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  1. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Absolutely ridiculous to say "do not buy" over a lack of fingerprint sensor. Especially over what will be a short-term problem. It's not much of an issue moving a mask out of the way anyway.
    13 points
  2. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Well, if it's as short a term of a problem as you say, I'll update this review. However, assuming Apple goes back to its usual September schedule for iPhones next year, we're only about four months away from "just wait until the next iPhone" season. Except it's not a problem of the device. You don't buy a phone that clearly doesn't have X, then shave off 3 points of a review for not having something they never advertised. Out of all the reviews I've seen, I'm sad that this was the reason to not buy the Max... not the fact that maybe the cameras aren't leaps and bounds better than the other iPhone models, or the screen size being fairly large and maybe hard to navigate with one hand... nope, THIS was the reason. A problem that would by your standards exists going back as far as the iPhone X from 3 years ago and has nothing to do with this one being the "Pro Max" of today.
    6 points
  3. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Dumb review. Folks, it’s a great phone, especially since there is a workaround for masks and Face ID.
    4 points
  4. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    False. True if you play Call of Duty Mobile all day. Reviewers are getting 6 hours on it non-stop, so still false. 24h / 6h = 4 charges, so true. Literally nobody is going to play for 18 hours straight much less 24, so stop trolling. Do you have children? If a parent is letting their child pay something for 18 hours a day, they probably need to reevaluate their life.
    3 points
  5. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Raves about how great the phone is... in conclusion: Don’t buy. Okay. Lol
    3 points
  6. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Well, if it's as short a term of a problem as you say, I'll update this review. However, assuming Apple goes back to its usual September schedule for iPhones next year, we're only about four months away from "just wait until the next iPhone" season.
    3 points
  7. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Falls back to using a PIN too if you can't use Face ID
    3 points
  8. Excellent decision. Thousands, if not millions, of users are still using WIndows-7 and plan to do so. Why abandon a solid and reliable OS? As for COVID-19 delaying moving to WIndows-10, questionable at best.
    3 points
  9. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    False.
    2 points
  10. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    He hasn’t figured out the difference between opinion fluff and review.
    2 points
  11. I know, right. Companies have had years to migrate. You have the $10 million dollars to replace perfectly good working computers and potentially infected yourself and others with COVID in the process of installing the systems? Our stock price is 1/3 the way it was and the CEO needs to raise it any way possible to keep our shareholders happy. That means cutting IT to India and stopping all IT projects as frozen until we have our customers come back. As we all know, Windows 10 cannot run on old PCs and the only way to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is to buy new PCs. Oh wait!
    2 points
  12. I'm sure if someone paid Google to like they are paying MS, they would consider it.
    2 points
  13. 2 points
  14. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Write a review about a product, add "DO NOT BUY" in the title, use any reason possible(literally in this comical case) and pray for as many clicks as possible. Seems to be a never ending trend.
    1 point
  15. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    LOL at people thinking the pandemic is gonna be gone soon. Sorry folks, it won't be. Vaccines are a tool, and one that many jurisdictions won't require and populations too scared to trust them or their own governments to take them voluntarily. This is the first (for current generations) of what will likely be many new viruses impacting humanity as we destroy all the last wild parts of the earth. you'll be masking up for a long time. Get used to it. The science is clear. We've made our bed, now we get to live with it.
    1 point
  16. Favorite Windows OS version

    I voted windows 10 but actually it is windows 2000. Windows 2000 Windows 10 Windows 7 Windows 98
    1 point
  17. Favorite Windows OS version

    1 point
  18. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Somehow I knew it would get a poor review if Rich did it. Which is why I hoped in the unboxing it would get a review from someone that uses iPhones. Disappointed but not at all surprised.
    1 point
  19. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    False. True if you play Call of Duty Mobile all day. Reviewers are getting 6 hours on it non-stop, so still false. 24h / 6h = 4 charges, so true. Literally nobody is going to play for 18 hours straight much less 24, so stop trolling.
    1 point
  20. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    False. True if you play Call of Duty Mobile all day. Reviewers are getting 6 hours on it non-stop, so still false.
    1 point
  21. How did you find Neowin?

    Randomly found one of your articles, liked the tone, decided to join the community
    1 point
  22. Gamer signing up

    Hi all, I'm a PC gaming enthusiast, I usually go by the nickname of Scylla on the web. See you around!
    1 point
  23. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    I'm happy with my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I came from an iPhone 6S Plus that I carried for 5 years.
    1 point
  24. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    A real patriot.
    1 point
  25. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Hope that’s a joke
    1 point
  26. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Too late, I’ve already bought it. I’ve since stopped wearing a mask because having to enter my pin every time was getting annoying.
    1 point
  27. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Apple does good work on its chips but I never buy into these sort of benchmark comparisons with Snapdragon chips. It's really not a good 1:1 test since we can't run ios on SD chips or Android on Apples chips.
    1 point
  28. iPhone 12 Pro Max review: Do not buy this phone

    Fair play Rich, you`re going to get some grief about giving it a 7 and "do not buy" tag though! Also how on earth does a weather app chew up 45GB of data in a couple of days? This is a problem I can forsee with 5G, people may have a data cap of a couple of gig, then get charged for going over at extortionate rates because some daft process gulps a shed load of data...
    1 point
  29. Favorite Windows OS version

