This isn't very hard to do today. Easier to complain about it than spend an hour figuring out how to do it?Glad you're increasing support for SSDs.
Now please add a basic file system to iOS with drag and drop functionality for media files and you're gold.
iTunes is fine and all, but sometimes we quickly want to drag a song, or movie or photo onto our phone without having resync the whole damn thing.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/25/editorial-hey-apple-why-does-it-take-an-hour-to-put-an-album-o/
A wireless/OTA file-soup solution allowing apps to push and pull files from a cloud-synced file-collection would supplement this very well.
This isn't very hard to do today. Easier to complain about it than spend an hour figuring out how to do it?
That Engadget author apparently doesn't know how to move his iTunes settings between computers, or how to manually manage music on any iPod/iPhone.
Now please add a basic file system to iOS with drag and drop functionality for media files and you're gold.
I'm willing to wager that this chipset implements an as-yet undisclosed low-level feature in Lion.
Remember all those Macs that had undisclosed N networking that Apple later revealed and activated? My MacBook Pro only supported a 32-bit kernel and 4GB of memory for two years. When Snow Leopard came out, it suddenly supported a 64-bit kernel. When Apple updated the EFI, it suddenly supported 8GB of memory.
This chipset is sleeper that will wake up when Lion roars.
If Apple officially allows users to overclock their iMacs that would be historic.The Z-68 will be the choice for overclockers. Read the Tom's report. And check out the pc forums for a lot more info about this chipset.
I ordered a new iMac with the HD/SSD combo, the delivery date is not until late June, wonder if this had anything to do with this?
about time... Image But yea, Apple must have really pulled some strings here, so to speak.
If Apple officially allows users to overclock their iMacs that would be historic.
Unless I'm reading this wrong.....
Apple did a great deal in getting early versions of new Intel chips which have a brand new feature built into them, which Apple are failing to correctly utilise.
Errrr, great![]()
How do we know they're failing to utilize it? Just because they're not using it at this very minute, isn't it possible that Lion may? Remember, this chipset isn't even on any other MoBo at the moment.
Huh? In order to do that this "cheap hdd" will have to spin so fast it will blow the guts out of the iMac.
LOL!
The speed increase comes from storing commonly used files on the SSD. It's like RAM. The bigger your SSD for caching, the faster your computer will be over time as it gets filled up.
Even on my 8 GB machine, i need to use 2 GB of VM (Virtual Memory). The VM I/O would be much faster, if that VM would be on a fast SSD. Probably a cheap way to improve the VM-performance on machines, which have RAM-upgrade limitations.
All nice ... but really worth going down that road?
SSD prices are falling fast and I think there is no need to use some patch work to make it a little bit faster and a little bit more affordable to bridge just some small amount of time until SSD is affordable for everyone - At least I want 100% SSD power - that cache probably will be to small to cache my iPhoto library so iPhoto will startup as slow as from a old HD, since I upgraded to full SSD, iPhoto is finally usable with my big library and everything is instant instead of beach ball.
I hope they are using other features of that cheap and are not doing it (only) for the caching.