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Surely nVidia's decision to enable their older cards to run ray tracing has nothing to do with Crysis demoing real time ray tracing on AMD GPUs a couple days ago. As Cryengine has shown, real time ray tracing can be done in software without the need for specialized hardware accelerators. This kinda makes the main selling point of the GeForce 20 series more or less moot.

I bought a Synology NAS after this: https://www.techspot.com/news/.... Which is not directly related to Google Drive, but if Google had the power to do that it has the power to look into my files and determine that anything there is not appropriate. Once I purchased the NAS, everything came off the cloud including Dropbox. Minimal maintenance. I'm still figuring out how I can have a third backup option so the data in the NAS is stored offsite, but other than that I'm a satisfied customer.

For those that don't want to give the Verge clicks https://www.techspot.com/news/75473-microsoft-updates-notepad-long-awaited-features-latest-windows.html

That would be the Meizu Zero or maybe the Vivo Apex 2019. Apple's courage doesn't yet extend so far as to go wireless charging only (no need for a USB port), remove all all the buttons, *and* go eSIM-only so they can dump the SIM card tray! I expect Apple with be copying (and patenting) these "innovations" and making them their own soon enough though, so hardly surprising the SE's sold out so fast.

Tesla just suddenly hiked their charging prices by 33% and then backtracked a bit. It turns out that fueling your Tesla can cost MORE than fueling you gas car: https://www.techspot.com/news/...

But you are right: the economics don't work. You are at the mercy of Tesla, and they will hike the rates as they need more quarterly revenue.

LibreOffice and Google Docs, while excellent, do not have perfect compatibility with Office, and occasionally it matters.

Personally I use Microsoft's Office Starter, which you can still download for free in various places. It's a stripped down Word and Excel package, and you can always do you real work in a full wordprocessor and then finalize the look in the official Microsoft application. But not many people are aware of Office Starter's existence (or where to download it) (nor the patch needed to make it install and run on Windows 10)

MS got blasted in the 90's for trying to force people to use IE.

That's because Microsoft WAS a monopoly. They had over 90% market share in desktop operating systems. There literally weren't any viable alternatives. Apple has something like 30% market share in smartphones. In what universe is that a monopoly.?

Apple has no right to dictate how I use my hardware- they represent a majority share of the mobile market.

Entitled much? First off Apple does NOT have a majority share of the mobile market. Second, Apple isn't telling you how to use your hardware. You can do whatever you want with it and they cannot say shit about it. But the flipside is that Apple isn't under any obligation to cooperate with you regarding the software or services or what hardware they sell you if it isn't in their interest. What benefit does Apple get from allowing sideloading and other hacks? It's not going to make them one additional penny. You want to connect to Apple's ecosystem then you'll play by Apple's rules. If you don't, that's fine - go buy something else. You seem to be under the delusion that Apple should have to cater to your particular interests and that's not how it works nor should it be.

The ability to sideload and have additional app stores is one of the reasons why I left Apple.

Which is how it is supposed to work. If Apple doesn't offer you what you want you go elsewhere. If Apple had 90% market share then maybe there is an argument against them as a monopoly but the fact is they don't and probably never will.

AMD is coming out with the Athlon 200GE (Ryzen-based) processor for $55 to round out the low-end. Intel still haven't come out with a processor to compete with AMD's 32-core/64-thread Threadripper 2 processor.

I'm planning to switch from AMD to Intel for my next PC upgrade because the feature I want in a motherboard (dual ultra m.2 slots) are only available in an Intel motherboard. If an identical motherboard appears for AMD, I would go with Ryzen instead.

was solved ages ago by Slashdot and it's system of moderation and meta-moderation. If only other sites would adopt the system.....

