Kaptajn Haddock
May 4, 02:03 PM
How about fixing tethering? Has not been working since iOS 4.3.1
Matty-p
Apr 12, 03:02 AM
I'm suprised nobody has mentioned 3 TB drives, you can get 7200 RPM 3TB drives for $179 or 5400 RPM 3TB drives for $149 these days, why not reduce the number of bays you need by ~50%.
It doesn't sound like you need incredibly high performance given that it's for archiving video and your internet uplink is only 1.5 MB.
You didn't mention your budget, if it's on the low side, I'd go with a Linux NAS, you could build the whole thing for under $4k.
$335 20-bay SATA chassis http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219033t
$300 for 2x Intel SASUC8I 8 port SATA controllers
$80 for 4x SFF-8087 cables
$500 for a Mobo, RAM, CPU
$2100 for 14x 3TB 5400 RPM drives @ $149 each
$150 ~800watt quality power supply
$150 misc cooling fans & wiring, dvd drive
Run it RAID-6 with 2x hot spare on Linux. If afpd meets your performance expectations, you're good to go. I have a 10x 5200rpm 2TB RAID-6 linux NAS media server on a 3 or 4 year old low end athlon x2, I get 250 MBps on reads with software RAID-6. afpd is single threaded and will likely be a frustrating bottleneck for writes, it will hang during writes while it syncs to disk periodically. The above config would have no problem saturating gig ethernet during a read and come close to it during a write. Using it as a SAN via iSCSI may allow for higher performance, although you'd need to bounce incoming connections off another server.
So thats your low end, look into redundant X-Serves with DAS arrays for your high end (or EMC if you have a few hundred grand to blow).
Keep in mind RAID is not a replacement for backup, if you are not going to backup to external media at least consider a filesystem with extra space and snapshots, and maybe a second identical server you can replicate to. A higher quality chassis, redundant power supplies, hardware RAID, an X-Serve w/ DAS would be nice steps up.
Rob
Yea I was suggesting Linux or Unix for the supermicro build,
3tb are a bad idea for a pruduction environment cos there less reliable slower have far longer rebuild time for raid are more expensive the list goes on
It doesn't sound like you need incredibly high performance given that it's for archiving video and your internet uplink is only 1.5 MB.
You didn't mention your budget, if it's on the low side, I'd go with a Linux NAS, you could build the whole thing for under $4k.
$335 20-bay SATA chassis http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219033t
$300 for 2x Intel SASUC8I 8 port SATA controllers
$80 for 4x SFF-8087 cables
$500 for a Mobo, RAM, CPU
$2100 for 14x 3TB 5400 RPM drives @ $149 each
$150 ~800watt quality power supply
$150 misc cooling fans & wiring, dvd drive
Run it RAID-6 with 2x hot spare on Linux. If afpd meets your performance expectations, you're good to go. I have a 10x 5200rpm 2TB RAID-6 linux NAS media server on a 3 or 4 year old low end athlon x2, I get 250 MBps on reads with software RAID-6. afpd is single threaded and will likely be a frustrating bottleneck for writes, it will hang during writes while it syncs to disk periodically. The above config would have no problem saturating gig ethernet during a read and come close to it during a write. Using it as a SAN via iSCSI may allow for higher performance, although you'd need to bounce incoming connections off another server.
So thats your low end, look into redundant X-Serves with DAS arrays for your high end (or EMC if you have a few hundred grand to blow).
Keep in mind RAID is not a replacement for backup, if you are not going to backup to external media at least consider a filesystem with extra space and snapshots, and maybe a second identical server you can replicate to. A higher quality chassis, redundant power supplies, hardware RAID, an X-Serve w/ DAS would be nice steps up.
Rob
Yea I was suggesting Linux or Unix for the supermicro build,
3tb are a bad idea for a pruduction environment cos there less reliable slower have far longer rebuild time for raid are more expensive the list goes on
FF_productions
Oct 17, 02:23 PM
I think "Macs are slow" has to do with my belief that Macs last longer and therefore there are lots of old ones sitting around in schools. Think about a Mac that is 5 years old and a PC that is 5 years old. One stays a whole lot more usable than the other!
