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Originally posted by akincer View PostUnless Canonical makes a strategic shift, you will NEVER be able to get one on a carrier subsidy. They are only making a limited number and will ship directly to consumers. This is your only guaranteed way to get one. They have indicated they MIGHT do this again in the future if the effort is successful, but no guarantees.
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Originally posted by akincer View PostAnd I know people that have destroyed many laptops due to dropping, spilling drinks and lots of other unexplained damage.
"No, I don't know how that screen got shattered."
"You mean I shouldn't spray Windex directly onto the keyboard?"
Yes, I've heard those and many like them quite a few times.
And if you are terribly worried about data loss, you can back your data up to a hard drive at night with an Ubuntu phone.
Someone doing something extremely CPU intensive is probably not a good candidate for a product like this. I don't think they're trying to market it as a replacement for ALL desktops. But some? Absolutely. The only question is to what extent the candidates for replacement extend.
That's the problem there, I can't really see a situation where this "convergence phone" would be advantageous.
I have. For whatever reason you've tried (terribly) to say they aren't good reasons. I could introduce you to quite a few people I know that would LOVE to have a true convergent device that would fit their computing needs. And they don't do anything CPU intensive. These are very stereotypical people I'm talking about, so I know they aren't anomalies. What percentage of end users to they represent? 5%? 10%? I don't know, but once we have a device that fits the bill, we'll find out.
It's probably worth pointing out that people thought the Galaxy Note would never sell. You sound a lot like those people in your arguments.
So what category is phone/desktop convergence? Remains to be seen, maybe it will be feasible sometime in the future. Maybe if consumer CPUs become small and powerful enough that even workstation-grade CPUs can fit inside your fingernail, and at that point it wouldn't matter where the CPU is - maybe it's even implanted under your skin and it just transmits the UI to a touchscreen that basically acts as a dumb terminal. Or maybe there will be nanomachines floating around all over the atmosphere, providing us with all the distributed computing power we'll ever need - streamed straight to our brains, if needed.
However, I very much doubt it will be succesful today or in the next few years.
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Originally posted by Delgarde View PostTerminology usage, mostly... it might not be a strict definition, but "SSD" usually implies a physically separate unit, even if the chips are the same ones that would be used onboard...
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Originally posted by dee. View PostAnd it's probably worth pointing out that people thought virtual reality and voice-control UI would become the next big thing. They never did. It's easy to point at innovations that have made it big, because we tend to forget all the bad ideas that didn't make it. And it's understandable, because... well, they're bad ideas, they didn't make it, they came and went - and we're more excited about the next big hype. Yet, it's good to bear in mind that not every innovation is a success. Sometimes it's because it's ahead of its time, sometimes it's because it's just executed poorly at first (and it may succeed when someone does it again properly), and sometimes, it's just a plain bad idea that doesn't work.
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Originally posted by Delgarde View PostTerminology usage, mostly... it might not be a strict definition, but "SSD" usually implies a physically separate unit, even if the chips are the same ones that would be used onboard...
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Originally posted by Caledar View PostTo me, SSD means a fast flash based disk whereas flash based storage to me would mean something along the lines of under 30MB/sec
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Originally posted by TAXI View Postin fact it's the other way around as a SSD is glued to SATA, so you can't go faster than the SATA bus speed
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Originally posted by dee. View Posttl;dr;
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