It's not remotely in the same ballpark as the Apple M1. The regular M1 (non-Pro) is around 2x faster in single
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Performance is nowhere close to 11th-gen. The single-core performance is on par with a 5th-gen i5, while the m
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He's right. If you're looking at it on a Hi-DPI screen (like 4K, with 200% scaling), it looks super blurry. Th
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Since Windows 10, it has been possible to remove the limit with a simple registry tweak. Even though it's not
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Yeah, I don't care for Mac OS either. For the stuff that I need to do on a laptop (web browser, Remote Desktop
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Seriously. If Apple is able to sell the base iPad at $300, there's literally no reason (other than vanity) tha
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11th-gen Intel CPU just kills this for me. Having used a MacBook Air for a little while, I would never conside
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Single-core performance is about the same as one of Intel's 8th-gen U-series processors. Multi-core performanc
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Microsoft doesn't need visibility on Steam that badly. Microsoft already owns the OS that virtually all PC gam
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Focusing on "does porting Game Pass to Steam/Linux make Game Pass better" missing the other point: you can run
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I can't imagine this will ever happen. From Microsoft's perspective, there are already 2 ways to use Game Pass
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Google makes a lot of money from the Play Store, so I don't see why they wouldn't want to have it on as many d
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Unless alternative OSes like Flex or other versions start stealing significant market share, then it's highly
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A 6-digit PIN (numbers only) is really no more secure than a 4-digit one. It is, however, a lot more annoying
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Bliss OS is Android, not Chrome OS. Depending on what you want to do, that may be a benefit. But, if what you
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2 good speakers will always sound better than 4 smaller speakers. Really, the only reason to have a quad speak
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Hard to really make any meaningful claims until benchmarks are available for these next-gen AMD parts, but Int
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If the benchmarks are to be believed, the i7-1280p falls somewhere between the M1 Pro and M1 Max, although it
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Can't credit Apple with this "innovation" since Surface Laptop 3 had USB-C and USB-A, and it was released in 2
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What Google is trying to do is fundamentally stupid and they need to stop. No one will ever willingly adopt tr
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Performance-wise, the ARM64 edition is as about as good as it can be. The issue is that there's no high-perfor
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Chrome derivatives like Brave, Vivaldi, and just plain Chromium represent tens of millions of users. I serious
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You think Firefox is more like Chrome than Edge is? On mobile? I think Edge has a lot more in common with Chro
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Their market share went up and you're concerned? That actually sounds like good news to me, because I'd expect
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Definitely, there's no reason Mint should be wasting their time doing their only Firefox distro. I assumed the
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One change should be immediately obvious; because Mint was bundling a browser based on Firefox but didn't actu
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If it has never crossed your mind, then maybe it is because you have never tried to leave the Apple ecosystem.
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SAME. Every time they have one of these disputes, I'm like, "great, take away those channels, and lower the da
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I love that Vivaldi provides a Firefox-level of customizability to the Chromium engine, but all that power com
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The 7c Gen 2 is just basically just a 5-6% improvement from the slight bump in clock speed. The performance of
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In short, as a productivity device or touch-first tablet, HP is hands-down better. For watching movies, the Le
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I didn't say it was Google's fault, but Google could "solve the iMessage problem" by building a competitive se
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I've been using a similar app (DNS66) for years, and there's really no impact to the battery whatsoever. Thoug
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I always assumed that Google did not allow apps like this in the app store, which is why similar apps like DNS
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You can only connect to one VPN at a time, so it won't work in combination with another VPN. Virtually everyth
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Hacking new extensions onto a standard is how progress is made. It's how TV went from B/W to color. It's how w
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This may solve an iMessage problem but not *the* iMessage problem. If Google wanted to fix the real iMessage p
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It can. That's the whole point of what was announced today.
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I'm not saying it will never catch on in the future, I'm just saying that this isn't the device that's going t
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He says, "enthusiasts will probably be more interested in this mini-PC than will be most developers," mentions
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Sure, but some other people might be considering buying it as a low-cost, energy-efficient PC, and they should
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The reason why is that it would cost $800 and still be slower than similarly priced NUC-type systems with Inte
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Even at $219, this thing is overpriced for anything other than as a developer test bed. There are lots of sub-
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"in every feature that opens a browser" Devil's advocate here, but maybe this is the reason for the change? Be
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Not defending what Microsoft is doing here, but you might be surprised to learn that switching your default br
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The fact that you CAN register the same fingerprint twice is a bad thing. When you register a finger the first
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My guess is that, like Apple, Google has decided that moderate charging speeds of just over 20W are the optima
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The win is that text and pictures look way sharper and you can't see the individual pixels. It's not so much a
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This thing is a mess. The N4020 and N4120 are already 2 years old. Their replacements, the N4500 and N5100 tha
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You'd think so, but not really. The idle power draw is really no better than Intel's "big core" laptop CPUs, s
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HP makes a cheap Chromebook x360 that has a 1366x912 display, which is roughly 3:2, but I would also have sett
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Phones (well, the iPhone, at least) started with 4GB, so they had a lot more room to grow. The average person
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Sure, they could, but battery life would take a hit, and really, nobody cares what video calls look like anywa
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Isn't this just Honeycomb all over again? They made a UI for tablets, and then they just gave up and merged it
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I think the time that Apple takes to do updates is outside of what I consider reasonable, given the speed the
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That dude is delusional. According to the leaked scores on Geekbench, Alder Lake single-thread performance is
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Funny, I have the exact opposite view of updates on Mac. This update was 12.3 GB -- how?! Why is the download
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There's a big difference though. In this new update, Apple is supporting certain models from as far back as 20
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I think that Windows 11 + Android apps (if probably implemented in a seamless way), could be awesome. It just
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The notch is really a non-issue because Macs have always has a "software notch" that covers the full width of
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Nobody ever thought Apple was going to bring out a cheap big-screen laptop. The MacBook Air is the less expens
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It should be said, all they've delivered so far is their first generation laptop, and it will be years before
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The company is called Framework, and they're available now. Starts at $1000 for a run-of-the-mill i5/8GB confi
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The instruction set is called x86-64, AMD64, Intel 64, or just x64. x86 is not dead, it's still shipping in ev
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Not even 4 years old. There are lots of cheap laptops out there PCs still being sold new today with Celeron N3
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"Longer than nearly anyone else in the industry... except Linux." So basically worse than everyone but Apple?