Yep
My school is filled with eMac G4s. Fastest one you can find in my school is 1.25 ghz. Not only are those machines slow, have no ram, they are also running under a SLOW server. So you can see why nobody likes Mac at my school.
Yep
My school is filled with eMac G4s. Fastest one you can find in my school is 1.25 ghz. Not only are those machines slow, have no ram, they are also running under a SLOW server. So you can see why nobody likes Mac at my school.
devman
Jan 2, 06:10 AM
I look just like Johnny Johnny - when my Mum saw the Apple home page (I'd left it as the home page on my folks' computer last time I went there) she rang me up asking why I was on the front of the Apple website.
Anyhoo, I'm not going but it's going to be another epic staying awake event with daylight saving pushing the keynote time to ~5:30am.
Hey chundles, what part of oz are you in (or are you in NZ then?). my iCal entry shows this as 4am (AEST) so I wanna be sure I haven't messed the time up somehow? (or do you mean 5:30am by the end of the keynote?)
Anyhoo, I'm not going but it's going to be another epic staying awake event with daylight saving pushing the keynote time to ~5:30am.
Hey chundles, what part of oz are you in (or are you in NZ then?). my iCal entry shows this as 4am (AEST) so I wanna be sure I haven't messed the time up somehow? (or do you mean 5:30am by the end of the keynote?)
mcmlxix
Apr 11, 03:36 PM
You can find or make "transparent carbon" already.
Yeah, it's called diamond. Talk about durable and scratch resistant.
Yeah, it's called diamond. Talk about durable and scratch resistant.
Flowbee
Jan 8, 02:07 PM
Went and checked out the horseshoe lounge today. Those things are oh so sexy but were packed as hell.
Yeah, I didn't expect that we'd be able to all sit down there. But I don't remember there being many 'uncrowded' places in years past... so I guess we'll be stuck standing and mingling.
Yeah, I didn't expect that we'd be able to all sit down there. But I don't remember there being many 'uncrowded' places in years past... so I guess we'll be stuck standing and mingling.
a.phoenicis
Apr 11, 07:50 PM
You guys are clearly missing the point of this... It is not at all the same thing as the silly 3D movies, where you put on special glasses and get to see things jumping out at you...
This is a 2D image that is simulating depth and parallax perspective in real time based on your movements in the world.
What this means is that unlike any of the 3D effects you see in movies, you can actually move your head to the side and look behind things.
This is way more of a "true" 3D effect than what you get in the movies... That's more of a bass-relief... you never get to see anything that isn't already baked into the image.
With this effect, if there's something in your way, you can move to the side and see around it.
This is really awesome.
This is a 2D image that is simulating depth and parallax perspective in real time based on your movements in the world.
What this means is that unlike any of the 3D effects you see in movies, you can actually move your head to the side and look behind things.
This is way more of a "true" 3D effect than what you get in the movies... That's more of a bass-relief... you never get to see anything that isn't already baked into the image.
With this effect, if there's something in your way, you can move to the side and see around it.
This is really awesome.
Jimmni
Aug 17, 05:21 PM
Are people as outraged by this leak as I am? I can't believe it. He just stole Steve's thunder at a later secret event. This will end up costing Apple the element of surprise and the impact of a special Steve announcement. We've got to punish Lion's Gate somehow. We need to boycott all of their films and show that they cannot mess with Apple. The mothership is under attack! Who's with me? :mad:
If this is tongue-in-cheek, which I can only assume it is, then it's one of the funniest comments I've read on MacRumors :D Brilliant :D
If it's serious, then you have some serious issues :P
If this is tongue-in-cheek, which I can only assume it is, then it's one of the funniest comments I've read on MacRumors :D Brilliant :D
If it's serious, then you have some serious issues :P
outlawarth
Apr 5, 11:42 AM
What was it, before the iPad 2 announcement, that every one was certain of? iPad 2 will be late. No new iPad til September.
Apple laughed at that and said, actually were ready to go next week.
+1 ... The iPad 2 rumors were ridiculous claiming no iPad until summer/fall. Laughable.
Apple laughed at that and said, actually were ready to go next week.