    As long as it isn't Windows 8 and as long as it is still supported I don't have a preference. I guess that leaves me with 8.1 (which was still a bit iffy in my opinion) and Windows 10.
    1 point
  30. How about going all the way until the end of the ESU period for Windows 7?
    1 point
  31. Whilst the hardware for this thing is great, the device overall is a massively wasted opportunity. What they should have done is released a device with all the classic Game & Watch games on the device, and maybe an update for one or two. Collectors (I'm one), just don't need yet another device that plays Mario 1 & 2, we've already got loads of them... We want the really old stuff LIKE Ball and so on. Stuff that we just can't get anywhere else.
    1 point
  32. I know, right. Companies have had years to migrate. You have the $10 million dollars to replace perfectly good working computers and potentially infected yourself and others with COVID in the process of installing the systems? Our stock price is 1/3 the way it was and the CEO needs to raise it any way possible to keep our shareholders happy. That means cutting IT to India and stopping all IT projects as frozen until we have our customers come back. Guess that decision to wait until the last minute really bit him in the ass.
    1 point
  33. [Official] Xbox Series X & Series S Discussion

    It depends on what you want. Series X is the better choice is you want the best of the best, but if that's not your thing the Series S is a great choice too. Do you have 4K TV to make the most of the Series X?
    1 point
  34. I know, right. Companies have had years to migrate.
    1 point
  35. Ahh yes, COVID19. A great excuse for... well, everything.
    1 point
  36. Rufus 3.13.1730

    If a program can fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, then "chunky" is not the adjective I'd use.
    1 point
  37. Microsoft releases Edge 87 with shopping features and more

    So many inane posts about bloat by people that apparently have no ######ing clue what bloat is. Edge is still lighter and faster than Google Chrome, yet you want to whine about it being bloated? Microsoft fully discloses these features, and gives ways to disable them easily - this is NOT bloat. Bloat is technically uncontrolled complexity without function. 1) These features are controlled. 2) They are not very complex or hard to understand. 3) They have function, even if you aren't someone to use them. In contrast look at all the extra code that cannot be disabled in Google Chrome, or the GBs of data sent from Google Chrome every week that you cannot control, stop or know what is in the data. This includes additional data collected locally and data shared with Google advertising partners, that users have ZERO control over, and offer ZERO functionality. If Google encrypts what they are doing, it is ok? Really? No, it is troublesome and the very definition of BLOAT. FFS - Children.
    1 point
  38. Microsoft releases Edge 87 with shopping features and more

    here i fixed it for you Microsoft Edge is getting bloated and bloated It's your own idea. find a browser that is not bloated (according to your idea) truth hurts. shopping feature lol. that's the definition of adding bloat Use a browser that has just the features that you yes you want, so then I don't see you here complain.
    1 point
  39. Microsoft releases Edge 87 with shopping features and more

    is it any surprising. microsoft is the king of adding bloat on windows and now this. adds useless feature. Microsoft 365 is another example of adding more bloat just because they have to update since its now a subscription service MS Office have been bloated for years, you can not even buy part of it, you have to buy the whole suite. Most people just want a word processor, thank goodness we still have a choice, not for the like of MS trying to know them out. My mate used to use wordpad, it did what he required. Windows 10 is certainly full of bloat, more so than other versions
    1 point
  40. Speak for yourself I also want to forget the countless hours I wasted on flash games where I could've done more productive things.
    1 point
  41. The only feature I care about is signing in simultaneously to WhatsApp Web from multiple devices and they seem to not roll it out for eternity. It was announced way back in July and still in testing.
    1 point
  42. I completely disagree. Throttling is a mediocre way to ensure basic system stability. A great way to ensure the best user experience would be to offer user replaceable batteries. All batteries degrade after a year or two's use. If you want to keep your phone for longer it's best to replace the battery when it's degraded. This used to be a really cheap and easy way to get your 2-year-old phone working like new again. $20 for a new battery and 1 minute's effort to swap the battery over. Then Apple started making phones with non-removable batteries and charging $79 for battery replacements. It's not a better experience for the user, it's a more expensive experience.
    1 point
  43. "you should assume the user knows what they're doing" The problem is, users have proven a couple trillion times in the past couple decades that they don't. In fact, you should always assume that users don't have the slightest idea what they're doing. I'm working for a software company as an IT architect and devops engineer, and recently also as an Information Security Officer. I've been dealing with developers for the better part of the last 7 years. All of them has a degree, many even PhD. And the things they do is just friggin' atrocious. They're just as dumb as the regular user, but they're way more arrogant too, since they believe just because they can code (ahem), they know everything about IT too. Well, turns out, most people are completely clueless about IT. As part of an ISO certification, we need to push the principle of least privilege, so they need to give a reason when they ask for admin rights. And oh boy, the struggle is real. They keep coming up with such horsesh*t it's beyond belief. But they're so arrogant that at one point they started leaving the company just for the fact that they weren't granted admin privileges, because the things they wanted to do absolutely did NOT require that. Guess where the story ends: management gave in, and now we "kind of" require a reason, but if someone really wants it, (s)he gets it. There you go, users, knowing what they're doing. My @ss..
    1 point
  44. When would you ever need an elevated browser, though? And a LOT of people don't know what they are doing.
    1 point
  45. I have to ask this but how is throttling somebody's phone a way to manage battery or ensure a better experience? If my phone suddenly slowed down for no apparent reason, I'd probably get ticked off enough to throw it and I have actually done that before, although not for phone slowing down. Using an iPhone with a battery life of 20 minutes would probably have the same effect. Their intention was noble enough. Their lack of disclosure and choice was not.
    1 point
  46. A misunderstanding

    1 point
  47. Windows 10 is five years old - here's how it's evolved

    far behind the original Windows Search which came out in 2006 "appwiz.cpl" HERE ARE RESULTS ON BING... fml But why search that when you can run it? You already know the name of the executable. It should be able to do both ... Windows 8.1 does ! Windows Vista does ! Windows 7 does !
    1 point