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I’m curious to see what graphics Apple stuffs in to the 13" rMBP. Intel Iris Pro? It would certainly solve the graphics performance issues the current model has (or had – some of it was fixed by OS X updates).

It will make the 13" Macbook Air a tough sell. Only a half pound more and WAY faster and that screen!

about 9 hours ago on What's your phone/tablet/pc combo? What's next?

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You use a Pixel as your only computer? Do you remote in to a server or anything? Or run Ubuntu?

about 9 hours ago on What's your phone/tablet/pc combo? What's next? 1 recommend

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Front page? Slow news day? And yet I’m participating anyway.

Moto Razr i – I like the 4" screen – actually fits in my hand.
11" Macbook Air – work bought it for me when I asked – I love it. Kind of want the 12-hour 13" Haswell model, but not enough to ask for another new laptop already.
iPad Mini – use it for playing Plants vs Zombies and Starbase Orion. Don’t have it with me today, and I know I have some turns waiting for me in Orion multiplayer. /twitch /twitch

Next? No idea. Maybe a Moto X-Phone if it comes in a reasonable screen size. Maybe an Android tablet if 5.0 includes split-screen and better mouse/touchpad support. Every six months or so I price up a desktop gaming PC, but have yet to actually buy one.

about 9 hours ago on What's your phone/tablet/pc combo? What's next?

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“That’s longer than we stay open,” said one of the baristas, with a note in his voice somewhere between admiration and concern.

Hilarious.

1 day ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) 1 reply

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The best kind of correct!

1 day ago on Mysterious death of Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, possibly solved after 45 years

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Don’t we want highway overpasses and bridges built to that standard? Or at least a higher standard than they were apparently built to.

1 day ago on Secrets of ancient Roman concrete could make modern structures more durable, cut emissions 1 recommend

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Now that sounds like a gaming press conference I would actually enjoy. Not a single neck stabbing in sight!

1 day ago on Art trumps explosions at Horizon, an 'alternative' E3 press conference 1 reply 1 recommend

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Seriously, it’s 2013 and people still get defensive about America in Internet comments.

4 days ago on Purr trade: Switzerland struggles with a black market in house-cat skins 1 reply 22 recommends

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I feel a little shell-shocked just from the GIFs in the article. I think I would melt if I stepped on the E3 floor and was assaulted by the noise and visuals.

4 days ago on Ride into the trailer zone: inside E3's bloody, bass-heavy battle to get noticed

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One slide – better than a poke in the eye, but they spent a lot more time on the new OS X features. It is their developer conference, after all, but one could be forgiven for coming away with the impression that it’s the “pixie dust” in OS X Mavericks that is responsible for most of the battery life improvements.

4 days ago on Massive battery life, killer graphics: can Intel's Haswell deliver on the hype? 1 reply

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or hides… I had a similar thought just above.

4 days ago on Purr trade: Switzerland struggles with a black market in house-cat skins 1 reply

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You know, my neighbor has a bear pelt rug in one room, and I find it a little disturbing, but the cat hide pictures are just horrible. And yet I am wearing a leather watch band and leather shoes.

Is it just that cats have evolved to be cuter than bears and cows?

4 days ago on Purr trade: Switzerland struggles with a black market in house-cat skins 2 replies 5 recommends

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A 2012 Gallup survey reports, "Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx

4 days ago on Purr trade: Switzerland struggles with a black market in house-cat skins 7 replies 71 recommends

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Apple sure didn’t do Intel any favors in the WWDC presentation. They talked a lot about timer coalescing and app nap and didn’t hardly mention Haswell at all.

5 days ago on Massive battery life, killer graphics: can Intel's Haswell deliver on the hype? 1 reply

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Did you hold up your phone and take a picture at a concert? YOU! Don’t do that! No one cares about your crappy concert pictures. Bleargh!

5 days ago on Nokia Lumia 925 review

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I like Tom’s Hardware system builder articles, particularly the lower price ones: http://www.tomshardware.com/t/build-your-own/articles/?articleType=review

And Gamer’s Nexus has all kinds of good stuff – PC builds, how-tos, reviews, etc.: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides

Here’s a list I built a few months back, never followed through on it: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=22332665

5 days ago on Trading in an old MacBook Pro or just upgrading memory?