+1 ... The iPad 2 rumors were ridiculous claiming no iPad until summer/fall. Laughable.
balamw
Jul 13, 11:48 AM
Note that I did say Institutional. It's Departmental for me. I normally just use the link off of my campus site to get to the Departmental Store.
Just trying to be clear. You said either either individual or institutional, but you can't get the $899 iMac from the former only the latter, and to make an institutional purchase you must be authorized by the institution. From the link you provided:
Authorized purchasers
Submit an order to Apple if you are authorized by your school or school board to make purchases and you have been issued an authorized purchaser Apple ID and password.
B
Just trying to be clear. You said either either individual or institutional, but you can't get the $899 iMac from the former only the latter, and to make an institutional purchase you must be authorized by the institution. From the link you provided:
Authorized purchasers
Submit an order to Apple if you are authorized by your school or school board to make purchases and you have been issued an authorized purchaser Apple ID and password.
B
interinmente
Sep 29, 09:15 PM
To watch Tv on the iPhone the Mac must be turned on?
So if I go at the office or somewhere else, to watch Tv on my iPhone my MAC at home must be turned on? I don`t think this is a good think! And if I am at home why I have to watch on the small iPhone screen (maybe when going to the toilet, but i cannot think some other home using) instead of a Tv or on my Mac?
I am using Slingplayer right now and the Mac and also the TV set are not required to be on!
So if I go at the office or somewhere else, to watch Tv on my iPhone my MAC at home must be turned on? I don`t think this is a good think! And if I am at home why I have to watch on the small iPhone screen (maybe when going to the toilet, but i cannot think some other home using) instead of a Tv or on my Mac?
I am using Slingplayer right now and the Mac and also the TV set are not required to be on!
Nym
Nov 14, 06:39 AM
And for the record, this country was founded by white, anglo-saxon men who were all of some Christian faith. It wasn't founded by pagans, or Muslims, or Taoists or Shintoists or Buddhists or Atheists or anyone else. It was "God-fearing" Christian men who thought it best to write a document (the Constitution) wherein the rights of each individual person to believe as they wished should not be abrogated by the Government. However, we're referring to society here, not the U.S. Government.
</rant>
Excuse me, I'm an Atheist and I'm not even American, I celebrate Christmas not because of religion but because of the family union that it represents and generates and that keeps getting harder to mantain, I am an atheist and I don't hate Jesus Christ, I respect his name, was probably one of the greatest people who lived, I just don't believe in god, that's all.
However, your country was founded by (and this is the part where you forgot some elements) ensalvering, native american killers, catholic (not christian) whites. Catholicism that made the inquisition so no one else could have their religion so don't talk about being opressed and disrespecting other people's rights because that's what's being done for centuries in the name of Christ, even he had no ideia of how people would distort his words to do so much harm. Of course that I agree with you when you say people should **** sometimes, Christmas represents a happy time and whatever, people shouldn't remove the word from everything, that's just stupid and I'm sure a lot of people from other religions have no problem with that so let's not generalize. There's nothing wrong in having different beliefs but believe me, Catholics have a lot of stains in their history.
Ah, just one more thing, the constitution was wrote after decades of slavery, when the black people finally started stepping up, forcing the whites to give them some rights. Otherwise, we would still have slavery.
</rant>
Excuse me, I'm an Atheist and I'm not even American, I celebrate Christmas not because of religion but because of the family union that it represents and generates and that keeps getting harder to mantain, I am an atheist and I don't hate Jesus Christ, I respect his name, was probably one of the greatest people who lived, I just don't believe in god, that's all.
However, your country was founded by (and this is the part where you forgot some elements) ensalvering, native american killers, catholic (not christian) whites. Catholicism that made the inquisition so no one else could have their religion so don't talk about being opressed and disrespecting other people's rights because that's what's being done for centuries in the name of Christ, even he had no ideia of how people would distort his words to do so much harm. Of course that I agree with you when you say people should **** sometimes, Christmas represents a happy time and whatever, people shouldn't remove the word from everything, that's just stupid and I'm sure a lot of people from other religions have no problem with that so let's not generalize. There's nothing wrong in having different beliefs but believe me, Catholics have a lot of stains in their history.
