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  1. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    You can still back your data up in the cloud if you choose. It isn't an either/or situation.
    10 points
  2. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    Yeah, why on Earth would people want the ability to store lots of data locally and not be beholden to Wifi or cell phone reception, the latter of which is almost always metered, to access their data. What a bunch of weirdos!
    5 points
  3. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    You can still back your data up in the cloud if you choose. It isn't an either/or situation. I already do that and have been doing that for > 10 years, thank you very much. Which is the reason why I don't see the need for 1Tb on my mobile. Funny how when iPhones first came out with limited storage (16Gb!!!) this same argument was used to justify the limited storage. Now 16Gb was really really limited and I see 256Gb as the sweet spot. Well, you not seeing the need for it doesn't mean others may not desire a phone with such storage. I don't understand why you're so opposed to the idea. Assuming Apple release the device I'm sure they have data to suggest there is a market for such a device.
    5 points
  4. Blimey they should be way on the way to second generation by now, not writing job ads.
    4 points
  5. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    It is not entirely without merit, for example: iPhone 8/8 Plus/X: 1.5 hours in HEVC for 64GB; 7-8 hours for 256GB / source: https://www.macxdvd.com/mac-vi...-pro/4k-video-file-size.htm so someone who shoots a lot of personal video won't immediately be needing to export and make room with 1TB onboard.
    4 points
  6. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    I would LOVE to have 1TB on my phone. Local storage is awesome. I wouldn't worry about ever taking photos/videos off the phone and I'd just back it up as I normally do at home. Home storage is cheap. I'm also the person who has his entire music collection on the phone too, and I listen to lots of different songs all the time, so yes please!!
    4 points
  7. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    Apple can't quadruple the price of cloud storage and get away with it.
    4 points
  8. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    This surprises me. I thought the agenda was to move people to cloud storage (and agenda that I personally am aligned with).
    4 points
  9. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    And when your data holder goes bust, or just has technical problems, or puts the price up unexpectedly, or a myriad of other things that could block you from accessing your cloud data? Then what? Giving other people control over how and when you can access your data is a bloody stupid idea, and I'm both AWS and Azure certified.
    3 points
  10. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    I'm guessing you don't have to use all of the available storage???
    3 points
  11. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    For the prices insane they charge for those overpriced phones, they should give you at least 1TB and then some along with a bunch of other stuff. it's amazing how many people always got to have the latest and greatest when one can get a pretty good phone, that's not all that much worse, for a fraction the cost.
    3 points
  12. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    The more local storage you have, the more cloud storage you will need for a normal user that do not manage their data.
    3 points
  13. Critical bug. Oh yes, I find myself trying to go to this location CONSTANTLY.
    3 points
  14. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    I think you did a pretty good job of that yourself.
    3 points
  15. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    Bill has an opinion, that's nice.
    3 points
  16. They fired whole Nokia team before and now hiring else for the same job.
    2 points
  17. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    Next iPhone or Samsung? https://www.avforums.com/attac.../1477338979290-jpg.1098739/
    2 points
  18. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    Samsung would like a word with you. And that will definitely not be the word about the support and lifecycle of the device. Oh, and their jokes about no charger in the box? Forget it, they have no charger either.
    2 points
  19. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    just another excuse for them to charge an absurd amount more for the phone ....
    2 points
  20. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    I always chuckle when people call a device used daily for (on average 2 years) and retains its value remarkably well “overpriced”. I have no issue with paying £1.50 a day for my phone. Ignoring the resale...
    2 points
  21. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    I would love for this option to exist, if anything to give consumers choice, and more important the hope they increase the base storage amount. Ideally, the storage options should be 256 GB, 512 GB, or 1 TB (at least in the Pro devices)
    2 points
  22. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    You can still back your data up in the cloud if you choose. It isn't an either/or situation. I already do that and have been doing that for > 10 years, thank you very much. Which is the reason why I don't see the need for 1Tb on my mobile. Funny how when iPhones first came out with limited storage (16Gb!!!) this same argument was used to justify the limited storage. Now 16Gb was really really limited and I see 256Gb as the sweet spot. Strange, I see 128GB as the sweet spot for a phone.
    2 points
  23. iPhone 13 may come with 1TB of max storage

