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  • iPhone 11 selfie camera fails to crack DxOMark's top-ten list

    dyonoctisdyonoctis
    Beats said:
    No one cared about this company until Google referenced them and oddly stopped doing so after they put Pixel iKnockoffs at the bottom. We shouldn't have cared then and we shouldn't care now. Photographers are still using iPhones and companies are broadcasting from iPhone.
    DxO used to be quoted in a few digital camera reviews back when phones where horrible, and people still used compact camera. (a few years before the iPhone) It was a thing for photography nerds.
    chemengin1

  • Samsung to launch 'innovative' physical debit card this summer

    dyonoctisdyonoctis
    Well, google/samsung need to find a way to make people stay on android in America. You either give the people what they want, or you disappear (Like Blackberry). From what I understand the apple card is really great for american people, but would be useless in some countries in it's current state. Europe already got fully digital Banks with perks making sense for how our economy works.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Microsoft debuts Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3

    dyonoctisdyonoctis
    KITA said:
    The base model Surface Go 2 sounds terrible. Pentium Gold, 4 GB RAM and 64 GB eMMC storage just aren't appealing. At least the core m3 version comes with 8 GB of RAM and a proper NVMe SSD, of course it should be lower in price.

    The Surface Book 3 with ice Lake is definitely disappointing, a Ryzen 4800U would have been a great choice here. The graphics options are quite good though, especially the Quadro option in the 15 inch. Price remains high, if you don't need the tablet function, it's not worth it over other workstation laptops.

    Microsoft has been spotted with Tiger Lake and Renoir test hardware, although it's likely those are for the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13 / 15 coming later this year.
    if the surface laptop 4 comes with renoir, then the surface book 3 will slower by a significant margin in cpu task... overall it's going to be a more balanced machine. 

    The Xbox team seems to be the only guys at microsoft who understand hardware, and have any real ambition. (even when they fail, they are going out of their way to fix things). if they were really ambitious, Microsoft could have asked AMD to make them a compelling custom apu for their "flagship" laptop, instead of using that underwhelming cpu from Intel. The marketing talk is selling the surface book 3 as a desktop replacement with isn't true at all seeing how 6/8/10/12 cores is now mainstream. 4 cores is so 2016.
    watto_cobra

  • Microsoft debuts Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3

    dyonoctisdyonoctis
    The first gen 15" surface book was pitted against the macbook pro 15, but with the 3 it's a really niche product. Instead of going with AMD Renoir (6/8 cores at 15w) and sticking with Intel, it's maxing out at 4 cores ! The 16 macbook pro got far more cpu power, it's only losing on gpu speed...it's not very balanced, it's going to get shredded by the mac in every single cpu bound task. The only fair comparison would be with the 13" surface book3 against the 13 " macbook pro. Meanwhile the surface go is still going to suffer from x86 lack of efficiency.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple unveils new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard

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    jdb8167 said:

    KITA said:
    jdb8167 said:
     If these CPUs disappoint you, well you better hope for an ARM transition because Intel isn’t releasing anything better for a while.
    I'm not sure why people pretend that AMD doesn't exist and ARM is the only solution.

    AMD's 4800U is a 15W 8 core / 16 thread chip with excellent performance that easily beats out Intel's 25W 6 core / 12 thread 10710U.
    [graph removed]
    What laptops use a 25-28W (or lower if the performance is better) AMD mobile CPU? What is the battery life? I can’t find anything talking about battery life tests and the Ryzen 4000 series. I’m not saying they don’t exist but are they being used by companies like HP, Lenovo and Dell? Customers who need a large and reliable quantity of CPUs to create a flagship. A flagship AMD CPU in the 1.5-1.7 cm (0.60” - 0.67”)  thickness range and weighing about 1.4 kg (3 pounds) would be ideal as a comparison to the 13” MacBook Pro.

    AMD might get there but they are just starting out being competitive in the mobile space for the first time. That makes it hard for a company needing millions of CPUs per quarter to design for AMD.

    Edit: And I should mention that the Intel Core i7-10710U is a 14 nm part and only supports Intel UHD graphics which is not as strong as the Iris Plus. Not really a one to one comparison.
    asus use those cpu for a 14 inch laptop, yes that's a gaming laptop with 12h00 of battery life. (it's a 35w part) :
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/15708/amds-mobile-revival-redefining-the-notebook-business-with-the-ryzen-9-4900hs-a-review
    Dell and HP are still Intel shills. Just like in the pentium 4 era, they are going to support Intel no matter what.
    watto_cobra