No, slashdot over the last 10-20 years has been on a huge decline, I rarely if ever see truth based posts about US politics for instance. (aka if you are voting for any rightwing party you are too stupid to understand what the bank bailouts meant in 2008). Our whole species is just stupid, no amount of moderation can cure that level of stupidity. Slashdot suffers from popularity as much as any other site because newer generations of kids and 20 somethings don't have the same experience as the best informed among the older generation and they get downvoted.

I'l give you an example from the videogame industry watched for the last 20 years as videogames were literally stolen once high speed internet penetration reached critical mass around 2005-2006, and the software you control inversion began as a rise of the masses of internet and smart phone connected idiots came online.

The rise of drm, mmo's, f2p games, steam are all signs that our species is a race of morons from all walks and classe of life. The fact that something like world of warcraft can even exist even though that was one of the trial balloons to normalize software you don't own an part of the evil plot to take games out of gamers hands. The entire industry won hands down because they know the literate PC gamers can't reach their offices they are now trapped 100+ miles away from the business and have no market power, now we got shit like League of legends and fortnite, people paying for shit they don't own inside a game they don't own because they are fucking morons.

A giant wtf. I watched my hobby be literally destroyed, level editors and SDK's we got in the 90's literally disappear and were massively curtailed. All the textures and models people are "paying for" are on their computer already, the program just sets a flag to display it. We truly live in a world of morons. Just try insulting steam or mmo's and watch the mmo mouthbreathing brigade come out and downvote you. People who can't reason themselves out of a wet paper bag.

And CEO's pushing for the end game of software files they stream encrypted from servers form their office for all AAA games eventually going foward.

https://www.techspot.com/news/...

Currently there are several problems with Windows 10 for ARM:
a) ARM processors (Snapdragon 835) have the same performance as an Atom chip ( https://www.techspot.com/revie... )
b) There are very few Windows 10 ARM apps
c) Windows 10 ARM does not run Windows 10 x86-64 applications
d) ARM processor does not run emulate Windows 10 x86-32 applications very quickly ( https://www.techspot.com/revie... )

a) / b) / d) can be solved with future ARM processors, c) can be solved in future Windows 10 versions

But I think the main problem is the price: you can have a Windows 10 ARM tablet (HP Envy X2 - https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp... )... for 900 USD. Sorry,but I think it needs to be half the price (at least!)

Currently there are several problems with Windows 10 for ARM:
a) ARM processors (Snapdragon 835) have the same performance as an Atom chip ( https://www.techspot.com/revie... )
b) There are very few Windows 10 ARM apps
c) Windows 10 ARM does not run Windows 10 x86-64 applications
d) ARM processor does not run emulate Windows 10 x86-32 applications very quickly ( https://www.techspot.com/revie... )

a) / b) / d) can be solved with future ARM processors, c) can be solved in future Windows 10 versions

But I think the main problem is the price: you can have a Windows 10 ARM tablet (HP Envy X2 - https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp... )... for 900 USD. Sorry,but I think it needs to be half the price (at least!)

But those advantages don’t tip the scale in favor of Intel for most users.

That is quite literally a falsehood, since the i7-8700K is outselling the 2700X, at a higher price, without a cooler, by a factor of 2 to 3.
Try to cherry pick your reviews better. This is representative of the market, and you seemed to like this site. The fact that an 8700K beats a 2700X in any workload utilizing less than 7 threads, by rather significant margins, and the fact that most games use 1-2 is all you need to know. Basic logic should tell you that any benchmark showing such a workload as performing evenly is flawed by a non-CPU bottleneck. You're searching for other peoples' opinions now to match your own and give it validity. That's just silly.

The market has spoken, and you're still an idiot.

AMD has owned the value-hunter market for a while.

You're wrong about that too, this is a recent phenomenon. Two years ago i5 was kicking AMD's tail in the value market too.

Today AMD unquestionably offers better value in both low end and high end. You want the best low end desktop build? Go AMD. You want the best high end desktop build? Go AMD. You want the best low end server build? Go AMD. You want the best high end server build? Go AMD. It's simple.

