Apple Ranks Third in Global PC Sales With iPad Included
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So true...
I love my iPhone and iPad. If I had the cash I'd probably get a Mac with that Thunderbolt and Sandybridge setup. Though they're running ATI cards now which SU doesn't seem to like.
I've an ATI in my HP it has issues playing nice with SU.
TBH I'm glad are moving up the food chain. Hopefully they'll lower their prices.
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I agree, the more they sell hopefully the better the prices become.
I'm looking to get the new white iPhone soon (trade up) and looking for a second hand iPad (1) for my wife also.
I doubt I'd ever get a Mac computer ever as I like to build my own rigs to my specs, however if I was not in this industry I'd probably be a Mac user.
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If Apple becomes mainstream, what will the hipsters buy?
(Disclosure: I just bought an iPod Touch... Arriving next week
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@unknownuser said:
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up. Though they're running ATI cards now which SU doesn't seem to like.
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As an FYI the ATIs in Macs have always worked well with SU, having a Geforce in my new Powerbook (bought one week shy of the new machines) seems to suffer from plenty of issues with SU which are driving me to distraction.
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That's good to hear. Thanks
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Karl, you are one lucky guy, I've had a problem with every ATI card, some work with SU but suck with Deep Exploration or Max, or some work with Max and Maya but not with Vue or SU.
I'll stick with Geforce as it works with everything, as long as you keep drivers that work great so when you update and it goes wierd you can revert and wait until next upgrade.
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What suprises me is Apple's growth at over 240% while overall market growth is less then 20%.
Btw, is the ipad's OS the same as the other Mac's? If so, what keeps SU from running on it? If not, why is it included in the statistics. Well, guess all PC's are not WinXX either.
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@honoluludesktop said:
Btw, is the ipad's OS the same as the other Mac's? If so, what keeps SU from running on it? If not, why is it included in the statistics. Well, guess all PC's are not WinXX either.
iPads and phones and pods run iOS which shares the kernel with OS X - both are unix based. The UI code and many libraries will be quite different though I wouldn't be at all surprised if some were shared. And of course the CPU in the iOS devices is an ARM based unit, whereas the assorted Macs use one or other intel x86 CPU.
Given Apples choice to have a portable code base it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they made a Mac with a few dozen ARM cpus at some stage. Last time I cared enough to do a comparison you could power a score or more ARMs for the same watts as a single x86 core and get 10 times as much compute performance if your code was actually sensibly parallel. Which 99% of code floating around isn't.
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So.. using the same enegry, ARMs would be better for unbiased rendering?
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@ecuadorian said:
So.. using the same enegry, ARMs would be better for unbiased rendering?
As I have no particular knowledge what sort of computation unbiased rendering needs I don't have a clue! If it is a very parallel calculation then I imagine a large number of ARMs would be able to do more for less electricity. These days an ARM can include a vector floating point unit, a large on-chip chunk of memory (as well as a more normal cache), has instructions for manipulating pixel type values (ie saturating adds and so on), and can even directly execute some java code (blech!). Oh, I think they can have an expresso maker too.
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Ok... It's been 9 days after receiving my first Apple product, an iPod Touch 64GB.
Let me tell you that Apple hardware is fantastic, but the software they write for Windows is terrible. I still can't get the thing to consistently connect to iTunes. I have just returned from Apple Tech Support. The thing connected without problem to one of their Macs, but back at home the problems begin again. Alrealdy tried everything in Apple's troubleshooting database. I was told to update the iOS... Downloading now. Grrrr...
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