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  1. Worldwide PC shipments grew in Q2, 2020 despite coronavirus

    More like shipments grew because of corona virus as everyone realized they now needed a computer to take home.
    6 points
  2. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    If a US company sells me something here in Czech Republic, they should pay those taxes on that product/license here, just like a physical store would. I don't like taxes as much as the next guy, but they are a necessary evil needed to keep a country running. And if they are going to enforce them, enforce them equally.
    4 points
  3. "despite coronavirus" ?? Coronavirus is the reason it was increased. More people were stuck at home and they either needed entertainment or something more capable than crappy phone with tiny screen and no way of multitasking while doing a conference call... You know, all the things you can with a PC that has multiple screens and proper tools to control it...
    4 points
  4. Sony acquires minority stake in Epic Games with $250 million investment

    Now that this is out... Do people understand why Unreal and Epic have been saying what they have recently? Do people understand why the PS5 was used for the Unreal 5 demo, even though the XB Series X is faster, and yes, even the SSD speeds are effectively faster on the XB Series X. (See Below) The XB Series X uses more granular and faster compression technologies that load and use assets from the SSD directly into VRAM with virtually no CPU utilization. This is a technology that Microsoft introduced to AMD years ago, and even made it into a couple of workstation class SSD/GPU products by AMD. This base technology is called DirectStorage - and it also works along side new asset compression and management technologies, so that ALL high resolution assets are directly addressable, no matter where they reside (SSD/RAM/VRAM) and available immediately. (This can kill the need for LOD, in textures, meshes and traditional post processing that can be active on distant objects.) So far, Son'ys implementation is using a RAID* type SDD approach, with the compression technology they recently purchased, but unlike Microsoft's solution requires a huge chunk of CPU allocation just for handing the decompression and SSD I/O - the PS5 needs at least one full CPU core for this alone. (At most the Xbox technology consumes under 10% of one CPU core at full load. - This is something Microsoft has talked about and demonstrated a bit.) ** I have no idea why Microsoft isn't talking more about their technologies, even if not in the context of Xbox, for PC. Usually by now MS engineers are doing bigger presentations as they have done with the original Xbox, 360, and XB1. (They are probably coming soon.) It is possible Microsoft is trying to 'surprise' the world with these new technologies that go beyond hardware numbers; however, they are losing the consumer mindset. (Which happend with the XB360 and XB1 - which were much faster than the hardware suggested.) In the buzz, everyone comparing SSD speeds or gaming graphics are pitting them against a theoretical PS5, and not talking Xbox or even the potential of the new kernel features in Windows. * The RAID approach is keen, expect that it has overhead and diminishing returns for a SINGLE GAME loading assets, as it has to process, transfer, decompress, load to VRAM all that data at a faster rate, which makes little difference for TARGETED asset load rates in games, and costs a ton of CPU at the EXPENSE of game performance. If there is a real benefit to the additional hardware read speeds, Microsoft would use it. The numbers between 500MB/s and 2.5GB/s in games is already tiny, and right now the PC (for example) takes more time for the game to deal with the data than it takes to load it from the slower 500MB/s SSD (SATA). - Microsoft's DirectStorage will remove this bottleneck on PCs and Xbox Series, which is a specific SSD to VRAM DMA decompression that Sony isn't using. **- PS These technologies are also coming to Windows in the Fall 2020 release, summer builds should start getting DirectStorage and other technologies from the Xbox team - like new input lag reduction, etc. So these won't be console only technologies, because - Microsoft. (As always, don't take anything I say for fact, go find the answers if you want to find out more.)
    4 points
  5. I was going to say that as well. The headline is weird... it's not despite, it's because of COVID19. Aside from needing a PC for at-home work or school, the stimulus check also meant people had some money to spend. I upgraded two of my families PCs with some of that. While I like to build my own, it's likely some people used that money to get one ones.
    3 points
  6. Good grief! it's their own hardware? And they have it blocked on their own devices?
    2 points
  7. I love buying expensive Surface devices because I know that paying the Microsoft tax for Microsoft hardware is worth it. Microsoft will always do their best to provide the best Windows experience on them.
    2 points
  8. They should make sure it works with one device. I never really wanted to use one phone as I never wanted my phone connected to my computer, but the way things are going, I realised it may make some things easier, like when I get text when buying stuff online. i stuck the software on my phone and connected it all up, and yet I can not send SMS, Maybe MS don't like Chinese phones. It will receive messages, notifications and other stuff, but Your phone will tell me it is sending the SMS and that is all it does, just tell me it is sending and then say eventually that it can not be sent. Oh well, I will get rid of the software off my phone and disable it all again and get rid of Account I did not really want anyway.
    2 points
  9. Your Phone rolling out multiple device support for Insiders

