think of any laptop with a build-in battery
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Thanks, will note your comments in the next podcast.
On the Adamo, http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/dell-adamo-review/">Engadget : "Dell promises upwards of five hours of battery life in the Adamos, and while it's true that the system is built for humming along at low levels, it doesn't get anywhere close to that in our testing. Most of the time, we managed to squeeze about two and a half hours out of the Adamo -- and we're talking basic tasks like document editing and web browsing."
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i know this review and i'm pretty sure that they f--kedup the powermanagement (or vista was indexing the hell out of the ssd)
the adamo has a 40Wh LiPoly battery (sounds familiar?) which would result in a powerconsumption of 16W
my t400 with normal harddrive and a not-so-lowpower cpu has a normal operation at 8-9W
Edited 2009-06-16 11:07 UTC
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Yeah. I just heard that part of the podcast and was going to post that too.
Itaniums have their own instruction set named IA64. This is entirely different from AMD's upgraded x86 which is named x86-64 (and used to be AMD64 before Intel followed along).
The Itanium 1 had a very crappy x86 instruction decoder included so that it could run existing code. Badly. As I recall the 733 Itanium-1 is about as fast as a 400 MHz Pentium III running x86 code.
The Itanium 2 and later went to a software decoding/recompile solution (similar to what Transmeta was doing) which was actually much much faster at x86 code.
I happen to be a fan of the Itanium instruction set. I especially like predicated instructions and I think they are cool. And who doesn't like having a huge pile of registers?