Only inertia and AMD's production capacity keeps the market from flipping completely on its head.

Tesla has been hit with a torrent of fake news recently, trying to drive the stock down.

Most obviously and recently was the following:

1) Someone (not Tesla) posted that 23% of Tesla reservations have been cancelled.
2) Based on #1, an analyst downgraded the stock from "hold" to "underperform".
3) Tesla stock plummeted
4) Tesla notices #1 above and responded:

Dunno where this bs is coming from. Who knows about the future, but last week we had over 2000 S/X and 5000 Model 3 *new* net orders. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2018

(Note: Tesla makes about 6,000 cars/month, so an increase of 7000 cars puts them even further behind on reservations. And as noted in the link below, they have not started showing them in stores yet, so Tesla has yet to tap the "drive before they buy" potential pool of customers.)

Word on the street is that shorts are running scared, doing everything they can to drive down the stock price. Including insider sabotage, misleading financial spin, and online harassment such as the OP.

This is basically the last-ditch effort of Tesla bears to drive the stock down. Once the next two quarters financials are in, there will be no case for shorting Tesla stock whatsoever.

Reduce bugs + Retain performance... Quite often those two are not aligned.

Apple live in a world where the real value of their product is dependent on 3rd party developers.

(1) iOS apps crashed more than android apps. The common causes for application crashes on iOS and noticed that the majority of crashes are based on poor coding due to legacy syntax which can be corrected. Shown below are some extracts from 2016.

(2) Typical of any virtual machine is the initialization cost of the VM. This means that you need to take a fully compiled approach otherwise you lose perceived performance advantages. JVM code is often more performant than a typical C, written at the same skill level, once the VM is warm/hot and great for server workloads however initialization costs are unavoidable.

Everyone forgets history.

FYI - ios apps crash more than android apps: https://www.techspot.com/news/...

FYI - some infoq: 47% of apps crash more than 1% of the time: https://www.infoq.com/news/201...

Android 2.3 'Gingerbread' had a crash rate of 1.7%, for example, while iOS 6 apps crashed 2.5% of the time.

FYI - AppCoda: https://www.appcoda.com/apteli...

3 Most Frequent iOS Crashes , 23rd May 2016

SIGSEGV (50%) - This signal occurs when your app attempts to access memory that has not been allocated by the program.
NSInvalidArgumentException - This crash occurs when a method is being called on an object that can’t respond to it.
SIGABRT - You’ll see this in your debugger when there is an unhandled exception (see #2). However, in a deployed app SIGABRT appears when there is an assertion failure or abort method called within the app or the operating system. Often raised during asynchronous system method calls (CoreData, accessing files, NSUserDefaults, and other multithreaded system functions).

That's immaterial.

The contested statement is "because ALWAYS hitting 60Hz is not even a feasible goal on a PC."

A consumer grade card has been shown to be fully capable of hitting 60Hz at all times.

Therefore, it is a feasible goal on a PC. In fact, many cards from the current generation, some cards from the previous generation, and even one stock card from 3 video card generations in the past can maintain a minimum of at least 60Hz according to the linked post.

Seems totally feasible. Hell, 10 series Geforce cards have been on the market for a year already, the next big thing is likely coming right around the corner.

Now, granted this is a benchmark in one game. Different games may have different performance. It does seem to defeat the claim, however.

Great idea. Do not remove the root of the problem (crappy content and tune the controversial argorithm), add more guns. Sounds familiar?

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Why are you shillig false info for Intel?

I'm not shilling false info for Intel. I'm shilling correct information for geekbench, endgadget, phoronix, anandtech, and probably several other's who's benchmarks I looked at the last few days but whose sites I've forgotten.

Please point me in the direction that says I'll have a 0% performance impact when I'm gaming. Please share.

https://www.techspot.com/artic...

That's just the first google result. Feel free to look at more of them. There actually is a performance impact. In a few games you get a 1 FPS speed boost after the patch. You're welcome.

