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you can't program cuda in os x anyway, apple only uses OpenCL. As far as I know, os x doesn't support OpenCL on the intel graphics chips either
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The main driving factor here is not making the technology smaller, it's running those chips on a smaller battery. All of the MBPs achieve a claimed 7 hours battery life.
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You'd think so, it did say something like up to 6 devices.
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plan. remember that 13" didn't even have Pro in it's name at first - it was called Aluminum Unibody MacBook when first introduced.
and a pony? :)

(see: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/6/4/... )
Apple will never include a Bluray drive. Period.
sucks i bought a MBP two months ago...
98% uptime is down roughly:

* 1 minute every hour, or

* 3h20 every week, or

* 1 week every year

I know about hyperbole for making a point, but does Basecamp really total anything like a week's downtime per year? If so, why? I'm pretty sure I've never had anything like that bad a number and equally that I wouldn't be happy using a service that did.

The general thrust is right: high reliability is expensive and you need to look at cost/benefit not chest-beating. But let's be honest about what we're actually aiming at.
still looking for an "official" statement but i believe that the thunderbolt port may be backwards compatible with minidisplay. i would assume apple would change it's form if it were not, as to prevent users from accidentally plugging in incompatible devices.

[updated]
it is backwards compatible - source: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html
Very nice! I really dig the fact that you can share existing app layouts and that CMS content can be rendered as a regular Rails view.
The footprint is that different.

The volume is smaller, but the HDD, optical drive, keyboard, trackpad, and several other parts stay the same size. Of course the smaller laptop is going to be less stocked with features.
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Ask HN: Review my investment website startup, StockYoyo.com
We just started StockYoyo (http://www.stockyoyo.com)3 months ago and feel like we're about ready to do a bit of marketing. Before we spent our hard earned cash we wanted to see what
things we should be focusing on and the best feedback we've gotten so
far is from members of a hacker news meetup I've been going to.

StockYoyo is an investment website based on game mechanics and social
networking principles to help people learn about investing.

We would love general feedback on the site, and we are particularly
looking for feedback on the following things:

1) UI. We've recently made some changes and we'd like to know how the
experience is.
2) The game mechanics/feedback loop. We're trying to make it stickier.
3) The rating system. Is it understandable/useful.

Of course those are just the things we know we need to know about.
I'm sure we're missing stuff we should be thinking about so any other
ideas would be great.
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Shenzhen JHX-med Electronic Co., Ltd is a professional manufacturer of Medical accessories which include disposable Spo2 sensor, reusable Spo2 sensor, Spo2 extension cable, ECG cable and lead wires, EKG cable and electrodes, Temperature probe, NIBP cuff and extension hose, IBP cable and disposable transducer etc.
That's what I'm thinking. As stated here: "...including your display. And with support for video and eight-channel audio, it’s easy to connect HDMI-compatible devices — like your TV and home stereo — using the HDMI adapter you already have. Current VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort adapters are also supported." -- So, one DP monitor, another with HDMI, another with DVI.
so the page looks broken or like its still loading? Yah great usability
The criticality of your average “Web 2.0” application is one with loss of comfort as the result of something going wrong.

Which is also why your average Web 2.0 application can't charge very much: without it, your comfort level slightly drops. No big deal.
Interested to know why you think this shouldn't be on hacker news?
Probably because of overlap between it and the MacBook and the MacBook Air?

Frankly, I'm amazed they still offer a 13 inch MBP (which is not to say that it isn't a good little machine, but that Apple likes to segment their market clearly)

I can't see the prices and options at the moment, but it may be that the MBP is just a couple of hundred bucks more than the top end MacBook, which means that some people might stretch that little bit extra.... but the Apple lineup is becoming very cluttered around that small portable computer strange attractor.
Facetime for Mac is now $0.99
Of course they don't.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but this scam has always intrigued me. You can, in fact, do better than just "Money back guarantee!" You can do as much as, say, "We'll give you your money back, plus an extra 50% of the fee!" So your "customers" pay $50, and if you are wrong you give them back $75. You still make $12.50 on average per customer by guessing randomly, so long as you scam sufficiently many people.
> So, maybe you should focus on what's being said rather than putting your own spin on it? =)

This is the second time you used language designed to escalate this into some kind of personal attack. Why? Simply say you disagree and move on. (I even modded you up the first time.) It's not like one of us has a huge thesis to defend here. It's a minor point about a minor article.
Yea, I just ordered 4 Henge Docks for the current (last?) generation MacBook Pro lineup. Crap! I have a support question out to Henge to see if the ports line up or not.

BTW: I'm not affiliated with Henge in any way, just a satisfied customer. If you need a dock for your MBP, the Henge is it!
Not sure why you were voted down - I really want to see Apple support TRIM, too.

