“…as well use a desktop. Finally there is one thing a tablet device will not allow for, and that is upgrading it parts. Right now I can open my desktop and put a more powerful CPU or video card in there which immediately gives my computer extra computing power and extends its computing life. I cannot do that with tablet, it is a closed device and the… ”, in a comment on
Engadget's
post “Leaked slides from Intel claim we'll see an 8-core Haswell-E desktop CPU in the second half of next year.”
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“Pc upgrades on video cards can cost an arm and a leg and ps/xbox does not require such things for most of their games that are also on cpu. ”, in a comment on
Anthony So's
post “Total BS.”
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“And here is there quad core. Arm is fucked as Intel show double the speed of arms quad core using a dual core now Intel are showing of there quad core with lte as I say buy buy arm, Nevada, Samsung there all CPU's that where strong for a time but now the big guns are out. And sorry but they are all fucked as Intel have already smashed them all with… ”, in a comment on
Mark Banks's
post “+dj moley +Jonathon Thrumble lol Android man backed the right horse :p”
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“…fastest SSD, the unpacking is IO bound (not CPU bound) on all our current products. So even with whatever overhead ext4 creates, block-by-block imaging wouldn't gain us much in our circumstance. But I'll keep your approach in mind should we ever be working with more svelte hardware (say, something ARM powered). Although for mobile products,… ”, in a comment on
Jason DeRose's
post “If you've bought any +System76 products since +Ubuntu 13.”
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“…just 3 with Go. You can't drive business in Asia, India, providing services for 4 billion people with Intel processors, consuming 100 watts per cpu .... So i've choosen Go programming language on ARM processors, just 1/20 watt idle, multiprocessor support, e.t.c. ”, in a comment on
Randal L. Schwartz's
post “Learning to program for the first time?”
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“It's easy to upgrade when you have only a single HW architecture. The iPhone 5 isn't radically different than an iPhone 2G. ST GPU, ARMCPU, etc. There are 200+ Android devices. This is the same issue as Windows on the desktop. Why are some people still stuck on Windows XP? Well, probably because Windows 8 won't run on 2002 era HW. ”, in a comment on
Ray Cromwell's
post “Android, Android, Android.”
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