This comes with a 20-30% tax for many workloads.

Except it didn't. All benchmarks point to a 5-10% worst case hit, and an unmeasurable hit in pretty much all desktop / user facing workloads. Despite all the initial reports I've yet to see any benchmark, Windows, Linux, server loads, office applications, gaming, databases, or whatever get into the double digits.

Here's just some top google results:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles...
https://www.techspot.com/artic...

And here's some Linux ones on KPTI:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan....

See subject: Formal tests (albeit on Win10 vs. 7 I use) show more SPEEDUP vs. slowdown per https://www.techspot.com/article/1554-meltdown-flaw-cpu-performance-windows/ - salient quotes/excerpts:

"we see very similar sequential read and write results, the figures after the update are actually slightly better, though weâ(TM)re talking just a 1-2% difference here."

"Interestingly though the 4K-64 thread read and write performance is improved with the patch, the write performance here has been boosted by 17%"

CrystalBench "single thread score was increased by a percent"

"same in Blender, the update came in a fraction ahead"

"Ashes of the Singularity and here we see a small uplift in performance after the patch has been applied. Granted the 1% low result was only improved by 1.7% but still, itâ(TM)s certainly not slower"

"Battlefield 1 results and using the medium quality settings at 1080p with the GTX 1080 Ti sees similar performance before and after the patch, in fact again after the patch we see a very minor improvement"

APK

P.S.=> ONLY 4k - 16k DISK I/O performance seems adversely affected - hence my expected diskdefrag & backup to slowup here (not really seeming so but they're not exactly "FAST PROCESSES" either to begin w/ based on 'feel alone' as I noted here for me)... apk

You constantly use the word mitigate as if a patched workaround making the exploit unusable on the OS level isn't every bit the same thing as a hardware fix making the exploit unusable.

And with first benchmarks out of the patched windows machines showing the performance impact for most normal loads lies somewhere between sweet and fuckall this really is every bit as overblown as many people are stating.

Software has provided additional layers of protection over hardware since the DOS days. What makes this "mitigation" so scary to you that you're shorting Intel stock?

The stock sale likely has more to do with Intel taking more risks, which investors tend not to like when they see you as a blue-chip stock.

You are correct that anyone can fib and get Windows 10 upgrades for free.

Fib? Only if you insist on upgrading via the "Assistive Technologies" option - the Win 7/8/8.1 Product Key method involves no trickery, you simply go to the Microsoft website, download the upgrade image, and supply the Win 7/8/8.1 product activation key when asked.

No fibbing required - https://www.techspot.com/downl...

See windows 10s which only allows installs from the windows store? Thats the future microsoft wants.

BS.

You can download an ISO file from MS website and install Windows 10 on any computer with a retail (not volume license) copy of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 by simply entering the product activation key from your installed OS.

If you use assistive technologies or are just a regular user, these are the links for more infomation.

you mean they didn't fake it like the entire original iphone presentation done by jobs in 2009?

https://www.techspot.com/news/...

You can run Android apps in various ways on a laptop, so scratch the need for the Android tablet.

To which "ways" do you refer? I'm aware of two:

There are few applications on FreeBSD you can't compile for Linux

Which is where the RAM upgrade comes in. In order to run Windows, FreeBSD, or GNU/Linux in a virtual machine in macOS on a MacBook, you may need more RAM than Apple includes with the base model. But mostly I'm referring to apps for X11/POSIX that work on FreeBSD and GNU/Linux but haven't been ported to Win32 or Cocoa. Perhaps one possibility is to install Xcode, Homebrew, and an X server, and buy a second Mac for the maintainer of each app you're trying to build and use under Homebrew so that he can investigate the issues that you file in the issue tracker.

possibly a Windows VM if the Windows application doesn't work under Wine.

Which again is where the RAM upgrade comes in, along with the Windows license.

Windows 10 is horrendously ugly.

