Recent content by lamorpa

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    Week In CPUs And Storage: Is Apple Gearing Up To Challenge Intel's Desktop CPUs?

    Sorry that reality doesn't often reach Fantasy iLand very often. It looks like your projection of places to stick a head applies to you, and your fantasy place. Some idiot's ignorant wishful thinking about Apple's technology prowess in the area of desktop processors is not a criticism of...
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    Week In CPUs And Storage: Is Apple Gearing Up To Challenge Intel's Desktop CPUs?

    Completely untrue. Scaling operable hardware is the most difficult thing. That's why so few companies are doing it.
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    Week In CPUs And Storage: Is Apple Gearing Up To Challenge Intel's Desktop CPUs?

    "Given the precarious nature of TDP limitations inside of a slim iPhone, it is natural to assume that Apple could scale the A10's design upwards into larger and more powerful variants" ... other than the fact that scaling multiple cores and their interoperability onto a single chip is the most...
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    GM Announces Select 2016 Models Support Apple CarPlay And Android Auto

    But you have to wear one of those silly white polo shirts in a car with CarPlay. No way!
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    The Looming Smartphone Paradigm Split

    Basically, the phone companies figured out a way to charge people $20-25 extra dollars a line and people fell for it. The cost of the phone was supposed to be rolled up into that $40-50 a month plan (after your $100 for a flagship), but they eliminated it and just sucked up the money. I'm not...
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    Apple's In-car Infotainment System is Only for iPhone Users

    iPhone only? They can bite on my yonka-bone.
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    Mac Pro with 3.7 GHz quad-core Xeon Launches Tomorrow

    It's just to unbelievably round!
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    Mac Pro with 3.7 GHz quad-core Xeon Launches Tomorrow

    So it will make a big difference to the dust mites in the carpet on the floor where it sits under your desk? I'd have more fun buying a workstation with equivalent power and taking the other $1,500, converting it to dollar bills and throwing them up in the air on a windy day.
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    PS4 to Have Resolution Advantage at Launch vs. Xbox One

    And we're supposed to forget that in full-motion video resolution is the least significant measure?
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    MacBook Pros Plagued With Keyboard, Trackpad Problems

    "It just works!" (when it's not broken)
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    Adata Announces Stainless Steel Portable SE720 SSD

    Well, if it's stainless steel then it must have fast access times...