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  • Tested: Thermal conditions in the 2018 i9 MacBook Pro dramatically hampering performance

    Alex1NAlex1N
    "Thermalgate", anyone? Sorry, couldn't resist.

    On a serious note, none of this sounds good. Thanks for the quick test set.

    Mike: any chance that the thermal paste choice is having an impact on this?

    Cheers,
    Alex.
    Avieshek

  • New Samsung ad attacks iPhone X download speed, ignores performance benchmarks

    Alex1NAlex1N
    Humph. I posted this when there was no-one else about - but it didn't show up.

    What I said was - more or less:

    Samsung are either smarting at the loss of part of their OLED iPhone screen contract and are taking it out on Apple (as only they, Samsung, know how), or they want to lose even more of said contract.

    Maybe I pressed the wrong button in my haste (I was almost out the door when I did it).
    watto_cobraronnclaire1

  • Default Samsung messaging app randomly spamming contacts with pictures

    Alex1NAlex1N
    ROFL
    watto_cobra

  • Can Apple's HomePod take on a surround sound theater system?

    Alex1NAlex1N
    dysamoria said:
    "...as loud as..." Maximum volume isn't what makes a surround system good. In fact, I am repeatedly faced with theatres that have shitty surround systems BECAUSE they've been running at too high a volume that they've become damaged, or where no one has properly balanced the speakers and the center channel is completely drowned out by the rest, making the dialog almost impossible to hear.
    Hear hear. I have had movies completely ruined at the theatre by speakers that have been wrecked by a total overload being inflicted on them. "Buzz zzzt snip snip fizz frizzle snurp" was pretty well all you could hear on such occasions. And at high volume, too. Put us off going to the (well, that) cinema for years.
    watto_cobradysamoria

  • Apple's new 'Behind the Mac' ad campaign puts spotlight back on creatives

    Alex1NAlex1N
    rogifan_new said:
    GeorgeBMac said:
    Perhaps these commercials illustrate what has gone wrong with the Mac:   They emphasize the Mac being used by non-mainstream creatives to create non-mainstream products:  In short, it emphasizes how the Mac line is aimed squarely at artists and related creatives like coders...  Specialty products for special people.

    While I don't know if Jobs ever actually said this, this line about the Mac from the Steve Jobs movie fits with his overall direction: 
    "It's for the grandma, the garbage man, the [common man]."  (Too make their lives better)

    I watched these commercials and felt zero connection to them, the people in them or the product they were espousing....

    The Mac line has devolved into a specialty product.  A niche product....


    Yeah I didn’t feel any connection to these commercials either. Also odd time for them to come out when so much Mac hardware is stale. Unless it means we’ll be seeing some updates soon.
    I immediately took the ads to suggest that a refresh is coming (September?). I’m hoping that this is case, but proof of the pudding, etc., etc.
    watto_cobraGeorgeBMac