    They should partner with Apple to add IOS support.
    2 points
  10. I hope they do something to expand the normal Far Cry formula. On the whole, the FC series is very enjoyable, but aside from a few small physics tweaks and (impressive as they are) visual upgrades to the engine, there's been little content that could be called new since FC3 (still the best in the series imho). I did like the small expansions to FC5 like the Vietnam War scenario, even if it was still the same game with a skin. Now if they give us fully destroyable environments - then I may sit up and take notice. Planning an attack on a stronghold that involves taking out walls/fences & buildings could be a lot of fun.
    2 points
  11. Can an ISP suspend service to you if they receive a DMCA notice?

    Yes, it's common and allowed. ISPs have to stop you from downloading illegal files after a certain amount. Usually it's a multiple strike rule. Like 3 strikes and they shut it off. Usually not one. It's possible and likely that it's not even on computer you own, but someone connected to your network. Make sure you have a secure password. Definitely look at changing it. If you have a guest network, secure it, also. If they're downloading something, they're likely using BitTorrent. Maybe you could block that at your router. See when it was downloaded and if you had company over.
    2 points
  12. Worldwide PC shipments grew in Q2, 2020 despite coronavirus

    finally people starts to understand that phone and tablet are not enough
    2 points
  13. Microsoft Flight Simulator closed beta to begin on July 30

    This has be extremely frustrating. I have tried relentlessly from the beginning to get an invitation to test this out--I was a LONG time MSFS enthusiast and I felt I had a great machine (w/HOTAS, etc.) to test the new one out with. But nothing. I'm not very hopeful that there will be an opportunity with the beta, either.
    2 points
  14. Hardware Assisted GPU scheduling, on both AMD and Nvidia front, either gains around %2-3 performance increase or in some games decreases the performance. So, unfortunately, virtually there is no benefit from it either from AMD or Nvidia. You can check numerous benches by yourself.
    2 points
  15. I think they did this already in the last release. Only for the latest cards though. The only release that supported it was a beta posted after the official release, not in their normal driver releases yet.
    2 points
  16. If you read between the lines, what Elon is saying is that he wants Tesla stock to hit $2000 per share by the end of the year, so he can get his sweet bonus package.
    2 points
  17. UK telecom firms warn of blackouts if Huawei banned