    I agree. I currently have to leave half my collection off my phone because it won't fit. I currently use SubSonic to stream my music collection from my PC, but it would be nice to be able to listen to music on my phone without having to require an internet connection.
    2 points
  24. Again - I didn't mean to distract from you guide. If your having issues with plex, and xyz fixes that for you.. Then sure use that.. I have tried them all, I just always end up back using plex.. Even with its little quirks and issues.. I personally still think its the most well rounded and easy to use.. Especially for my users - since pretty much everything has a client.. Be it the cheapest of smart tv's to their tablets and phones.. pretty much any stick, etc. Just till them search plex on your device apps.. Different users have different needs.. You may not like going through your media and converting audio to X vs Y, etc. or changing your containers or codec.. Where I find this is one of the things that makes running my media server enjoyable.. I like curating the collection, I like standardizing the media.. I'm weird like that Not saying that you have to do that with plex - but I have found over the years it cuts down on any possible issues with player A not liking something, that player B might not have any problems with. Or sound system X can decode it fine - while system Y might have dropouts or issues with it, etc. If you are the only user of your library you might not run into issues... I have sent out couple of group emails to my users - showing them how to set their player so it less likely to transcode.. Many of them default to 720, and if they are watching 1080 that forces a transcode.. Its way easier on the server to not have to do that.. Especially if the bandwidth is there.. But some, less tech savy I have had to specifically reach out, hey your watching xyz in SD vs 1080.. Wouldn't you like it to look better I could always set it up so it warns them via a tautulli script - and could even force direct.. But that might generate more text to me saying hey - this isn't working
    2 points
  25. Prepping PC for reformat

    IObit Driver Booster is great for drivers.
    2 points
  26. Prepping PC for reformat

    Yeah I second getting them direct from the manufacturer of the motherboard, if you have a Gigabyte board, don't use the APP Center, it is crap! Just grab the individual files from the support page. If the PC is Intel based, you can also use Intel Driver & Support Assistant for chipset drivers etc.
    2 points
  27. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    You must be young and/or un/misinformed. Do a little research and you'll find out that you're mistaken.
    2 points
  28. Verizon says you should turn off 5G to save battery

    That is because the suggestion is for those that have 5G phones but are no where near a city that even offers it. It mimics the early days of hand held cell phones say early 2000's or late 1990's where "searching for signal" would eat a battery fast. You turn of that searching where it isn't even available and you don't have that happen.
    2 points
  29. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    An opinion people actually want to hear unlike us in the comments section at Neowin. I doubt most people give a monkeys on Bill Gates opinion, he has his head stuck in far too many things, like the WHO.
    2 points
  30. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    Duh, he doesn't hate Apple. Where does this come from? It would be more accurate to say Apple hates Microsoft, and that isn't even 100% accurate. Apple's contract with Microsoft affords them a ton of technology they get to use developed by Microsoft. Apple products would have been a 'meh pass' if it wasn't for products from Microsoft - specifically in the 1970s and 80s. From the CP/M boards and DOS boards to Word and Excel giving the Mac a role in professional spaces. If Gates hated Apple, they could have dumped Office and other Mac integration and AD products years ago. If Microsoft were the 'dicks' they could have crippled Apple many times over. In the non-lawsuit agreement between Apple and Microsoft, Apple gets 99% of the benefit, with Apple developing very few technologies that Microsoft has ever needed or wanted to use. If you dig through things from Darwin to Metal, Apple is using a ton of Microsoft created and owned technologies. I'm sure Gates doesn't have warm feelings about Apple after the backstabbing and lawsuits, but hate is a bit over the top.
    2 points
  31. MacBook Pro 13 (M1) review: A heck of a start for Apple, but not very pro

    "I've often found hardware reviews on Neowin to be quite amateur and to recommend the Intel MacBook Pro over the Apple Silicon ones just about sums this site up" If you feel that way why did you read the review and why are you even here?
    2 points
  32. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    Ok, who cares?
    2 points
  33. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    Android phones are a security nightmare.
    2 points
  34. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    Umm.. Duh? He hates Apple, kind of a no-brainer..
    2 points
  35. Games with Gold: Metal Slug 3 and Warface: Breakout are now free

    Meh is my initial thought on this lineup
    1 point
  36. Prepping PC for reformat

    For drivers Snappy Driver Installer (SDI) is a very good way to go
    1 point
  37. Feels a bit premature when they have a perfectly good online store.
    1 point
  38. I just use Where I set the bitrate.. If 2 channel it stays 2 channel, if 6 it stays 6.. You could prob leave off the bitrate and would use whatever the original is..
    1 point
  39. Except that this build isn't for 21H1 (the major update of Windows), which means that we aren't getting it for 6-7 months from this point, at the very least, if Microsoft keeps on testing in this channel. Also, Patch Tuesday can also be utilized for issues like this rather than waiting for feature updates dependent on Insider builds. This issue isn't new, it was first discovered in January. 7 months? I'm sorry, but how did you do that math? 21H1 is scheduled for release in March! Did you mean to write 21H2? I mean that this Insider build isn't for testing 21H1. And yes, 21H2 won't be here until several months if this patch is scheduled for that release (which the patch in the current Insider channel would indicate) Oh. Now I see. Hehe. There is always this problem when somebody says "isn't" without exactly specifying how isn't. For example, "it isn't even green" doesn't exactly say what color other than green "it" actually is.
    1 point
  40. MacBook Pro 13 (M1) review: A heck of a start for Apple, but not very pro

