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  1. Only Microsoft would call something that removes features, a Feature Experience Pack.
    14 points
  2. I gotta admit I hope this does well. We need more competition in the GPU market.
    8 points
  3. Hilarious really, releasing a desktop variant that is worse than the laptop variant it's based on... Agreed, DOA
    4 points
  4. Intel's Iris Xe discrete desktop graphics card is finally here

    D.O.A Like any recent Intel products.
    3 points
  5. Intel's Iris Xe discrete desktop graphics card is finally here

    I agree, but the cynic in me says...Intel. As if they'll make anything cheaper.
    3 points
  6. Wow really can't wait for the future of this... "Alexa has a hunch that because you came home late last night, you cheated on your wife and has sent 20 messages to your wife informing her" or "Alexa has a hunch you are a criminal so has notified the police to your address and submitted all it's sensors, microphone and video records to police for them to investigate"!
    3 points
  7. Honestly, with the direction they've been going on the hardware, I say keep going. Few things they can do that'd just be a total positive, some of which are rumored already: Bring back the Magsafe charging, utilize FaceID with a higher quality camera instead of that dodgy 720p cam, do away with the touch bar, finish iterating on the touch-friendly UI of macOS and introduce touchscreens... maybe even go for their own 2-in-1 device. At this point, a 360 hinge is completely doable, given how thin the M1 chips allow for the design to be. The reduced thickness would make folding it back much more usable than some of these thicker PCs (my HP x360 15" says hello, as does my old Yoga). Just a thought. If the M1 Macbook Air is fanless with great battery, then why not just go all in, especially if these devices can run iOS/iPadOS apps? It only makes sense. However, only if they get those reduced bezels as well. I feel that would completely push people into macOS-- if you'd still even want to call it that. Half the time, many people get stuck just on the UI being so different than the Windows PCs they're used to. Bring in iPad navigation and you've just leaped over some of that... I dunno, I'm OnCall waiting for servers to reboot. Just thinking out loud here, who knows.
    3 points
  8. Lol so its really only going to block/flag certain groups or sides of the political landscape. This is nothing more than a grasp that Twitter is wishing to inflict on its users. I've deleted my account and moved to something else, a few services in fact that do not or will not do this sorta act. Soon Twitter will go away just like myspace did, I hope FB follows that soon as well.
    3 points
  9. New Surface Pro 7 ad puts it up against Apple's ARM-powered MacBook Pro

    I know, the Apple MacBook Pro is ALMOST as fast as the Surface Pro 7 i7. /s M1 is great in specialized circumstances, but even in the mobile low power area of computing, it is NOT that fast or magical. Cinebench - Surface Pro 7 - i7 = 4% faster - Surface Pro 7 - i5 = 9% slower than M1 (This also requires the M1 to be running on AC on the Macbook Pro, with the Surface on Battery.) Besides a couple of Mac-ish benchmarks, like Geekbench, or a few optimized software tests, like the accelerated pipeline for Adobe with video rendering - which actually loses when using the GPU technologies from Intel HD/Xe. M1 is a good processor, but "Slaughters" No, it doesn't get close. It is a good showing for Apple for the first release, it is not an industry changer. Apple even states this themselves when they compare the M1 to the previous generation MacBook Air with Intel processors, by SAYING it is 3.5x faster. Yes, so are the higher end 'mobile' Intel and AMD processors. How big the difference can be for 'general' computing tests - AMDs 4700u and higher mobile processors are running about 2.5-4x faster than the M1, and the WATT equivalent CPUs are running 1.5-2x faster. Here is a (subjective) internal number from my team, the majority of the Dell, Asus, HP i7-9750h mobile processors from 2018 are 1.5-2x faster than the M1. I'm not defending Microsoft or Surface here, I could care less if anyone wants a Surface or likes how they work. However, we can't keep doing the M1 Myth crap, when even Apple doesn't do it. There will be people that read comments like this and not knowing better, and end up with a slower computer or a bad choice for what they need. If you are doing video editing, engineering, simulation, 3D design - the M1 is not a great choice for performance. When you consider how horrible MacOS is with 3D software by breaking OpenCL/GL/Vulkan - it is even worse for a lot of people. A 3D designer wanting a lightweight portable would get much better performance from a Surface Pro - and it is not designed for speed. (Sorry for ranting a bit and I don't mean this reply directly @sweatshopking - as I'm responding to a lot of similar comments in general here, not yours specifically.) I think there are a few things worth clarifying: 1. it's true that the m1 is mixed when comparing benchmarks, but it's pretty consistently faster than an i5, which is the bulk of surface sales 2. Compare battery life between an m1 air and an i5 surface. Granted battery sizes aren't identical, but the Air pulls in at least double the battery life on average of either of my i5 surface pro 7's. 3. don't buy a mac for almost any kind of industry work. This kinda just goes without saying and existed before the m1. I always appreciate your comments, even if i don't always agree with them. Cheers.
    3 points
  10. By not comparing the Surface Pro to an iPad, is Microsoft admitting the Surface Pro 7 is useless as a tablet?
    3 points
  11. Firefox Nightly starts faster on Windows with skeleton UI