Ah, just one more thing, the constitution was wrote after decades of slavery, when the black people finally started stepping up, forcing the whites to give them some rights. Otherwise, we would still have slavery.
citi
Apr 21, 03:02 PM
And that is the biggest question of them all. If I can't put the music I bought and ripped up in the cloud, what is the point? I am curious to see if this is going to be a paid service, part of Mobile Me or? Can't wait to see how this plays out.
It will probably work the way Amazon's new service does. Only the music you purchase moving forward can be synced in the cloud.
It will probably work the way Amazon's new service does. Only the music you purchase moving forward can be synced in the cloud.
calsci
Jun 9, 08:54 PM
Lets hope they can have more supply then they did with the ipad. They are still struggling to keep up.
Stanjara
May 4, 01:46 PM
I don't know about you guys, but on my iPhone 4 battery life has been great since 4.3.2 - best of any 4.x updates. Let's hope 4.3.3 doesn't break it, or I'll be really pissed.
yes me too
yes me too
Sydde
Mar 4, 05:09 PM
Ok, see that is where I was going with posting this article. I was wondering if it were even possible to hold on to a windshield wiper blade for that length of time? I mean, wouldn't pressure or force or something cause the blade to snap? They just don't seem that strong.
Climb onto the front of a minivan and get someone to drive it at 30mph: I suspect you will find the aerodynamic pressure quite impressive. The keyword here is "minivan". Those usually have rather more vertical noses than your typical automobile, so the air pressure will tend to pin you onto the front.
Climb onto the front of a minivan and get someone to drive it at 30mph: I suspect you will find the aerodynamic pressure quite impressive. The keyword here is "minivan". Those usually have rather more vertical noses than your typical automobile, so the air pressure will tend to pin you onto the front.
Benjy91
May 4, 01:07 PM
That's some fast response Apple for the database cache non-issue!
Meanwhile Google is still tracking Fandroids in almost real time.
Yes. Because only a Fandroid uses an Android Phone. The iPhone is perfect for EVERY human being in the planet.
Who needs choice?
Meanwhile Google is still tracking Fandroids in almost real time.
Yes. Because only a Fandroid uses an Android Phone. The iPhone is perfect for EVERY human being in the planet.
Who needs choice?
ECUpirate44
May 4, 12:53 PM
No thanks.
neildmitchell
Sep 10, 11:44 PM
First I wasnted to thank everyone who has posted advice and comments about my temple surface piercing.
So with the help of the advice from the people in this forum, regaurding finding a new piercer and swap out the bananabell for a surface bar for my anti-brow temple piercing.
I did a little research about surface piercing and what causes them to fail
(which I should have done first before getting pierced, but anyways)
I noticed today that my piercing wasnt exactly happy, a bit tight, so I went down to a more local piercer in Mountain View, CA at Fatty Zone to get a check up to make sure everything was fine. The piercer was out for the till Monday, but the owner said that it looked as if the lower ball was starting to get sucked in. (great) He recommended that I go down to Pierce Ink, where he had sent his piercer (From Fatty Zone) to get trained.>>(Seperate Note) I had stopped in earlier that week and talked to the piercer about piercing my webbing, he said no, and took the time to explain to me why he would not pierce it and why it isnt a good area to pierce. For him to say no, refuse my money, and inform me, I am very grateful for.
I went down to Pierce Ink in San Jose CA, as I pulled up everyone was having a smoke, and we chatted a bit about my piercing, surface bars, gauge, and Zebra Tattoo and Piercing.
As it turns out I was the third person that week that had a surface piercing done at Zebra and came down to have their piercing salvaged because Zebra used the wrong jewelry. I also heard horror stories reguarding botched tounge piercings (personal horror story of one of the piercers who had it done at Zebra) , cleanliness issues etc. Anyways, I got the bananabell swapped out of a surface bar with discs.
http://homepage.mac.com/neildmitchell/Piercing_Update.jpg
The piercer(s) were very helpful, knowledgeabe, and professional, they too will also refuse to pierce certain areas.
So anyways, I salvaged an almost botched surface piercing. I still have a long healing process, so we will see if it gets rejected eventually or not.