    Why is everyone hating on Huawei? They comply with government audits, and they offer to provide source code to all their equipment to allow you to inspect, compile, and load it yourself. They should worry about other companies that aren't under such heavy scrutiny as Huawei, like TikTok, FaceBook and Google.
    2 points
  18. What part is a waste of money? If you're making use of a service, it's not a waste of money. A waste of money would be paying for it and not using it.
    2 points
  19. It's my opinion Mac's long-term OS support is not great. The fact that I can't run the newest MacOS on a 2011 MacBook Pro 17 inch with an i7 with 8GB (just got it free yesterday) is embarrassing. It's not like they have THAT many computers to support. Same goes for my 2011 iMac 27-inch 16GB of ram and SSD and my 2011 Macbook pro 15-inch i7, 8GB of ram. If you use a patching tool you can get Catalina installed but you don't have graphic acceleration. Clearly people will say it's the drivers from 3rd party such as AMD, but all Apple has to do is throw money at them and have then make new drivers. At my GF's house I'm running a laptop with an i3 that I upgraded to an SSD running Windows 10, that laptop is NINE YEARS OLD!! Same year as this MacBook pro 17 inch.
    1 point
  20. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    Trump has no reason to do this except to punish the tech industry. Pretty sure the EU "Inviting" him is the polite way of saying. This is happening weather you want it or not, you can sit and pout but being part of the negotiations is in your own interest. with how often the EU tries to use American tech companies as their rainy day fund some how I think they would have already done it by now if they could.
    1 point
  21. Our of curiosity, what is so exciting about this? You won't be able to do anything that you already can do in the current macs with Intel processors. And probably, you won't do it faster. I don't get the hype.
    1 point
  22. It is Apple with joke of market share on desktop, so it is easy to do for them. Linux is gaining big traction, in fact it will surpass Apple in Desktop and as far as iPhone goes, it is not all that bright against Android. In others who f. cares. I am not paying attention to Apple nonsense at all.
    1 point
  23. Even savvy users can fall for it. You just have to be in the wrong mindset (thinking in other stuff), and it can get you.
    1 point
  24. I paid almost £300 for my Ryzen R7 1700, about $370 in today's rates, around 3 years ago, the most I have ever spent on a CPU, It still works well and I have no plans to update it, I should have spent a bit more on the motherboard and gone for the higher chipset, instead of the b350 chipset, but it works ok. I they converted the price via the exchange rates, then the price of the R7 3800Xt would not be much more, the problem is they don't do things that way, what they do is just stick a pound sign on, so your $399 will become £399. I have no plans to update, the difference for me would be minimal, if I was going to update I would go crazy and get myself a threadripper, I may do that at some point, but we will see how things go. I have 48GB of ram so that is fine, again I am not planning for any more, because I would need to get rid of what I have, this computer is now staying as it is, I do not need to get anything new for it. apart from maybe a better PSU, that can cope better with the power it draws, saying that the PSU that is in it should be fine, but I think that is what is causing the machine to crash now and again. Damn, 48GB of RAM (to bad I could not borrow 16GB ). you must do a lot of RAM heavy tasks(?) as 48GB of RAM would be overkill for a lot of people out there as I figure 16GB is the sweet spot right now like best bang-for-your-buck. I am still on 8GB (2x4GB) but I am trying to get some used RAM (like 2x8GB sticks for a total of 16GB) but the price I want to pay still seems a bit lower than what people seem to be paying right now by around $10-20. because I am trying to pay around $30-ish tops preferably but seems like going rate is at least $40+ if not around $50 give or take a little which is messed up because that's nearly NEW RAM prices for my setup which typical NEW RAM prices seem to be floating around $55-60 give or take a little. as for your PC's crashing issues... maybe it's just random things? ; because my PC is largely quite stable but every once in a while a weird thing will act up. but in my most recent freezes I am confident it was due to me under-volting the CPU to lower temps since I am not using the proper mimimum heatsink for it since the official stock heatsink on the i5-3550 comes with a copper piece on the heatsink which touches the top of the CPU where as my i3-2120 heatsink, which is what I am using on the i5-3550, is just the standard aluminum and does not have the copper piece on it. but other than that it looks the same. but anyways, I am currently running it at -0.130v and it seems for every 0.010v drop gives me a decrease of 1c in temp. so I got pretty much a 13c drop in temps now as the temps are at a much safer level now when under full load on Prime95 SmallFFT (i.e. about 73-75c vs about 88c or so. NOTE: real world 100% CPU load temps will be lower than those since Prime95 raises temps higher than real world 100% CPU loads do). I tried -0.150v but it seemed PC froze (like everything on screen looked okay but was completely frozen) as soon as I stopped the Prime95 test which was not all that long after boot, so to play it a bit safer I bumped up voltage a little to -0.130v ever since and things seem to be pretty much okay even though once after messing around with some OS installs, like once after the OS install finished and I clicked 'reboot' it froze solid but that's only happened once @ -0.130v as I think it's likely stable enough. but I plan on seeing how this fairs as the months pass as I may have to tweak things a bit. but your CPU appears solid from a quick look online... 