csmuk

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by csmuk 13y ago
No. The PC is a modular standardised architecture. There are no COTS components that would fit in such a case. This is by design. Apple forked their own design.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Pro Tools. I've used Logic Pro: it's horridly unreliable. I no longer have a DAW in favour of a Triton as it's all I need personally but my experience with Logic was awful. Adobe After Effects + Adobe Premiere Pro. The guys I
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by csmuk 13y ago
Do it. I still use a T400 every day and have a T61 as a fallback. There's nothing like them out there.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Long post. This should cover it. Family of 5 history of Apple and Lenovo/IBM kit: 2010 MacBook Pro (DEAD 2011 - caught fire after water spillage next to it - WTF). 2006 MacBook Pro (DEAD 2008 - logic board failure). 2007 MacBook (DEAD
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by csmuk 13y ago
The shipped BIOS is a little rough as well. The T61 which is where my main experience lies has hardware whitelists for WiFi cards and restricts the internal SATA port to basic SATA speeds rather than SATA2 speeds which the chipset supports.
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by csmuk 13y ago
This. I worked for a company that had lots (3000+) T60's and they were all Core2 units.
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by csmuk 13y ago
The X60 that they advertise does not. However, you can disconnect the hardware pretty easy. I've done this on my T400. Took about 5 mins with a Swiss army knife screwdriver (all you need to service a ThinkPad!).
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by csmuk 13y ago
I'm not sure it should be allowable. WiFi firmware can in theory allow passive monitoring and forwarding of data. This is because the WiFi card is a small self-contained embedded system. The CPU microcode (and arguably architecture) is
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by csmuk 13y ago
T60p was far superior build to any MacBook ever made. My old T61 which is virtually identical had the living crap beaten out of it 10 hours a day for 5 years solid and it still works fine today. It had a new battery and a new fan and that w
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by csmuk 13y ago
The OS really doesn't matter is the point. Big apps: after effects, mathematica etc - that sort of workstation stuff doesn't make a difference. Virtualization is fine for non desktop apps. That's exactly what I do.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Until you have to compile something major... Then both OSX and Windows are awful.
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by csmuk 13y ago
All computers are trade offs but when you start trading sensible things for appearance then it's just idiocy. It's the Ugg boot of computers. Looks pretty and keeps your feet warm but you can't get it wet and it isn't wa
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by csmuk 13y ago
This. See my comments for another bad XServe experience.
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by csmuk 13y ago
That's fine until you take your Pro back to apple and they don't have your configuration available and you have to wait 3 weeks for a replacement (this does happen a lot with non standard apple build to order devices). Even worse
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by csmuk 13y ago
Or you can buy an HP Z820. OSX is pretty much moot for workstation grade machines. The software is all cross platform. And wires dangling everywhere? To get anything other than comedy storage, you're going to need a pile of lightning d
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by csmuk 13y ago
Upgradeable, replaceable parts, redundancy, better storage options, cheaper, doesn't accidentally get trash put in the top. And that's just the case. I have nothing but contempt for the Mac Pro design - it's style over substa
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by csmuk 13y ago
No we have better ones. You know which we can replace bits of.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Neither are my favourite language :) And it was turning a procedural mess into an OO mess.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I wouldn't have had a job between 2003-2004 which was untangling Perl and rewriting it in C# :)
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by csmuk 13y ago
I love Reddit Secret Santa for the comedy value. So far I've seen this year people have been given: 1. A pig foetus preserved in alcohol. 2. A selection of root vegetables, petroleum jelly and gloves.
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by csmuk 13y ago
The 6502 is still used widely in industrial stuff. Back in 2001 when I was still doing electrical engineering bits, as part of a project I received some brand new custom radio rig test equipment to integrate with an automated testing rig pl
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by csmuk 13y ago
Neat solution - really like that. Great work.
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by csmuk 13y ago
That's what the debugger is for (if you inherited it). However, a lot of desktop applications are written that way. If you've ever dealt with Win32, you'll see nested switch statements from hell on your average project. If yo
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by csmuk 13y ago
No dictionaries are O(1). Even if they were they are pitifully slow compared to a switch. Consider chaining and the fact that you have to compute hashes. switch is O(1) and fast as the operation is usually 2-3 deterministic time instruction
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by csmuk 13y ago
Exactly the same way the die connects to the pins on the package (usually fine wire). Then they cap it all.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I think it's justifiable derision on the basis the box is pretty as well. The market side is interesting because the case depicted is probably a more relevant release. It'll see it's way into many more OEM and home built co
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by csmuk 13y ago
Actually I use a ThinkPad and an HP Z820. I work in financial services sector and we serve desktop and web apps. Bar large businesses, we see a LOT of home built and OEM PCs. I was involved in the family business OEM sector for the best par
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by csmuk 13y ago
Astute observation. We're already there. Most people I know, including myself, are quite happy on a 6-7 year old unit. Bar developers, graphic artists (2d,3d), video, mega-data there's sod all use for a 12 core Xeon. Don't st
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by csmuk 13y ago
Two things to consider: 1. home built PC market is probably larger than the entire Mac market. I don't have any figures to back this up but based on Windows' market share and my experience, 20% of PC's I've seen over the
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by csmuk 13y ago
My current ThinkPad (T400) has the Mic, fingerprint scanner and webcam disabled physically. They're easy to get into and unplug. Agree entirely though. I'd rather like a physical off switch as well like the original IBM PC (the b

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