Thanks :)

Could you please post a link to these Y! boards.

I wonder if that is related in any way to Chuckles' pathetic Grab for Cash?

Okay, so once ARM's 64bit architecture is licensed out, does that mean the likes of Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple etc, don't have to wait for any further updates from ARM, they just need to rely on their own designs for the next 10+ years?

It makes me wonder if Intel bring their Tick Tock approach to Atom, which is what I believe will be happening, if Intel will simply zoom away from ARM due to the frequency of their design updates, in addition to their Fab advantages.

I have the exact same MSE experience.

In fact I am shocked that I no longer get any Spyware making it through to my system(as far as Spybot and Ad Aware can also determine).

How long before ARM releases the successor to the A15 or another design that could be a contender in phones?

LOL What a joke.

There is no way known my friend would jump through all those hoops.

Doesn't the iPhone lack a USB port?

How does one manage to transfer contents on a USB drive to the iPad?

Why do these tablets fail to include a full sized USB port?

My friend was going to buy a couple of iPads for his kids to use in the car on long journeys, UNTIL he found out how he would have to go about transferring the movies to the iPad.

Who the hell wants to send everything wirelessly?

Why was it that after Montecito, that IPF had no future on Windows or Linux?

Was it a case that the software industry were only ever going to give Itanium one chance and if they didn't deliver the goods at that initial point, then they could never be won back again, even if future Itaniums were beyond compare?

Yes, sorry you are right. I had just finished reading Anand's review of the Surface Pro.

It is too thick, heavy and expensive.

Between Haswell and Baytrail, these issues should be addressed, then it is up to Win 8 adoption rates.

I'm not disputing what you have written, but found it interesting that Intel's Francois Piednoel on his Twitter feed stated "Baytrail is the Conroe of the tablet world". :)

I have an i5 3570K and I have mildly overclocked it to 4.0Ghz, I have both sides of my case off, and use the very affordable and highly regarded Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Heatsink/fan combo(costs around $30 to $35) and I can't hear a thing from the fan.

What was wrong with Office 2007?

I really like it and detest Office 2010.

Even though Office 2007 broke away from Office 2003's interface, by adopting the Ribbon, everything still felt very intuitive to me.

Office 2010 makes changes to Office 2007 in such a way, that I think of it as Office Vista.

The Insane.

Okay, thanks.

I should have worked out that 1.3B a year was too small.

If AMD are trying to get by on $1.3B a year, isn't a $600m Qtr okay?

Joke of the Century - Semi-Accurate wants to charge you money to read their tripe.

You should post a pic of your desktop background.

Kitty FTW!!!! :p

Okay, thanks for the further info. :)

Wasn't the whole Meego adventure ill advised in the first place?

I can't help but think that Nokia and Microsoft have done Intel a favour here, as it has brought Intel and Google closer together.

Can't believe you left off Ruiz.

I used my hard disk dying on me as an excuse to get a whole new Ivy Bridge system, but I doubt I would have done the same if it was just the mouse. LOL

And you've made such a convincing argument too.

Question about AMD's 65nm process.

I'm currently reading an exchange in another forum where the participants were of the view that Ruiz was overconfident about AMD's position at the time of their 65nm process and announced publicly that they were going to reduce 65nm-related R&D and rely more on their 90nm process.

Now I was thinking that more likely AMD's 65nm process was a disaster and that is why they held back on it, rather than AMD were simply overconfident.

What views do folk around here hold on what was the likely state of play in AMD reducing 65nm-related R&D at the time?

I was sure I had encountered the same problem with Microsoft removing widgets/gadgets for Win 7, but for the CPU threads, if you go to your desktop, right click to bring up the gadgets option and go there, you should be able to get the CPU meter which shows the number of threads you have.

Power consumption looks pretty good.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?283746-no-this-is-not-the-1st-of-april-...-x86-beats-ARM-at-power-efficency-in-Tablets

I'm kind of surprised that the revamped OoO Atom core on a process advantage wouldn't be more dominant than that.

I've been holding off on getting an Ultrabook for the following reasons.

1. I want a 512g SSD that doesn't cost the Earth
2. I want to make sure that the 23.9x FPS bug in Intel's GPU is gone
3. I want a full sized HDMI out port
4. I want the extra battery life a Haswell CPU should bring
5. With Windows 8 being so close at the time of Ultrabooks debuting, I figured I would wait for that too.
6. I want a Touch enabled, Hi Res IPS Screen.

So hopefully in the 2nd half of next year, I will be buying my first ever Laptop, and it will be an Ultrabook. :)

Unless I am sitting down on my lounge or on a train or in bed with a tablet or laptop, why would I want to use touch?

Right now I am at my computer desk, looking at my 30inch monitor that is about three+ feet away from me, why would I ever want to touch my screen, instead of using my mouse which works perfectly in this scenario?

Andy and Chuck like to dance in the aisles together. :D

Proof of Chuckles' farsightedness is that none of his predictions have come true yet.

How significant is it that an ARM chip has exceeded the performance of Banias?

I wonder if there will come a point for the vast majority of users where ARM performance becomes "good enough".

Why do you think you experienced a slight reduction in responsiveness, transferring to a faster CPU?

I thought one of the main usages of NFC, was going to allow for one to "swipe" their smartphone as a credit card? That I can see as being pretty handy.

I'm not against NFC being in laptops or tablets, but it just doesn't factor at all for why I want a Haswell based Ultrabook.

Okay, I thought maybe there was something about it that I hadn't taken into consideration, but from your answer, then it would appear to be as trivial an advancement as I first thought.

Can you tell me why you think that for a laptop that is such a big deal?

I agree it is an improvement over having to input your credit card details manually, but it hardly is that big an improvement to get me excited.

I say this as someone waiting for a Haswell based Ultrabook to come out.

Is this on current software or after a recompile?