8 cores/16 threads and only 65 watts. you can tell in that aspect it's noticeably above my i5-3550 which is 4 cores and is 77 watt rated (but I did get a decent watt efficiency bump from the 2nd gen(i3-2120) to 3rd gen(i5-3550) Intel CPU's). but come to think of it... I am not 100% sure, but those watt ratings are more typical use scenarios, right? ; or is that full load wattage etc? ; because if it's full load wattage I can't imagine you would have a problem with your PSU unless you got some monster GPU drinking the juice like it's a nuclear power plant but I would assume anything that can utilize 8 cores will have a rather large performance advantage over my CPU since it's half the core count. but for general usage and gaming and the like, I suspect there probably ain't too much of a gap even though I would assume you still win here(?). but even on gaming, I would imagine there will come a point where more than 4 cores starts to become a bit more standard at which point I would assume your CPU will start to shine where as mine will show it's age. but for a CPU that's from Q2 of 2012, it's still pretty impressive for 8 year old technology as you can see CPU's hold up quite a bit better in semi-recent memory than they used to as going from say 2004-2012 vs 2012 to 2020, there was a larger gap, if not much larger gap, in computer CPU/computer performance in the 2004-2012 time frame (8 years) vs the 2012-2020 (8 years) time frame, at least as far as general use/gaming goes (at least it seems this way, like you would feel the age of a 2004 machine in 2012 noticeable more than you would feel a 2012 machines age today here in 2020). like where 8 year old CPU's today (assuming it's at least a quad core (hell, even my i3-2120 was still respectable for general use and some level of gaming considering it's age and it's only dual core)) still feel more good than not where as if you had a CPU from 2004 in the year 2012 I would expect it would not be as good for comparable time frames. so I would imagine since I upgraded to quad core, I can probably stretch out my current PC an easy 3-5 years from now as I suspect I could have gotten by even on my previous i3-2120 CPU for a while longer(like say a few years or something). but I see your getting the shaft a little with the dollars/pounds since you said they just take the '399' and apply it equally to both even though the pound is worth a bit more so the 399 should be less for rough equivalent prices. I think the amount of memory I have is a bit of an overkill, but it does help in some video editing, certainly with Davinci, I got the memory when it was on offer I got the first lot when i first built the machine and got the second lot a few months after. this whole machine have been built over a couple of years, apart from the Case, which is 8 years old and my sound card which is about 5-6 years old. Oh yes and the Blue-ray burner which is around 7 years old. Ram is not cheap now, not that it was cheap when i got it, but it was cheaper. 16GB now is around £65-£70. It seems to crash when I do something very CPU/GPU intensive on it, which is why I thought it may have been the PSU, but the PSU should be fine it is 650watts, but it only does it now and again, I am going to download some software to see what the hell is going on. Maybe the PSU don't have the right wattage where it matters. it should do it is a corsair. i was on the verge on getting a new PSU, but I will hang on and take a look first. the PSU i have was one i had to get as my old thermaltake gave up and I got this one from a local computer store, I would not normally buy anything from as they are over priced. We are always shafted pricewise with currency conversions My current PSU (Seasonic 520w (came with 5 year warranty)) is the oldest/longest lasting PSU I have had and it's still going as I got it Nov 2012 and here it is July 2020, so it's 7 years and 8 months old currently. my previous longest lasting PSU was March 2006 til I think it was sometime in 2010 as that PSU had a 3 year warranty and died roughly a year later from memory and then the replacement I got to that had a 2 year warranty and failed not long after the warranty was up which is when I said 'screw it' and invested in a better quality one with a noticeably higher warranty period as I heard, at least at the time, that Seasonic generally have a lower failure rate than many other brands and so far that's clearly paying off as I am already 2 years and 8 months past the warranty period and it's still going as my opinion of Seasonic is definitely higher than other decent brands I have used in the past. also, like I was saying I get a system freeze once in a great while but it's pretty much a non-issue as I just assume it's more of a random OS glitch more than a hardware problem and the two most recent system freezes I am confident was due to my CPU under-voltage since it won't harm your systems hardware but if you lower voltage to much it might become unstable. but it's a easy correction, as you just raise CPU voltage up a bit (as it's still under stock voltage (i.e. it's still lower voltage than default settings)). i have just had a look to see when I got my Thermaltake, it was 2011 and it lasted until 2 years ago, so that was pretty good of around 7 years life, it was a 875watt one, and a good price at £90 and it was a modular unit. The corsair I have now is not modular, which is not a big problem as i use most of the cables anyway, including the Molex for my case fan I looked at seasonic, they have a good name, but they are not normally that well known in the U.K, i may have another look. thermaltake seems to have gone very expensive and what they offer i am not impressed with. The problem here is getting them, I have looked at a few places, and they have sold out of most things, this epidemic is not making things easy voltages are stock, they are what the motherboard puts them at.
    1 point
  25. Can an ISP suspend service to you if they receive a DMCA notice?

