LOL Really? Did you see the CS section? ~2 seconds to position the crosshair on a guy's head... imagine compensating for recoil during an AK burst with that thing, haha:D
As with any other console controller: Completely fucking useless.
This, a thousand times this. I own a Windows 8 tablet and I spend nearly all my time in desktop apps, because pretty much every Metro app ever written is just plain subpar. The one exception (and even that's a stretch, what with all the missing features) is IE, funnily enough, which is just barely usable.
If I didn't need OneNote/PDF Annotator and general Windows-style multitasking, I'd definitely be using an Android tablet.
Don't forget that size is a function of viewing distance. The 24" TFT on my desk is "bigger" than the 50" flatscreen in the living room unless I start sitting on the coffee table instead of the couch...
Maybe it's not all about the box and more about the old phone lines in there. Not having to put down new wires has got to make setting up a network of hotspots much easier...
I'm currently running a 7750 (my critera were basically SC2 and CS:GO at a solid fps-capped 128FPS, so anything more would have been overkill) and haven't had any issues whatsoever. Rock solid cheap card...
See, this is why I asked. Looking at benchmark lists (things like Cinebench) would lead me to believe that this is nowhere near the case, with the fastest AMD chip (with a 4.4GHz singlethreaded turbo vs. 3,9GHz on the fastest Intel chip in this benchmark) barely keeping up with good old 1st-gen Core i5/i7 chips.
Hmmm, I was actually using the word "faster" in a "get shit done more quickly" sense - not higher clock speeds. I.e. a 3GHz Haswell i5 being faster than a 3GHz Bulldozer (or whatever the latest generation is called) for a purely CPU-limited single-threaded workload. That's what I'm asking - is this not still the case?
The fact that I can crank an unlocked i5/i7 to 4.5-5.0 GHz without any issues whatsoever is just icing on the cake.
To be honest, I'm loving the ease of putting together a decent system these days. I actually owned an Athlon64 based system back in the day (with an expensive high-end SLI nForce-based board), and that sucker was never completely stable. Same thing with the AthlonXP generation, and K7 (Athlon/Duron) beforehand...
These days, I just pick the Intel chip that fits my needs, by the cheapest name-brand board that fits my needs, slap it together and it's rock solid. Celerons, Pentiums, Core iX, whatever... hell, even overclocking 30-40% (I'm sitting next to a Sandy Bridge machine that's running at about 45% OC'd) only takes a few seconds and is rock solid.
From what I've heard, AMD's current chips are similarly stable, but I'm not really willing to risk it.
You're looking at the wrong content. When viewing full desktop websites with small text, or PDF files, the high resolution really comes in handy, because you can view the thing in "fit-to-screen" portrait mode without compromising legibility. Try that on the 1280x800 version and you'll be squinting like crazy because there's only something like 5x3 pixels available to render each letter. No amount of crazy-good antialiasing can fix that.
That said, I bought my girlfriend a Nexus 7 when it first came out and she can't tell the difference... because she doesn't view anything with tiny text.
TL;DR: Buy appropriately for your needs and you'll be fine.
I for one would have welcomed Nokia as a hardware option for Android devices. Hardware options are exactly what we're missing... you can go with plasticky Samsung, patchy HTC (nice build quality on the One, but the software support is spotty at best) or only-one-option Google Nexus. LG? Pfff, outside of the Nexus 4, I wouldn't even consider it.
I'd actually love my tablet to charge via MicroUSB, because I have a mobile USB power bank with over 40Wh... I could get a full charge for my tablet from that. But unfortunately, Samsung used their own laptop style charger:(
The Windows 8 interface is perfectly fine for a tablet. Worse in some ways than Android, better than others. The real advantage over Android is that you have a full web browser, none of those dumbed-down mobile versions that can't handle standard web sites. If you're really wedded to the Android app-world it's probably not so good for you, but remember that there's so much free Windows software that would do the job just fine. Android has been wanting full VLC and smoothly working Flash for years...