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What is the argument against supporting older hardware? I support hundreds of people who get by just fine with
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It looks really outdated, so yeah, I'd say it does need a visual refresh. If nothing else, it should support l
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VLC on Mac looks nothing like it does on Windows and Linux.
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"It looks awful" and "I'll stick with VLC" is pretty funny, considering VLC hasn't gotten a visual refresh in
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Never going to happen. DVD is a dead format but still costs money to license all the patents. Similar situatio
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Apple probably sold more pre-orders of the iPad mini on day one than Samsung sold in the entire lifespan of th
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This is not something that can be fixed in a software update, they'd have to change the screen orientation in
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Some people are more sensitive to these kinds of effects. There's a lot of people who don't see rainbows with
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The iPad Classic is a better value if you want a tablet/laptop hybrid, but I don't want that. Sure, it's cheap
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Microsoft no "officially" supporting older hardware means that your job as a developer remains more difficult.
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That doesn't really make sense, because there's nothing different from a hardware perspective between supporte
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The only interesting new thing in Windows 11 from a feature perspective is Android app support, and that's not
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It's not more secure, and I too would like to know why Microsoft is claiming that it is. Logically, 2FA is mor
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I'm disappointed they didn't keep the same starting price. $400 was already a lot for a small tablet that is p
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Virtualization is no more efficient on ARM-based Macs than on anything else. I think you're confusing virtuali
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Not really. This just is a chance for mobile devs to reach hundreds of millions of new customers. If you devel
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Benefits will be different for everyone. Maybe you want to control your smart home stuff, but your smart bulbs
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16GB is recommended, not required. 8GB is required.
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Think about it. The lowest of low-end Android phones have 4GB of RAM these days, and can barely keep one or tw
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What's ironic is that of all the manufacturers out there, Apple is the one company that least needs it's own c
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I'd love to see some higher-end ARM SoCs in Chromebooks. The low-end Mediatek chips that are in the few ARM-ba
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I've seen a lot of laptops, and can't be that common if I've never seen it. The fact you can't buy one of thes
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It uses virtually no power, because it's a trivial task for a modern CPU. The advantage of encrypting the whol
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Not sure how the 16:9 screen helps portability, it just makes for a slightly wider device with comical amount
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"and a micro-HDMI port that can be outfitted with the included Ethernet dongle for wired connectivity, a nice
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These sorts of partitioning schemes are silly. Used to be helpful in the pre-Win7 days when annual Windows rei
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That's your opinion, but the fact is that Bezos has no day-to-day involvement with editorial decisions. and ne
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Bezos doesn't really have editorial control of the Washington Post. Dude's worth $200-billion dollars, you thi
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The Lenovo Chromebook Duet retails for like $279, comes with a keyboard, no stylus, but Lenovo's USI stylus is
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The X2 11" isn't a bad tablet for $300. For $600 it's a joke. You could buy an iPad Air or a Surface Go. You c
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It's cool that you have a current-gen system that meets all the requirements, but not everyone does. I have a
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Just because you can install Firefox doesn't mean that Opera isn't the "first alternative browser optimized fo
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You expressed your opinion -- that you would prefer if this laptop had a touchscreen -- and I expressed mine.
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30 Hz is not enough unless you're just talking about static images. Just moving the mouse cursor around feels
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This thing is huge compared to Apple's MacBook (2015-2017), which was powered by an Intel CPU at 14nm (which w
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If they're claiming 10.5 hours of battery, that means you'll probably get 6 hours under normal use, and with a
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Totally agree. I have an i7-4790K that I've been waiting for years to upgrade but never did because, until the
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Yeah, Apple definitely doesn't always get things right. Beginning at least with Windows 2.0, you could resize
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I think that you're overlooking some of the "notable window management innovations" in Win95. The introduction
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Paul has expressed his opinion on various podcasts that he doesn't think it's a big issue, that everyone is ov
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These are very different circumstances though. Google offers Bing as an option in Chrome, but that doesn't mea
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I don't really see why it's required at all. I mean, it's useful to not have to type in a drive decryption pas
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I just never really thought of putting on the right because kind of used to seeing Ubuntu's layout. I guess le
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Yeah, but virtually every Intel and AMD CPU in the past 15+ years has been 64-bit. Unless you are still someho
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Is there a better placement for ultra-wide monitors than bottom? Sure, it takes up less space on the left, but
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Microsoft was already working with Google? Certainly not on building Android into Windows. My guess is that Go
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64-bit: I'm sure they're not making changes to how Windows runs 32-bit apps, just no longer offering a 32-bit
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Yeah, all those brands you mentioned just don't exist in America. I've imported a few Xiaomi phones, and I lik
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It would be useful in your case. Hypothetically, you drag files up to the tab bar (or push Ctrl+Tab), that tab
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There was an extension for Firefox that I used to use forever ago that would segment the URL and make each por
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Of course this does nothing, and that's why I suggested what I did -- make it difficult to choose Google. "The
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EU trade law is typically more concerned with protecting the ability of smaller EU-based companies to compete
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Yeah, but then the status quo doesn't change. The whole point is that this is supposed to be punitive. Current
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I'm not a Google fan, but I kind of don't get the point of changes like these. If you aren't technically incli
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Is the dictation in Word and Outlook any different than using the speech-to-text that's built into the keyboar