    As far as I'm aware yes, they are allowed to do this. It will probably be that the ISP received the DMCA notice before you, so their first reaction will be to make sure that the copyrighted material can go no further by suspending your service. Even if that isn't the case, an ISP is a private company and are within their rights to suspend your service at any time that they choose. Obviously if they did it to people just because they felt like it they would receive bad press and customers would go elsewhere, but they are allowed to do it. For your second question, I would start by changing your router's WiFi password and the admin password if you haven't already done so. It could be that someone did a drive-by and got onto your network, or maybe even one of your neighbours got hold of the code. I would also look for a list of popular torrent sites and add them to your router's blacklist. That way if someone does connect to your network and tries to access those sites they won't be able to.
    1 point
  26. Maybe if every single stupid app didn't have the need to run in background, this wouldn't be the problem in the first place
    1 point
  27. Google officially reveals its new Nest speaker

    Would have been cool having a detachable stand rather than the hard plastic base so it could be used in either orientation
    1 point
  28. Dell's new XPS Desktop is smaller and more powerful

    I would love a AMD Ryzen 9 version. My XPS 7100 is still my primary desktop PC and its about 11 years old now.
    1 point
  29. But Sony is using a dedicated I/O decompression and storage chip to handle all of the SSD streaming, decompression of Kraken, etc. This was very well documented in Mark Cerny's presentation, where he emphasized that Sony did this with dedicated hardware, and that it would basically not use any CPU resources what-so-ever. Go watch Mark Cerny's PS5 tech presentation where he thorougly go through it in detail. I think he knows a thing or two about console design.
    1 point
  30. Can someone do a TL;DR summary for me?
    1 point
  31. "Musk: Tesla is 'no where near' to achieving level-five autonomous driving technology" ftfy.
    1 point
  32. Tesla has been "very close" to fully autonomous driving for the past 10 years. And will be "very close" to it for at least another 15 years. Even then it will not work because the driving systems will be so advanced, but because by then our roads will be equipped with marker signals and sensors specifically designed to support autonomous driving, that will help the still not really intelligent AIs in Teslas and in all the other cars to drive safely to their destinations at least in 99.9% of the cases.
    1 point
  33. Says Beta 2 on my Public beta
    1 point
  34. Why don't they give the adoption rate as a percentage of total Android devices out there that are capable of running Android 10?
    1 point
  35. That would be a typical apple move lol
    1 point
  36. I can see a LOT of people falling for it. If only people would look at the address bar. Or even better, "Does your password manager, such as lastpass, match a passcard for that site" ... who am I kidding, they don't use password managers. Half the people, wouldn't even know what their password is for their Microsoft account.
    1 point
  37. UK telecom firms warn of blackouts if Huawei banned

    If you read the first sentence of the article, you would know that the "blackout" is not related to 5G, but from removing old Huawei infrastructure took quickly.
    1 point
  38. UK telecom firms warn of blackouts if Huawei banned

    Because it is a company "backed" by the government of China, and they are not a regular company managed by corrupts and cretins. They are the cretins that kill people and they are good at it. Also, the spread of Coronavirus is thanks to the government of China.
    1 point
  39. Dell's new XPS Desktop is smaller and more powerful

    FOUND IT! Nevermind. Sorry. https://www.dell.com/en-us/sho...esktop/spd/xps-8940-desktop
    1 point
  40. Quibi reportedly lost 92% of early users after free trials expired

    and the remaining 8% are t-mobile subscribers who got it for free lol
    1 point
  41. I know where Together mode will make the most sense, virtual crowds for sporting events!
    1 point
  42. Nintendo brings more retro games to the Switch, including Donkey Kong Country