    The return of the splash screen!
    3 points
  12. WebRTC becomes an official W3C and IETF standard

    1. Open Ublock Origin 2. ☑ Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses
    2 points
  13. For the market they're targeting this will do fine and I bet they're ready to price it pretty cheap. Things could get interesting with future versions with 128 and higher EUs depending on performance.
    2 points
  14. Sony announces the Xperia Pro smartphone with a dedicated HDMI input for $2,499.99

    Why oh why do companies still think people fall for the old .99 trick. I'm more inclined to buy something if the number is whole rather than a cent under.
    2 points
  15. I get the feeling this is going to absolutely bomb...
    2 points
  16. Firefox Nightly starts faster on Windows with skeleton UI

    Takes about that amount of time even on my Core2Duo with a HDD! This sounds like a very silly idea. Yep, I think it's going to just make it look glitchy. If they must do it, they may as well just use a splashscreen.
    2 points
  17. Konami denies shutting down its gaming division

    They had an interesting silent hill game and demo out but cancelled the game, I remember everyone saying the demo was great. My opinion on RE is is became trash with the second - the second was okay but the third has dropped way off the bridge, by the time of RE4 it was a completely different game, RE0 was just garbage. Not seen RE7 but I have no interest. Really RE1.5 should have been RE2, not the RE2 they released. The RE2 remake was brilliant. It really brought back the balance of zombies and limited resources compared to RE5 (the last one I played) which basically gave you a machine gun to mow down hordes of enemies. RE7 was also refreshing for the series; switching to first-person really increased the sense of dread I had. For me though, the Silent Hill series had the edge because of its stories. Silent Hill 2 hasn't been beaten by the other games of the series that I've played, but PT showed that Kojima and Del Toro had a winner on their hands. Atmospheric and intriguing, I was genuinely sad to hear that it wasn't going to be fleshed out further.
    2 points
  18. Alexa can now proactively act on Hunches without human interaction

    I love seeing the advancements made here...but at the same time I think implementing this in a manner to act by itself might be going a bit too far. I know you can control what devices you can assign to the auto smart hunch feature in the app. However, for things like smart plugs, I can see certain house members either forgetting or not knowing about the automatic behaviour of the device and then plugging in something else to the plugs which might be undesirable or dangerous to turn on or off automatically without user interaction.
    2 points
  19. Oh look, an alt righter predicting Twitter and Facebook will go the way of the Dino. Lol
    2 points
  20. DO NOT buy one for gaming, but the option is there, just like any other of the lightweight mobile PCs of the last couple of years. I agree so let's not advertise it as such.
    2 points
  21. In my opinion, it shouldn't be the social media platform's responsibility to combat misinformation in the first place. People should know enough to do the research themselves.
    2 points
  22. He is going by box art. Dumb commercial, equally dumb article. M1 not mentioned in commercial, but is in article: Check Pro 7+ not mentioned in commercial, but is in article: Check Nothing but a bunch of assumptions and fluff about a stupid commercial. Is Neowin going to do this for ALL commercials? I hope so, just to remain consistent and not make this look like a payday with no effort. neowin has long covered these surface ads. nothing new about this.
    2 points
  23. the m1 slaughters 10th gen gpu perf. dumb ad. the intel surface line badly needs both significant increases in perf to challenge the m1 as well as serious redesigning. the fact that it's still essentially the same design as the sp3 is a serious problem. The x pro looks modern. the 7 does not. Long time surface fan, but i wouldn't recommend the 7 to anyone. I know i was glad when i sold mine.
    2 points
  24. Huawei is reportedly looking to sell its P and Mate brands

