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In other words, another logged in poster without a fucking clue.

It is all but impossible to disable the hardware backdoors in modern PCs. "The disappointing fact is that on modern computers, it is impossible to completely disable ME..."

It has been done successfully, but it takes extreme measures.

• Internet lag averages about 30 ms. Might be lower for newer games. (I've seen as low as 8 ms if you're lucky and have a good ISP and live near the server).
• Game and protocol processing lag (time for the game to decode the network packet, decode the protocol simulating your opponent's movement on your computer) is usually on the order of 100 ms (the other player's movement has to be encoded by their computer, shoved into a network packet, transmitted to the server, transmitted to you, removed from the network packet, then decoded by your computer for display on your screen).
• Human comprehension time is about 250 ms for visual stimuli. That is, your brain takes about a quarter second to see something, process it, and comprehend exactly what it's seeing. It's actually faster at processing audio (about 170 ms) - the runners in the 100m dash are beginning with the crack of the starting pistol, not the flash of the gun firing. It's important enough that they wire the gun to speakers placed in each runner's starting blocks, so that nobody is advantaged by the slow speed of sound causing the gun crack to reach their ears faster.
• Nerve impulse speed is around 120 m/s. So when you command your hand to move your mouse, it takes about 5 ms for the signal to travel from your brain to your muscles.
• Your muscles take about 5ms to begin respond to a nerve impulse and about 25 ms to respond fully.

So your hand isn't moving/clicking your mouse until 100 + 250 + 5 + 25 = 380 ms after the other player pops his head out from behind the wall. Your brain is basically constantly predicting what'll happen more than a third of a second in the future, and pre-emtively sending movement signals to your muscles to respond to what it thinks will happen in the future. That's why motor reflex actions like those associated with walking happen in your spinal chord. It avoids the lengthy trip all the way to your brain and back, plus processing time in your brain.

Meanwhile, going from a 60 Hz monitor to 120 Hz gains you 8.3 ms. Going from 120 Hz to 144 Hz gains you 1.4 ms. And going from 144 Hz to 240 Hz gains you only 2.8 ms. Even if you say your brain needs to see 3 frames to pick up and predict motion, that becomes 33 ms for 60 Hz (time interval between 3 frames is 2 refresh cycles), 17 ms for 120 Hz, 14ms for 144 Hz, and 8.3 ms for 240 Hz. It's still dwarfed by the time it takes your brain to parse what it's seeing, meaning the biggest factor is how much talent you naturally have or are trained to have. That's why the military trains so relentlessly rather than buying night vision scopes with a better than 60 Hz refresh rate - decreasing the time your brain needs to process what it's seeing makes a bigger difference in reaction time.

As an interesting aside, the original Killer NIC from Bigfoot Networks has a PowerPC chip, and can be used as an accelerator for the Amiga :

https://hothardware.com/news/amiga-enthusiast-gets-quake-running-on-killer-nic-powerpc-processor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3k-6_-5ZIM

The pricing though... AMD still edges out in my book.

The Mac Mini is made using laptop parts. AFAIK

True before.

Not THIS version. Desktop parts. BGA CPU package; but it IS a Desktop version. Apple made a point of pointing that out.

This is NOT Apple's idea of a low-cost "Switcher" system. This is their idea of a good little multipurpose desktop/cluster system for a reasonable price, assuming you are ok with adding an eGPU for certain applications. And yes, you are pretty much expected to keep most files on some external storage. Like Pros do.

According to the Teardowns, the SSD in the Mac mini (128 GB) is a:

Toshiba TSB3225V81199TWNA1 flash storage (128 GB total)

As far as the SSD endurance goes, other than an MTBF spec of 1,500,000 hours (roughly 1.5 of a typical HDD, although some He-filled drives advertise 2,000,000 hrs MTBF), I can't find a "Write Endurance" spec. But, I assume that these SSDs are a cousin to these Toshiba Flash modules. Here's an in-depth benchmark and review of this likely SSD in a non-Mac environment:

https://hothardware.com/review...

