By the way, I don't see a factual rebuttal to my challenge to prove that Apple's iOS devices have "Laughable Hardware"
I just typed iPhone 7 specs into my the browser. First result is a screen with half the resolution than a Galaxy S7.
Yeah hahahahahahaha crap hardware. No wonder no one makes VR mounts for that shit.
ONE spec does not a Benchmark make.
And who needs a 500+ ppi screen RESOLUTION (pixel density)? Are we making smartphones for EAGLES now?!? Our eyes are only about 350 ppi resolution; so anything much higher is just a waste of resources (power and speed). Which is reflected in the DOUBLE the battery for about the SAME runtime, and the SLOWER (MUCH SLOWER!) Graphics Performance, due to having to assign values to all those unnecessary pixels. By comparison, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are a more reasonable 326 and 401 ppi, respectively.
And now, let's talk about the CPU benchmarks... (But I'm sure you'd rather not).
You still live in the early 2000's? It's 2016: even virtualization (if needed) runs well on low end hardware now
Oh, for example, has Adobe ported their apps to Linux, and if so, which Distro?
And if you are talking about running stuff under WINE (since we all know the answer to the question regarding Adobe Creative Cloud running directly on Linux), the answer still appears to be "not so much"...
You only just now decided to do that? I jumped off that sinking ship known as XP when the dark storm known as Vista started approaching and became too close for comfort. This was 2004-2006... there was a brief transition period during tht time when I was dual-booting but almost always using Linux, but since I blew away those NTFS partitions I never looked back. It's been great.
And I've never OWNED a Windows-based computer. My only experiences with them have been through employers, or others that asked me to troubleshoot their (many and varied) Windows issues.
For that, I am forever grateful that I don't have to deal with that crap on my Apple gear. Because I am their Customer, not their Product.
Most SSD manufacturers released firmware updates to address the issue.
No firmware update available for my SSD model that came out last year. Windows 10 was already installed on the hard drive before I got the SSD drives. I had no trouble migrating from HDD to SSD.
Try switching the SSD from AHCI to legacy IDE mode in the BIOS and see if the installer will accept it. No chance that the installer will see it as removable if its in IDE mode. If it works, before switching back to AHCI set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\StartOverride
from 3 to 0, or the system might not boot
Wow! Windows is making installing LINUX look easy!
You cant even write to a TEXT FILE on Android without downloading an app from the store, with all its could features and telemetry...Android still doesnt have a file manager that Google is willing to show to users (its hidden). They tried removing the ability to read/write ext3/4 on Chrome...Google is the new MS.
Wait! I thought one of the Fandroids complaints about IOS was lack of access to the filesystem via a built-in file manager.
Now you're telling me that Android doesn't have a user-accessible File Manager either???
Basically every high end windows product blows an equivalently priced mac out of the water. Thats why everyone has spent the last few years complaining about apple, and why the latest refresh has been such a disappointment for people.
...it is too bad they do not offer a paid version of the OS without the spyware. This behavior is the best thing to happen for Apple sales in a long time.
I agree.
Apple not only doesn't care to market user data, it has additionally found that PRIVACY is actually a marketable and DISTINGUISHABLE FEATURE.
I suggest you shut your mouth and open your browser.
Well TheFakeTimCook has all the charm and social skills of TheLateSteveJobs
I have plenty of charm and social skills. But I don't suffer liars silently.
By the way, I don't see a factual rebuttal to my challenge to prove that Apple's iOS devices have "Laughable Hardware" and have competitors that "easily out spec Apple's products even before they are launched."
No, they were just designed to break easily under normal use. Totally fair!
They were NOT designed to break, you idiot. They might have proven to be a little more fragile than Apple's testing would have indicated; but that does not constitute DESIGNED to break. Nobody but NOBODY does that, Hater!
Their hardware design is not "cutting edge". Their hardware efficiency and utilisation is.
There's no arguing that Apple provides a fast and silky smooth experience to the user. But to claim that this is due to "cutting edge" hardware is laughable when most of their competitors regularly outspec Apple's products long before they are launched.
You apparently haven't seen any iPhone 7 benchmarks. I suggest you shut your mouth and open your browser.
They have smaller batteries and about half the RAM as current or even last gen devices
And yet they STILL run rings around the competition, performance-wise.
And an iPhone 7 Plus, with HALF the battery capacity of an exploding GN7, STILL gets BETTER run-time (and MUCH better performance) than the exploding GN7.