    I see the 50 Cent Army is alive and well on Neowin.
    2 points
  25. Huawei is reportedly looking to sell its P and Mate brands

    These things are just set to work around the US ban etc, at some point they can close Huawei as a company, spin up some new one that still uses the brands they're now "selling off", and, with some time, merge it all back under one umbrella. As a flex move by the US, I'd say it worked overall. It's not like Huawei, early PR aside, didn't get hit hard by the bans financially. While I don't like Trump in general on many topics, taking a harder stance vs China is the one thing I did agree with. The way they went about it could've been handled better. I also don't think the new Biden administration is going to back down, they'll just be smarter about it and not make it sound like a school yard name calling duel.
    2 points
  26. Poverty revenue. Atari will be buying them soon.
    1 point
  27. Those types of version numbers with the back words date are such a pain in the butt. Whatever happened with good old fashioned x.xx or x.x.x formats?
    1 point
  28. Nice! Thx for the info
    1 point
  29. Great. Can't wait to see Twitter's political agenda and views spewed across the internet in the form of newsletters in addition to their toxic platform.
    1 point
  30. Oh, Twitter, never change. You're so unbelievably stupid and we love (or hate) you for it. Who on earth thinks this "Birdwatch" will end well? We've seen how many times large groups of people on Twitter attempt to hijack a hashtag and such. This is gonna go greaaaaat. /s
    1 point
  31. Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablet question

    OK, I managed to get it to work, apparently I copied the .epub to the kindle, not the .mobi, so of course Kindle couldn't read the .epubs!
    1 point
  32. Firefox Nightly starts faster on Windows with skeleton UI

    Takes about that amount of time even on my Core2Duo with a HDD! This sounds like a very silly idea.
    1 point
  33. Firefox Nightly starts faster on Windows with skeleton UI

    Only now, it looks like the program is frozen("for up to 15 seconds", apparently)! LOL!!!! Funny, and 100% true.
    1 point
  34. This is a really good feature. I keep meaning to test how Teams handles these scenarios.
    1 point
  35. Apple warns about having the iPhone 12 close to pacemakers