    Any business oriented user is going to want a second display. Hardly a niche user base. I couldn't imagine doing my work off my laptop screen only. He said dual External Screens. Not just a. Second display that everyone uses - 2 external screens is a niche use
    1 point
  41. MacBook Pro 13 (M1) review: A heck of a start for Apple, but not very pro

    It's really interesting me that since Intel sent the hardware, people are accusing me of being biased in favor of Intel. We're even seeing the time-honored tradition of accusing the writer of being paid off and not disclosing it. And no one questions the validity of the reviews when Apple sends the hardware?
    1 point
  42. Take online reviews with a pinch of salt. Most are sponsored rubbish. Talk to real users of products on reddit. There's a German samsung tablet reviewer who has a large following. He said nothing bad about the latest Samsung tab A, yet it was full of hardware issues (screen flickering for one). No mention of it at all in his review.
    1 point
  43. Weekend PC Game Deals: Bundle and free event flood gates open up

    That moment when you're stuck between wanting to buy a PS5 now and worrying about adult stuff like... saving up for a house. Cheers anyhow!
    1 point
  44. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    Thanks for speaking some sanity... Some of the comments in here are so completely nuts I honestly have no words for them...
    1 point
  45. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    I find it interesting/funny that tech people dismiss Gates as if he is just another billion that doesn't have low level understanding of technology. While people like Larry Ellison or Steve Jobs were making fun of engineers and programming as being 'beneath them' - Gates was proudly still engineering and programming code for Microsoft products up until the day he left. Personal Perspective: I have seen his handwritten notes on PCB and processor designs going back to the 70s, and read code he wrote in the 80s and 90s that it is brilliant. HIs notes and work wasn't management level BS, it was a step ahead of the engineers on the projects. Love or hate Gates, fine, dismiss him understanding or ability to use technology, and you are making a mistake.
    1 point
  46. Reccommendations for External HD Case

    Hello, If the Seagate internal drives are 15mm high, I would suggest Oyen Digital's MiniPro 2.5" external cases, which are all-metal enclosures and they use a standard barrel connector for supplemental power. I have used several generations of these over the years and they have worked quite well for me. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  47. Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS

    Not if you install safe applications. Also, you can use any application that will never ever be for IOS.
    1 point
  48. Windows 10 is getting rid of the 3D Objects folder soon

    This ^ You need to remember Neowin tailors to the basic consumer bitches, I don't know why I keep giving this site the benefit of the doubt. Half the comments are from people who have zero idea about.... anything. It's like the idiot above who said remove the OneDrive client, really?? Guess he doesn't work for a business who is heavily invested in Azure\365. Guess they've never heard of redirecting known folders, or the benefits of other features available in the client. Neowin's favourite word in click bait articles is "finally". FINALLY blah blah.... no... Most of you can just blow me. Go away. Anyone with half a brain would realize OneDrive can be downloaded, and should be if the current version is out of date. Which, in case it’s not obvious, is exactly what happens when apps like that are built into the OS. So why not remove it so someone who needs it grabs the latest version and not some crusty price of crap? People who don’t want it won’t have it and people who need it will have an up-to-date version. It’s not rocket science. 1. The OneDrive NGSC auto-updates on first login. 2. It's possible to update the OneDrive client during OSD using a task sequence, or even rolling it into your base install.wim (install.wim\windows\system32\onedrivesetup.exe). On that note, in the TS I deploy the following step is ran - c:\windows\system32\onedrivesetup.exe /allusers. This avoids having multiple copies stored in user profiles. 3. Learn to manage the client, plenty of documentation out there. So...extra work to deal with a preinstalled program. Makes sense.
    1 point
  49. Windows 10 is getting rid of the 3D Objects folder soon

    Good riddance as first reg tweak I use after fresh install is to delete that dumb folder. Been doing this for 5 years now. Phew. Microsoft and their bone-headed decisions of past. None of their decisions regarding Windows and Windows Phone stood the test of the time.
    1 point
  50. what pets is you favorite pet

    My Favorite kind of pet is no pet.
    1 point