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charlesatlas said:

How about putting them in the band? Plenty of room for bigger antennae there. Just need some kind of connector.

Thought the same thing. The trouble is every set of straps would have to have antennas built into them, and third party straps might not be up to it. Further, it would increase the cost of straps, and would likely also be a weak point in the watch's communications as the straps gradually deteriorate with use.

TikTok is used by the PRC CPC for soft power propaganda. It's owned by the Chinese government, more or less, and somehow the US president is thinking of keeping it active in the US... for a fee? Am I missing something?

Even if they moved their 'headquarters' outside of China, the Chinese government would still maintain some influence over the platform.

This news is pretty odd. If someone has a better handle on this, please do explain.

GeorgeBMac said:

Darn!

I'm using a 1990's era Hitachi CRT.   When it was purchased it was definitely high-end.

I'm thinking I should upgrade.

But then I ask:   Why?   What would I gain?   A little more screen space.   That's really about it.   But since it does what I need, why bother?

Further though:   for picture and color quality, it's better (or at least more natural) than any of the digital, flat screen stuff.   They all look like posters to me.

So, I would gain screen space (which I don't need) and lose picture and color quality (much as you lose sound quality going from analog to digital).

Ah the nostalgia!! I remember having a 17" Gateway 2000 Trinitron (Sony tube) and looking at a 19" Mitsubishi Flatron thinking how much more space that would give me... how things have changed.
I used to run that at 85Hz - super smooth screen. Could not stand the 60Hz displays at college - the flicker was quite distracting.
Hexclock is right - power savings are definitely something to consider (that, desk space and heat).

If you have a laptop but no keyboard or mouse, the very first thing you should do is get a keyboard and mouse, and move your laptop a little further away from you to reduce neck strain.
The next thing to do is elevate your laptop. Do this on the cheap with a stack of books, or buy a foldable laptop stand. I would highly recommend the Nexstand laptop stand. You can elevate your laptop to various heights, and get the top of your laptop screen just below your eyeline so that your posture and neck are straight. Nexstand stand is cheap, light, compact and portable.

As regards to monitors, if you are only temporarily going to use a monitor at home, a cheap monitor might be OK, but I personally would (and did) prefer something that I can get good life out of. Acer, Asus and even LG are all pretty questionable. Most Acer monitors at work (all cheap 23.x inch) have broken over the years. Asus seems to be pot luck in terms of getting a good unit or not (just read Amazon reviews). having said that, we have around 6 Asus 24" Proart and they have worked fine (not 4K).

If you want to get something decent, but on a budget, you cannot go wrong with Dell. Dell as a company is not the first company that comes to mind when it comes to quality, but without doubt their monitors are pretty good. As for size, if you already have a 15 or 16 inch monitor, a 23 inch isn't going to help that much more. I would highly recommend a 27 incher. Further, it's 2020 already, so go 4K - you won't regret it - and you can run the monitor in HiDPI (or retina mode if you will).

If you have an older Mac Book Pro - be sure to check it supports 4K. The 15 inch Mac Pro late 2013 with dedicated graphics will work - mini display port to Display Port cable is needed (HDMI does not support 4K @60p prior to HDMI ver.2) - I was using this set up with an Eizo EV3237 a 32 inch 4K monitor from 2015 that cost around $2000. Excellent monitor, no problems over thousands of hours of use. The newer version is EV3285 has USB Type C input and costs around the same, but has a lower colour gamut for some reason.

I have an older NEC graphics monitor from 2008 that still works. An LG 27 inch that cost around $600 but has uniformity and colour issues - used as an emergency monitor, and another LG (exactly the same model bought a month later) that is broken - scrambled screen. LG's more expensive monitors tend to be better tuned and tested, but I feel that other brands like NEC / Eizo that do in fact use LG panels have much better driver electronics, and tend to get the better monitor batches from LG. Eizo certainly really go to town to profiling and testing their monitors (which is the reason they cost more). A 5 year guarantee is pretty good.

For home I ended up getting an Eizo ColorEdge CS2740 - a new model that came out early this year. It's a 27 inch 4K professional graphics monitor, USB Type C - comes with a USB C to USB C cable, and charges my laptop (2018 15 inch mac book pro). This monitor is colour accurate, the uniformity of the screen is the best I have ever seen. 16 bit LUT 10 bit panel. It is also, quite unusually, software upgradeable (with additional colour tables, I forget the details, but it's the sort of thing you would do for colour grading and that video work). While my work monitor is 32 inch, it felt just a little big. I find 4K on the new 27 inch (at 3008x1692) in HiDPI mode perfect.

Sorry if this ended up looking like an Eizo endorsement. If you are strapped for cash, do get a Dell, they're pretty good (in the office we have 10x 27 inch 2K and 1x 27 inch 4K which have all been perfect).

tht said:

For another test, we turned to iMovie. We created a four-minute and 39-second 4K video on the new and previous-generation iPad Pro and exported the video for sharing. The 2018 iPad Pro took 20.05 seconds to complete and the 2020 iPad Pro only took 5.12 seconds. 

Typo? 20.05 to 5.12 seconds is 75% faster or the 2018 model is 4x slower. There shouldn’t be any real hardware difference than another 10% in GPU performance. 

If not, more testing please. Also compare to Macs. 

I thought the same thing. I recon the slower iPad Pro has 4GB RAM, vs the newer 6GB, and that this is the main cause of the speed difference rather than one extra GPU core.