1) Dont get pierced on a whim, from any old place, do your research (jewelery, techniques, reputation)
2) If a piercer tells you NO and explains why, trust them, dont go running off to a piercer who will pierce you where others wont.
3) Slam bad piercers or piercing businesses
4) Promote the Good Piercers
Save people from getting bad pierce jobs (or worse), and keep good piercers employed.
GOOD PIERCERS
1)
Fatty Zone (Trained at Pierce Ink)
1398 W. El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA 94040
(650) 965-0313
http://www.fattyzone.com/
2)
Pierce Ink (San Jose's oldest body modification studio)
48 Race Street
San Jose CA 95128
(408) 280-6699
www.pierceink.com
3) (from Moe http://profile.myspace.com/13706036)
Industrial Strenth Tattoo and Piercing.
2434 Dwight Way Berkeley Ca
The piercer (Todd) is very helpful, takes his time to make sure he measures you to the best of his ability. He gives you ALL info possible and his business card and tells you to call if you have ANY questions at all. This place is the most helpful, knowledable, and people friendly shop that i have ever been to.
BAD PIERCER
Zebra
2467 Telegraph Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 649-8002
(not knowledgeable no consultation, used wrong jewerly, cheap jewelry, sanitation)
I am sure that there are plenty of people out there who have gotten great piercings from Zebra, but after my expierience I view them as bad.
Slam Bad Piercers Promote Good Piercers (or tattoo artists etc)
So with the help of the advice from the people in this forum, regaurding finding a new piercer and swap out the bananabell for a surface bar for my anti-brow temple piercing.
I did a little research about surface piercing and what causes them to fail
(which I should have done first before getting pierced, but anyways)
I noticed today that my piercing wasnt exactly happy, a bit tight, so I went down to a more local piercer in Mountain View, CA at Fatty Zone to get a check up to make sure everything was fine. The piercer was out for the till Monday, but the owner said that it looked as if the lower ball was starting to get sucked in. (great) He recommended that I go down to Pierce Ink, where he had sent his piercer (From Fatty Zone) to get trained.>>(Seperate Note) I had stopped in earlier that week and talked to the piercer about piercing my webbing, he said no, and took the time to explain to me why he would not pierce it and why it isnt a good area to pierce. For him to say no, refuse my money, and inform me, I am very grateful for.
I went down to Pierce Ink in San Jose CA, as I pulled up everyone was having a smoke, and we chatted a bit about my piercing, surface bars, gauge, and Zebra Tattoo and Piercing.
As it turns out I was the third person that week that had a surface piercing done at Zebra and came down to have their piercing salvaged because Zebra used the wrong jewelry. I also heard horror stories reguarding botched tounge piercings (personal horror story of one of the piercers who had it done at Zebra) , cleanliness issues etc. Anyways, I got the bananabell swapped out of a surface bar with discs.
http://homepage.mac.com/neildmitchell/Piercing_Update.jpg
The piercer(s) were very helpful, knowledgeabe, and professional, they too will also refuse to pierce certain areas.
So anyways, I salvaged an almost botched surface piercing. I still have a long healing process, so we will see if it gets rejected eventually or not.
1) Dont get pierced on a whim, from any old place, do your research (jewelery, techniques, reputation)
2) If a piercer tells you NO and explains why, trust them, dont go running off to a piercer who will pierce you where others wont.
3) Slam bad piercers or piercing businesses
4) Promote the Good Piercers
Save people from getting bad pierce jobs (or worse), and keep good piercers employed.
GOOD PIERCERS
1)
Fatty Zone (Trained at Pierce Ink)
1398 W. El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA 94040
(650) 965-0313
http://www.fattyzone.com/
2)
Pierce Ink (San Jose's oldest body modification studio)
48 Race Street
San Jose CA 95128
(408) 280-6699
www.pierceink.com
3) (from Moe http://profile.myspace.com/13706036)
Industrial Strenth Tattoo and Piercing.
2434 Dwight Way Berkeley Ca
The piercer (Todd) is very helpful, takes his time to make sure he measures you to the best of his ability. He gives you ALL info possible and his business card and tells you to call if you have ANY questions at all. This place is the most helpful, knowledable, and people friendly shop that i have ever been to.
