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  1. Re:Just get an actual surface at that price on Samsung Announces Galaxy Book 2, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 S Hybrid With Gigabit LTE and 20-Hour Battery Life (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't see getting Microsoft's locked down, underpowered, feature limited product over a Chromebook. The latter actually having some traction.

  2. Re:And it only comes with Windows 10 S(hit) on Samsung Announces Galaxy Book 2, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 S Hybrid With Gigabit LTE and 20-Hour Battery Life (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought 10 S was end of lifed? More confused.

  3. Re:What do people expect? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, sent back to a lower court, but Intel has not escaped, and they run the risk of ending up with an even higher award. Meanwhile, I do believe the money is held in escrow, did not check that though.

  4. Re: I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't try to fool me, it's turtles all the way down!

  5. Re:What do people expect? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel paid much more than $1 billion to AMD, what are you going on about?

  6. Re: Sounds like Google is offended on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a practical certainty that other nations will follow the EU's lead, eventually even including USA. It's just too good for the consumer.

  7. Re:Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that Apple only has 15% of the market while Google basically owns the rest of it?

    American antitrust law concerns itself with "market power", which is not defined in terms of the fraction a market a vendor controls, but rather, whether the vendor is able to exert control over prices and other factors in its market. Which Apple certainly does. However, we are not talking America here, we are talking EU, which has much more freedom to act in whatever way they deem beneficial to their citizens.

  8. Re:Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Your theory only covers app store competitors. Any application vendor has standing to sue. For example, the Android Fortnite client drama could play out again on Apple. But what makes you think that the EU can't act unless a competitor comes forward?

  9. Re:Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    3) Apple gets away with it for now.

    It doesn't take a genius to see that EU will force Apple to open its app market sooner or later.

  10. Re:What do people expect? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For big companies such large fines rarely if ever get paid

    Wishful thinking. Historically, Microsoft never avoided paying its fines on either side of the Atlantic, just to name one.

    if they do there are tricks to get the people who fined them to pay them for it.

    That's the way it's supposed to work, It's called the "free market".

  11. Re:Still think iPad is consumption only? on The Full Photoshop CC Is Coming To the iPad In 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Cool, journalism for tech support on The New and Improved MacBook Keyboards Have the Same Old Problems (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Therein lies the solution. To implement, you will need a claw hammer, a footstool and a couple of 6 inch spikes. With the Apple logo facing out, get up on the stool and nail the device firmly to the wall about 6 feet up in a conspicuous place so its awesome industrial design can be fully appreciated by everyone in the room.

  13. Re:Chasing AMD taillights on Intel To Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    The news is, Intel artificially restricted their desktop parts to 16GB dimms until now while AMD did not. So 128GB Ryzen desktop is just a matter of swapping the dimms when 32GB actually arrives at retail, but with Intel you need a new processor. New motherboard too? Not sure about that but it would be consistent with the usual Intel experience.

  14. Re:Chasing AMD taillights on Intel To Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, i9 is Intel's top of the line HEDT product so Threadripper is the proper comparison, which has 4 channels vs i9's two.

    Actually we were all baited, because the article is not about memory channels, it is about DIMM capacity. The headline is a pure troll.

  15. Re:Chasing AMD taillights on Intel To Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel supports up to 3.06 TB a CPU.

    Intel's high end Xeons have 6 channels, looks like 1.5TB to me.

  16. Chasing AMD taillights on Intel To Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Epyc supports 2TB per chip. WTF is up with Intel?

  17. It should be obvious why Microsoft is peddling Linux VMs on its cloud.

  18. Misleading on It Was Flat Sales That Helped Microsoft Become America's #5 PC Maker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The dup article touts Microsoft's US PC sales once again, overlooking the fact that Microsoft's miserable 600k worldwide PC sales are less than one sixth of Acer's worldwide PC sales. WTF.

    With 1% annual growth rate the technical term for Microsoft's PC effort is "vanity project". Looks like the spin department is desperately feeding the media to try to keep it on life support.

  19. It may be a niche market on Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    it may be a niche market, but definitely, it will expand

    I see what they did there

  20. Apple doesn't lead, again on Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket (cnet.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What we're used to now: Apple doesn't lead, again. Apple chasing Android tail pipes for years now. I-Phone just an overpriced bad imitation of a proper Android phone. Don't waste your money on Apple I-Phone, get a much better Android I-Phone instead :-)

  21. Re:Binary Blobs is the problem with Linux kernels. on Greg Kroah-Hartman: Outside Phone Vendors Aren't Updating Their Linux Kernels (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    My Kitkat phone is useless because many important apps won't install on it. Over time, that factor alone will create enough pressure to create the "rescue" segment.

  22. I-Phone is just a lame, overpriced imitation of an Android phone. Nobody cool gets an I-Phone, just middle aged moms now.

  23. They all look like iPhones now.

    Wrong, I-Phones look like Android phones now. Remember how I-Phone 4 looked, that ugly narrow thing? Samsung proceeded to kick Apple's butt with a range of big, beautiful displays and Apple had to follow. Now Apple follows Android, well, except for the notch, no thanks for that.

  24. Re:Most imnportant question here on Razer Phone 2 Launches With Notch-less Display, Wireless Charging, and RGB Lighting (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    Second most important question: where is the headphone jack?

  25. Lenovo, HP up, Apple down on Microsoft Passes Acer To Become Top 5 PC Vendors In the US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    Lenovo up 22%, that's the news. Apple off nearly 8% yoy, RIP Macs.