Notice that they said that these are relatively expensive modules, in the neighborhood of $.049/GB at OEM quantities. That means that the 128 GB SSD in the Base Mac mini is likely costing APPLE around $60. Of course, I'm sure Apple has a good deal on these; but they aren't getting them for $20, or probably even $50. So, if you want to find some of that extra cost in this go-around of the Mac mini can be traced to these pricey (but nicely performing overall) Toshiba SSD modules. That, and the fact that the CPUs in this year's mini definitely cost more than the CPU in the 2014 version. I wouldn't be surprised if the CPUs are roughly double the cost of the old ones. It all adds up.

Live benchmark recorded here versus a dual-socket Xeon Platinum 8180 server: https://hothardware.com/news/a...

Beau, you fucking DINK

https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

https://hothardware.com/news/a...

Hothardware reports that pricing is now on a downward trend, with GPU prices approaching MSRP. They suggest that this is at least in part due to a new Ethereum ASIC miner. And they provide citations to show that the prices are actually falling, while computerworld simply makes a claim with no evidence...

Hothardware reports that pricing is now on a downward trend, with GPU prices approaching MSRP. They suggest that this is at least in part due to a new Ethereum ASIC miner. And they provide citations to show that the prices are actually falling, while computerworld simply makes a claim with no evidence...

With that said,

perhaps something more interesting,,

https://hothardware.com/news/m...

Relative latencies:
SRAM 1X
DRAM 10X
Optane 100X
NAND 100,000X
Rust 10,000,000X

https://hothardware.com/review...

The same gains as going from HDD to SDD (1000X) are realized again going from SDD to Optane.

Probably one of those things, you don't know why you'd even need it, until you have it, then you won't want to live without it.
Or you're not demanding enough to even notice either way.

Consider Microsoft's position:
Many of the operating systems are on End-of-Life status which means this product will no longer receive assisted support or security updates from Microsoft. These OSs are still widely used and are now even more vulnerable, if that's possible.
Microsoft is in a bind. They could provide patches for these vulnerabilities, or restate their policy: "Your're on your own bucko". How many people left at Microsoft worked on the Windows 2000 software or remember it? If MS does somehow figure out how to patch these OSs, then I can see that as setting a precedent that says they will provide security fixes in certain situations. That's the kind of vague context that lawyers love and could lead to future class action lawsuits when they refuse to fix a bug that caused problems for someone. "Hey Microsoft, you did a fix for Eternal Blue but didn't do one for Never Ending Orange and my data got stolen! It's your fault."

https://hothardware.com/news/n...

But you're probably right - Maxwell GPU architecture is 256 CUDA cores or less. An aging GPU make sense being it's small enough to fit on a SoC solution such as the Tegra X1 - and Nintendo has a custom variant of it. Is theirs baed on a die that sacrifices core for more cache or some such? Who knows. But even if it was stock-stanard, I doubt the ROI would be worth-while on a console that expensive.

These machines have Apollo Lake Celeron processors

https://ark.intel.com/products...

They're Goldmont cores - the descendent of Atom - though they've dropped the Atom branding. Still they're very much descendants of the chips that powered the original netbooks.

https://www.anandtech.com/show...

The Lenovo machine has a 11.6" 1366 x 768 display rather than the netbook standard of 10.1" 1024*600, but that's probably the minimum viable display.

Apparently it's got a N3450, which Anandtech points out is a 4 core, 4 thread out of order chip clocked at 1.1 to 2.2 Ghz. I.e. it's a bit quicker than the old dual core, in order N570 in my old Asus 1015PX which I stopped using because Chrome run like a dog. You can also get 4GB of Ram compared with 2GB mac on the 1015PX and 128GB of eMMC storage compared to a 160GB 5400rpm ultra low cost and sluggish hard drive.

https://hothardware.com/news/l...

Sitting at the bottom of the stack is the Lenovo 100e. There are two versions, one with Windows and the other a Chromebook. The Windows version sports "up to" an 11.6-inch display with a 1366x768 resolution powered by an Intel Celeron N3450 Apollo Lake processor and up to 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM. It also has up to 128GB of eMMC storage, a reversible HD camera, spill-proof keyboard, and a 45Wh batter that's good for up to 10 hours of battery life.

Windows 10 S can be upgraded to full Windows 10 too. But I'm guessing for an educational environment they want something which is locked down so the little shits can't install malware on it. Then again you could always reimage the machines when they go fubar.

At 82 MH/s, 250 watts, you can pay for this puppy in just under 14.5 months!

