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Comment Re:normal for Apple (Score 0) 383

That the whole windows problem, because most of the OS is solid but rely on somewhat sloppy driver (most of high end user usually install beta quality video driver because they expec a 5% perf gain). Apple customers welcome to the pain microsoft has been suffering for decade. Oh and the blue screen is a feature too :).

Comment Re:SunSpider says it all... (Score 0) 338

we all remember the 3dmark fiasco with some graphic card constructor did some fiddling to alter their score. what about javascript engine, or rendering engine ? of course people in the industry have been known for their fairness and good practice ( especially whose with closed code ). Again it's a matter of personnal taste, chrome beta can be extended with some pain, but is fast and could restore most of its memory thank to the whole process separation. safari is mostly for mac user and eye candy lover, but fast. opera have very little extension means, is fast enough, and got a lot of feature which cause it to vomit option dialog on your screen firefox extension make make it grind to a stop but are legions, and make your own browsing experience. still my choices are opera and firefox.

Comment Re:Instant Karma... (Score 0) 757

well technically it's not a virus, it doesn't spread like a virus, only via social engineering (the virus spreader posted the malware on a torrent). And even the impact of it is not a virus as we know it. Yet it is a malware and shouldn't be taken ligthly by Mac user.

Comment Multicore ? I don't need a stinking multicore (Score 1) 626

Sure dev are able to cram more crap into spare cpu cycle. But looking at the trends now, single core is mostly the way to go with light OSes and optimized software ( netbook ) for the end user, as for more niche market that find a use in high performance computing (slashdot reader, scentist) I'm pretty sure that multiprocessor is a better way to go rather than multicore ( wich is a way to do cheap multiprocessor design anyway ). Anyway OSes HAL have been ready for a long time for SMP, but multicore broke the abstraction of SMP because of the shared resource on the die between the core. Anyway again the processor vendors create an offer, by putting faster processor, and software vendor put the needs by creating bloated software.

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