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Yeah, I didn't mean to imply they're not decent products, just that the speed at which Apple moves is pathetic
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iOS and iPad OS development has always proceeded at a glacial pace. iOS 3 introduced basic features that shoul
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When I said "the only browser out there" I was thinking about standalone cross-platform browsers, not Apple's
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If Firefox wants to be as much like Chrome as they can be, then why are they the only browser out there that's
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This is exactly what Apple does. Making it harder for 3rd parties to track you -- while putting no limit on wh
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Really, the font rendering thing is just a difference of philosophy. Chrome's blurry font rendering is done th
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Chrome's blurry fonts used to be a big problem and it was one of the major reasons I never really switched awa
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It says right in the article, "this enables code reuse across platforms," which is the answer, but it still le
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The Snapdragon 7c is literally 3x the speed of the Raspberry Pi, but that's still pretty slow. It's between th
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I regularly have out-of-memory crashes with Opera, which is very annoying as I have 32 GB of RAM and nowhere c
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Nice for the people who want this feature, but for everyone else it seems like a massive invasion of privacy t
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Itself. 50 watts for a CPU (though Intel's latest will actually go higher than that while boosting), 150 watts
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It will still be slow and overpriced compared to similar Intel/AMD. Great battery life isn't such a great bene
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Also, I think the size of the lettering is meant to imply that the "big" cores are for short, bursty workloads
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I spent about a little over an hour troubleshooting this issue for a client, before realizing it was a bug tha
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On smartphone and their high-end tablets maybe (they certainly make the best OLED panels), but the LCD display
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The Chrome browser for Android browser might work well for you, but it certainly doesn't for me. Doesn't suppo
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Maybe, but Brave (and other browsers) have supported background playback on Android forever, and desktop brows
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Yes, and no. Google forces OEMs to preinstall a number of apps (Play Store, Gmail, Maps, Chrome, etc.), but th
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The Galaxy Tab S7 and Plus are nice for what they are, but when you consider that you can get an iPad for $300
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Google has given up on Android tablets. They shifted focus to Chrome OS for tablets and convertibles -- for li
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"part of an Android update" These are Android tablets we're talking about here, they almost never get updated.
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This is why they need to be broken up. Separate "the pipes" -- which should be a public utility, like water pi
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To be fair, for Microsoft it might have actually made some kind of sense. Microsoft wanted a search engine and
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In reply to glenn8878:I suspect that actually is part of the reason. They could afford to lose the revenue the
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In reply to scovious:But what if you have a PC with integrated graphics? Even the best iGPUs can barely hit pl
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Wouldn't disagree with you about the iPad being "literally the best," but it st
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In reply to RM:It's the largest, so maybe that's why. Personally, I don't like the flat sides o
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In reply to obarthelemy:The Lenovo Tab M10 FHD Plus is not the worst tablet in the world, and I'd certain
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Xbox game streaming barely works at home between Xbox and a PC on Wi-Fi. I can't imagine cloud streaming
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In reply to scovious:Whatever eventually happens to Google will be a slap on the wrist compared to how differe
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In reply to brduffy:Maybe, but wireless charging is terribly inefficient, and if you leave a device on a wirel
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In reply to Pbike908:Roku is not kicking them off, Google is threatening to pull the app if Roku will not make
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In reply to bettyblue:Unfortunately, you're wrong, there are plenty of reasons to buy Intel, depending on
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In reply to Username:I'm guessing they don't want the Evo branding for the same reason they don'
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It seems pretty obvious to me: there's no chance that any non-Google browser is going to support tech tha
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In reply to Paul_Nelson:Android is one big lock. Want a phone, but don't want to pay the Apple tax -- $80
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In reply to RonH:Signal does integrate with SMS, but only on Android. Back when it was called TextSecure, all
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In reply to RonH:Allo and Duo should never have existed as separate apps in the first place. Google just needs
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I dream of the day when I can just sit down at my desk and tap the fingerprint sensor and I'm instantly l
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In reply to Mcgillivray:Theoretically it could be, but it's already pretty expensive and making it wirele
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In reply to pecosbob04:Who said the iPhone is a failure? If I recall, Balmer said, "$500 for phone?", and call
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In reply to Mcgillivray:I'm not a Premium member, but it's absolutely true that almost nobody was wi
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In reply to rupertholmes:You must be joking. Sure, it was a good camera at the time, but literally every flags
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In reply to robincapper:Metal can interfere with signals like NFC and wireless charging, so no metal backs. Pl
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In reply to Kevin_Costa:Windows has dark context menus in dark mode.
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Intel's processors are not really competitive with AMD at the high-end or ARM at the low-end of the marke
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In reply to Vladimir:Maybe it's not so much about Microsoft being better or worse, and just about having
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I can say with a fairly high degree of certainty that this is a marketing/branding gimmick and nothing more. H
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In reply to SRLRacing:Like others have said, Bitwarden is the best drop-in replacement for LastPass. It does a
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In reply to cavalier_eternal:You can also use additional monitors using USB "DisplayLink" adapters. It's
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In reply to MikeGalos:The vast majority of USB devices that people might actually use, like webcams, hard driv
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In reply to Greg Green:No, because my point was that AMD doesn't make a CPU what runs on less than 15W, a
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In reply to dftf:AMD still has a way to go in terms of scaling down. Intel has Y-series (formerly Core M) and
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In reply to shark47:Edgebook, perfect for the Edge-ucation market.