If 2 companies are splitting the profits taken in a market 50/50 and one does a recall that wipes out their profit for a quarter, then the other company is making the same amount of money... but now has "100%" of the profit.
This news is just a reflection of Samsung taking a giant loss on the Note7.
Profit is a perfect indicator of how much you are OVERPAYING for what you've bought, that's all. Whether people want that or not is a nonsense to do with trends, image and designer brands. Demand influencing price is entirely different to the consumer getting a fair deal.
Spoken like a person who has never owned a successful business. And never will.
My company just bought me a MacBook pro. I don't want to go out with it, because it is too risky with such a device. Really it feels like more of a burden than anything.
Right. Because people will see that Apple logo through your computer-bag...
And of course, the internet doesn't allow posting of answers for Apple stuff, right?
Oh, and you can "Google" an answer for Linux; but it doesn't mean you'll get one, or get one that doesn't include a trail of snarky responses instead of any real information or assistance.
Oh, and by and large, you do NOT find the snarkiness on Apple-oriented forums. You just don't. People tend not to act like a bunch of adolescents with arrested social development, like they do in nearly every Linux forum.
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By the way, I don't see a factual rebuttal to my challenge to prove that Apple's iOS devices have "Laughable Hardware"
I just typed iPhone 7 specs into my the browser. First result is a screen with half the resolution than a Galaxy S7.
Yeah hahahahahahaha crap hardware. No wonder no one makes VR mounts for that shit.
ONE spec does not a Benchmark make.
And who needs a 500+ ppi screen RESOLUTION (pixel density)? Are we making smartphones for EAGLES now?!? Our eyes are only about 350 ppi resolution; so anything much higher is just a waste of resources (power and speed). Which is reflected in the DOUBLE the battery for about the SAME runtime, and the SLOWER (MUCH SLOWER!) Graphics Performance, due to having to assign values to all those unnecessary pixels. By comparison, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are a more reasonable 326 and 401 ppi, respectively.
And now, let's talk about the CPU benchmarks... (But I'm sure you'd rather not).
I have plenty of charm and social skills. But I don't suffer liars silently.
So you have 2 modes then? Silent and utter dick? Good to know.
That's actually pretty funny...
You still live in the early 2000's? It's 2016: even virtualization (if needed) runs well on low end hardware now
Oh, for example, has Adobe ported their apps to Linux, and if so, which Distro?
And if you are talking about running stuff under WINE (since we all know the answer to the question regarding Adobe Creative Cloud running directly on Linux), the answer still appears to be "not so much"...
You only just now decided to do that? I jumped off that sinking ship known as XP when the dark storm known as Vista started approaching and became too close for comfort. This was 2004-2006... there was a brief transition period during tht time when I was dual-booting but almost always using Linux, but since I blew away those NTFS partitions I never looked back. It's been great.
And I've never OWNED a Windows-based computer. My only experiences with them have been through employers, or others that asked me to troubleshoot their (many and varied) Windows issues.
For that, I am forever grateful that I don't have to deal with that crap on my Apple gear. Because I am their Customer, not their Product.
Most SSD manufacturers released firmware updates to address the issue.
No firmware update available for my SSD model that came out last year. Windows 10 was already installed on the hard drive before I got the SSD drives. I had no trouble migrating from HDD to SSD.
Try switching the SSD from AHCI to legacy IDE mode in the BIOS and see if the installer will accept it. No chance that the installer will see it as removable if its in IDE mode. If it works, before switching back to AHCI set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\StartOverride from 3 to 0, or the system might not boot
Wow! Windows is making installing LINUX look easy!
You cant even write to a TEXT FILE on Android without downloading an app from the store, with all its could features and telemetry...Android still doesnt have a file manager that Google is willing to show to users (its hidden). They tried removing the ability to read/write ext3/4 on Chrome...Google is the new MS.
Wait! I thought one of the Fandroids complaints about IOS was lack of access to the filesystem via a built-in file manager.
Now you're telling me that Android doesn't have a user-accessible File Manager either???
They do. FTFA: "You can change the level under Diagnostic and usage data and also set the Feedback frequency to Never if you simply want to opt out."
Which you will have to remember to RE-SET Every single time there's an Update, Security Patch, or it's Tuesday.
Basically every high end windows product blows an equivalently priced mac out of the water. Thats why everyone has spent the last few years complaining about apple, and why the latest refresh has been such a disappointment for people.
