-Ports! Cameras have conservative connectivity, while ultraportable designs are trending towards a few USB-C ports and lots of dongles. My current laptop has 2 USB-C and 1 USB A, and it makes traveling a bit of a pain when I'm trying to connect two photo drives and two cameras at once. If I could d...
Other things to think about: -Photo editing can take a lot of horsepower, so I would steer clear of ultra-low-voltage designs. -A lot of cheapo consumer laptops may struggle to sustain a large workload without throttling, especially if any of your computing is done on the GPU. Cooling designed for Y...
If you're trying to be frugal, things like "large" (for 2008) RAM sticks and external FW drives are really throwing good money after bad. If you just want to tinker with OSX, a used or refurbished Mac Mini would probably be more affordable than pulling a decade-plus machine into usability.
You still want to make balanced recommendations, with the caveat that builds should be planned with any upgrade cycles in mind. Upgrading a CPU or GPU later is cheaper than replacing both, and generally the GPU tech moves more quickly than processors.
This trend has only become more apparent as games have started utilizing 8+ threads. This can easily be observed in benchmarks that seem to love the new AMD chips even though they are 20% slower in clock speed. Which benchmarks are these? As far as I can see, my 7700K with DDR4 3200 is faster than ...
Oh, I'm not defending the RTX pricing. My 1080Ti is chuckling at the poor value of these successor cards. I doubt that Nvidia is charging this much just to be evil, so there may be yield bottlenecks for this cutting-edge tech.
The sad thing is we're not getting more value, the jumps from generation to generation are pretty much what they've always been. Well you'd buy a 480 in 2010 to play a game at 720p or 1080p at 60FPS or below. Now we buy big cards to run at 1440P or above at 100+ FPS with other goodies like HDR or s...
Creating/being the being the butt of that niche-meme will always make whatever poor timing I have worth it. Hey, I bought a 7700K like four months before Coffee Lake launched. And then a 7700HQ laptop like a month before mobile Coffee Lake launched. Zero regrets (except design flaws with said lapto...
Creating/being the being the butt of that niche-meme will always make whatever poor timing I have worth it. Hey, I bought a 7700K like four months before Coffee Lake launched. And then a 7700HQ laptop like a month before mobile Coffee Lake launched. Zero regrets (except design flaws with said lapto...
4K is still an idiot trap if you're an ultra-settings junkie. Fixed that for you. I game at 4K without many complaints on my original Titan X(Maxwell). Sure, I can't crank everything in every game, but it's still far more enjoyable than 1080p@ultra. Agreed. My ageing GTX970 runs 4K beautifully. It ...
4K is still an idiot trap. I'd wait for the next wave of 1440P IPS monitors with higher native refresh rates, HDR, and various bells and whistles. Or the current wave, if you can snag something like the 120hz 3440x1440 Alienware or 165Hz 2560x1440 Asus/Acer at Black Friday prices.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/nvidia-q3-slumps-shares-tank-212641665.html Nvidia (NVDA) reported a big miss on both the top and bottom lines for Q3 after market close on Thursday. The chipmaker earned $1.84 per share which was weaker than the $1.92 per share that was anticipated, according to analysts p...
I think a fast 27" 2560x1440 IPS + a cheap TV is your best bet right now. 4K is still an idiot trap for gaming, and 1080p is no way to be productive. I have a 21:9 3440x1440 screen and sort of regret that choice, as most media is 16:9 and you pay a lot (in $$s and features) for the measly extra...
4.5 feet from a 55" screen will keep you from ever seeing the entire UI. If I HAD to buy a new monitor right now I'd probably buy a generic 144Hz+ IPS and wait for the next wave of GSync monitors that are coming. http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/high_refresh_rate.htm <--Read that and rejoice
The best way to blow your mind would be strobing a first person shooter at 1440P. I would personally recommend: 144+Hz 1440P IPS (not MVA) with ULMB 1080 or 1080Ti Doom 2016 Turn on ULMB@120hz, enter the Foundry level, and BLOW YOUR MIND. Some people will tell you that 4K is king, but those people h...
Right now I have a Pixel 2 (excellent phone camera, mediocre camera camera). If I had to get a new phone right now I would opt for a cheaper Nokia (average phone camera; junk camera camera) and supplement it with my RX100M3 (pretty good camera camera) or A6000 (good camera camera*) for important ev...
I'm not really sure how you'd quality the Pixel 2/XL camera as crappy, but okie dokie! re: this part of your post, he says he has a Nokia and that's the crappy camera. I think. I didn't read it like that, but I may have been mistaken. I thought he has a P2 and is thinking about a Nokia for his next...
I've been highly unimpressed with my Pixel 2 and preferred the Galaxy S8 hardware-wise. In a perfect world, Google and Samsung would work together to deliver a stock-Android Samsung phone. But the Nokia phones seem to be close enough and a hell of a lot cheaper to boot. Short of calamity I won't be ...
AMD's strategy was to wait until 7nm and release Navi on it. But at the same time, AMD seems like they're targeting the mid-range: 580 price range or so. I don't see any evidence that AMD is actually trying to build a new halo-product or super-halo product like the 2080 Ti. Whatever AMD is up to I ...
I can be a petty man, and I look forward to all the wailing and gnashing of teeth when TSMC "7nm" large-scale production is delayed. Intel and AMD are "dead," folks; I hope you retained your fondness for Via!
I'm just saying that when you've got a convenient performance improvement crutch that outside parties (fabs) provide, it can hamper creativity. Hopefully this "pause" allows engineers to truly focus on architectural advancements instead of "get ___ architecture adapted to n-1 node&qu...
