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  1. How the heck did they come up with that pricing? The best over-ears on the market (Sony and Bose) are $300 or less.
    10 points
  2. professional audio equipment, heck even most 'audiophile'-grade crapola don't dare to charge nearly as much :-/ Apple's at this point test how far into the pockets their fanboys are willing to go.
    6 points
  3. Apple introduces AirPods Max, its first over-ear headphones, for $549

    Apple or no Apple... $500 bucks for an accesory?? I'm a tech guy sure...but come on, I think so many (expensive) devices is as addictive as crack. You have to start thinking what you can do with those $500. I'm not talking about feeding the hunger Africa (oh how I hate that comparission). But for $500 you can start your own business, you can start saving for something bigger (obviouslly in the long run). Can't blame the companies, it's the buyer who ironically follows the game. In the end anyone can buy whatever they want, it's a free world! Just some thought on the consequence of actually paying so much "for just an accesory". Might as well pay $500 for a surround system that will last you 10+ years, not just accesory.
    5 points
  4. PC Build Guide: Budget Intel 10th-gen PC for less than $550

    Guys, it is a budget PC, not a budget gaming PC.
    3 points
  5. Apple tax. I'm sure you are aware, there headphones that cost well above this mark. Best is subjective to the listener, so it'd be interesting to see how these compete.
    3 points
  6. WinRAR 6.00

    Yeah they should re-write the UI in Electron so the UI can looks like a web app, have tons of jarring transition animations and increase the install size from 3mb to 80mb. That'd be way better.
    3 points
  7. Anyone can now contribute to Google's Fuchsia OS

    This project is very different than those, first the main focus is less of a new run-time and more of new kernel. The current android kernel is very inefficient for concurrent connections and real-time communications on mobile device (as you can see by heavy memory usage, it was designed for desktop and not mobiles). With this they have build new kernel from pretty much scratch(if memory serves correctly 'zircon kernel' which is designed from ground up for less memory usage and faster concurrent connections). It does run android apps (ART runtime), so i don't see how this can be a bad thing to happen.
    2 points
  8. 549 bucks. lol. okay apple. For a that price they better give me a happy ending after listening.
    2 points
  9. Adobe Lightroom is now available for ARM-based PCs

    Please note that it is Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic. Lightroom is a web app, while Lightroom Classic is written with C++ and Lua.
    2 points
  10. Adobe Lightroom is now available for ARM-based PCs

    companies/developers have far more confidence in Apple's ventures than Microsoft's. Still waiting to MS to themselves show proper enthusiasm for their own platforms.
    2 points
  11. Apple introduces AirPods Max, its first over-ear headphones, for $549

    Holy shamoley, that pricing :-|
    2 points
  12. Chinese or no brand smartwach you recommend?

    Which brand is Realme? Realme = Oppo Realme is an offshoot of the Chinese brand Oppo, it is led by former Oppo Global VP Sky Li and was launched in May 2018
    2 points
  13. Microsoft plans renewable Danish data centre and 200,000 jobs

    Don't make laws incentivizing renewable energy use, they said. Companies will move offshore where they don't have to comply with "green anything", they said.
    2 points
  14. Google Stadia is now live in eight more European countries

    clearly someone that hasn't tried the service.
    2 points
  15. Google Stadia is now live in eight more European countries

    They've got 400 games from 200 devs lined up for the next couple years, so I would say probably not.
    2 points
  16. Google Stadia is now live in eight more European countries

    Stadia, coming soon to https://killedbygoogle.com
    2 points
  17. WinRAR 6.00

    https://www.rarlab.com/themes.htm Also check on DeviantArt for some nice WinRar themes.
    2 points
  18. These things make Surface buds look beautiful
    1 point
  19. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    1 point
  20. Microsoft SharePoint now has 200 million users in the cloud

    The businesses have a choice. Having said that, MS is giving it away for free along any cloud based products they sell, but businesses can still pick something else.
    1 point
  21. Vivaldi 3.5 arrives with better tabs and media playback

    Yeah it does feel a bit strange compared to what I'm used to but I imagine it's like the cursor speed, eventually you get used to it. FWIW I'd probably use Vivaldi as my main browser if Firefox didn't exist.
    1 point
  22. WhatsApp is adding a shopping cart to its mobile apps

    Except this is only with businesses that are also on Whatsapp. And I mean, why the hell not? I have no desire to shop via my IM app nor use Facebook products. I hear lot of 'I' in that sentence, tbh it's better to use whatsapp over imessage so people are not just stuck with iPhones like in USA. I personally like telegram better though : ) That would be because I am talking about myself... It's not nice to speak for others. i am in the USA and don't have an iPhone LOL (but a better option than Facebook anything). I do use Telegram with some contacts.
    1 point
  23. Adobe Flash Player 32.0.0.465

    Since the 1 weather site I used finally switched to HTML5, I haven't missed flash one bit. Been uninstalled in all browsers except Edge for a few months now. Can you uninstall it from Edge? Going to have to look that up.
    1 point
  24. Vivaldi 3.5 arrives with better tabs and media playback

    I've tried this browser several times, but just can't get into using it very often, for some reason. Can't even put my finger on what the reason is.
    1 point
  25. Adobe Flash Player gets its last update, as support ends this year

    Na na na na, heeey, goodbye...
    1 point
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  27. WhatsApp is adding a shopping cart to its mobile apps