    I might have a reason to buy a Switch now...
    1 point
  43. I paid almost £300 for my Ryzen R7 1700, about $370 in today's rates, around 3 years ago, the most I have ever spent on a CPU, It still works well and I have no plans to update it, I should have spent a bit more on the motherboard and gone for the higher chipset, instead of the b350 chipset, but it works ok. I they converted the price via the exchange rates, then the price of the R7 3800Xt would not be much more, the problem is they don't do things that way, what they do is just stick a pound sign on, so your $399 will become £399. I have no plans to update, the difference for me would be minimal, if I was going to update I would go crazy and get myself a threadripper, I may do that at some point, but we will see how things go. I have 48GB of ram so that is fine, again I am not planning for any more, because I would need to get rid of what I have, this computer is now staying as it is, I do not need to get anything new for it. apart from maybe a better PSU, that can cope better with the power it draws, saying that the PSU that is in it should be fine, but I think that is what is causing the machine to crash now and again. Damn, 48GB of RAM (to bad I could not borrow 16GB ;) ). you must do a lot of RAM heavy tasks(?) as 48GB of RAM would be overkill for a lot of people out there as I figure 16GB is the sweet spot right now like best bang-for-your-buck. I am still on 8GB (2x4GB) but I am trying to get some used RAM (like 2x8GB sticks for a total of 16GB) but the price I want to pay still seems a bit lower than what people seem to be paying right now by around $10-20. because I am trying to pay around $30-ish tops preferably but seems like going rate is at least $40+ if not around $50 give or take a little which is messed up because that's nearly NEW RAM prices for my setup which typical NEW RAM prices seem to be floating around $55-60 give or take a little. as for your PC's crashing issues... maybe it's just random things? ; because my PC is largely quite stable but every once in a while a weird thing will act up. but in my most recent freezes I am confident it was due to me under-volting the CPU to lower temps since I am not using the proper mimimum heatsink for it since the official stock heatsink on the i5-3550 comes with a copper piece on the heatsink which touches the top of the CPU where as my i3-2120 heatsink, which is what I am using on the i5-3550, is just the standard aluminum and does not have the copper piece on it. but other than that it looks the same. but anyways, I am currently running it at -0.130v and it seems for every 0.010v drop gives me a decrease of 1c in temp. so I got pretty much a 13c drop in temps now as the temps are at a much safer level now when under full load on Prime95 SmallFFT (i.e. about 73-75c vs about 88c or so. NOTE: real world 100% CPU load temps will be lower than those since Prime95 raises temps higher than real world 100% CPU loads do). I tried -0.150v but it seemed PC froze (like everything on screen looked okay but was completely frozen) as soon as I stopped the Prime95 test which was not all that long after boot, so to play it a bit safer I bumped up voltage a little to -0.130v ever since and things seem to be pretty much okay even though once after messing around with some OS installs, like once after the OS install finished and I clicked 'reboot' it froze solid but that's only happened once @ -0.130v as I think it's likely stable enough. but I plan on seeing how this fairs as the months pass as I may have to tweak things a bit. but your CPU appears solid from a quick look online... 8 cores/16 threads and only 65 watts. you can tell in that aspect it's noticeably above my i5-3550 which is 4 cores and is 77 watt rated (but I did get a decent watt efficiency bump from the 2nd gen(i3-2120) to 3rd gen(i5-3550) Intel CPU's). but come to think of it... I am not 100% sure, but those watt ratings are more typical use scenarios, right? ; or is that full load wattage etc? ; because if it's full load wattage I can't imagine you would have a problem with your PSU unless you got some monster GPU drinking the juice like it's a nuclear power plant ;) but I would assume anything that can utilize 8 cores will have a rather large performance advantage over my CPU since it's half the core count. but for general usage and gaming and the like, I suspect there probably ain't too much of a gap even though I would assume you still win here(?). but even on gaming, I would imagine there will come a point where more than 4 cores starts to become a bit more standard at which point I would assume your CPU will start to shine where as mine will show it's age. but for a CPU that's from Q2 of 2012, it's still pretty impressive for 8 year old technology as you can see CPU's hold up quite a bit better in semi-recent memory than they used to as going from say 2004-2012 vs 2012 to 2020, there was a larger gap, if not much larger gap, in computer CPU/computer performance in the 2004-2012 time frame (8 years) vs the 2012-2020 (8 years) time frame, at least as far as general use/gaming goes (at least it seems this way, like you would feel the age of a 2004 machine in 2012 noticeable more than you would feel a 2012 machines age today here in 2020). like where 8 year old CPU's today (assuming it's at least a quad core (hell, even my i3-2120 was still respectable for general use and some level of gaming considering it's age and it's only dual core)) still feel more good than not where as if you had a CPU from 2004 in the year 2012 I would expect it would not be as good for comparable time frames. so I would imagine since I upgraded to quad core, I can probably stretch out my current PC an easy 3-5 years from now as I suspect I could have gotten by even on my previous i3-2120 CPU for a while longer(like say a few years or something). but I see your getting the shaft a little with the dollars/pounds since you said they just take the '399' and apply it equally to both even though the pound is worth a bit more so the 399 should be less for rough equivalent prices.
    1 point
  44. I suspect they will look for alternatives that are not from the US or China as that is likely the best option but that takes time.
    1 point
  45. Where is the hate exactly? Critical feedback is just that, feedback. Not hate. If you can't handle feedback or you become offended by a suggestion (Trump is the master of this), I can see how you could interpret it as hate. But this review seems completely fair to me, it's a review after all, and a 7 is not a bad score by any means. I for one would love a 360 convertible from MS, even though I was hanging out to see the new SB3. It doesn't mean I hate MS. It just means this product refresh didn't deliver to my (and many others) expectations.
    1 point
  46. MS desperately needs to upgrade the camera- 8/5 MP is so 2012! iPads realise the importance of cameras, and they have multiple cameras for Augemented/Mixed reality applications. Additionally having thunderbolt & NFC support would be very useful. And surface books while they do sport the dedicated GPU, are severely crippled by the 15w CPU to really take advantage of gaming/media editing/intensive loads which could benefit from a GPU. Seriously this device seems like a confused product MS came up with trying to evolve the Surface tablet lineup.
    1 point
  47. Lenovo Flex 5 14 review: AMD Ryzen 4000 is a game-changer