Does anyone know whether there's a next-gen interface standard that's being worked on that might supersede SATA, with more elegant support for flash memory (beyond SATA's hacky NCQ+TRIM)?
Using seeds to version content in development is also pretty sweet.
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IMO, None of them are good for branding. The best one is which has nothing to do with your business. (Example: Apple has nothing to do with computers, Adidas has nothing to do with sports equipments)

It gives you leverage to take business in any direction. For example, if your naming business becomes huge success and you want to start naming more things - like OpenSource Projects or simple apps - the word "Startup" in your name is gonna make you think twice.

I wonder what names you'd give out when you yourself have a bad name, IMO. Any sample names you've created?
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, to Pick a Very Tiny Apple
The "Droid" is Dead
Solidarity Forever (Wisconsin Protests)
Keep in mind that the typical school has substantially less than 40% uptime...
Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with AirDrop, FileVault
$20 sounds low. $50 is reasonable.
After almost getting killed while traveling in Cambodia (reckless motorcycle driver hit me), I was wondering about this. It dawned on me that it might take a few years for distant acquaintances to find out what happened, and a few people might just wonder why I dropped off the map. It also occurred to me that a couple bank accounts/brokerage accounts I had, no one knew about and I'd already gone to paperless statements. Things like that.

I guess in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't be a big deal in comparison to getting killed, but I started thinking about how people would do estate planning now that "their papers" aren't necessarily papers in a desk or safe deposit box any more, but frequently digital and password protected. This seems like a service that's going to be more important as time passes, and kudos for identifying the real objections people would have to and working through them. Good luck, this is going to be something that gets more and more important as we digitize things more and create physical copies less.

Edit: Quick feedback - you might want a more sober color scheme, was kind of jarring seeing the standard Web 2.0 app color scheme and design when clicking over. Or maybe not, but it's probably worth testing. After a couple google searches, looks like a lot of passing-away type websites look more like this - http://www.funeralhomeresource.com/
No retina display, oh well, I didn't really want three MBP anyway.
Wasn't there a problem with some of the core processors? I don't remember which ones, but I'd check very carefully.

Also worth checking out is what scale they are made at, I remember some of the core i processors were only being made at the higher nanometers scale (e.g. older less heat efficient technology).

It would be ironic if the Core i5 four core model was more battery efficient and produced less heat than the core i5 two core models...

Edit: no, I'm not referring to the recent thing with the sandy bridge architecture, but a previous architecture.
Did some more research and it sounds like back in September some of them were produced at 32 nanometers and others were produced at 45 nanometers. Also there may have been some initial problems going to their new 32nm process.

Presumably by now they've got the issues that I remembered sorted out (so that they can have new and different issues like sandy bridge ports and so forth).
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Your title is confusing... Facetime for mac has just appeared, right? To say it's "now $0.99" doesn't make sense to me, unless I'm missing something.

But yes, why the hell are they charging for facetime at all?
I suppose they could take $10 of the $50 you paid them and register the name before sending it to you, and if you like it they'll transfer it to you. If you don't they'll give you your money back and try to sell the name to someone else. But, yea I guess the hassle of doing this probably isn't worth it in the beginning.
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Only because a domain has no content doesn't mean it's only parked. It may actually be in use for email and maybe other internal things.
All the new MacBook Pros use the latest "Sandy Bridge" generation CPUs. You can tell by the type of integrated GPU. There was a problem with the secondary SATA controller in the first revision of Intel's chipset for these CPUs. This has since been fixed, and also only surfaces in systems with more than 2 SATA ports.
For those who were intrigued by the story of Eurisko (that space fleet battle playing bot that completely crushed the competition and then was impossible to find decent info on) the developer of Eurisko, Douglas Lenat, is the one who started this program.
New Mac OS X Lion features announced: Version Control, Instant Resume
This is the approach I took when learning Clojure. I started diving into the language and then stopped everything to learn Scheme. It was painful because I really wanted to be doing Clojure. When I finally got back to Clojure I think that it helped out a ton. Cons, car and cdr oh my!

I believe that doing what I did is not necessary to get started with Clojure. It seems like the choice between top-down and bottom-up design. If you choose Clojure first, you will learn concepts that will help if you should ever approach scheme.

