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Submission + - How Windows 10 Performs On a 12-inch MacBook (alexvking.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As Microsoft prepares for the launch of Windows 10, review sites have been performing all sorts of benchmarks on the tech preview to evaluate how well the operating system will run. But now a computer science student named Alex King has made the most logical performance evaluation of all: testing Windows 10's performance on a 2015 MacBook. He says, "Here's the real kicker: it's fast. It's smooth. It renders at 60FPS unless you have a lot going on. It's unequivocally better than performance on OS X, further leading me to believe that Apple really needs to overhaul how animations are done. Even when I turn Transparency off in OS X, Mission Control isn't completely smooth. Here, even after some Aero Glass transparency has been added in, everything is smooth. It's remarkable, and it makes me believe in the 12-inch MacBook more than ever before. So maybe it's ironic that in some regards, the new MacBook runs Windows 10 (a prerelease version, at that) better than it runs OS X."

Comment Re:Nice conspiracy theory, but... (Score 1) 514

by thx2001r (#35928004) Attached to: The Real Reason Apple Is Suing Samsung

That is a strange argument I hear over and over again. By sales volume, Apple is something like the #3 PC manufacturer. Apple's competition is NOT the Windows platform (THAT is the platform their competition is on). If it were, Apple would sell their OS to pre-load onto any manufacturer's computer (to compete with the Windows Platform). Apple competes on hardware sales and it is pretty clear that they choose to compete ONLY where the high profit margin is. Many PC companies choose to compete where the volume is (budget, low profit margin PCs) AS WELL AS where the high margin is: lowering their overall profit margin but boosting their volume/revenue numbers. Apple may even be the #1 PC manufacturer when it comes to profit margin (per unit and quite likely as an aggregate number).

Back to cell phones... Do you think Samsung looks at its (cell phone) competitors' numbers and says "WE" (the "we" being all manufacturers selling cell phones on the Android platform, AKA, Samsung's competition) are beating iPhone? Maybe to the press, they smile and say so but where it counts they look at sales numbers (for their competing smartphones) and compare those to their own. In the only important (to a business) end-game, revenue (for the splashy numbers to show the stock market) and profit (to succeed), are the only ways to compare to competition.
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Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled 1093

Posted by samzenpus from the take-two-bullets-and-call-me-in-the-morning dept.
Repton writes "Thanks to the Second Amendment, even the elderly have the right to keep and bear arms. The problem is that many of the guns out there are a bit unwieldy for an older person to handle. However, the inventors of the Palm Pistol are planning to change all that with a weapon that is ideal for both the elderly and the physically disabled. In a statement submitted to Medgadget, the manufacturer, Constitution Arms, has revealed the following: 'We thought you might be interested to learn that the FDA has completed its "Device/Not a Device" determination and concluded the handgun will be listed as a Class I Medical Device.' Physicians will be able to prescribe the Palm Pistol for qualified patients who may seek reimbursement through Medicare or private health insurance companies."

Comment Brief Overview (Score 2, Informative) 292

by skinfitz (#23668595) Attached to: Covert BT Phorm Trial Report Leaked
Interesting - whole system runs on RHEL (told you it was evil..) and multiple Squid processes. Adds some latency into browsing (obviously...) Old system dropped javascript tags into URLs but later version did not (resulting in some users having some javascript appearing in their forum posts - like that guy on the motorbike phorum if anyone remembers that incident) Apple.com among the 'download target' sites (page 49) but surprisingly due to Evil, not Microsoft or Google.
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Submission + - British scientists reverse Casimir effect (telegraph.co.uk)

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An anonymous reader writes: The Telegraph reports that Scientists at the University of St. Andrews have developed a technique to cause the Casimir effect to repeal instead of attract. This discovery could lead to near frictionless machines or in theory even levitation.

Comment Re:How about some more *durable* flash drives? (Score 1) 305

by thx2001r (#16015634) Attached to: 16GB Flash USB Dongle
Our department just ordered usb thumbdrives for all of us from Newegg (Kingmax 1GB). These things are pretty nifty (size of a piece of Trident chewing gum... the whole thing is the usb connector). We wanted something ultra durable and something that would actually fit on a keychain (and no caps to lose) and we read reviews about how people ran these through washing machines so we gave them a try.

