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Apple designs and builds its MacBooks to get the best performance possible out of the OS X operating system. But according to one owner, Apple's new MacBook runs Microsoft's Windows 10 better than its native OS. Macs for everyone!
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I have that setup myself, and I think I agree with the findings. Certainly "Spartan" wipes the floor with "Safari".
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Makes sense. Apple's always had the better hardware. Windows is finally getting its house in order to reclaim its spot atop the software pile. Ideal setup.
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Since the source didn't do so, I'd really be interested in an actual battery life comparison test. Historically, that's always been a weak point of running Windows on a Mac; and a ready source of flamewar fodder between the "Windows is worse because it sucks" and "Battery life is all about driver tuning, Apple would be insane to put the effort needed to tune it's Windows drivers to outperform its Mac ones and even more insane to release them publicly if they existed" camps.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My supposition is that the Windows 10 drivers for the Mac were not written by Apple, but rather by Microsoft. In fact, most drivers, unless it's specialized hardware or purpose, are in fact written by Microsoft. And they're often better than the ones originally written for the hardware by the manufacturer.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Class drivers for commodity components are generally from the OS maker. Chipset/etc drivers and firmware come from the hardware manufacturers and need to be tweaked or outright customized by the OEMs to work with everything else in the system. Power management is a major factor here; the other really visible one is why not all touchpads from a given manufacturer work equally well in different companies hardware. A few years back, Synaptics tried to claw back all the driver/firmware writing from OEMs who were consistently botching the job; but since performance of their touchpads is still all over the place it's clear they've failed. (Probably because the OEMs weren't willing to pay even a cent/thousand parts for a pre-written driver when they already had an existing kludge they could re(mis)use.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes, and most of the components in a Mac are commodity components, many if not most from Intel. Thanks for making my point.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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And it's the driver/firmware customization work that the OEMs do that are why when you look at two laptops that have the same CPU/etc and same size batteries one lasts 9 or 10 hours and the other faceplants at 5. Performance/power management are dials that the OEMs can twist back and forth; or, and especially in the case of worst buy specials, smash with a hammer and totally fubar what on paper should be a really nice performing system.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Really? Not one bit of facts based evidence, just some student saying it feels quicker... Google: zdnet microsoft bias
I just hope my comment doesn't get deleted.
*windows may well be quicker or better - I use both and it's tuff to call, both have strengths and weakness - it would just be nice for news sites to report on facts.
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In Windows 10, the Chakra JavaScript engine powers Microsoft Edge and Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. However with JavaScript’s increasing popularity in beyond-the-browser scenarios, developers have been requesting to host the Chakra engine outside the browser to enable JavaScript programmability in their native/managed applications across the client and the server. You got JavaScript in my Windows!
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Want to know the first custom patch I'll install?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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We'll see if you get it installed before the first JavaScript virus gets published 
TTFN - Kent
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Given the incredibly rapid pace of change in this area, it’s essential you have a clear understanding of the capabilities of the technologies and experience level of your teams before making any implementation decisions. Bottom line: Doing research is absolutely not the same thing as going for full-scale adoption. Production is never a good arena for R&D.
Here are six important questions organizations should ask before moving beyond research: 7. What are the downfalls
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It was 25 years ago that Microsoft Solitaire debuted on Windows, and to honor the decades of fun it’s given us all, we’re celebrating with two big competitions. I'm not wasting time, I'm preparing for Internet glory
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Just running the MS Mouse online diagnostic program.
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If I were them, I wouldn't bring any attention to Solitaire until they've sorted out the utter pile of crap that is their current implementation (Microsoft Solitaire Collection, a store app, and one of the worst adverts the for the Store infrastructure I have ever seen - almost as much downtime as uptime).
You even have to have a freaking Farcebook account to stand any chance of leaving bug reports.. they seem to routinely ignore the Store feedback.
EDIT: They must have realised I'd leave bad feedback on the blog post, as it won't let me log in at all. Another piece of excellent cloud infrastructure from MS. If they want us to buy into their stack, they really should get their own house in order.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft is slowly but surely trying to wean IT pro to make changes in the way they validate and apply new fixes and features in preparation for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Step 1: Download Linux
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Java has joined C and C++ as a programming language that has stood the test of time. That's the 'China' anniversary, if you wanted to buy it a gift.
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A report released by FireEye, a California based network security firm, exposed an obfuscation tactic a group of Chinese hackers employed that used Microsoft’s TechNet web portal to cloak their botnet from standard counter measures. It's not just life that "finds a way"
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Think the abundance of technology in your life is making it harder to concentrate for long periods? Yeah, but on the bright side, I hear our attention span is getting shorter.
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Sorry, what? I lost interest halfway through the first... oh, look - a squirrel!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's made us dumber too, but we can't tell, so it doesn't matter.
If you're dumb but don't know, you are at peace.
I'm very relaxed because I can't remember the code I worked on yesterday.
I feel like it was good, because I'm not smart enough to tell the difference.
I'm at peace, just like an eggplant.
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Can a goldfish solve a differential equation?
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[^] Clever, clever, scoundrels out there.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/stephen-hawking-on-artificial-intelligence-2015-5[^]
Quote: Computers will overtake humans with AI at some within the next 100 years. When that happens, we need to make sure the computers have goals aligned with ours
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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