BAD PIERCER
Zebra
2467 Telegraph Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 649-8002
(not knowledgeable no consultation, used wrong jewerly, cheap jewelry, sanitation)
I am sure that there are plenty of people out there who have gotten great piercings from Zebra, but after my expierience I view them as bad.
Slam Bad Piercers Promote Good Piercers (or tattoo artists etc)
stockscalper
Nov 10, 08:36 AM
My experience has been that non universal applications run much much faster under 10.4.8 and they load faster too. Before the upgrade Word bounced 10 to 12 times before starting and now it's down to 2 or 3 bounces. Everything is much crisper and has a faster feel to it under 10.4.8. This was one upgrade where I could tell a big difference; most upgrades you can't unless they're fixing some bug.
Habakuk
May 4, 05:23 PM
According to the info in iTunes the 4.3.3 update file has exactly the same size as 4.3.2 had: 666.2 MB for my iPhone 4.
And the same goes for the iPad 2: 614.8 MB. For the iPad 1 there is a slight difference: 4.3.3: 593.4 MB; 4.3.2 was: 593.3 MB.
BTW: The update was very quick (less than 20 min) for my iPhone 4 and everything seems to work fine: Safari, an App Store update for an app (AutoStitch Panorama) and a technically demanding game (Real Racing 2). Same goes for iPad 1 + 2 (less than 15 min for the complete update process incl. download).
And the same goes for the iPad 2: 614.8 MB. For the iPad 1 there is a slight difference: 4.3.3: 593.4 MB; 4.3.2 was: 593.3 MB.
BTW: The update was very quick (less than 20 min) for my iPhone 4 and everything seems to work fine: Safari, an App Store update for an app (AutoStitch Panorama) and a technically demanding game (Real Racing 2). Same goes for iPad 1 + 2 (less than 15 min for the complete update process incl. download).
hammie14
Mar 13, 03:30 PM
Here is my attempt, nothing special
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6493/screenshot20110305at184.png (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110305at184.png/)
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How do you get the time and date on the desktop ?
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How do you get the time and date on the desktop ?
obeygiant
Dec 4, 12:18 AM
GM�s Plans for Chevy Volt Profitability (http://gm-volt.com/2010/12/02/gms-plans-for-chevy-volt-profitability/)
The Chevrolet Volt is a heroic and landmark vehicle, and a grand achievement by General Motors. We here have been following the car�s development since its inception as a concept, and along the way have often wished GM would plan to sell many hundreds of thousands of them. The more Volts on the road, the less oil used.
Of course GM shouldn�t build more cars than can be sold, and more importantly for the newly profitable company, they shouldn�t build cars they cannot make money on.
According to multiple GM executives there is little or no profit being made on each Volt built at a present cost of around $40,000. Furthermore, the $700 million of development that went into the car has to be recouped.
GM does have a plan to make the Volt business case profitable, according to vehicle line executive Doug Parks. �In reality, it won�t be profitable at the beginning,� said Parks about the Volt.
The plan to profitability is to reduce cost on a yearly basis as opposed to waiting the full development cycle to a second generation, typically 5 or 6 years for most cars. �It is our hope, every year as we have opportunity to improve the performance and even take cost out, that at the end of the first lifecycle we make money,� he said.
Parks also disclosed GM is trying to improve efficiency with each yearly iteration too, but that itself wont help bring down costs, except if less lithium ion cells are needed to achieve the same range. �We�re developing technology that can lead to minor increases in performance but a big cost reduction,� he said.
�No big changes to range and/or performance, just ongoing tweaks and refinements in many different areas, including battery,� Parks told GM-Volt. �We will have a strong focus to improve costs, but will make sure we at least maintain performance � or even improve it slightly if possible.�
Parks also reported that the entire 2011 build inventory has already been sold out. Those units, he said, �are gone.�
Despite this high demand and low volume, GM has no immediate production modifications. �There�s really no plan to change that slow ramp-up through next year,� he says. �Then, when we really open it up in �12, we�ll build our planned volume and see what the market says. If we want to do a lot more, we�ll look at it.�
The Chevrolet Volt is a heroic and landmark vehicle, and a grand achievement by General Motors. We here have been following the car�s development since its inception as a concept, and along the way have often wished GM would plan to sell many hundreds of thousands of them. The more Volts on the road, the less oil used.