    iPhone. It's heart-stopping fun.
    1 point
  36. Facebook has proven what a pipedream that is. People don't want to do research they want to get into hivemind bubbles. Wanting to do research requires people to 1) not be lazy and 2) KNOW how to do research. At least in the US we are very lazy and prefer to just go with whatever story we hear that tells us what we want to hear. Why should we do research when it's easy to just assume the poster I'm reading or the news source that tells me what I like to hear did that already? Also, US schools are HORRIBLE at teaching HOW to properly do research. Most kids don't really learn how to properly analyze a news source until college, assuming they go to one. At almost NO point are they taught to look at the source of the story they are reading, and to investigate who is funding or backing that source, or to look for any bias in how it is written. You also have people like my Parents. My dad stopped evolving in education or emotional intelegence after 5th grade. He can barely read spell and has almost 0 grasp of how our government works (he says repeatedly the President can do what he wants, because he is the president, STILL can't grasp just how Harris is African American). If you try to correct him you're just trying to be an ###### and proudly votes while having the barest bones grasp (if that) of the topics at hand. Then there is my mother who somehow ALWAYS misses details in a story so you have no idea what she ACTUALLY heard but she will tell you what "was said" anyway. For example, she will tell you "NPR said X, and they are democratic so the thing I heard must not be Right propaganda because NPR said it".... that is not how it works. NPR did not say anything, but they were likely reporting/playing a quote about X or an NPR reporter is reporting that someone said X. She will leave out particularly important key details, like if they were possibly quoting a Republican or similar. She is also in her 60's and while having used a PC and Excel her whole life, she CAN NOT use Amazon (tried to make a purchase but all she did was somehow accidentally subscribe to PRIME instead of buying the item she wanted). She is VERY confused by Facebook and cant tell what's an ad, what is a person trying to message her, what is a post, and what's a story. Though she can figure out how to do all her banking and finances online. Neither of them despite having had internet in their house since 1995 have EVER learned how to look something up on a search engine to find out any information. They still limit themselves to what the TV says, or just any news service that puts themselves in front of them. I can also go on about my aunt who while having worked for security for IMB is both VERY insecure (no idea how VPN's or TOR works) is a Q nut(thanks to Facebook and Twitter) that puts 0 logical thought into anything she reads to think about its logical viability, and my religious zealot uncle she feeds the BS to that also just willingly buys into it because it helps his ego as a white, god follower that's under lots of debt while trying to pretend he has money....The other side of my family I undereducated Redneck with a racist streak so they will just buy ANY BS you wanna feed them(Mostly on Facebook) that makes them secure about being white gun owners, and will repost any Facebook mem you wanna show them without even TRYING to find out if its valid in anyway, long as it makes them chuckle or feel good about their opinions. This is the state of the people in America, and they are the people that are showing up to polls.
    1 point
  37. Probably more to do with consistency. You can edit messages you've sent already. It could feel weird to be able to edit a message that was already sent but not the message directly below it that hasn't sent yet.
    1 point
  38. Been some long running rumors that it may come to fruition inevitably. You can't look at Big Sur and not believe they're eventually building with touch in mind. This is actually something appreciated, as it took time for Microsoft to get better with touch... and even now, it's still in an "okay" kind of state. Of course, throw a high resolution on a tablet sized display, and now you're like... trying to avoid screwing up things in Explorer for example. Honestly, I really don't miss the touch screen from my old laptop. That being said, the only reason for Apple to do it now is the fact that they're working with iOS/iPadOS apps on macOS. Will see what happens though.
    1 point
  39. This is a mess that will only be fixed by stopping this all together.
    1 point
  40. PWAs installed with Microsoft Edge will now let you switch profiles

    I really like the switching profiles thing. No more logging in and logging out when switching between my personal and school OneDrive accounts
    1 point
  41. Worldwide Alphabet Inc workers form Alpha Global union

    Good job, another area that needs this to happen is for video game devs, they need a union like actors and sports pros have. Maybe that way they'll not have to put up with crunch and other crazy things.
    1 point
  42. Worldwide Alphabet Inc workers form Alpha Global union

    Google hasn't been following the "Don't be evil" slogan for years.
    1 point
  43. Samsung Galaxy S21 series misses out on seamless updates support

    People who buy this trash don't really care about updates because they don't keep a phone long enough to care. They'll be buying the next new superspecialnewexciting phone that comes out.
    1 point
  44. Apple warns about having the iPhone 12 close to pacemakers

    It's fine, not a heart attack, just sticker shock. *ba dum tss*
    1 point
  45. Microsoft confirms it has halted PAC donations

    Not forced to read anything but the entire thing is stupid when you have elected officials clearly followed what the Constitution allows. Apparently those that feel the same as you do or those that think what MS did is a good thing haven't read the Constitution yet.
    1 point
  46. What was the last movie you watched? (2021 edition)

    Kelly's Heroes rocks. I've got Sunday lunch with the family, but now I'm in a WW2 mood. This afternoon I might watch Where Eagles Dare.
    1 point
  47. Blame shareholders who pushed this game out a year-2 early. Lol no. Blame CDPR. 7 years and 3 delays and this is what you get? Even NMS played better at launch. This fiasco came about because of terrible project management. I think if any of us were stakeholders in CDPR, we would expect a playable game in 7 years....
    1 point
  48. It will probably be another year until this game is finished enough to enjoy... Personally I don't think I will ever like it.
    1 point
  49. The Official Random Video Thread

    1 point
  50. Windows 7 Product Key... partially lost

    Hey guys, I wrote to Microsoft showing them photo of CoA and receipt, and, following instructions given by callcenter, my name and phone number. They replied in less than 24 hours and gave me new product key free of charge. I'm writing that for future generations... ;)
    1 point