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In reply to b6gd:Yeah, they do in all browsers. All extensions operate as they normally would in a browser win
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In reply to egab:I use YouTube TV as a pseudo PWA. Sure, I could just use it as a tab in a browser, but it
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In reply to chrisltd:Remote Desktop on Chrome OS is totally broken by the lack of a Windows key and a proper d
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In reply to oscar999:No. The vast majority of keyboards are not mechanical. Most keyboards use either rubber d
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I think it was fair question. When evaluating the Mac Mini, it seemed that your main
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In reply to Andrusoid:If you open the start menu or hit the search button and type "reset", it will find the "
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In reply to oscar999:For $80, it would be worth it. At the price that Apple charges it's really not worth
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In reply to Piras:I can't say what Paul's reasons are here (he really doesn't say anything crit
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One thing to note about the powerwash feature of Chrome OS: it's almost certainly not actually powerwashi
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In reply to dstrauss:I'd really recommend that anyone getting anything with an OLED screen for any kind o
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Pretty crazy that Windows 10 will run on any PC from (realistically) the last 15 years, and yet Google and Qua
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In reply to sammyg:It might seem crazy, but is it really? Apple sent out dev kits like 6 months ago. Chrome an
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In reply to obarthelemyTruly, there is nothing to try out. It's Chrome, the web browser you can install o
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In reply to scovious:Not only is it happening, It's really quite popular in schools, especially now that
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In reply to Minke:I agree with a lot of your points, but I'm still totally baffled about what Google gets
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This sounds like, "we track you and deliver news to you, so others can't track you" to me. It's the
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In reply to walterwood44:It specifically says that some of these features will be on devices running Android 6
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In reply to wunderbar:The GPU in the Series S is around 4 teraflops, which means it's much closer to the
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In reply to Michael_Goff:This is not true. Third-party apps can't send SMS messages on iOS, but you could
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In reply to longhorn:Google's implementation actually does bypass the carriers somewhat, which is how it&
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Wake me up when they release Google Messages for iPhone so you can have cross-platform encrypted chats. Since
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Definitely the one to get if you have to get one of this years Google phone, but it's too bad they couldn
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In reply to Waethorn:ARM Chromebooks have unlockable bootloaders, just the Windows ones do. It's not as e
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In reply to longhorn:Apple already accepts old devices for recycling, but that's not what I'm talkin
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Drivers and firmware updates are great and all, but most important is how long you get OS updates. Like, when
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In reply to paul-thurrott:If the Intel Air is anything to go by, then it's going to be throttled intentio
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In reply to Waethorn:Power delivery (PD) is a common feature of USB-C hubs/docks. Power goes into the hub and
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In reply to Waethorn:Sure, but eGPU + everything else is still just two ports. I still don't get how any
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In reply to Saarek:Professionals that have all that money to spend on a MacBook Pro and need 4 ports can affor
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In reply to spiderman2:Even the very best Ryzen integrated graphics are basically incapable of hitting frame r
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In reply to Saarek:Do you really need more than 2 USB-C ports? Unless the problem is that both ports are on th
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In reply to basic sandbox:Intel's integrated graphics for the last 5 years have been great for video play
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In reply to Waethorn:This is just a first step, it's not like they couldn't put more memory in there
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In reply to james.h.robinson:Mac laptops have all had soldered memory for 5 years. Mini and iMac have been upg
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In reply to lvthunder:Qualcomm probably could, they just charge WAY too much for their chips because they incl
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In reply to RobertJasiek:As I understand it, all US iPhones have special hardware (antenna, maybe a different
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In reply to jlmerrill:While I'm tempted by the size and cheaper price of the iPhone 12 Mini, I know that
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Just as there is a natural limit to how wide a phone should be, there's also li
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Preferable in some circumstances, but unusable in others. For example, I use Remote
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In reply to obarthelemy:All those phones that you mention are not available in the United States. Until recent
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In reply to RobertJasiek:I too was a little disappointed by the pricing, but you can't really blame AMD f
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In reply to cavalier_eternal:I don't think you understand how streaming royalties work. Yes, they are sta
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In reply to OntarioPundit:This is not the same. If you find Costco's terms disagreeable, you can sell you
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In reply to Waethorn:Consumers are not responsible for Apple and Google's policies, they're victims
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In reply to ngc224:Hardly. This is just Google acting how a duopoly acts, "if Apple can do it, so can we." Thi
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In reply to SvenJ:As of yesterday, there was: Apple blocked the WordPress app and was forcing WordPress to add
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In reply to mau47:Apple's abuse here is worse than you're describing. WordPress told Apple that they
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In reply to curtisspendlove:My understanding is that the cost is negligible. Apple has peering agreements with
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I'm surprised it took them this long to basically end up where they started with a mostly Chromium-based
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In reply to dftf:I haven't tried Vivaldi on mobile, but I mostly dislike it on the desktop. With 3 sepera
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In reply to mattemt294:I think it would also be fair say that the people who care about high-end apps and game
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In reply to jcbeckman:Good to know. The last time I used an iPhone, it definitely wasn't a option, but th
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"Obviously, paying the owner of a rival platform looks bad." How is it bad for Google? The fact that Google ha
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I do think that Microsoft has been overly aggressive in both auto-installing and auto-launching Teams on log-o
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Amazon's got a Lenovo Flex 5 with a Ryzen 5 4500U and 16 GB of RAM for $599. I'd gladly pay $599 for
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Because of how overpriced the Qualcomm-powered WoA devices are, competing at scale i
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In reply to JG1170:You're wrong. I am a "road warrior" and there's almost nothing I can't do on
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Microsoft really screwed the pooch when they decided to exclusively partner with Qualcomm for WoA. There was n
