Posted on 06/07/2012 7:15:15 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
When Intel announced its Windows 8 Tablet check list running on a soon-to-be-released Intel Atom Z2760 dual-core System on Chip (SoC), the reaction was mild enthusiasm with a healthy dose of skepticism. Intel said that Intel Windows 8 tablets would come with 10- or 11-inch screens, measure less than 9 mm thick, weigh less than 1.5 lbs, and offer more than nine hours of battery. The typical reaction was disbelief because no Intel notebook or netbook has ever come close to being as thin and light as an iPad with the battery life of an iPad.
Conventional wisdom among tech pundits held that Intel can't match tablets running ARM architecture processors because Intel had never delivered anything close to such a product. Intel-based Microsoft Tablet PCs were too heavy at over three pounds, too expensive with prices between $1,000 and $3,000, too short on battery life, and too inconvenient with an OS that had to be shut down or suspended. With Intel and Microsoft having a miserable 11-year track record in the tablet computing space and the fact that not much was known about the mystery Intel Atom Z2760 "Clover Trail" processor, all the skepticism was warranted.
Now that we can actually see hands-on product videos of the Acer Iconia W510 ($400 to $800 range) transformable tablet with 18 hours battery life in docked mode, it's clear that Intel was not bluffing. PC World reports that the Iconia uses an Intel SoC. That makes sense given the fact that there is no way a full-size notebook chip can even fit into a 9-mm-thin detachable chassis that also has to accommodate an LCD panel and achieve phenomenal battery life.
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Since when? It sorts on track number for me, always has by default when sorting by album, and I can confirm again that this is true as I've just done a clean import into a new iMac within the last month.
With WiFi getting integrated into everything, IR isn’t needed. To the contrary, I find IR a pain because one IR device may influence multiple devices at once: using the TV’s “universal” remote, I end up activating things on both the TV and BluRay player; using the Apple IR remote, controlling the Apple TV often sets off apps on my wife’s MacBook. HOWEVER, on my iPod & iPad there are remote-control apps for the BluRay player and the Apple TV, and they don’t suffer from inappropriate activation of other devices ... AND the apps allow better interfaces, such as typing in search terms or getting additional info on what’s playing.
Track numbers aren’t included as a sort field unless specifically added.
I can’t speak to your experience, but I’ve never seen album tracks out of order unless I manually change the primary sort (such as by song title). When I have the library sorted by Artist/Album or by Genre (my two most common sorts), I always see the tracks in proper order.
I was in the Auto Parts business a life time ago and 30% was a pretty standard markup. I should think a wholesaler would be thrilled to get their product exposed to hundreds of millions of users rather than have their product packaged and setting in the bottom shelf behind the TV’s in any number of big box stores.
Dunno about retail software, but in the book publishing biz, the publisher generally only gets 30-40% of the cover prices from the distributor, who then sells to retailers at about 60-65% of cover price. A rough, but not too inaccurate, breakdown is 1/3 publisher, 1/3 distributor, 1/3 retailer.
The specific terms vary based on size and reputation of the publisher, can unsold copies be returned, etc.
Digital publishing, at least that which I’ve been involved in pricing, expects the digital version to be 50% of the price of the dead tree version, with the publisher getting about 70% of that (roughly the same amount per sale as print distribution).
Yeah..running on the older power hungry, battery consuming, thicker form factor Intel chips. Read the article again. Not great for tablets.
These new Intel chips can hang with the best ARM chips in terms of power consumption. Plus there is an ARM version of Windows 8 as well.
“Many of the same people making the decisions when Microsoft pissed away their tablet and smartphone markets are the very same people still making decisions”
The XBOX 360(apart from the initial RROD issues, which still didn't stop sales) has been very successful, and has been the top selling video game console in this country for over a year(regularly besting the Wii and PS3), not to mention the superb XBOX Live, which is simply unmatched in terms of online play/features for video game consoles.
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