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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #225 on: July 26, 2010, 04:25:44 pm »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-YesqzvNk
I don't know if I posted this before or not
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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #226 on: July 28, 2010, 10:45:23 am »
iPads apparently overheat in "normal" Southern California weather: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/27/ipad_overheating_lawsuit/

I'd love to know what Apple are doing to these CPUs to cause them to shut down. I've been using ARM CPUs in a variety of devices (both desktop and mobile for around 20 years and the only devices I've known to get uncomfortably hot are the iPod Touch and the iPad.
The next closest would be the GP2X, but even running the CPU past it's standard clock rate on that just made it a bit warm, which is another thing, how come the iPad just shuts off instead of just scaling the CPU back. Surely running at a slower speed is better than not running at all? It's not like games with lots going on don't already jerk on the iPod Touch anyway...

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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #227 on: July 28, 2010, 11:35:52 am »
Well they managed to get the macbook air to overheat and randomly shut down... while doing pretty much nothing again
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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #228 on: July 29, 2010, 06:22:29 am »
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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #229 on: July 29, 2010, 06:42:51 am »
Wow... Just wow.

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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #230 on: July 29, 2010, 07:10:48 am »
Tbf, that leaves out a whole host of things.
Like the HP TC1100 screen being pressure sensitive (like a drawing tablet), not capacitive, which means no multi-touch and stylus only.
The HP TC1100 also has a Pentium M, which means it will eat batteries (it's quoted at 4.5 hours, so in reality you'll probably get 3-4), The iPad's lasts between 5 and 10 (according to gizmodo), depending on what you're doing. This obviously means nothing until you realise the iPad has a 25 watt-hour battery whereas the HP TC1100 has a 40 watt-hour, so even with the much larger battery (and I bet it weighs a ton with that beast in there) the x86 CPU yet again demonstrates it's inability to go mobile sensibly.
Just to put that in further perspective as to how much Apple have mucked up the battery in the iPad, my HTC Hero has a 5 watt-hour battery in it and I'll easily get 5 hours of very heavy use out of it and over 48 on standby.

My point? Well, it's a bit of a "bash the Apple device without researching" picture. I'm all for bashing Apple, but it's so much more satisfying when it's justified. ;)

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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #231 on: July 29, 2010, 07:35:02 am »
Tbf, that leaves out a whole host of things.
Like the HP TC1100 screen being pressure sensitive (like a drawing tablet), not capacitive, which means no multi-touch and stylus only.
The HP TC1100 also has a Pentium M, which means it will eat batteries (it's quoted at 4.5 hours, so in reality you'll probably get 3-4), The iPad's lasts between 5 and 10 (according to gizmodo), depending on what you're doing. This obviously means nothing until you realise the iPad has a 25 watt-hour battery whereas the HP TC1100 has a 40 watt-hour, so even with the much larger battery (and I bet it weighs a ton with that beast in there) the x86 CPU yet again demonstrates it's inability to go mobile sensibly.
Just to put that in further perspective as to how much Apple have mucked up the battery in the iPad, my HTC Hero has a 5 watt-hour battery in it and I'll easily get 5 hours of very heavy use out of it and over 48 on standby.

My point? Well, it's a bit of a "bash the Apple device without researching" picture. I'm all for bashing Apple, but it's so much more satisfying when it's justified. ;)

That and 7 years of tech developments.  For a device which preceded the other by 7 years, they are pretty equal.
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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #232 on: January 15, 2011, 05:35:50 pm »
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Apple has decided to launch it's own news app "the daily", which would explain them screwing over other newspapers by changing the rules to stop rl-subscribers getting their i-versions.

IF you can't win, change the rules!
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Re: Poor Mr Jobs
« Reply #233 on: January 17, 2011, 02:32:29 pm »
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Apple has decided to launch it's own news app "the daily", which would explain them screwing over other newspapers by changing the rules to stop rl-subscribers getting their i-versions.

IF you can't win, change the rules!
What rules?  Apple development is like Calvinball.
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