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Still not really competitive with ARM. These little "Atom" cores are an iteration on Goldmont, which come in a
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In reply to bluvg:Their own chips, which are as fast as Intel's chips, but more efficient. If they weren&
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It's worth mentioning here that Brendan Eich is a bad guy who got forced out of Mozilla because he suppor
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In reply to nbplopes:What about it? You think Microsoft should be broken up? Maybe. But Microsoft doesn't
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In reply to HellcatM:I've followed tech for decades and I've literally never heard of Spectrum, so I
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"And Google has been trying to wean itself from this singular source of revenue; a decade ago, 99 percent of G
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In reply to RobertJasiek:The reason that the Expertbook is able to provide that kind of battery life is becaus
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Brave needs to provide actual sync functionality before they can really claim to be an alternative to Firefox
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In reply to dftf:I'm not sure where you heard this, but it's not true. It's not just Secure DNS
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In reply to doubledeej:What's there to deny? Google never said that Incognito browsing would stop website
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In reply to red77star:Storage spaces is a lot more flexible than Dynamic Disks. The only "good" thing Dynamic
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I'm sure they'll be great, but I'm not paying those prices. An iPhone 11 costs $699. $899 for t
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Launching another iteration of this same design with an Intel chip is such a wasted opportunity. The giant bez
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In reply to nbplopes:1) Similar performance, much longer battery life, and/or thinner and lighter with smaller
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In reply to glenn8878:(1) Mac OS is "gimped" in all sorts of ways. Only runs on Apple hardware. Like Windows o
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In reply to johnh3:It's a big phone, for sure, but I have a Mi Max 3 that's actually a quite a bit b
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In reply to steam960:Give it up, man. Windows Phone is dead. Microsoft could ship this thing running Windows 1
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In reply to LocalPCGuy:I tend to agree with you, but I think moving up to 8 years (from 5 or less) makes this
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In reply to lilmoe:Yeah, but it's not a bigger screen, just a taller one, and it's not the same size
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In reply to proesterchen:The smallest one is still a pretty big phone. Not by modern standards, but it'll
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In reply to lilmoe:It doesn't help. Sure, some keyboards can be resized, but it's still really awkwa
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I was never going to buy this anyway, but the 20:9 aspect ratio is a total deal-breaker for me, and really dis
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In reply to ChuckDavis666:This simply isn't true anymore. It was certainly the case 15 years ago with the
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In reply to paragon:Microsoft doesn't use end-to-end encryption for any of your account data. They do not
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In reply to techguy33:Sadly, no. I honestly don't know how Chrome users live with it. It actually looks o
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It's worth noting that for all of Microsoft's talk about privacy and tracking, if you use Edge and s
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In reply to My Hell baby speaking:The new Edge is using Chrome's rendering engine, so it has the same blu
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It seems odd to me that they're supporting Windows 7 at all with a new browser that hasn't actually
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In reply to proesterchen:You may not care, and I don't really care either, but that doesn't mean tha
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In reply to proesterchen:Makes complete sense to me. Microsoft Launcher is there to integrate with -- and push
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Maybe privacy groups should just make their own Android-based operating system that respect users' privac
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In reply to Fuller1754:You can disable it, but not totally uninstall it from the system partition. If you coul
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In reply to Lrayh82:It is bad for lithium batteries to be fully charged and at 100% for extended periods of ti
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Qualcomm is monopolizing the phone market exactly the same way that Intel did with laptops. Intel used to just
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In reply to red.radar:There are some sites -- though very few -- that are broken if you turn Brave's bloc
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What I don't understand is WHY these features won't ship. These are features that Google has already
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When I first read that Microsoft worked with Qualcomm to design a Snapdragon that uses as much power as an Int
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In reply to Harpocrates:I'd be perfectly happy if it shipped with just 64 GB of storage. It's a port
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Why the heck would you want a 7-watt ARM CPU? Intel has perfectly fine chips that use 7W and perform at least
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It's very frustrating that the gesture system is so busted that Google is only letting people who use the
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In reply to Thom77:Even more annoying is how the touch keyboard has a tendency to cover the text box you'
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In reply to Thom77:eMMC in Windows can be slow because of what Windows does with it -- tons of background proc
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In reply to EndoftheRoad:It depends on what you do with it. Windows uses around 2GB of RAM before you launch a
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In reply to behindmyscreen:If you use a sync passphrase, Google can't see any of the browser info that yo
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Wake me up when they support an encryption passphrase like Chrome does. Browser syncing is a useful feature, b
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There's no possible way that the mid-range processor power of the phone has anything do with the casting
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Game streaming on a local-area network barely works if you're not hardwired (good Wi-Fi still isn't
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Samsung had "air gestures" like 7 years ago, and it's a feature that nobody cared about such that nobody
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In reply to Rob_Wade:The Xbox is a game console, so if you don't play games on it then why even have it a
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How about how they're blocking New Edge from using YouTube TV entirely? Was working fine until a few days
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In reply to MachineGunJohn:Yeah, I was confused by Paul's framing here as other sites reported the opposi
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In reply to unkinected:Qualcomm's stock shot up by about 40% after the settlement was announced. If that
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In reply to codymesh:Firefox does this on Android, as do many other browsers, for what it's worth. It
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This price makes sense if it's a discless version of the One X. I don't see why they'd launch a
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In reply to madthinus:Firefox is is basically the only thing that Mozilla does, so what else would they pour t
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Does syncing let you set a passphrase like other Chromium based browsers, or is Microsoft getting access to yo
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In reply to LurkingGrue:I love Firefox and that is a really nice feature, but Firefox needs a lot of work in o
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How is the font rendering -- good like old Edge, or blurry like Chrome?