    please dear OEMs start to provide us serious high end devices with Ryzen ... stop this intel only nonsense
    1 point
  48. I think our democracy over here is just too easily manipulated. The core idea is fine, but the extra rules and processes thrown around it by those who it would serve are the problem. May many elections in how many years, on what is meant to be a 4-year cycle - it became a bad joke. When you get more people voting for the person that loses than for the person who won, then there is a problem and that is the problem with the U.K as well with our out of date First past the post system. US has almost 5 times the population as the UK. Electoral College makes sense. If it did not exist, huge cities could dictate how the entire country is run. Why should a bunch of brainwashed students from California that never saw a real cow in their lives have more power than farmers in Texas or Iowa? I feel the use of such stereotypes undermines any real argument. Does it really? Alright, second take. Why should California have more voting power than Arizona? Because there are more people in California, And that is the point... States with more people should not have more power over smaller states. That is what the US is built around. Of course that wouldn't work in European countries, but it doesn't have to. Imagine if countries with more people had more votes in the European Parliament... "And that is the point... States with more people should not have more power over smaller states" What? Of course they should. Elections shouldn't be decided by land mass. Elections should be decided on actual number of votes and population numbers. Has it ever occurred to you that over decades people have moved to states like California not just for opportunity but because of the political systems they provide. To say a state with five million people should have an equal say in elections as a state with twenty million people is absurd!
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  49. I think our democracy over here is just too easily manipulated. The core idea is fine, but the extra rules and processes thrown around it by those who it would serve are the problem. May many elections in how many years, on what is meant to be a 4-year cycle - it became a bad joke. When you get more people voting for the person that loses than for the person who won, then there is a problem and that is the problem with the U.K as well with our out of date First past the post system. US has almost 5 times the population as the UK. Electoral College makes sense. If it did not exist, huge cities could dictate how the entire country is run. Why should a bunch of brainwashed students from California that never saw a real cow in their lives have more power than farmers in Texas or Iowa? I feel the use of such stereotypes undermines any real argument.
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