But etherium is switching from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in early 2018, so in a few months there will be no more etherium mining to do. ;-)

At 82 MH/s, 250 watts, you can pay for this puppy in just under 14.5 months!

...with a new backwards-compatible ultra high speed HDMI cable...

That sounds like an ad for one of those $200 directional Monster cables. Or $10,000 AudioQuest Ethernet cables.

Older AMD CPUs (read: Phenom 2 and earlier) do not have any kind of management processor. I don't know about the desktop versions of the earthmover cores (the FX-series), but a fair few of the mobile chips (the A-series) have it (https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-beema-and-mullins-mainstream-and-lowpower-2014-apus-tested?page=2 and http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-tablet-processor,3813-2.html). Ryzen most definitely has this, and makes heavy use of it (http://techreport.com/review/32125/amd-epyc-7000-series-cpus-revealed).

The code for the Intel management processors is stored on the mainboard's flash chip. Intel's version is surprisingly modular and it's possible to remove at least some of the components (https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner). Note that said management processor has some rather strong self-preservation instincts and won't allow anything to write to its region of flash memory. Since it (not your x86 chip) is the true master of "your" computer, this means that you need to yank the power cable and program the flash chip directly using a Beaglebone or Raspberry Pi and a SOIC clip (https://libreboot.org/docs/install/rpi_setup.html). Annoying, but doable.

I do not know how AMD CPUs store the code for their management processor, but I'd guess that it's done in a similar manner to the Intel CPUs - in a region of the motherboard's flash memory. I don't know of any investigations into it yet, but one advantage you have there is that it's an ARM processor and as such there are a lot of very mature debugging and disassembly tools which can be used to investigate the code. Additionally, AMD uses the Trustonic codebase for their management processor (https://www.trustonic.com/news/company/amd-licences-trustonic-trusted-execution-environment/), which I've seen before in phones and was very modular with each "trustlet" (separate tasks dealing with things like kernel integrity monitoring, OAUTH tokens, or Widevine DRM) being a separate file on the filesystem - if this is the case on Ryzen, it might be possible to remove some of the more offensive components with minimal effort.

More data to back that up:

Steam Hardware and Software Survey: http://store.steampowered.com/...
Currently showing data between April 2016 and September 2017. Includes the launch dates of AMD's latest major CPU and GPU products. AMD's GPU% dropped from 25.4% to 17.1% during the period. In the CPU Graph, AMD dropped from 23.3% to 16.53%.

GPU detailed data here: http://store.steampowered.com/...
CPU detailed data here: http://store.steampowered.com/...

Reasons for this:
- Vega was a total flop.
- Ryzen was hit by the a rare Linux compile bug (some source here: https://hothardware.com/news/a...).
- Ryzen OC potential is modest.
- Threadripper is awesome but very, very niche and not recommended for gaming due to lower IPC and frequency compared to its Intel counterpart.
- And most importantly, AMD was the underdog for way too long. It's like getting back up in the boxing ring after most spectators have left for home.

If it's so easy, then why are Apple's ARM designs better than the competition so god damn always?

You don't think it's because you're wrong, do you? Is that why you posted AC?

A few from the front page of goog about the AMD Secure Processor. It does, apparently, run its own OS and have its own flash/memory.
https://hothardware.com/news/amd-confirms-it-will-not-be-opensourcing-epycs-platform-security-processor-code

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.14-Crypto-AMD-SP

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11551/amds-future-in-servers-new-7000-series-cpus-launched-and-epyc-analysis/3

>>AMD has similar features in theirs as well.

>Do you have any evidence of this? I'd like to learn more about that
A link or two would be nice.

Platform Security Processor (PSP); it is exactly the same as Intel's backdoor- hardware based, secret, non-controllable.

https://hothardware.com/news/a...

https://www.techpowerup.com/23...

https://libreboot.org/amd-libr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

“On Xbox, the ad is part of the actual experience, it’s not something that is outside. The only difference is that the advertisement we have is quite small and not disruptive so people are not aware of clicking on the banners because they know this is a part of the whole experience on the dash.

“So the users know that this is something that when they click on it, they won’t be hit by something crazy or something dangerous like on the web. Everything that lands there, we create.”

One source called the development of adverts for Xbox One “exciting”, because, “the 360 console wasn’t built with advertising in mind, it was more of an afterthought, so we’ve had to adapt to the technology and how we work to fit them in to the console, whereas this new one is going to have advertising in mind.