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What interests me most is whether they fix the font rendering (smoothing) in Chromium or not. Text in Chrome l
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In reply to RM:I doubt you will see extensions come to the Android app. Chrome does not support extensions on
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In reply to red.radar:The handling of extensions is part of Chromium, which is how all other Chromium-based br
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Instead of virtual desktops, why not add some useful features? Ctrl+Tab on Chrome still doesn't switch ta
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The have been more than 4 generational changes in iPhone design. The iPhone 5 was as big a leap from the 4 and
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In reply to spacein_vader:It's a common misconception that not installing one Office app or another will
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I was a diehard CableCard and WMC guy, but when YouTube TV came along I was finally able to ditch the CableCar
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In reply to CaedenV:That second one, the feature that poorly guesses what metadata to add to untagged files, a
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In reply to CasualAdventurer:Would love to agree with you about the touch keyboard, but I can't because t
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All they need to do now is take it down to a 12" 16:10 screen, get rid of the extra half-inch on each side of
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If you're looking for a traditional laptop, there are better, just-as-good, or way cheaper (but still fin
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OneDrive syncing is still broken on the one laptop on 1809 that I didn't roll back to 1803. I hope they f
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“It’s our intention to support existing Chrome extensions” is almost the exact same verbiage they used w
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In reply to dontbe_evil:It's a bit of a different situation. IE was proprietary and restricted to a singl
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I don't see what the fuss is with 5G. It's going to require new towers everywhere, it will take fore
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In reply to Stooks:Creating an iMessage-like service for Android would actually be really easy -- basically ju
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Hangouts is how I receive Google Voice calls on my tablet, and Hangouts Dialer is required to make VoIP call w
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Haven't seen many people talking about it, but 1809 broke OneDrive for me. I literally have to restart my
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In reply to pachi:The iPhone Xr (as the "standard" iPhone), is the biggest upgrade in years, but it's not
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Did Microsoft change the way OneDrive works in 1809? On every PC I've installed it on, anytime I make cha
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Nice to see they're going to keep going with their own gestures. Google's system is not remotely rea
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In reply to Glassman1234:The OnePlus 6 got updated to Pie like a month ago, and they were the first manufactur
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In reply to James_Wilson:Not hard to tell these apart from an iPhone at all. The iPhone has a much wider notch
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In reply to Angusmatheson:Android apps are just about as secure as any other app platform, and far more secure
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In reply to jimchamplin:Android One updates come from the handset maker, not from Google. So, basically, other
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In reply to ghostrider:You should try a phone with a notch. It's not a big deal. The software works aroun
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In reply to RoHo:OnePlus is high-end, and this is solidly mid-range. OnePlus includes a much nicer AMOLED scre
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In reply to NCaffo:Great support is relative, but still not guaranteed even with Android One . How many Androi
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Microsoft was heavily criticized for not adding USB-C *last year*, so the fact they're going another year
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The 32-bit console era is not one that I have any interest in revisiting. PSX games basically fall into one of
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In reply to Truffles:Microsoft already has Office in the Play Store, and it works fine in Chrome OS, or you ca
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I'm fine with this being on by default as a security feature -- similar to UAC -- just as long as it appl
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In reply to MikeGalos:Chrome OS was designed so you could use Google's browser to access Google's se
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Now that Android Messages (or whatever Google's official messaging app is called) supports doing this on
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Joined the Insider program yesterday to try out the most recent versions and, after the upgrade finished, "mod
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In reply to DadCooks:The carriers have veto power, as nearly all US phones are sold through their stores, and
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"Android now supports" implies that this fix applies to all versions of Android, which is obviously not the ca
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Even at $70, it's not worth it. That not-even-HD screen will make reading a chore, and 1GB of RAM renders
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Paul, you should check out Cricket Wireless. $30/month gets you 2GB of high-speed data, and they will throttle
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In reply to m_p_w_84:WhatsApp users are already locked into Facebook's chat platform. If anything, it
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In reply to Otto_Gunter:I'm not saying that anyone in particular shouldn't buy it -- if it meets you
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I firmly believe that the next generation of the Surface Go -- one that is ARM-based and gets 10 hours of real
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This looks like good news to me. The processor easily beats the Pentium in the Surface Go in both single- and
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When is Apple going to support multi-user on iOS? That's what I want to know. The fact that it's sti
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In reply to F4IL:Normally I'd agree with you as I certainly prefer that aspect ratio on the Surface lapto
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In reply to PeteB:What if you don't want Google to have all your photos? Also, a lot of people hate Apple
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In reply to sshap23:Every Android tablet, I assume. Android is Android.
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In reply to Letsmakeitbetter:"A proud American brand" that builds all its products in China, makes billions in
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In reply to jaredthegeek:In addition to default apps, the lack of a user-accessible file system, very poor 3rd
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This is fine, I guess, but plastic pretty easily scratched, which is why smartphones are all covered in scratc
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Modern eMMC isn't all that bad. On a tablet, where the only way to get data on o
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In reply to quikah:Yeah, something's not right. The N5000 rumored to be in the cheaper model is actually
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In reply to MikeGalos:Basically everything but the MacBook Air, which hasn't been redesigned since 2010.
