@Slick No, but when you put them on the SATA bus then the limiter is the bus and not the storage medium.
On the PCI-e bus you get better results, but then you're held up by the fact that your DDR is volatile and thus only good as a temporary cache, whereas most SSD solutions are for long term (1min or more) storage.
And if you think 1 minute is short, consider who would use a RAM-based high speed disk.
@Akhen You go copper at some point. The problem is how to get all of those signals on the bus and through the necessary chips.
Also, Apple will at most be a month or two early (like they are with Intel CPUs) if LightsPeak hits, otherwise there'd be no traction among the wider world of computing.
@Infinity Corporations do not age. And no, they did not pay the price. They got off with a slap to the wrists.
Do you really think that much has changed in barely 10 years? Computing still sits almost entirely on Windows. Competition proceeds at a pace largely dictated by Microsoft still. Recall their arbitrary restrictions on the specs of Netbooks. The only areas in which innovation is truly proceeding are areas where MS is either failing miserably (smartphones) or where alternatives are finally making their way on to the desktop (browsers.)
As soon as Apple is convicted of abusing a monopoly position (which they don't have) then such behaviors will be brought down upon them. Until then, Microsoft is simply being told to play by a special set of rules reserved for those in such a powerful position.
@Cheesus Crust Ohh, it seems I pissed off the Microsoft Fanboys. I could give a shit less about Apple. But of course, because I think that MS should have been punished for abusing their position I am obviously an Apple Fanboy.
Despite Apple having precisely DICK to do with this.
MS wasn't going to be broken up over OEMs putting Windows on their machines. They were going to be broken up because they THREATENED their OEMS for including a browser other than internet explorer on the system.
Then we got 2002-2007 where they didn't do shit until Firefox posed a credible threat. But of course, because I want innovation and competition in the computing space, I am obviously stupid.
How bout instead of calling me stupid, you come up with a valid point?
Ditto for all you MS fanboys, astroturfers, and employees who voted my prior post into the ground.
@Jordan Precisely the problem. They get into a dominant position and things stagnate. Innovation grinds to a halt. Normally this isn't a problem, but had MS not been pursued in 1998-2000 they would likely have used the same tactics to keep ALL alternative browsers off the desktop.
Not moving should always be a disastrous decision for a corporation. Competition and continuous effort to improve should ALWAYS be the norm. Microsoft sat still, and used their power over Dell, HP and the like to keep competitors down.
Yes, Microsoft still holds majority market share. You don't happen to notice that they're the ONLY browser installed on most machines by default, did you? Maybe forcing their hand like this will change that, and by extension, put to rest any and all browser-specific websites, because users just like to click "Internet" and go.
@SunnyInPhilly The US government got real close to breaking Microsoft up. Unfortunately, they didn't get around to it.
MS is being forced to do this by the EU because they don't want to give Microsoft even the remotest chance of pushing the "Requires Internet Explorer 6.0" disaster we had earlier in the decade.
It's not ridiculous, it's being defensive against a proven abusive corporation.
I did not assert that no-one wants a computer. I asserted that they did not know of other options.
Any program that requires windows and is not available on any other platform forces you to Windows. This is mainly a huge number of purpose built applications that you (and I) will never see. The developer chooses Windows and basically forces the buyers' hand.
Windows -established- the PE format but that's irrelevant. In fact, your every point is based on attacking an implication that I did not make.
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I don't know why you'd integrate it with the mail or dialer applications, however. Is there something I'm missing?