This thread from the Clojure Google group may be of some interest: Thinking in Clojure

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/9JufDYgE8DQ/overvi...
He likes the shorter battery life.
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Looks like the negative feedback about the name didn't stop someone from registering it. Any other good names?
I think that was the original goal - hence why my original 13" unibody just says "Macbook" and not "Macbook Pro." I think they originally planned on retiring the white plastic model, and either calling all of them Macbooks, or just calling the 15" and 17" models Pros. I can only assume they changed because there was still demand for the slightly cheaper plastic model.
FWIW, every time I've had one of those meetings, it's felt more like an excuse to find out how the other company was handling shared problems, with only the remote possibility of merger.
Have a look at http://tripbod.com who provide a service similar to what you are taking about. Tripbod are at the Launch Conference this week so may well be on pitching on stage at some point
Of course, once you find yourself in the realm of decimal points someone will bring up margin of error :-)
Thunderbolt and FaceTime HD aren't exactly a speed bump.
Tried to order. Not working. Got an error and now I get "state not valid" when I try to place the order again.
Lots. Just ask. Having registered serial sites with clever names, this is a hobby.
Just to complete the thought, what advice would you give to someone familiar with both Java and Lisp or to someone familiar with neither?
My guess is it will be included with new Macs for free going forward, and only costs for existing Macs. Not sure, though, and doesn't seem to be a wise decision to charge for it in my opinion.
How much traffic was Mashable throwing at you?
>>• 3 hours less battery life

The old battery tests were unrealistic. They advertised 8 hours on the 17'', but who really got even close to that under normal use?

I'm thankful they're taking the hit on pure battery life numbers to report an honest, realistic test.
It's the Sandy Bridge series (the affected one), but it was the chipsets that were affected, and that supposedly won't be a problem with these laptops.
The Apple public relations machine is truly impressive.
Munich Hacker News Meetup - 'the sequel'
It's time to finally host the second Munich Hacker News meetup. The last meetup went really well and it was nice to meet everyone.

Once again, we plan on drinking a beer or two, talking about what we are working on and sharing interesting ideas about the future that could be...

If you would like to attend drop a comment below.

Venue: Cafe Ringlnatz (http://goo.gl/maps/xr3l) Haimhauserstr. 8 U-Bahn: Münchner Freiheit (we have reserved the back room where it’s quiet and easy to talk)

Time: Tue., March 1st, 19:30 onwards.

Also: Munich StartupDigest just launched.
If you want to receive the best events for tech startups by Entrepreneurs, for Entrepreneurs on a weekly basis, you can sign up at:
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Why don't you go and try? He offers a refund in case you are not happy. Does not sound too risky to me.
> the community seems to be genuinely split.

Or nuanced, perhaps?

I mean, I am very opposed to everything iOS because of politics, but I am very pleased with my MBP. I don't need to downvote Apple's announcement of new MBPs just because I don't agree with the politics surrounding iOS.
Will you be able to get a MBP with a builtin 3G-adapter yet? No? Ok, I'll just go back to Dell then.

Edit: While my comment may come off trollish, this is a requirement for me when buying any mobile gear. That Apple still doesn't provide this for their top of the line laptops still baffles me.
point me to a few happy customers and i'd be happy to try it
I was thinking more along the lines of something you could do in your spare time over half a year or so, perhaps finish the thing in just a few weeks if you do it full time.

My goal isn't to replicate an entire CS degree. It's to fill in all of the vital background that directly impacts someone on the job.
High-end SSDs may migrate to PCIe with NVMHCI.
I didn't encounter any problems using nVidia's CUDA toolkit on OS X. If you mean that it is not provided out of the box, true.
> This is the second time you used language designed to escalate this into some kind of personal attack.

I've done no such thing. I've stated clearly my opinions. If you feel offended by my opinions, I apologise. That being said, I don't preface everything I say with weasel words.

I personally believe doing this (though you might disagree and if you do that's fine) that weasel words are mostly useless (though they do help at times for people who infer more than intended) and I really try to avoid using them as much as I can, though I have been known to fail at this. =)

> Why?

I haven't intended to do this. I didn't "design" anything. At most I felt that the previous statement could have been taken the wrong way, hence the smiley (Which is basically my way of saying I don't intend to start a flame war). You were, in fact, putting your own personal spin on things rather than discussing what was actually said.

Basically, no offence was intended.
I prefer bangnames.com and it's unregistered.

Once you have monotheistic power, you'll be better at naming
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>Thunderbolt port (count on buying another $30 display adapter like every generation)

Existing (edit: mini)displayport adapters will work. Per the Apple Thunderbolt site (http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/):

"And because Thunderbolt is based on DisplayPort technology, the video standard for high-resolution displays, any Mini DisplayPort display plugs right into the Thunderbolt port. To connect a DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, or VGA display, just use an existing adapter."
I recently bought an Acer TimelineX (14'' version) for my mum, installed Ubuntu on it, and my impression is really good. Of course it is not all-aluminium, but apart from that, the specs are nice. It cost 620€ - About half of a 13'' MacBook Pro.
thats because they stick in the fine print "once a month scheduled half hour outages don't count, also anything under 5 minutes doesn't count"
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I agree with you. It'd be great to be able to run 3 monitors from a closed mbp as a tower replacement. We'll have to see what kind of display adapters they come up with. I use a Diamond NV usb-2 video adapter and it works well for excel or mail, but if you are trying to actively use spaces it gets very laggy due to bandwidth constraints on usb2.0
Are you sure your web application "just can't entertain the notion of anything other than 100% uptime"? That sounds like a vacuous promise to me. Even telecoms switches are designed with something like 99.9999999% (9 nines) of availability; that's ~30 milliseconds of downtime a year.

