dethac

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by dethac 7y ago
Virtualization support as well.
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by dethac 7y ago
It's also OLED, though, so there's that.
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by dethac 7y ago
I'd imagine that that's implicit: Nobody's buying a 40k display to show a desktop.
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by dethac 7y ago
https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-ultrasharp-27-4k-hdr-mo... I mean there's that.
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by dethac 7y ago
Presumably because the market is already saturated by everyone else.
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by dethac 7y ago
IIRC Sony's is an OLED display. Different display technology. Very expensive. Entirely different. You can't do what an OLED can do with an LCD.
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by dethac 7y ago
Isn't that thing OLED? I'm not surprised that it's 30k. It's effectively local dimming... for each pixel. Not at all comparable to Apple's HDR display.
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by dethac 7y ago
Threadripper exists for PCIe + DDR4 (less than the reported 2TiB because of no RDIMM support, but theoretically could hit 2 TiB if people start producing 256GB UDIMMs. But... 64 lanes of PCIe 3.0. 32 cores. 64 threads with SMT. 80MB of cach
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by dethac 7y ago
Probably saving golden 8 core dies for Epyc. It'll come whenever the market needs it, but right now they're doing fine without it.
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by dethac 7y ago
The 2400G existed. It's a lower end chip, but has the GPU you want.
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by dethac 7y ago
Image processing is probably offloaded to some sort of custom silicon. If that is the case, then the generational performance uplift would be massive. Consider this: Decoding a big fat X265 file on your 2012 MBP would be atrocious because i
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by dethac 7y ago
The attention to detail isn't always a good thing, though. Sometimes, they see the tree (wow, a thinner display cable) instead of the forest (this hinge has to flex thousands of times). Other times, they'll see a much thinner keyb
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by dethac 7y ago
It's undeniable that they've made aggressive hardware decisions, but... Intel dwarves their second largest competitor (AMD) in revenue by an order of magnitude... and remember, AMD sells GPUs as well. They are BY FAR the largest p
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by dethac 7y ago
I think it's good to be cautiously optimistic. Microsoft has a massive revenue source in Azure, and losing 100 million on Github to make 1 billion in Azure is... a no brainer.
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by dethac 7y ago
Can't set them as default though :(
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by dethac 7y ago
So the Pixel 3a XL loses out on resolution (the Pixel 3a does not... go figure) vs the Pixel 3 counterpart. The SD670 performs close to the SD835 in CPU, but noticeably worse in CPU. It should be noticeably worse in CPU than the 845 due to
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by dethac 7y ago
Invest in Kotlin. Kotlin is useful for Android NOW. Whenever Dart starts becoming more mainstream, you'll know and have enough time to react to it.
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by dethac 7y ago
The keyboard changes honestly make no sense. While I never used the context key (and indeed neither my 60% layout nor the original IBM Model M layout seem to have it anyway), I don't see the purpose of a Print Screen there either. The
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by dethac 7y ago
I own a T450s. Definitely no bloatware that persists through a reinstall (that was for a particular case with Lenovo's consumer lineup... completely unexcusable, but never touched ThinkPads), which I would recommend for any laptop rega
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by dethac 7y ago
These criticisms exist because Samsung does not offer first-party solutions to things such as malware detection, location sharing, storage management, caller ID, VPN, music streaming, and news aggregation. It's unclear how exactly thes
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by dethac 7y ago
The thing with keyboards is that... well, for one, scissor switches are perfectly acceptable (the ones in the 2015 MBP and older, and pretty much all laptops today). Further, the thickness of the scissor mechanism can be made to be REALLY s
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by dethac 7y ago
Thing is, for a majority of people, life in China is perfectly normal (other than maybe air quality and population density, but the Chinese government has tried hard to combat those issues). Most people are able to live normal lives where t
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by dethac 7y ago
China has more than a billion people. It might be the sentiment ONE Chinese person may have, or even a group, but one Weibo user does not represent a significant fraction of Chinese citizens. And no, I'm not even sure many people know
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by dethac 8y ago
Galaxy Buds might be worthwhile if you're willing to open it up. Supposedly it's not too hard. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+Teardown...
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by dethac 8y ago
Geekbench is, IIRC, a pretty non-representative benchmark. Nowhere is this more clear than looking at Samsung Exynos Geekbench results vs. their real-world performance. It's okay for comparing iterations on an architecture (e.g. A11 vs
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by dethac 8y ago
Huawei's phone lineup relies on offering an option for every price segment. Basically, it boils down to how much a user is willing to spend. Apple's phone lineup relies on targeting a particular market segment. If you can't a
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by dethac 8y ago
Apple has, with the iPhone, ignored region-locked devices. By doing so, they're effectively sacrificing a massive portion of the Asian market. Oh well.
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by dethac 8y ago
So... because China violates the rights of Chinese citizens, the US deserves to violate the rights of Chinese citizens? It goes both ways. I'm sure we'd all prefer if everyone would just stop violating human rights, but that isn&#
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by dethac 8y ago
Back in 2014 they issued a recall for batteries... They expanded it in 2015. IIRC it's still valid today if your battery is the original one. IIRC there wasn't any issue, but there was a risk in the design that could pose a safety
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by dethac 8y ago
You're looking at it wrong. It isn't a dent, it's an aesthetic mark to help differentiate your device and deter thieves. OMG you just don't get it do you? You must use a personal computer.

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