So you are reducing yourself to subjective opinions about the colors, fonts, and icons it uses to determine if it's "broken and useless"?

Anyway, why don't you theme it however you like? They even have a Windows 7 theme.

There are many bugs which have existed since day one and still haven't been fixed.

Links? I'm sure you'll have a list of major issues affecting the majority of users.

Major design flaws that are too numerous to list (and if you've used Windows 10 you already know what they are).

I'd rebuff that, but my arguments against you are too numerous to list.

I've got a fast computer with an 8 core CPU, 32 GB of RAM and booting from an SSD. The performance of Windows 10 is noticeably worse than Windows 7

Link the perf tests buddy. Oh that's okay I know you are lazy, here you go:
https://www.techspot.com/revie...

Spoiler alert: 7,8,10 are essentially equal.

it was an interesting blip in the development of GPUs.

You make it sound like PowerVR was just a competing product to the 3DFX Voodoo. They continued to make PowerVR chips long after that:

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

Most of the iPhones use PowerVR (see GPU column):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mobile_application_processors#List_of_Apple_processors

Without Apple they're now rather short on customers and in trouble. The Chinese seem to want their own processor technology so I could well see a Chinese company buying them out.

I don't ever remember PowerVR being a competitor for 3dfx Voodoo in Canada or the US. I remember Matrox and ATI being 3dfx competitors. Perhaps it was a regional thing since PowerVR is located in the UK. I had a VooDoo 2 card then upgraded to a Matrox G400.

http://www.techspot.com/articl...

HEVC is a losing proposition. Apple's making a mistake here.

6 month old list of HEVC hardware decode-supporting devices

Current list of AV1 hardware decode-supporting devices: ...

I'm not seeing Apple's mistake. I'm seeing a software zealot that thinks that battery life is simply a hardware problem for others to solve.

Sure, if you can handle the debilitating PTSD brought on by watching traumatic videos. My good health is worth more than any money they can throw at me.

I grew up on 4chan and other... darker... places on the internet. Somehow I think I'll be just fine.
The question is how much does it pay, and will it be a steady gig, or will I be looking for work again in a year or two?

Sure, if you can handle the debilitating PTSD brought on by watching traumatic videos. My good health is worth more than any money they can throw at me.

It likely isn't a conspiracy theory. Nvidia seems to do something like this with graphics drivers and old video cards. Where AMD equivalents weren't suffering the same generational loss even with newer drivers. In many cases the AMD cards improve more even further in the cards lifetime. Ex: A 670 is approx to a 7950-7980. Today with the newest drivers it struggles to hold against a 7750, where that same 7950 in some cases is at the level of a 680.

I think the following link is still relevant to the discussion: http://www.techspot.com/news/4... A 2008 Apple Power Adapter BOM (Bill of Materials) is/was less than 5 USD. And that would be for 1000 units: it's easy to imagine Apple getting a better price with millions of units built. This does NOT include, labour, assembly, casing, packaging and shipping costs... Looks like a hefty profit there to be made ;-)

Well, an Apple USB wall adapter costs $19. The cheapest USB wall charger from Samsung is $29.99. Okay, unlike Apple's the Samsung one comes with a USB cable, but still, that's hardly less, now is it?

I tried to find one over at Lenovo, but it looks they don't even sell phone chargers, only upward from a USB-C charger for their ThinkPad X1 Tablet. And that cost's $41.99.

I don't believe you.

The reality is on consoles, even with people using a m/k on a console. The people using controllers? Developers have to add extra gimmicks to get them onto the same playing field. Whether it's a bump in life, less damage dealt to them, aim assist, larger hitboxes, doesn't matter. There's dozens of articles on it from different people who work on the industry. This is probably one of the most famous though. To put it simply, no matter the advantage given to a person playing on a console. They got their ass beat into the ground by even mediocre players on the PC.