I'm not criticizing you or your product, but if reliability is critical, it's made explicit with a realistic SLA.
The combo of built in and also discrete graphics is a relatively new phenomenon for them.

I remember back when they introduced the first MBPs with the two different built in graphics chips they were hyping it up, but the audience reaction was stony to say the least, because the previous MBPs had had a moderately good (for the time) graphics card, and built in graphics were perceived as being of a much lower capability, so that was a step backwards in power.

It might have given them great battery life (I seem to remember that as their big selling point), but it meant you couldn't play graphics intensive games on them.
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What is your actual uptime?
_worse_? I'd expect worst-case no-change, if it would hurt, the vendor would make TRIM a NOP. However, I'm always open for a source. (AnandTech for instance writes, TRIM just doesn't help, at http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-...)

[edit] Well, if you look at the numbers, one column actually got worse. Wow.
Holding an event for that kind of minor change would be pretty pathetic and boring. It’s also not exactly great demo material.
Facetime "beta" was free.
I guess in the end it's all about a companies culture and economically it boils down to "can I sell it". I want to add some random thoughts:

- Probably PHP wasn't your first language, you came from somewhere maybe Perl, maybe Java. There were reasons why you'ved switched.
- Is switching so hard? In my experience it is not! Good programmers are good programmers in every language. Get an expert to make your transition as smooth as possible.
- You do sell innovation - why not have an elite unit that can be with the new stuff. You can do 80% in your biz with stuff you know.
ASAP.

If you are worried about overloading them with technical info, I find it really easy to introduce people to version control with a "Contributing to a Book" metaphor. Where you have multiple authors and editors all working on a book at the same time, and it's important to know who changed what, and when.

Then, have them start using Git/SVN/Whatever to control any papers, notes, or assignments. I've taught multiple non-developer types how to use version control using this method.
Didn't get as much coverage, but there are also new ThinkPads this week: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/lenovo-trots-out-new-thin...

The 14" models look good: 30 hours (claimed) battery on the T420, 0.83" ultrathin T420s with discrete graphics.

Edit: Here's the official announcement, which took a bit of digging around to find: http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1421 . synacksynack has posted a good link now.
Not really. Interest for that file is very low so few seeders if any at all (think 12 months from now). Few people have the bandwidth to transmit so much data quickly.

This is better off on a good http host.
Not sure where you are based, but here in the UK schools are rapidly gaining better uptimes. The biggest problem we see is miss-configured proxies playing havoc with https connections.

I couldn't say what the average uptime is, but if a school network goes down we normally get an immediate call asking us if there is a problem our end because they use our system so heavily. So at a guess .. at least 98-99% for the majority of secondary schools, but don't quote me!
This is a very cool idea, but I would lose the whole Zeus thing, it gives an air of adolescence to the site. Also,

* Saying you'll find the perfect name is a bit of a stretch, what does "perfect" mean in this context? Is google a perfect name?

* When you say results are guaranteed, you mean the customer will like it. However, in most cases, the founders liking the name has little bearing on how good the name resonates with customers, that's what's important (read pg's discussion about their initial agony when their cool name for their startup was taken, their original choice sounds horrible) . I think you should provide a methodology, even a simplistic one, to help people decide which one is better.

* If you don't have a portfolio yet, which I assume since you say this was a weekend project, do analysis on 5-10 company names (if YC the better), and explain why they are good using your methodology. This will give you credibility. Show that you are the expert in this field. Right now, it looks like another name guessing site.
Yeah, I've got the Diamond BVU195, too. Slows everything down, especially spaces and other things that use Core animation.
Built in garbage collection in newer SSD's makes it unnecessary.
How did you come up with the idea?
And people expect to pay less for a 13" version...
Well, I don't think there would be a problem if the ad title said 'Google Chrome'. But having a title like 'Internet Explorer 9' point to the chrome download page is misleading in my opinion. Same with a Jaguar ad if the title said "BMW", except of course you're not browsing in Jaguar's search engine
Ask HN: Get an old 13in MBP or new 13in MBP?

The battery is more important to me than Thunderbolt.
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