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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 10:08 PM EDT |
>> The most interesting thing is not the cylindrical shape, this is only
evolutionary, better, faster, cheaper, looks great. The next stage is
payments and software. 575 Million people have given their credit cards
to Apple, and Apple now competes with PayPal, and with Amazon at least
as much as it competes with Samsung. <<
Victor Basta, MD, Magister Avisors, hopefully will appear in print soon,
sorry the best url I have is a streaming radio that turns to mms://
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/businessnews/audio/2558204/midday-b
usiness-news-for-11-june-2013.asx[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 10:22 PM EDT |
Sneer, if you want, but what if anything have you done that's
contributed as much?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 12:29 AM EDT |
I was waiting for the new mac pro with some anticipation and hope that Apple did
not try to further lock down the hardware.
Well now i'm not sure as it seems that Apple has locked down the hardware even
further by virtue of using a very non standard PCIe card form factor and likely
special Apple firmware for the cards that can be installed within the chassis
(the number of which seems rather limited in comparison to the old chassis).
It also looks like one needs external mass storage via some external thunderbolt
chassis no doubt, as large capacity spinning HDD are no longer supported within
the mac pro chassis itself. This just makes large storage a more expensive
proposition, either via external boxes or via very expensive internal flash
memory.
So i'll wait to see specs and price but it looks like i'll likely be going Dell
at the end of the day...
As for the chimney cooling approach, well similar has been used in telco systems
for decades though the form factor was more user friendly and obviously rack
mountable. Apple just tossed out the friendly form factor and wrapped it up in a
more cumbersome cylinder. Hmm, so maybe it's correct to call it a borrowed Dyson
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 11:59 AM EDT |
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Nett
Fume Diluter - PDF Warning
Of course Nett borrowed the design
from Romanian genius, and the first
man to build a working (if not entirely
successful) jet airplane engine, which
he flew in 1910. Henri Coandă is an
often forgotten genius, his
Wikipedia
entry is here.
If
Dyson was issued a patent on this, the should not have been. Of course
considering the way USPTO operates, it is quite possible that an examiner
wouldn't know about the prior art. I worked at Nett Technologies, and
during
the summers we used excess Fume Diluters to cool the
manufacturing plant. When
I saw Dyson's design, I laughed myself
silly.
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