Re: "Could be a honey pot"
Yes. Recall the watch on onion routing using XKeyscore.
"How the NSA Targets Tor Users" (July 4, 2014)
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
"... and logs the IP address of people searching for various other privacy and encryption software."
NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as "extremists" (July 4, 2014)
http://www.in.techspot.com/new...
"... program marks and tracks the IP addresses of those who search for..."

Adobe Flash's direct downloads page is now dead

##

For the longest time, you could download Adobe Flash for your web browser, for Windows and Linux, maybe OS X too I don't recall.

Now it's dead. This is fucking stupid on so many levels.

This was the page: https://www.adobe.com/products...

Now it's: https://www.adobe.com/products...

At least techspot.com offers the [full installs] Mac and Windows binaries in their Downloads section. I didn't see the Linux one there but maybe it is. But do you trust techspot's binaries?

http://www.techspot.com/downlo...

You can buy a used Sandy Bridge Xeon system for cheap that will not only annihilate that thing but be a better bargain than Zen will be.

http://www.techspot.com/review...

Be careful comparing ancient parts (that in AMD's case are being sold as "new" because they haven't had anything really new for 5 years) in the bargain bin to new stuff. It won't look good on a price/performance basis for AMD next year when Zen finally launches if you do.

http://www.techspot.com/downlo...

If you even search for Tor (or "Linux" or "secure desktop" or "IRC" or "Truecrypt") you get put on an NSA list.

It's the same reason why 1366x768 laptop displays aren't going away. There's a huge supply of them, they work, and they're cheap.

Guangdong and Shenzhen are mass producing cheap and common tablet parts like mad. You can find and buy them yourself on Alibaba; there's tons of cheap 8 and 16GB eMMC chips, 1GB RAM chips, and ARM processors. Companies like Samsung make higher quality and newer, pioneering products, like chips that integrate the storage & RAM together. Soon, the Chinese generics will add these to their lineup, making tablets even smaller and cheaper.

If you want something different, vote with your wallet and buy something different. Then, if enough people do, that's what will become cheap and mass-produced.

If you disabled the TCP/IP stack, it would be rather hard to connect to through the network. But what about that remote shutdown feature that Sandy Bridge processors have.

http://www.techspot.com/news/4...

In 2006 they developed a 350GHz room temperature capable silicon gallium CPU. Where is that?

No they didn't. They developed a 350 GHz room temperature transistor.

According to this article it was a CPU:

http://www.techspot.com/news/2...

Maybe the article is wrong?

In 2002 they developed a 350 GHz silicon-germanium transistor.
In 2006 they developed a silicon-germanium processor that reached 350 GHz at room temperature and 500 GHz when supercooled with liquid helium.

No they didn't. They developed a 350 GHz room temperature transistor.

According to this article it was a CPU:

http://www.techspot.com/news/2...

Maybe the article is wrong?

>You can replace the SSD in the current Macbook Pro and replace it with what? It's got a proprietary connector, and I don't think there any 3rd party drives out for the current models.

Actually, I bet it is a standard PCI Express SD Card. What's the form factor called again, it has a strange name... NGFF or M.2 SSD. Oh wait, that doesn't appear to be it. I stand corrected. Looks like they are completely custom in a mac. Still, it's nice to be able to fixed a trashed SSD - even if it has to come from Apple or an Apple reseller, much better than those models that had the SSD directly integrated into the motherboard, like some of the MacBook Air models.

Per my subject: I hear you. I recall, for instance/example, how HDD's going from SATA I to II didn't really "saturate" (or rather take FULL advantage of the theoretical value often extolled) the bus, & only used a FRACTION of what was being said WAS possible... that sticks out in my mind here.

Still - I am looking to buy to replace this current system of mine:

Intel Core I7 920 CPU
4gb DDR3 RAM
WD Velociraptor 10k rpm SATA II HDD
Gigabyte IRAM 4gb DDR3 "True SSD" (not flash-based & I use this for temp ops, print spooling, browser caches, pagefile location, + more)
NVidia GeForce 470 vidcard

* Reasons being what I am seeing from sites I respect's benchmarks:

Video -> http://www.techspot.com/articl...

