Posts by Philip Lewis 991 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2009
I have a MacBookAir 11" - the very first model that came out - the "game changer".
I actually have no idea how long I have had it, certainly more than 2 years I would think.
According to iStatPro it has been recharged 274 times, is currently 100% charged and the battery life shows as 88%.
I think most of the people on her dumping in this thread are detached from reality
Re: A thinner tabler is that it, how robust, it will need a bulky case????
Hmm, while I do not recall a 33 bit architecture, we certainly have had 36 & 48 bit architectures in the past as well as varying number of (n)bit memory addressing systems where n>32, so yes, there are other values of the increment.
The big changes in the A7 chip are not the 64 "bitness" of it, and your claim to know something about this subject suggests you might do well to actually brush up on the subject before ranting away and making yourself look silly.
On second thoughts, rant on ...
"It's no wonder the market went blah at the news."
You don't really understand the market do you?
The market moved leading up to the release, where everyone placed their bets. This is how it works.
The market will now stabilise to the level the market assesses looking forward including the evaluation of the affects of the now released products (rather than speculation).
"The reason Android has exploded as a platform is because ..."
... it is free for manufacturers and they can sell cheap crap using it, at price points for which there is always a ready market. Oh yes, and the fact that geeks like it.
There are exceptions, Samsung, Sony, Google Nexus.
I wonder what the sales of non-name Chinese underpowered, unusable crap tablets is compared to premium products?
The maps app is fine, better in many ways than its predecessor (features Google refused to offer on the iDevices). However, Apple aligned itself with one of the world's major suppliers of data to feed their own app, and the completeness & quality was not to the same level that Google provided previously.
These are two statements of fact, and the end user experience was not up to Apple's standards and worse in many ways than the app that Google had previously provided.
The fact that everyone (including you I guess) blamed the poor user experience on the App, merely indicates the lack of nuance and understanding that the anti-Apple (and pro-Google) brigade demonstrate on every available occasion.
The whole exercise was Google throwing its weight around, successfully.
Don't let the facts get in the way of your bias though, carry on.
The 64bitness is far less important (as you point out) than the fact that it is a newer ARM revision, which amongst other things adds registers - the benefit of which you ought to fully understand.
Apple are not hiding anything nor claiming anything that the new architecture is not.
Get over yourself!
(That being said, xBox vs. iPad was a strange comparison)
"The other advantage is that older hardware will struggle with Mavericks, nudging you towards purchasing a new machine. These are all good business reasons for appearing to give away stuff for free"
[citation needed]
Your statement is pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Given that the entire release is about OS performance, your statement sounds like yet another sour fart.
Troll offf!
Precisely. A defining factor of geeks is that they can never get past their built in "newer is better and required" for all things. The iPad mini purchased a year ago will still be capable of doing precisely the same job in another year, or two or three ...
It is not unless the thing breaks, wears out or the underlying requirements change that the device becomes useless.
The original iPad mini only has an embarrassing screen if you have never seen or used one and rely on pointless hardware specifications to reach conclusions (yet another defining geekdom characteristic).
Luckily, it is a rare day when I am mistaken for a geek.
You obviously don't test software for a living.
This is the fallacy of testing with real data.
It is perfectly possible to run a billion historical transactions through a system, perfectly, capturing all correct and incorrect data and handling them correctly. However, you will have not tested anything other than that data. You will have confirmed nothing and tested very little.
It is a logical fallacy.
Sigh, one hopes for a greater level of understanding from the commentards here at The Register :(
"Actually in my job interview I mentioned that I have declared Windows 8 my arch enemy and my boss agreed. I was hired later on by this same guy."
Someone said to me in a job interview once that "I just have to get out of LA". I hired him on the spot.
Some statements cut through the bullshit and get to the heart of the matter, and reflect certain characteristics far more succinctly than a 20 page CV!
I have now spent 7 years away from VMS.
I miss it every day, and despair at my colleagues and their complete ignorance - an ignorance created and curated by Microsoft (and if I hear "best practices" again, I may just do physical violence to the speaker) ...
But alas, my family needs feeding and we are all left here in the soup that Microsoft and their perverted focus over decades, has left us.
Like always, in cases like this, one asks ,, "How did it come to this", and after the apprpriate quantity of ale, one concludes "it just sort of happened" and blame the anti-christ himself.
I would just like to say I spent 3.27 minutes laughing heartily at the commentary here. This is what we readers of The Reg forums thirst for. The witty, the incisive, the unexpurgated and dare I say it, the side splittingly funny tangential commentary. Who needs our boring IT reality, when we can have this?
Pip pip ... keep it coming
"Now, seriously, these guys need something that can be called a success, otherwise morale at MS is going to go down the drain."
The implicit assumption being that is not already in "the drain".
An equally plausible explanation is that this and many other really egregious fuck-ups* are the RESULT of morality being in the drain. A scenario I find considerably more plausible.
* Check Trevor Potts tirade against the new licensing somewhere else here on the Reg. A situation that beggars belief, but might be explained by employees of MS basically not giving a fuck - at least in the big picture.
"Even if somebody at Google went out of their way to code a page to break IE11 in compatibility mode only, which seems doubtful."
You are saying this about a company that "went out of its way" to exploit a bug in Safari without telling anyone, in order to increase their advertising revenue.
You ascribe a "morality" to the organisation that palpably does not exist!
"Why on earth do MS keep doing this stuff again and again and again?"
A good working definition of insanity, is repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome.
So the answer to your question, is that the organisation is so dysfunctional, that the components of the organisation can behave insanely without the processes in the organisation flagging the insanity of it. Make no mistake, Ballmer has created a dysfunctional organisation and it will take a new CEO of considerable charisma AND savvy to turn it around - I certainly would not want the job, as one would be on a "pound to a hiding" - a rather precarious starting point no matter what compensation was offered!
I have been holding off on a very large screen purchase - it seems that I might hang on a wee bit longer and get Panasonic's last one out the door.
And for the spurious "use too much power argument", $12 and a dime will get you a pint where I live, so power draw is hardly likely to be a factor at all.
Exactly. It astonishes me that most punters cannot see the difference between a top line Plasma screen and a top line LED screen - there is really no comparison - Plasma wins every time, long before you take out the light meter and start measuring stuff.
Sad to see Panasonic leaving the market to Samsung, as those two manufacturers have been trading "best" monikers in the plasma market for some time now.
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