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Worst design failure since antennagate? I'm not so sure. Bendgate, and the associated "touch disease" was
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In reply to Mike_Brady:Podcast Addict has more options and is far more tweakable than Pocket Casts, which has
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"Shape writing" is already available in 1803. I don't recall if it was in 1709 or not, but it's defi
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I've personally installed this upgrade on dozens of systems, all different, and haven't really had a
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Interesting that Samsung, who manufactures their own high-end ARM processors as well as the Snapdragon 845 has
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In reply to skane2600:External storage devices would work fine. Certain things that rely on generic device dri
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This hardware looks nice, but I can't imagine why anyone would pay higher-than-iPad prices for tablets li
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I listen to a ton of podcasts, but it's going to take a lot for Google to get me interested in even tryin
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In reply to lilmoe:Omit the efficiency cluster and put 2 high-performance clusters in there. ARM's perfor
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In reply to CaedenV:The OnePlus 6 has a headphone jack. Also, check out JerryRigEverything's teardown on
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In reply to obarthelemy:I actually imported a Mi5 (not from Gearbest, but from a similar site). It took a mont
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In reply to obarthelemy:Xiaomi doesn't sell phones in America. Also, most Xiaomi (and all Redmi) phones d
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In reply to lilmoe:I'd throw Xiaomi in there, too. Obviously they have no presence in the US, but they�
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In reply to NT6.1:Unfortunately, Edge is still the only browser that works well with a touch screen on Windows
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In reply to Waethorn:That would be a very different comparison -- apples and oranges. I'm sure Microsoft&
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In reply to Daekar:Preinstalling Candy Crush Soda Saga, and reinstalling it (among other apps) after the user
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In reply to Thayios:You should watch some of the videos of the controller in action. It's not just a one-
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In reply to Waethorn:Yeah, I meant the death of Atom as a 2W SoC product aimed at the consumer tablet market.
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With the death of Atom, Intel does not have a chipset to put into a 10-inch tablet that can possibly meet that
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In reply to unkinected:Set IS just tabs -- tabbed windows with different apps running within. I regularly will
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In reply to JoePaulson:Edge coming into its own will be when they start pushing monthly feature updates to Edg
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"I know for sure that I will never, ever be buying an x86 laptop ever again, Windows or otherwise. My next lap
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Very interested in the 120 Hz support, but I'm curious about what games will support it, if any. There�
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In reply to Dick_O_Rosary:It's a bit of a trade off, but if you're buying a $700 computer, you proba
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In reply to MikeGalos:The Surface 3 wasn't limited to Store apps. There's a version of Lightroom in
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In reply to jaredthegeek:Even the best ARM chips are significantly slower than Intel's latest Core M chip
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In reply to MikeGalos:Hardware-wise, it's a Surface Pro competitor. Same size screen, Intel 7th gen Core
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In reply to XCLN:Horrendous keyboard, and Android is not Chrome OS. Not really a competitor.
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In reply to skane2600:"The point is the inadequacy of Windows on ARM to run non-UWP legacy applications"WoA ca
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In reply to karma77police:"Actually the latest edition of Adobe Collection removed 32bit. They are going 64bit
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In reply to jamJAR:"SolidWorks current releases are 64 bit only."Fair enough, but you probably couldn't r
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In reply to skane2600:"I'm not a gamer but here's a list of 64-bit only games (not all for Windows 1
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In reply to WithinRafael:Photoshop is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, right? You don't need
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In reply to lvthunder:Name one -- I'm genuinely curious, because I can't think of a single 64-bit-on
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There's no such thing as "classic 64-bit desktop apps" on Windows. The vast majority of legacy Windows ap
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In reply to Michael_Miller:The much better, 120 Hz display is a huge point of differentiation. People who want
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In reply to skane2600:A $299 Mac laptop would completely destroy the market for the $999 (and up) Mac laptops.
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In reply to Waethorn:iOS is cheaper if you don't want the pen. I certainly wouldn't have any use for
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In reply to Bats:Newer doesn't always mean better. The Galaxy S8 is six months older than the Pixel 2, an
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In reply to yangstax:Don't get too excited. Huawei's cameras have never outperformed other flagships
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In reply to waclark57:The battery life on the Alpha 12 is horrendous though. If you need to be off the charger
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In reply to Daekar:There are people who spend $100 on a T-shirt, $6 on a cup of coffee, and $130K on a car. $1
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In reply to Soccerush:Grover is Windows-only, whereas Pocket Casts is cross platform (iOS, Android, web).
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In reply to Daekar:This thing is $1000. As long as they're limiting Windows-on-ARM to Qualcomm 800-series
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In reply to evox81:Windows 10 updates are FAR more reliable than Windows 7 ever was. In the Windows 7 days, I
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It's impossible to recommend this phone when the OnePlus 5T is hundreds less, even after this discount. I
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In reply to Otto_Gunter:Don't get too excited. On a big tablet like the Surface Pro, compared to Intel�
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In reply to wshwe:Unfortunately, it will be a log time before we see such devices. Snapdragon 835 is way too e
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In reply to arunphilip:Hyper-V specifically requires virtualization support in x86 CPUs (e.g., VT-x and AMD-V)
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In reply to alexangas:Yeah, they say that every time. Nominally, VLC supports hardware acceleration. But if yo
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In reply to karma77police:3:2 is actually and ideal ratio for a tablet or laptop -- a portable device not mean
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VLC has never properly supported GPU acceleration for some reason, so that's why the battery drain is hig
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It's impossible to recommend this phone to anyone when the OnePlus 5T exists and costs $300 less. If it w
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In reply to SvenJ:Everywhere? $200 is the full retail price of Pro.
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Is Microsoft ever going to stop gouging customers who buy retail copies of Windows? Because component prices f
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These battery life claims are totally bogus. There's quite a few Chromebooks out there with ARM processor
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In reply to lilmoe:Why did you think that ARM would reduce the cost? Snapdragon 835 phones start at $650. You
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In reply to nerocui:You could say the same about EVERY Android phone that isn't directly supported by Goo
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Very odd that Microsoft bothered to announce and demo Windows on ARM so long ago if they had no actual plans t
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In reply to Phuor:Those aren't photos, they're screenshots captured from the output of the console.