While this is all true, mentioning the full web browser in the same paragraph as the "perfectly fine for a tablet" interface is very misleading. I own a Windows 8 tablet, and while it runs Firefox and Chrome just fine in their full desktop versions, both these browsers are pretty much unusable for browsing via touch. Chrome spazzes out often, sometimes no longer accepting touch input on certain controls (pen and mouse continue to work in these cases, but forget closing a tab or accessing the location bar with your finger), and Firefox does things like selecting text when you're actually trying to scroll...
IE in Metro mode is surprisingly decent, but very very very feature-limited (Chrome on Android or even the stock Android browser both have many more features and settings) and doesn't seem to offer proper adblocking (the best I've found is an add-on that blocks about half of the ads ABP blocks)...
It's meh because it's essentially the same as the previous generation - except for the price.
Quad core - only 1.3GHz and still Atom (albeit with OoO execution) so pretty meh. Still only 2GB RAM, so meh. Only 32/64 gigs of slow-ass on-SoC eMMC pseudo-SSD storage, with even the 64gig version only providing about 30 gigs of usable space after you subtract the Windows 8 recovery partition and the space Windows 8 itself uses, so meh. No active digitizer as far as I can tell, so meh...
If Bay Trail truly provides a substantial performance boost, this device may truly merit a "wow", but Atom has always been hyped up every new generation... and each and every time, it was just a miniscule improvement that kept netbooks in the way-low-end. And 2GB of RAM means it's constantly memory-starved anyway, so there isn't really a chance that the device will be very fast anyway... even a Haswell i7 will slow to a crawl with 2 gigs of RAM.
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LOL Really? Did you see the CS section? ~2 seconds to position the crosshair on a guy's head... imagine compensating for recoil during an AK burst with that thing, haha :D
As with any other console controller: Completely fucking useless.
On ChromeOS? Can you even use multiple windows at once on that? If not, 1366x768 is just fine for a single maximized browser window...
You're thinking of the NExus One. The Galaxy Nexus is a different phone...
That's wrong. I own the Galaxy Nexus and I've owned a Galaxy SII - NOT the same.
The Nexus S was practically a Galaxy S... but after that?
Hmmm which phone was the Galaxy Nexus based on, then? The Nexus 4?
This, a thousand times this. I own a Windows 8 tablet and I spend nearly all my time in desktop apps, because pretty much every Metro app ever written is just plain subpar. The one exception (and even that's a stretch, what with all the missing features) is IE, funnily enough, which is just barely usable.
If I didn't need OneNote/PDF Annotator and general Windows-style multitasking, I'd definitely be using an Android tablet.
Not to mention the crappy WiFi (single crappy small antenna, likely 2.4Ghz only) on typical netbooks...
Are you saying split-screen is still a thing?
Maybe on a Wii, but I thought we were talking about this newfangled Steam Box thing...
Don't forget that size is a function of viewing distance. The 24" TFT on my desk is "bigger" than the 50" flatscreen in the living room unless I start sitting on the coffee table instead of the couch...
Maybe it's not all about the box and more about the old phone lines in there. Not having to put down new wires has got to make setting up a network of hotspots much easier...
I'm currently running a 7750 (my critera were basically SC2 and CS:GO at a solid fps-capped 128FPS, so anything more would have been overkill) and haven't had any issues whatsoever. Rock solid cheap card...
See, this is why I asked. Looking at benchmark lists (things like Cinebench) would lead me to believe that this is nowhere near the case, with the fastest AMD chip (with a 4.4GHz singlethreaded turbo vs. 3,9GHz on the fastest Intel chip in this benchmark) barely keeping up with good old 1st-gen Core i5/i7 chips.
http://www.tomshardware.de/charts/cpu-charts-2012/-01-Cinebench-11.5,3142.html
Multithreaded workloads are a different story, of course, what with AMD having consumer octacores on the market: http://www.tomshardware.de/charts/cpu-charts-2012/-02-Cinebench-11.5,3143.html
Hmmm, I was actually using the word "faster" in a "get shit done more quickly" sense - not higher clock speeds. I.e. a 3GHz Haswell i5 being faster than a 3GHz Bulldozer (or whatever the latest generation is called) for a purely CPU-limited single-threaded workload. That's what I'm asking - is this not still the case?
The fact that I can crank an unlocked i5/i7 to 4.5-5.0 GHz without any issues whatsoever is just icing on the cake.