Of course GM shouldn�t build more cars than can be sold, and more importantly for the newly profitable company, they shouldn�t build cars they cannot make money on.
According to multiple GM executives there is little or no profit being made on each Volt built at a present cost of around $40,000. Furthermore, the $700 million of development that went into the car has to be recouped.
GM does have a plan to make the Volt business case profitable, according to vehicle line executive Doug Parks. �In reality, it won�t be profitable at the beginning,� said Parks about the Volt.
The plan to profitability is to reduce cost on a yearly basis as opposed to waiting the full development cycle to a second generation, typically 5 or 6 years for most cars. �It is our hope, every year as we have opportunity to improve the performance and even take cost out, that at the end of the first lifecycle we make money,� he said.
Parks also disclosed GM is trying to improve efficiency with each yearly iteration too, but that itself wont help bring down costs, except if less lithium ion cells are needed to achieve the same range. �We�re developing technology that can lead to minor increases in performance but a big cost reduction,� he said.
�No big changes to range and/or performance, just ongoing tweaks and refinements in many different areas, including battery,� Parks told GM-Volt. �We will have a strong focus to improve costs, but will make sure we at least maintain performance � or even improve it slightly if possible.�
Parks also reported that the entire 2011 build inventory has already been sold out. Those units, he said, �are gone.�
Despite this high demand and low volume, GM has no immediate production modifications. �There�s really no plan to change that slow ramp-up through next year,� he says. �Then, when we really open it up in �12, we�ll build our planned volume and see what the market says. If we want to do a lot more, we�ll look at it.�
Haoshiro
Mar 28, 07:58 PM
Only problem is there aren't 10 million units in the consumers hands, more like 6 to 8.
Consider that, and the fact that most people I know that bought a launch 360 have had to replace it at least once(for some it was 3 to 5 times) - and your well beyond 0.1%
Although you could say the same thing for Sony's blunders, like DRE.
(but that would mean you have to say something positive about Sony)
All I hear is how crappy PS2 hardware was, and how 360 issues are blown out of proportion........ :rolleyes:
The point was simply that these things get blown out of proportion, like you said.
Personally, I haven't heard of that many problems with PS2 hardware. I've personally had issues with first-generation PS1 hardware which seemed to have widespread over-heating issues.
I don't know many people with 360s personally either, but wouldn't consider that knowing a hand full of experience people have had personally is enough information to make any factual point.
Changing up the numbers doesn't make that much worse. At 6 million units sold, you could have 30,000 failures (with 10,000 of those complaining online) and still be at less then 1% failure rate.
Having a 99.5% chance of getting a console in perfect working order sure isn't bad. People act like buying a 360 is some huge gamble, when it isn't and they could even further improve their odds by getting a proper warranty. That could be said about any of the current or last generation consoles.
People from "all sides" toss all sorts of FUD around, and it's more likely then not it's not even worth the worry.
Consider that, and the fact that most people I know that bought a launch 360 have had to replace it at least once(for some it was 3 to 5 times) - and your well beyond 0.1%
Although you could say the same thing for Sony's blunders, like DRE.
(but that would mean you have to say something positive about Sony)
All I hear is how crappy PS2 hardware was, and how 360 issues are blown out of proportion........ :rolleyes:
The point was simply that these things get blown out of proportion, like you said.
Personally, I haven't heard of that many problems with PS2 hardware. I've personally had issues with first-generation PS1 hardware which seemed to have widespread over-heating issues.
I don't know many people with 360s personally either, but wouldn't consider that knowing a hand full of experience people have had personally is enough information to make any factual point.
Changing up the numbers doesn't make that much worse. At 6 million units sold, you could have 30,000 failures (with 10,000 of those complaining online) and still be at less then 1% failure rate.
Having a 99.5% chance of getting a console in perfect working order sure isn't bad. People act like buying a 360 is some huge gamble, when it isn't and they could even further improve their odds by getting a proper warranty. That could be said about any of the current or last generation consoles.
People from "all sides" toss all sorts of FUD around, and it's more likely then not it's not even worth the worry.
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