Yes! I’m so glad I didn’t buy an apple laptop during the Dark Era. Seriously reconsidering now if that’s the case!
I really want AMD to have some successes so that nvidia doesn’t take over computer graphics hardware 
they have consoles! it’s more that they really really shouldn’t be used where thermals matter a lot so they were a bad choice in the MBP
I’m sure the consoles are great for them because it gives them almost guaranteed cashflow, but it doesn’t really push them to improve their stuff the way the consumer GPU market does, and they’ll need to that to win the next generation/revision of consoles. I fear they’ve already lost the GPU-compute space completely which is unfortunate because that business is probably a lot more constant in terms of sales and less sensitive to price.
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they’ve definitely lost the compute space. their best chance would’ve been putting up something to compete with the 900 series from nvidia which had basically no double-precision, but nvidia’s APIs are much much more popular now and the 16nm nvidia GPUs totally righted the wrongs of the 900 series where compute is concerned.
also nvidia gives out free GPUs to academics like candy and AMD doesn’t
Xen’s gonna save everything right guys
right
I mean, the 480 was exactly the right product for them to release, it plays to their strengths in the market, I don’t know how well it’s doing
i plan to upgrade to a new build when the new AMD CPU (fancy-codename-completely-forgotten-whatever-it-was) hits the street, to celebrate a bygone era where there was a choice when it came to CPUs™, and then wait a few years to see if ARM will ever make a dent in intels shiny, copperplated armour.
My thinkpad is an intel btw so I feel bad already ;__;
the ARM chip in the iPhone 7 basically benches equal to the PS4’s eight x86 cores with its two, and it’s faster than most/all of Intel’s pre-Skylake dual core notebook CPUs (the U series and Y series)
if you’re comparing Apple ARM to AMD x86, they’re already way ahead (imagine if they wanted to make something that had a TDP higher than a couple watts). if you’re comparing Snapdragon ARM to Intel x86, there’s still a little ways to go.
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OK, that’s ……… wow.
I've only had some hands-on experience with Snappy ARMs on various android phones and as you indicate, they didn't feel like they are powerhouses™/i never felt like "woah, this is _fast_".
so, wikkied that fruit7-cpu and saw that it sports an ARMv8-A (?) and went on digging a bit deeper, because I remembered that the cortex A15 was (some years ago gosh i’ve just didn’t keep up to date with ARMs for a while, seriously, how fast are they churning out new designs here) the proposed powerhouse that could make it into tablets, set top devices etc. … anyway!
The snappy 820, Exynos 8890 all are ARMv8-A’s nowadays, so I guess that the v9 and A15 somehow went out of fashion/never caught on, huh.
and, in a surprising turn of events, there is actually _one_ phone sporting windows mobile 10 that has that CPU, the HP elite X3. if they don't turn up next MWC with some new devices/someone wanting to invest in this platform, I will fear the day when my trusty 830 will stop working …
I still like my 925 so much, it makes me sad that neither the official nor the one good third party twitter app is bothering to push updated builds for 8.1 anymore (even though I don’t think the mobile APIs have changed appreciably in 10) because I want to get another year out of this.
the 925 didn’t get win10? …… OK.
Yeah, they supported it through the beta but then dropped it for release. I didn’t try it because I heard it was pretty rough and maybe they eventually agreed.
yup. the 2013 winphones were a touch underpowered compared to competing Android at the time (though winphone was/is a little more efficient with CPU resources so they’ve aged better than a comparable nexus 4, if not a 5) which is somewhat ironic as that was when the platform was closest to viable
the physical design language and the camera were a little ahead of their time however, which is a big part of why my still using this isn’t a complete joke
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Hey, a Nexus 4 still works in this day and age. I’m still using mine until the OnePlus 3 I ordered after Google’s event today (lol) shows up late this month.
I’d expect a 925 to keep truckin’
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yeah, I’m ill-advisedly trying to keep this thing until the iPhone 8 at this point. has LTE too unlike a stock n4.
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Yeah I’m wondering what this “4G” business I’ve heard about is like
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Xiaomi phones don’t have the right LTE bands for US carriers
Don’t worry though, I changed my mind and I’m getting a ZTE Axon 7 which definitely has “Chinese phone” in its heritage
I pretty much agree that with the (mildly inept) Apple-chasing transformation of the Nexus line and the spontaneous combustion of Samsung’s products that there’s no remaining reason to not buy Chinese phones if you want to run Android. the iPhone SE is still a better product than anything else out there though.
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