They've been pretty good and durable so far (about a month) and were on the cheap (under $20 a piece) but they are so little some people have lost them (make sure to loop it onto your keychain with a proper metal loop, not the included crap) and, you can put it in the usb port upside down (it fits but doesn't mount) so sometimes you have to flip it over and plug it back in again. Sorry to sound like I'm selling one of these... I'm just excited to finally have a thumbdrive small enough to put on a keychain and not have it be bigger than any of my keys.

Apple's Growing Pains 375

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the because-pcs-are-perfect dept.
Tyler Too writes "Is Apple having an unusually large number of quality control problems since its switch to Intel? Ars Technica runs down the litany of problems MacBook and MacBook Pro users have experienced since their launch. From the article: 'Is Apple's quality control slipping through the cracks with this Intel transition? Given the volume of available evidence that has appeared in such a short timeframe, it's simply impossible to say that Apple isn't having problems.'"

Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise? 435

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the straight-from-the-tea-leaves dept.
Tony Mobily has written a thought-provoking editorial for Free Software Magazine that makes the bold prediction of Red Hat's eventual demise at the hands of Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Calling on memories of Red Hat alienating their desktop user base to focus on their corporate customers and making money, Mobily states that many of those alienated desktop users are also system administrators who now feel more comfortable with Ubuntu and will make the choice to use Ubuntu Server over Red Hat now and in the future.

TUAW Recommends Joke App 65

Posted by timothy from the pranks-happen dept.
ejdmoo writes "The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a very popular Apple enthusiast site, has accidentally posted (and since retracted) a recommendation for an application called Procrastinatr. Though the original website for Procrastinatr promises to 'efficiently prioritize your calendars and regain lost time,' it gives no real description of the functionality. In reality, the application was written as something of an extensive joke between friends, moving all iCal appointments and tasks forward a week. The author has since apologized and posted a fix for users who borked their calendars. This story once again highlights the importance of making sure something is legitimate before letting it run loose on your system, even if it appears to be coming from a reputable source."

MacBook Pro Batteries Swelling and Failing 388

Posted by CmdrTaco from the boom-there-it-was dept.
JohnnyCakes writes "MacBook Pro batteries are apparently swelling, then failing. MacFixIt has some grotesque pictures of their own swollen MBP battery, which looks like it has suffered an internal explosion. Apple is replacing batteries on a case-by-case basis, but hasn't yet admitted any wide-scale issues."

Windows Live Messenger with VoIP 169

Posted by timothy from the soon-everyone-will-be-doing-it dept.
V-man writes "Microsoft has just launched Windows Live Messenger with free PC-to-PC phone calls and PC-to-phone calling as a pay service provided by Verizon Web Calling. Of course, most people doing PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone calling are probably using Firefox...too bad the Launch Page isn't Mozilla friendly."

Microsoft Clarifies Backward Compatibility Stance 85

Posted by timothy from the turn-your-head-around dept.
kukyfrope writes "Peter Moore, Head of Interactive Entertainment at Microsoft, has clarified previous comments about gamers not being concerned with backward compatibility on the Xbox 360, claiming his words were 'misconstrued' and reiterating Microsoft's goal to make every Xbox game backward compatible. 'It's quite simply not that we don't care about backward compat[ibility]. Boy, do we care about backward compat[ibility]... We're going to get darn close to that stated goal of every title done,' Moore promised."

Intel To Slash Prices Up To 60% 227

Posted by Zonk from the desperate-times dept.
Chuan-kai Lin writes "According to Bloomberg, Intel will slash product prices by up to 60% in order to regain market share captured by AMD." From the article: "Intel said it will reduce prices of faster dual-core chips by about 15 percent, according to Alex Lin, a product marketing manager at Micro-Star, Taiwan's third-largest maker of motherboards, which connect electronic parts in computers ... Shares of Intel have fallen 33 percent since Otellini succeeded Craig Barrett in May last year. Advanced Micro's stock has gained 77 percent during the same period. Intel fell 31 cents to $17.08 at 12:06 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading. Advanced Micro dropped $1.55, or 5.5 percent, to $26.45 on concerns that Intel will lower prices."

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