CPU -> http://anandtech.com/bench/pro...

Disk (articles like this one - Flash based SSD tech seems to be truly "getting there" - especially on Samsung's end from what I've read, as well as early controller firmware issues being solved along with "trim" tech, etc-et al)

Still tough to decide WHEN is the "right time" to buy, due to the points you've made & that yes, I have seen myself... I don't know WHAT or WHO to fully trust (like a lot of things nowadays what-with what I call "spinmaster technology" out there that's been raised to a 'fine art', imo...)

APK

P.S.=> I've learned, the hard way perhaps (seeing what you're noting, lots of hype, no real-world practical gains) by buying every 6 months etc. upgrading components (for no REAL gains, not really, & certainly NOT for the monetary outlay) - however, *IF* those links I put up above are ANY valid indicator (this is the tough part - who can you really trust etc. as to data being put out), then, it's time to buy for me (since I am seeing TRIPLING of results in many tests on CPU, Video, & Disk especially)... apk

So want to be as convenient as NetFlix, hmmm. How about this? https://popcorntime.io/
Yes, Popcorn time does exist and does work. As a matter of fact, it actually works better than Netflix. Your problem you still want to watch your movies on the TV 8 feet away in a reclining chair. Solution: how about hooking your huge TV to your computer considering thats what it is now. Real TV stopped getting sold, the moment analog wasn't broadcasted. So, go download Popcorn time
Install it (its virus free, malware free and greedy I want your money free)
See a screen similar to Netflix but without their ads, click a movie you would like from a pirate bay style list
and bang you are watching the movie. Concerned that because I am AC, Im a liar? http://discuss.popcorntime.io/ its got an android app (no apple one because apple is well apple) http://www.techspot.com/downlo... (google pulled theirs because MPAA whined. Yet the remote is there)

http://www.techspot.com/news/58590-insanely-fast-225-terabit-fiber-network.html
WANT!

I wonder how the group plans to stitch together multiple displays seamlessly. Removing the bezel is only part of the problem. There'd still be a noticeable seam between panels, never mind the problem of lining up pixels. I suppose one could argue that beyond a certain pixel density - +400dpi or something - lining up pixels exactly wouldn't be necessary. But then you'd have to offset by that difference, and the joined panel would have to test for and respond to that offset to compensate.

I think most would be rightly skeptical of this until seeing the tech work first hand.

On another subject, at the Techspot article there was a link to the Ars project. It's some kind of hot swappable modular phone in development.

http://www.techspot.com/news/5...

According to that, you can't swap out CPU or display live but just about everything else would be hot swappable. It's got a nifty photo showing parts to some kind of mock up or beta device.

All I could think of when looking at this was Stringer Bell from The Wire swapping out sim cards in his phone and what a boon that might be for criminals. Or at least crime drama on TV.

You mean, but will it run Windows 7?

Why would you want to go for a lower performance operating system? If you can get your head around not using the start menu (easy for anybody who isnt indoctrinated in Windows, for example OSX and Linux users) and select "boot-to-desktop" then you can use the better performing Windows 8 rather than paying for a license to install Windows 7.

The desktop is the same, your programs are all the same and while they have removed the start menu and replaced it with the start screen (which will cause issues for Windows devotees) anybody who uses OSes other than Windows will have no problem working with it *and* it runs faster! You can even have the start menu back via 3rd party systems, or you could install an alternative shell like Litestep. I would have thought a community like this wouldn't need that pointed out so I struggle to understand how so many of a community of supposedly computer-savvy people can struggle so much with Windows 8, is it just acting intentionally obtuse because it's Microsoft or are a large part of this community actually devoted Windows fanatics that don't want their precious OS to change?