Are you sure that is what’s stalling the Apple launch?
They bought Lala over 3 years ago and shut it down. It’s more like Apple were hoping that this “subscription streaming” craze would go away so they can continue to sell songs at between 99c and $1.25.
It’s more likely come to the time where they have to launch a service because their iTunes lunch is being eaten.
The UK price includes 20% VAT. US prices are always shown before sales tax, which can vary from 0 to over 10%, depending on State or county within a State.
No. Apple are not the primary vendor for new Intel silicon.
HP, Dell and Lenovo are all far bigger Intel customers. They all had Sandybridge and Ivybridge devices available way before Apple did.
MS are probably way down the pecking order to get Haswell unless Ballmer has cut a special deal. That said, MS have probably had access to Haswell prototypes to design with.
My laptop is currently outputting to two external 1080p monitors using Intel HD3000.
With the rumored GPU/CPU and x86 architecture of the new Xbox, I don’t think this would be too much of a stretch.
The projection to the room doesn’t even need to be 1080p even if the TV is outputting 1080p.
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How well is OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion selling? Why won’t Apple release the sale figures? It’s been on sale nearly a year now. They never even mentioned it on the Investor call. Are people buying new Macs and installing Snow Leopard or Leopard?