    Except this is only with businesses that are also on Whatsapp. And I mean, why the hell not? I have no desire to shop via my IM app nor use Facebook products. I hear lot of 'I' in that sentence, tbh it's better to use whatsapp over imessage so people are not just stuck with iPhones like in USA. I personally like telegram better though : )
    1 point
  28. PC Build Guide: Budget Intel 10th-gen PC for less than $550

    The Intel UHD 630 can do basic graphics processing, and a GPU does not really make sense in such a budget setting, especially for the use case. Of course, you can beef up your system with a GPU suggestion from our other gaming build guide, if you're interested. https://www.neowin.net/news/pc...dget-gaming-for-around-1000
    1 point
  29. Apple introduces AirPods Max, its first over-ear headphones, for $549

    Yay more toys for the super-rich to waste their money on. 🙄
    1 point
  30. Retail for 629 euro's in the Netherlands. I recently bought Bose NC 700 headphones for less than half the price of these Airpods Max. I would name them differently, not Airpods
    1 point
  31. Oh dears, another Apple CPU that runs Windows 10 faster than the Surface Pro X. How embarrassing! Yeah, it really just shows how behind Qualcomm is with it's chips compared to the M1 at this point. I was actually being somewhat sarcastic; should have put a /s. Though it is true, I agree with your original comment that Microsoft is doing the best they can with what's available. The Pro X is actually a nice machine for what it is designed to be, even if the M1 SoC is faster/better etc.
    1 point
  32. Stadia will enable live streaming directly to YouTube starting today

    You'd think they'd actually work on fixing the crippling bugs before rolling out even more features to complicate matters...
    1 point
  33. Opera for Android 61 launches with media player and WebSnap

    You mean...Opera 61 for Android?
    1 point
  34. Google Stadia is now live in eight more European countries

    i have tried Stadia on my browser, and let me tell you what: it's here to stay they have the tech and the experience with both youtube and youtube live it is rock solid, smooth, and very bandwidth efficient, unlike xcloud / gefore now
    1 point
  35. Neowin Community Minecraft Server

    server has been updated to FTB Revelation 3.4.0
    1 point
  36. Budget smartphones with excellent cameras in the U.S.

    I have one, and it's good enough for daily use. The only area it really has trouble with is low light photos.
    1 point
  37. WinRAR 6.00

    I bought it more than 12 years ago and never had to pay for an upgrade. Just installed v6 over my last install, and all is well.
    1 point
  38. Where is a good spot to buy Switch games?

    Use the site Deku Deals. It will tell you the high and low prices for games.
    1 point
  39. Google Stadia is now live in eight more European countries

    yay?
    1 point
  40. Budget smartphones with excellent cameras in the U.S.

    If you’re gonna include iPhone SE, You have to include Pixel 4a. Others on the list are meh.
    1 point
  41. only a couple of years until Apple can say goodbye to intel & amd the rate at which this is going. intel is basically the sleeping rabbit, AMD is bringing impressive improvements, but at this point the whole x86-64 instruction set seems too complex to make significant progressions in short time; Apple here has years expertise in system design from chip to SoC to OS to entire device to professional software, and because of the closed ecosystem and their control, they are able to make significant performance leaps. The benchmarks, and both real world scenarios indicate the M1 beats intel- but actually it's the entire Apple-controlled system that allows it. M1 doesn't have the burden of legacy crapola-except the x86_64 acceleration features, there's no separate memory, etc. components on a motherboard, it's all a single SoC and this benefits performance at the cost of upgrade-ability.
    1 point
  42. Yes but if just for internet, a person really wouldn't notice a difference. Unless downloading a large multi hundred meg file.
    1 point
  43. Apple's entry-level M1 is outperforming most laptop chips and even many desktop chips out there right now. This has more to do with Apple's architecture design than the ARM instruction set. However, it (along with some other custom ARM-based chips used in super computers, such as Fujitsu's A64FX) does show that there is nothing inherent to the ARM instructions set that prevents them from using in high-performance settings. The issue is that the reference designs provided by ARM (and built upon by Qualcomm and Samsung) have thus far only targeted mobile solutions with less emphasis on performance (their Cortex X1 is changing that to a certain degree though, but it still pales in comparison to what Apple has put out) so those that do want performance ARM-based chips have to go and design it themselves.
    1 point
  44. Actually, no... the reasons for this are complex. I saw a great article that went into why it might be very hard for anyone else but Apple to pull this off: https://debugger.medium.com/wh...1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2
    1 point
  45. The comments here are utterly predictable.
    1 point
  46. Japan's asteroid return mission arrives on Earth

    Well that's really not going to have happened. First, viruses need to target a specific organism and they can only do that by being around them, e.g. bird flu transferring into humans is a real threat because people are around the infected birds and it can mutate to infect humans but it can't do that without humans present/knowledge of human biology. And secondly this is from an asteroid, asteroids do not have any kind of atmosphere or anything to protect their contents from any of the harmful radiation being emitted from the sun which would have destroyed them long before the craft visited the asteroid Protomolecule.
    1 point
  47. Chinese or no brand smartwach you recommend?

    Price range lower than US$ 60.
    1 point
  48. Google Web Designer 10.0.1.1204 [Update]

    Things were so much easier in the Microsoft FrontPage / Macromedia Dreamweaver days 😛
    1 point
  49. Chinese or no brand smartwach you recommend?

    It depends on what you get. There are cheap and expensive models.
    1 point
  50. PC Build Guide: Budget gaming for around $1,000

    A $1,000 gaming PC is definitely gaming on the budget.
    1 point