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Quote: Originally Posted by tmay For the record, nVidia X1 is barely on the level of the A8X; it will be crushed by the A9X. For CPU, yes. The next Denver based Tegra SoC is said to be coming out late this year (unless nVidia pushes it to their…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee I see you conveniently ignored the rest of my post. I wonder why? I was stating that Geekbench is not a reliable source for comparing x86 to ARM. The rest of your post was irrelevant.
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Quote: Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee Geekbench That's not exactly a reliable source for comparing x86 and ARM.
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Quote: Originally Posted by waterrockets We don't have specs on the Pixel C, so how do you know? The surface 3 is heavy, has a fan, generates a lot of heat, and the battery lasts less than 8 hours, which sets a pretty low bar for the Pixel C to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macky the Macky If you blow up that chart in this article you read the fine print where they are comparing the performance of the ARM processors to an old PowerMac G5 at 1.6 GHz. The chart then is saying the A9 is 2.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChiA How disingenuous of you. From the same article: On the contrary, Android is running on the Exynos 7420 which is being used in the comparison. Clearly each OS and SoC have different priorities.
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Quote: Originally Posted by chadbag Are you saying that the Galaxy S6 beats the A9 in other? According to this data the A9 in the 6S plus also beats the Galaxy S6 edge in multicore and the 6S is basically (4404 vs 4403) the same as the S6…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macky the Macky "Samsung plans to launch a smartphone leasing program "in the next several months," or perhaps sooner." Or how about "or later..." I suspect Samsung let this rumor loose to figure out how they…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I love (hate) the subtle psychological effects here, too, where they highlight in green (good) their entire spec list while NOT highlighting any of their competitors that match the respective specs. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd You always win a list war if you control the list. That's true, but there are a lot of valid points covered on their list. They did however leave out the price. The Shield TV starts at $199 with the gami…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee The Shield TV isn't so great for gaming. On paper it looks good, but developers aren't flocking to it with titles to use that power since it doesn't have the sales of another platform to match. So l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jkichline The A8 processor appears to be perfectly capable of 4K video: http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/14/11/21/apples-a8-soc-reportedly-capable-of-4k-video-output-may-pave-way-for-ultra-high-resolution-apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NolaMacGuy for all those specs, it doesn't do my prime use cases -- iTunes content, and AirPlay. to me that makes it useless. with AirPlay I can play back content from any provider on ATV. It's running Android T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by matrix07 That could be DoA based on price point alone. And we all know how spec comparison is working in real life. The device has already been on the market for months. Obviously it's not going to sell as much…
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I'm surprised the nVidia Shield TV wasn't included. It has a higher starting price, but it offers a lot more than most of these devices. Here's nVidia's comparison chart, it was released before the new Fire TV was announced:
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY Great, a bunch of people in a place can have their phones activated by someone yelling "Hey, Siri!" Well, maybe movie theaters can add that before the movie starts so people will their phones still on get …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram The kind you could do yourself, or had to get done at a store (or with some fancy watch tools)? Which major watchmaker? Please provide a link. Or move along. Enough trolling. Fancy tools? A numbe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan All these Android Wear watches look much better in PR photos than IRL, especially on someone's wrist. The final version of the Huawei watch looks a lot like their earlier PR photos:
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Quote: Originally Posted by thompr Well it looks like total crap. But you must admit that the horror of this image has less to do with the round shape of the display than the color scheme selected and the design choices made. Apple could do …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan I don't understand why people think this looks good: There's a reason all the PR shots for these round watches are usually showing off a faux analog display, because showing anything else would make t…