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Samsung can produce an 8 cores ARMv8 SoC if they want, but since they are not a software shop they can't go alone without Google. Android is a least 6 month behind Apple to 64 bit transition, we still yet to see how they would manage it considerin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Apps for over three year old Android phones number in the 100's of thousands and there's still developer support for old versions. The phone manufacturer may have moved on to better hardware and newer feat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nikon133 It is really pointless. My 3Gs got iOS6 a year back, but most new features were disabled... so I ended up with a bit slower but hardly any better iOS5, in essence. And of course, there was no easy way to re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy FWIW Kit-Kat will run on 3 year old Android phones, requiring very little overhead/resources. I'm sure you meant one specific 2 year old smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus. Agree that one should have received an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NexusPhan That's the beauty of Android. My Galaxy Nexus is already running a 4.4 ROM. Original Motorola Droid will get it soon too. 4 years of up to date! Anyone that bought the Galaxy Nexus (which was labeled as o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by helicopterben I love spending money on Apple products but I love Google as well as long as Youtube and Google Search is for free I am a Cheap Google lover but I am also Premium Apple Buyer (Getting iPad Air tomorro…
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Monkey see, monkey do….
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Quote: from J.D. anal-ysis Samsung showed particularly strong improvement in the cost factor (25-point increase) So according to J.D. Power, liquidate unsold products is a sign of good customer satisfaction? I'm shock…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Also, doesn’t Apple have a patent on new RAM that only powers what’s in use? I saw that patent, Like many Apple patent I don't know if any iDevice is using it yet. I'm still waiting for liquid meta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo It's not FUD if I'm speaking from experience. I'm already annoyed by my 1GB iOS devices. Bringing up what ancient machines had or games used brings nothing to this discussion. In 2013, 1GB causes Safari t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo It's using a whole third more RAM for the same things because of 64 bit, that's measured. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7460/apple-ipad-air-review A lot of disgruntled iPad 1 owners will tell you lack …
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Quote: Originally Posted by _Rick_V_ 1. Ummm... yes, millions (as mstone also pointed out). For about a decade, Flash was the defacto standard, and many vids will never be upgraded. Even YouTube has tons of videos that will not work in HTML5…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel I think you are just showing a fundamental misunderstanding of RAID 10. It is more reliable than raid 5. There is simply no way it isn't. You've misunderstand me, I do agree a RAID 10 is more reliable that a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wovel The only risk of data loss in a reasonably engineered Raid 5 array is the failure of a second drive during a rebuild. I suppose someone may have some statistics saying that a poorly timed two drive failure is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dachar I have just purchased my first iMac and have been trying to understand how to install Flash. Is Sandbox an add in once Flash has been installed, or is it automatically installed if I download Flash? The san…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio And also, ensuring that you have drive diversity (different models and production runs) is important to decrease the probability of multiple drives failing at once. This is the single most common mistake I'…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio It all depends on what you're using your RAID for (fault tolerance, speed, or capacity). There's also RAID 10 which gives you the fault tolerance gains of RAID 1 plus the speed gains of RAID 0 (at the cost o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio Agreed on the user error and backup points. However, statistically speaking, I fail to see how it's more likely that two drives will fail at the same time than one given the same number of disk accesses on a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by eGold This looks like another multi-hard-drive enclosure, with each hard drive connected by SATA III. High transfer speeds are only obtained in RAID configurations. Nothing wrong with the offer per se, just not wha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by auxio No sane pro keeps important files on a drive with no redundancy or backup for any longer than they need to (if at all). Many wrongfully think that RAID is a way for securing data, it is not. Statistically, e…