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iPhone 17 Air will have design compromises, but also will debut many engineering changes
I use a 13 mini. I hate large phones that you can't use with one hand and which when you put in your pocket makes it look like you're packing a Glock. But the real point is why should Apple's range of phones all be identical? Why conform to only one idea of the ideal iphone, just with minor differences in spec? I get a lot of unsolicited positive comments about the mini and I personally think it was a mistake not to continue this design alternative, but I accept that there are many that you would have to pry their phablets from their cold dead fingers. More variety is good for apple's ecosystem.
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Plugable TBT4-UDX1 Review: Harnessing Thunderbolt 4 for maximum connectivity
From the images of its ports, yes, it has a powerbrick. Not one reseller or review has an image of it. It must be really humongous!
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Plugable TBT4-UDX1 Review: Harnessing Thunderbolt 4 for maximum connectivity
Your review very carefully avoids giving one important piece of information: does this dock have an enormous power brick like most of these docks have, or is the power supply internal like the better ones? If you have any intention of using this as a portable dock this will really shape its utility. -
Apple's Crash Detection saves another life: mine
Speedy recovery! Well done for posting your unfortunate and frightening experience.A couple of points: if you look at the safety statistics you will find that driving a car is very much safer than any 2 wheeled device in terms of risk per mile, especially if you wear a seatbelt. The real problem is head injury which is what you got. You can even just about kill yourself by running into a wall so an electric scooter is plenty fast enough.As well as the hugely antisocial aspect of rental escooters, (Paris has just banned them as a failed and dangerous experiment) the lack of a helmet provision is frankly immoral- would you rent a car without seatbelts? One point on the crash detection: it seems very oversensitive. I find it triggers remarkably often- even a slightly mis-hit tennis stroke will trigger it and skiing can definitely trigger it when you have not fallen. A great idea but not quite there yet.
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EcoFlow Advanced Kit review: Power your whole house with batteries
Sorry, one other really fundamental error:
“How fast the battery drains depends on how many appliances you have running on the unit. A regular generator will use the same amount of gas no matter how many devices you run.”
No, no and no! A gas generator has a speed governor so that the generator runs at constant speed to give you the constant frequency that ac devices need. If there is no load, the throttle is only just open enough to overcome the generator’s internal losses. As you add load the throttle has to be opened more to keep the speed the same so more fuel is used, and so on until you reach full throttle, maximum power output, and maximum fuel use. What he suggests is like saying a car dribbling along a flat road at 30 mph uses the same amount of fuel as doing 30 mph up a steep hill!