“So a lot of the limitations that we have now, hopefully the release of the boundaries will widened so the opportunities will be a lot greater.”

http://hothardware.com/news/mi...

The Xbox is developing native advertising, where ad content is displayed alongside relevant material, either embedded in search results, promoted on a network like Facebook, or a "Liked X? You'll Love Y!" style of marketing. Not to worry, though -- the company plans to use Kinect to make these advertisements even more engaging than their current counterparts. In the future, Kinect may offer you a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style narrative in which you speak commands or give orders to an ad as its playing to change the final outcome.

The other way the company wants to use Kinect is to monitor what's going on in the living room to serve you group-appropriate content, rather than resorting to the plain old method of bombarding you with non-interactive advertising for things you don't care about. Microsoft claims that the demographic data the ad team can access is very limited, but it's hard not to see shadows of the same patent for movie licensing that the company applied for last year.

Be sure to check out the new L5 technology.

Fascinating stuff.

https://hothardware.com/news/b...

For a moment I thought the story was going to be about the AmigaOne X5000, which is a little bit more up to date in terms of hardware.

Spoiler: It's not great

Take a look at the ATTO Disk Benchmark graphs and you'll notice that optane comes in at dead last on both read and write performance. Sure, it'll beat Intel's SSD for the first few milliseconds but it gets absolutely destroyed by all the Samsung SSDs. Though, for all we know, the memory controller made the system retarded. Either way, it's not a winner.

The upside of this is that I learned the Samsung SSD 960 Pro M.2 has excellent performance characteristics.

Even for Slashdot this is a stupid fucking comment.

After reading the link ATTO Disk Benchmark graphs it says

"Before we show you how Intel Optane Memory can accelerate a system, we’ve got some quick numbers recorded with the 32GB Optane Memory SSD operating as a separate standalone drive. This is NOT the Optane Memory SSD’s intended purpose. There are Intel Optane-branded consumer SSDs coming down the pipeline for standalone installations, but we know this is the first thing many of you would ask for, so here goes...
Read more at http://hothardware.com/reviews/intel-optane-memory-with-3d-xpoint-review-and-performance?page=2#49c3kMRAJ3CCv3UA.99"

So the article makes it clear this is not the intended purpose.

And further down the same fucking article
"CrystalDiskMark shows something else that’s very interesting. In the sequential tests, the Intel Optane Memory SSD -- AS EXPECTED -- trails the other high-end M.2 NVMe solid state drives. But these Optane Memory parts excel at small transfers, at low queue depths, which is where the vast majority of consumer workloads reside. In the 4K transfer test, the Optane Memory module absolutely obliterates everything else in the chart.
Read more at http://hothardware.com/reviews/intel-optane-memory-with-3d-xpoint-review-and-performance?page=2#49c3kMRAJ3CCv3UA.99"

Note the phrase "In the 4K transfer test, the Optane Memory module absolutely obliterates everything else in the chart."

So the summary for the simple minded, thats you, is that it doesn't do very well for some things its not supposed to do and does do very well for those things its supposed to do well.

Twat!

Take a look at the ATTO Disk Benchmark graphs and you'll notice that optane comes in at dead last on both read and write performance. Sure, it'll beat Intel's SSD for the first few milliseconds but it gets absolutely destroyed by all the Samsung SSDs. Though, for all we know, the memory controller made the system retarded. Either way, it's not a winner.

The upside of this is that I learned the Samsung SSD 960 Pro M.2 has excellent performance characteristics.

- $100 higher price to cover the cost of Kinect -- a device few wanted

What do you mean nobody wanted a microphone and HD camera focused 24/7 on their living room or bedroom (or kid's bedroom)?

It was also intended as a platform to force-feed ads, first and foremost:
http://www.sticktwiddlers.com/...

So what about the future of advertising on the Xbox One? “It’s going to be an exciting transition though because the 360 console wasn’t built with advertising in mind, it was more of an afterthought, so we’ve had to adapt to the technology and how we work to fit them in to the console,” said Technical Account Manager for Xbox LIVE Advertising, “whereas this new one is going to have advertising in mind. So a lot of the limitations that we have now, hopefully the release of the boundaries will widened so the opportunities will be a lot greater.”

http://hothardware.com/news/mi...