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In reply to ScottMitchell:It's pretty clear that loading times are one area where the CPU is the bottlene
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In reply to MikeGalos:It's noteworthy that Firefox uses its own rendering engine on Android. As a result,
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As a person who has suffered with Google Voice ever since it was still called GrandCentral, Project Fi sounds
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In reply to Nicholas_Kathrein:I see all the same holes on the US Cellular coverage maps that T-Mobile and Spri
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You should consider dropping Google Fi. It's no cheaper/better than plain-old T-Mobile. T-Mobile does in
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Snapdragon 630 is not a high-end processor. It's the mid-range successor to the 625. It's about half
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In reply to bzakharin:You can still do location-based stuff with a system like Google is proposing, and messag
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In reply to Waethorn:iPhones have battery capacities about 30% smaller than competing Android phones. If Googl
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In reply to Michael Rivers:Carriers are not the problem with updates any more. Want proof? Buy an unlocked And
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I don't understand how they can manage to support all these languages but can't manage basic stuff l
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In reply to euskalzabe:The XPS 13 starts at $799. Yes, you can spend a lot more than that if you want too, but
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It's a very bad sign when every new Edge extension is a newsworthy event. "1 down, 1 million to go!" Edge
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In reply to karma77police:I basically agree with you. Windows 10 is a desktop/laptop OS only, and ARM chips wo
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In reply to obarthelemy:Nobody can truly answer your question until we see some actual shipping hardware, but
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In reply to euskalzabe:So, you basically just want a slightly lighter XPS13 with a (formerly) Core-M? Basicall
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In reply to DataMeister:I have a feeling that it isn't about tech support stress, rather the cost vs. the
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In reply to dontbe_evil:The Play Store has thousands and thousands of legit apps, and legit apps tend to drown
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In reply to Stooks:The cheapest Mac you can get starts at $1000, and those with decent screens start at $1300.
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In reply to MikeG:Windows 10 runs fine on anything with 2GB of memory and at least a Core 2 Duo, which is basi
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Chromium has begun to replace Firefox as the default browser on some flavors of Linux, but you can definitely
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In reply to Detective Polarphant:I've seen more than a few different versions over the last few years. Mo
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In reply to anthonyhollings:The reasoning was the same -- RT and S were meant to be operating systems free of
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Everyone just needs to use Crashplan. You can use it with local storage or your own server, and it does everyt
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In reply to Waethorn:The problem with high pixel count is that the size of the pixels goes down, and noise goe
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Android fragmentation is still a problem, even if most consumers don't notice it, because of how it affec
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This ransomware can be removed using the same general steps as all other ransomware. Reboot to Safe Mode, chec
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Live tiles are not an idea that ever really made sense, even on phones. Fingertips are round, so a sea of squa
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Apple is smart, and they know that 80% of iTunes users use iTunes on a PC, so this is basically a necessary mo
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I'm a little concerned about the price segment that OnePlus seems to be moving into. The original OnePlus
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The only limitation I'm truly not okay with is if the default search engine *in Edge* cannot be changed.
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While you (or anyone) might not be able to get the full Google-branded version of Chrome into the Store, it sh
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So, is Windows 10 Cloud just Windows 10 Pro (for Active Directory manageability), but locked down to Store app
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Sorry to be pedantic, but in this case it kind of matters. Only that back panel is metal. The rest of the body
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In reply to JCerna:2. You're right that Microsoft does need a capable eReader app on the platform, and th
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In reply to Narg:An encrypted password vault is essential to modern living. The alternative is an unencrypted
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In reply to Bats:It would be simple create a mobile version of Edge just by adding syncing capablilites on top
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In reply to Waethorn:Check out the Asus E200HA. It's not a "Microsoft-validated Cloudbook" or whatever th
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In reply to CompSciGuy31415:In what way did they abandon it? It was on KitKat when it launched. It took them a
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In reply to Vidua:A Microsoft-made Android phone could have all of Google's services, as well as all of M
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Growing pains are inevitable with all these virtual assistant type services, e.g., Siri launched as a beta, ba
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The only other phone worth mentioning here is the Honor 8, which sits right between the G5 Plus and the OnePlu
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In reply to scotttech1:You're thinking of the accelerometer, which has been a standard in phones since th
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I'll spare you the suspense, the camera is among the best in bright light. In normal indoor conditions an
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As amazing as these screens are and as much as I feel that Quad-HD is actually overkill for a 6" screen in nor
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In reply to Bats: I am still waiting for the Android Apps coming to the PCI don't think this is happening
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Chrome's blurry font rendering makes me wish that Edge were ready for primetime. I'm still about 3 e
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If the problem is "I was supposed to give a presentation and my computer randomly started installing updates"
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Probably the most irritating thing about using Windows tablets is just how terrible the built-in on-screen key
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In reply to Narg:It's all about licensing and patents and stuff. While Google is obviously just recording
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I'm one of those people who's desperately clinging to Windows Media Center w/CableCard (and FiOS TV service).
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In reply to karma77police:
Intel can afford to wait another year without any real innovation, but that's about
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In reply to Darmok N Jalad:
I'm wondering -- what would be the point of such a test? I mean, if you're not goi
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In reply to MikeGalos:
I'm willing to guess that there is not a ton of legacy code in apps written for a platf
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In reply to dcbCreative: knock another $100 off the price Microsoft
They sell the M3 refurb for only $640
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In reply to Simard57: For the sorts of things I do on a laptop, the M3 is fine. Because of the way Intel'
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Miix 720 looks like the tablet to beat... until you realize that, as they have done on all of their recent non
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In reply to c.hucklebridge:
Cell phones have UFS 2.0, so that could certainly fit in a device this size. It's
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Now that Intel has abandoned their low-powered Atom chips, they're going to have a lot of trouble competing wi
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I wish they would bring SwiftKey to Windows. The Windows 10 keyboard is functional, but only barely.
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Okay, so these look... boring. This is a real missed opportunity to have a premium keyboard with a built-in fi