What Intel's Sandy Bridge can offer

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 04:36 AM

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#2 Grapho

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 05:56 AM

Again, how much speed do you really need to be using Word or Excel. Usually, in those applications, the computer is waiting for the user. Now in image processing, the user is waiting on the computer. This is where speed counts.

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 06:25 AM

"To move a movie from your computer onto your iPod or iPad, that will be more than 20 times faster..."
Doesn't this have more to do with the speed of the drives and the USB ports? I'd be very happy to be wrong here.

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 06:29 AM

I wish you had elaborated on the "Intel Insider technology". Now I have to leave MacWorld and go Google it. Maybe I won't come back... :-D

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 06:55 AM

flybynight, on 07 January 2011 - 06:25 AM, said:

I believe he meant it will be 20x faster to do the transcoding process.

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 10:51 AM

I see a lot of "should" and "might" in this article. So do they not know if these will be faster or not?

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 11:52 AM

Grapho, on 07 January 2011 - 05:56 AM, said:

So fast that its impossible to scroll to the part of the page you want, thats how fast I need Word and Excel :lol:

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 12:03 PM

flybynight, on 07 January 2011 - 06:25 AM, said:

The USB bus is processor dependent. The faster the CPU, the faster your transfer rate.

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Posted 07 January 2011 - 02:06 PM

So now they are building DRM right into the chips.......
Should make the studios happy, but bad news for the consumer. I've never been an Intel fan, and this is just another reason why.