Wether you like it or not. Everything "phones home" now. Its not just google and web browsers. Every OS (Computer or Phone) does it just about every application does it now. Phone apps can send crazy amounts of information back with out you ever knowing.
I can't wait for a 27" iMac with a retina display. If they keep the math the same as they have it will have a res of 5120x2880 thats 14.7 million pixels. Sadly tho I don't think it will happen anytime soon. I may end up with this new Macbook Pro.
On a desktop its been easy but on a notebook, typically you only get one video out (Sometimes two VGA + HDMI) but then a lot of the times the notebook display sucked as far as resolution goes.
I do completely agree this should have happened years ago now we gotta wait. Maybe once Intel finally figures out how to make a intergraded GPU that is somewhat close to a dedicated card of the day it will happen.
So what do you guys think about this new Macbook Pro with the Retina display? This thing is pretty insane, the display really makes it at a resolution of 2880x1800 that means over 5 million pixels on a 15in notebook display. So if your editing video your preview window can show the entire 1080p clip.
Some Specs:
15.4in Retina Display
2.3 GHz Core i7 Ivy-Bridge
8 - 16GB ram
256 GB SSD - 768 GB SSD
Nvidia GT650m 1GB
Dual Thunderbolt
HDMI
Dual USB2/USB3
$2199
The laptop has so much power it can drive the laptop display at 2880x1800 and 2 external displays over thunderbolt at 2560x1600 at the same time. Hopefully it doesn't take 5 years for this display tech. to come down enough so everyone can get it since Windows 8 is retina ready it should help.
This is something that just consistently swaps around. Chrome is the "fastest" next month it will be Safari 6 and who knows the month after that.
I personally use Safari and Chrome can't stand IE or Firefox plus webkit based browsers tend to be more stable and quicker.
Its really not that strange. It happens.
Remember raid is not a backup. This is why you do daily backups of the database and all site data. At any moment this can happen.
You do know its not the browser that spys on you, its the website typically with tracking cookies. Since all browsers support cookies you can be tracked using any one.