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The A18 Pro seems to be better than the M1 only at single core performance.

Speaking of cores; the A18 Pro variant in the Neo seems to have 1 GPU core less than in the iPhone 16 Pro. Kinda weird.

It is soldered to the board

Because it’s a new-ish standard that few manufacturers use (I’m only aware of Dell and Lenovo using it) and thus, it could be harder and more expensive to replace them than normal DDR5 sticks (although those are expensive right now as well so eh).

But ultimately, they offer more benefits than drawbacks.

Ripper job on Lenovo’s part; I’d give them flack for using LPCAMM2 instead of SODIMM but honestly, it is ultimately the better choice for laptops and it’s totally cool to see it instead of soldered RAM.

Ideally they’d bring back the old keyboard layout based on the T25, but that’s more or less nitpicking at this point. The Powerbridge battery system would be cool to see make a comeback and a swappable WIFI module would be cool (they kinda brush is off in the article but I think replacing and upgrading the WIFI module would be a nice thing).

My personal problem are the speakers; although ever since getting my hands on an M1 Pro MacBook I’m kinda spoiled in that regard.

It’d make for a great student laptop, reminds me of the old polycarbonate MacBooks actually. They did cut corners a lot, but retained all the niceties you’d expect from a MacBook.

And they finally added some colour; could’ve have gone with more vibrant colours IMO but it’s better than nothing.

I gotta say, I do like fuzzy wombats as well^^

I would be kinda impressed that Apple is finally offering something that’s good value, but 8GB of RAM? ehhhhhh. It’s probably still a decent-ish deal, I don’t really know how good a phone SoC would handle anything more than light tasks, though.

Great time to install Linux or buy a Mac or ArcaOS; I’m not one to judge.

So a forced upgrade again? I don’t understand why people put up with this still, apart from shitty Windows only software and even then, maybe it’s time to try something new.

You can bask in the glory of knowing that you’re better than anyone else. I myself aren’t paranoid enough to really care.

Cry harder, Microslop

Kinda unrelated but I do have a PinePhone a mate gave me a while back; no matter what OS you use on it it’s sooo slow. Weirdly, the Android port actually seemed the most usable…

Now, I realise that the PinePhone isn’t exactly a phone you’re meant to daily drive, but even then the performance is terrrible.

Good.

The Rainbow Flag is always a good choice. I’d go for the NCR flag from Fallout; that’ll have the added benefit of confusing any uninitiated parties.

Well, somebody had to save them from bankruptcy

OI

Why do you care?

I don’t know. Because I care for the industry I guess…

gamers or content creators

I can totally see them targeting those demographics as well, cloud gaming has been kinda popular in the last few years. Content creators could be sucked in with promises of getting pro performance without the price, possibly bundled with creative software.

I’m really worried about this, I don’t think it’ll become a universal standard by all means but I can see Microslop forcing this onto people as a kinda next step from all the hardware limitation bs.

They would finally have total control over your OS.

Many places over here have stopped to carry DVDs and, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure all the major studios have stopped selling them; my comment is entirely referring to the used market where Blu-Ray can be $3-$4 more expensive but it doesn’t have to be if you look around. I’ve bought many films on BD for $2 or less on eBay.

Plus, I assume the article is largely taking about the western market (most likely the US in particular) where the situation is similar. Blu-Ray players are much more expensive, so the cost of entry is higher. I’ve never heard of them requiring an internet connection to work, though, that’s certainly a point against them. I only ever used the various game consoles with BD drives to watch BD discs and have never encountered such limitation (then again they were connected to the internet most of the time regardless).

Properly manufactured Audio CDs are actually quite resilient, obviously not so much to scratches, but out of all my 100+ CDs (I’d say half of which are older than 25 years) only one has disc rot and that one is a pressing made by PDO who’re known for their bad pressings that are prone to disc rot.

I don’t really store my CDs in a special way either.