The Xbox is developing native advertising, where ad content is displayed alongside relevant material, either embedded in search results, promoted on a network like Facebook, or a "Liked X? You'll Love Y!" style of marketing. Not to worry, though -- the company plans to use Kinect to make these advertisements even more engaging than their current counterparts. In the future, Kinect may offer you a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style narrative in which you speak commands or give orders to an ad as its playing to change the final outcome.

The other way the company wants to use Kinect is to monitor what's going on in the living room to serve you group-appropriate content, rather than resorting to the plain old method of bombarding you with non-interactive advertising for things you don't care about. Microsoft claims that the demographic data the ad team can access is very limited, but it's hard not to see shadows of the same patent for movie licensing that the company applied for last year.

>> Well, then you know at least 3 people who are blithering idiots

I don't disagree, however please don't pretend the audiophile culture doesn't exist and also takes itself VERY seriously. Apart from anything else, there is clearly a whole industry out there getting very rich on it, real or imagined.

http://hothardware.com/news/10...

See my subject & this article from The Register http://hothardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-thrashes-intel-core-i7-5960x-benchmark-leak/ & specifically/graphically, this test result http://hothardware.com/ContentImages/NewsItem/40273/content/Cinebench-Ryzen-7-1700X-HotHardware.png/

* If they keep this up, I know what will replace my Intel Core I7 4790k next round (2++ yrs. into it now, another 3 to go most likely before I buy again though).

APK

P.S.=> In any event? COMPETITION IS GOOD - it drives up the bar for the competitors (AMD & Intel) & who gains? We as consumers do, via superior choices offered... apk

See my subject & this article from The Register http://hothardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-thrashes-intel-core-i7-5960x-benchmark-leak/ & specifically/graphically, this test result http://hothardware.com/ContentImages/NewsItem/40273/content/Cinebench-Ryzen-7-1700X-HotHardware.png/

* If they keep this up, I know what will replace my Intel Core I7 4790k next round (2++ yrs. into it now, another 3 to go most likely before I buy again though).

APK

P.S.=> In any event? COMPETITION IS GOOD - it drives up the bar for the competitors (AMD & Intel) & who gains? We as consumers do, via superior choices offered... apk

It's actually a direct quote from the article that way. As a direct cut and paste:

The X300 is no exception—like the X370, the X300 supports dual-channel DDR4 memory, PCIe 3.0, M.2 SATA devices, NVMe, and USB 3.1 Gen 1 and Gen 1.

Read more at http://hothardware.com/news/am...

What's funny is the link wasn't even part in the selection that I cut; which means that the article page has javascript that inserts additional text to the clipboard. It actually requires looking at AMD's page to realize for certain that they mean to say USB 3.1 Gen 1 and Gen 2. Perhaps what should have been added is an [sic] tag after the line to indicate that this piece of quality writing is on Paul Lilly's and HotHardware's heads; not MojoKid's or Slashdot's.

As if the unauthorized installation of software onto hundreds of thousands of computers wasn’t enough, Bitmanagement is alleging that the Navy during 2014 began disabling the Flexwrap software that is tasked with tracking the use of BS Contact Geo and helping to prevent it from being duplicated.

which actually isn't true, based on the direct court case filing also linked one level down, where Bitmanagement Software removed it's tracking and licensing software in preparation for a wide scale rollout, possibly for validating that it would be possible?

The linked article gives the same numbers, so the blame lies with the author of the article; Brandon Hill.

but the cooling tower will be the size of a small house.

You do realize the actual cooler is on the picture in the article right?
http://hothardware.com/Content...
And that it's part of the card which fit in some case (standards for graphics card lengths I'm unaware off, fit on a mini-ITX board a possible exception.)

A family of mice or small snakes or some small fishes I guess.

The system has a blind spot when it comes to clearance. This isn't the first time a Tesla has driven into an overhang. tl;dr photo from linked TFA.

I think Intel needs to get some super-overdrive mode too if it wants to get down to 10nm as well... I think they're struggling with 14nm just now.

Does anybody know what's going on in the left of this picture from TFA?

That is probably heat or say temperature representation, for the particular test case.

I think Intel needs to get some super-overdrive mode too if it wants to get down to 10nm as well... I think they're struggling with 14nm just now.