Aren't Intel's chips faster clock for clock right now? Not to mention much more efficient?
To be honest, I'm loving the ease of putting together a decent system these days. I actually owned an Athlon64 based system back in the day (with an expensive high-end SLI nForce-based board), and that sucker was never completely stable. Same thing with the AthlonXP generation, and K7 (Athlon/Duron) beforehand...
These days, I just pick the Intel chip that fits my needs, by the cheapest name-brand board that fits my needs, slap it together and it's rock solid. Celerons, Pentiums, Core iX, whatever... hell, even overclocking 30-40% (I'm sitting next to a Sandy Bridge machine that's running at about 45% OC'd) only takes a few seconds and is rock solid.
From what I've heard, AMD's current chips are similarly stable, but I'm not really willing to risk it.
His meth and all the tea. Like Aaron Paul says: "Everybody dies."
You're looking at the wrong content. When viewing full desktop websites with small text, or PDF files, the high resolution really comes in handy, because you can view the thing in "fit-to-screen" portrait mode without compromising legibility. Try that on the 1280x800 version and you'll be squinting like crazy because there's only something like 5x3 pixels available to render each letter. No amount of crazy-good antialiasing can fix that.
That said, I bought my girlfriend a Nexus 7 when it first came out and she can't tell the difference... because she doesn't view anything with tiny text.
TL;DR: Buy appropriately for your needs and you'll be fine.
I for one would have welcomed Nokia as a hardware option for Android devices. Hardware options are exactly what we're missing... you can go with plasticky Samsung, patchy HTC (nice build quality on the One, but the software support is spotty at best) or only-one-option Google Nexus. LG? Pfff, outside of the Nexus 4, I wouldn't even consider it.
I'd actually love my tablet to charge via MicroUSB, because I have a mobile USB power bank with over 40Wh... I could get a full charge for my tablet from that. But unfortunately, Samsung used their own laptop style charger :(
It is fast though...
This. It's been done, and with much more style too.
... haven't you been reading the news? Apple just invented the fingerprint scanner! :p
The Windows 8 interface is perfectly fine for a tablet. Worse in some ways than Android, better than others. The real advantage over Android is that you have a full web browser, none of those dumbed-down mobile versions that can't handle standard web sites. If you're really wedded to the Android app-world it's probably not so good for you, but remember that there's so much free Windows software that would do the job just fine. Android has been wanting full VLC and smoothly working Flash for years...
While this is all true, mentioning the full web browser in the same paragraph as the "perfectly fine for a tablet" interface is very misleading. I own a Windows 8 tablet, and while it runs Firefox and Chrome just fine in their full desktop versions, both these browsers are pretty much unusable for browsing via touch. Chrome spazzes out often, sometimes no longer accepting touch input on certain controls (pen and mouse continue to work in these cases, but forget closing a tab or accessing the location bar with your finger), and Firefox does things like selecting text when you're actually trying to scroll...
IE in Metro mode is surprisingly decent, but very very very feature-limited (Chrome on Android or even the stock Android browser both have many more features and settings) and doesn't seem to offer proper adblocking (the best I've found is an add-on that blocks about half of the ads ABP blocks)...
It's meh because it's essentially the same as the previous generation - except for the price.
Quad core - only 1.3GHz and still Atom (albeit with OoO execution) so pretty meh.
Still only 2GB RAM, so meh.
Only 32/64 gigs of slow-ass on-SoC eMMC pseudo-SSD storage, with even the 64gig version only providing about 30 gigs of usable space after you subtract the Windows 8 recovery partition and the space Windows 8 itself uses, so meh.
No active digitizer as far as I can tell, so meh...
If Bay Trail truly provides a substantial performance boost, this device may truly merit a "wow", but Atom has always been hyped up every new generation... and each and every time, it was just a miniscule improvement that kept netbooks in the way-low-end. And 2GB of RAM means it's constantly memory-starved anyway, so there isn't really a chance that the device will be very fast anyway... even a Haswell i7 will slow to a crawl with 2 gigs of RAM.
If a bigger pipe is too expensive, overnight shipping of a hard drive every day is going to be WAY too expensive.
So... stay the fuck away from Sandforce controllers? This has been common knowledge for years...