...and that must by why the latest refresh of the MacBook Pro are breaking all Sales Records, right?
Even low end machines run very well with Gnome3/Unity/Cinnamon (and there's XFCE, if needed...): no need to buy overpriced stuff to run real OSes
Real OSes without real Application support, you mean...
...it is too bad they do not offer a paid version of the OS without the spyware. This behavior is the best thing to happen for Apple sales in a long time.
I agree.
Apple not only doesn't care to market user data, it has additionally found that PRIVACY is actually a marketable and DISTINGUISHABLE FEATURE.
As do most apple worshippers. Cult mentality.
,,,And Linux and Android fanbois AREN'T "Cultish"???
I suggest you shut your mouth and open your browser.
Well TheFakeTimCook has all the charm and social skills of TheLateSteveJobs
I have plenty of charm and social skills. But I don't suffer liars silently.
By the way, I don't see a factual rebuttal to my challenge to prove that Apple's iOS devices have "Laughable Hardware" and have competitors that "easily out spec Apple's products even before they are launched."
Wonder why?
No, they were just designed to break easily under normal use. Totally fair!
They were NOT designed to break, you idiot. They might have proven to be a little more fragile than Apple's testing would have indicated; but that does not constitute DESIGNED to break. Nobody but NOBODY does that, Hater!
If I could gut a Thinkpad T23 and put the contents of the MacBook into it I would.
Thus proving which is the more desirable laptop.
They have assistants (Trump doesnt tweet himself. He has 2 assistants to whom he shouts out his tweets and they tweet it).
At 3 am? Right.
/. is a pro-Apple site.
You're kidding, right?
You do realize that Samsung phones cost just as much as Apple phones.
More, actually.
Their hardware design is not "cutting edge". Their hardware efficiency and utilisation is.
There's no arguing that Apple provides a fast and silky smooth experience to the user. But to claim that this is due to "cutting edge" hardware is laughable when most of their competitors regularly outspec Apple's products long before they are launched.
You apparently haven't seen any iPhone 7 benchmarks. I suggest you shut your mouth and open your browser.
They have smaller batteries and about half the RAM as current or even last gen devices
And yet they STILL run rings around the competition, performance-wise.
And an iPhone 7 Plus, with HALF the battery capacity of an exploding GN7, STILL gets BETTER run-time (and MUCH better performance) than the exploding GN7.
I wonder why...
The average Android device... well it varies very widely. But According to 'Pocketnow' it works out to only about $25 of actual profit per device.
So, Samsung only made a (pre-explosion) profit of $25 on the GN7, even though:
1. They make the display and digitizer themselves for their phones, vs. Apple having to purchase that.
2. They Fabricate the SoC for their phones, vs. Apple having to purchase that.
3. They Fabricate the Flash for their phones, vs. Apple having to purchase that.
etc.
And, (wait for it), even though a GN7 was MORE EXPENSIVE than an UNLOCKED iPhone 7 PLUS for the Equivalent Storage.
Yeah, those Android profits sure DO "vary very widely"; like by about several THOUSAND Percent!
If they gave all that money to the poor. But that will never happen.
Just as soon as Samsung, HTC and LG do the same...
Why not call for that, eh, Hater?
If 2 companies are splitting the profits taken in a market 50/50 and one does a recall that wipes out their profit for a quarter, then the other company is making the same amount of money... but now has "100%" of the profit.
This news is just a reflection of Samsung taking a giant loss on the Note7.
Sorry, no.
Profit is a perfect indicator of how much you are OVERPAYING for what you've bought, that's all. Whether people want that or not is a nonsense to do with trends, image and designer brands. Demand influencing price is entirely different to the consumer getting a fair deal.
Spoken like a person who has never owned a successful business. And never will.
My company just bought me a MacBook pro. I don't want to go out with it, because it is too risky with such a device. Really it feels like more of a burden than anything.
Right. Because people will see that Apple logo through your computer-bag...
At least with Linux I can Google an answer.
And of course, the internet doesn't allow posting of answers for Apple stuff, right?
Oh, and you can "Google" an answer for Linux; but it doesn't mean you'll get one, or get one that doesn't include a trail of snarky responses instead of any real information or assistance.
Oh, and by and large, you do NOT find the snarkiness on Apple-oriented forums. You just don't. People tend not to act like a bunch of adolescents with arrested social development, like they do in nearly every Linux forum.