Does anybody know what's going on in the left of this picture from TFA?

So, let's have your SO tell you they were fired or they're leaving you while you are hand's free.

Also distracted driving.

Plus study's have shown no benefit to hands free texting.

http://hothardware.com/news/st...

You have to look at your phone to ensure the hands free did the operation correctly.

Plus if they say anything that engages your visual cortex you are effectively blind for a moment while you visualize what they said.

It looks like you can opt for a PCIe SSD instead and keep the 6-cell. Still it has the worst battery life amongst its competitors. You sacrifice a lot to fit under 4lbs.
http://hothardware.com/reviews...

The Lenovo P70 is a much more worthy competitor if you can handle the double sized weight. Plus it has the 5000M with up to 8gb memory instead of the 1000M and up to 64GB memory.

See subject: Performance IS "where it's at" & especially for the SLOWEST parts of a PC - disks (which aren't so slow anymore via SSD)... I used LITERAL RamDisks from CENATEK & Gigabyte based on PC-133 SDRAM in the former + DDR-2 in the latter - they FLEW (when SSD still had problems earlier on - I finally "bought-in" via Intel's offerings this year though, after all the 'kinks' in controllers + longevity were worked out though) but were PUNY by comparison for storage space (4gb).

I used those in the following ways though (utilizing a Promise PCIx4 128mb ECC Ram caching controller on WD Velociraptor 10k rpm HDD's to speed them up a bit more too):

1.) Pagefile placement (offloading HDD's where my programs resided on #1, & data for processing that was LARGE on HDD #2)
2.) WebPage caching for browsers
3.) Print Spooler location
4.) %Comspec% location
5.) %tmp% & %temp% BOTH SYSTEM & USER location
6.) Application TEMP folders (when data wasn't too large in them)
7.) Hosts file location (non-std. via registry hack, for faster loads)

* It all worked for MASSIVELY faster system, & NOT impeding slower HDD's by offloading them...

( WHAT I REALLY WANT IS A PAIR OF THESE IN RAID 0 (which are basically 2 Intel 750's in RAID 0 on a SINGLE card of PCI Ex4 nature):

http://hothardware.com/reviews...

NOW THAT WOULD FLY!!!

APK

P.S.=> I still use the Gigabyte IRAM that way (don't have a 64-bit driver for the CENATEK though, too bad) but combined with modern SSD by Intel... apk

Apparently, AMD was pissed off about SYSMark even when it used to be a member, and quit the organization in protest.

AMD actually left BAPCo in 2011, for this very reason: http://hothardware.com/news/am...

http://hothardware.com/gallery... Yes, it has a fan.

Thanks!

http://hothardware.com/gallery...
Yes, it has a fan.

RTFA: "The apparent issue is the substrate Intel used for its Skylake chips. A close-up shot of a Skylake CPU sitting side-by-side with a Broadwell processor shows that the substrate is noticeably thinner on Skylake, and thus prone to bending from the force that some third-party heat sinks exert." Read more at http://hothardware.com/news/in...

You may return to your Intel dick sucking.

That would actually be useful, but considering that one of the screenshots shows 'Follow AMD' with the mandatory shitload of social media icons in the main overview of the settings interface of a fucking driver makes me think that this has marketing department vomit sauce all over it.
You know: "We need to raise the profile of AMD and generate buzz on social media' or whatever the fuck it is they say.

I'm betting that in the overview where you can change clock settings there's going to be a share button which automatically posts a Twitter message and Facebook status update saying: "Just overclocked my AMD Radeon 1234XX to 1000Mhz, bitches! #AMDrulez #overclockingBoss #beastmode #caturday"

1. Javascript benchmarks. They should be outlawed, period. They test the software (browser) more than the CPU. Also they are probably single threaded or close to be.

2. On-screen 3D game benchmarks. Because they favor phones with low-res display such as iPhones.

None of the benchmarks in TFA even consider RAM size and flash memory speed, which both have real-world benefits.

I'm sure that ALL of these benchmarks are done by Apple shills.

Right.

Oh, and whiner, I found this and this about the memory subsystem in the iPhone 6s. Glad you asked!

They used the cheap $340 ethernet cable. They should have used the $10k one. Literally anyone can hear the difference with that one. i think its because it has electrolytes.

http://hothardware.com/news/10...