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Re: The Devices and Gadgets Thread
« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2013, 08:34:52 AM »
Also of interest: H.265 encoding spec approval

ISPs everywhere rejoice!
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Re: The Devices and Gadgets Thread
« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2013, 10:15:50 AM »
Quote from: Cristello on January 28, 2013, 08:33:25 AM
I've played with it, and its very well designed and built.

Unfortunately, a combination of slow storage and Atom-suckage makes app-loading unreasonable.
I'm talking 12+ seconds to load IE kind of suck...

Thanks, a laptop with i5, enough Ram and SSD will be my next stop then.
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Re: The Devices and Gadgets Thread
« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2013, 07:41:35 PM »
Quote from: Cristello on January 28, 2013, 08:34:52 AM
Also of interest: H.265 encoding spec approval

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It looked good too.  Samsung had a display A/B.  Then again, all the TV manufacturers were manipulating their displays by gimping their competitors.  This year's CES was horrible for false claims and advertisement.
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Re: The Devices and Gadgets Thread
« Reply #33 on: March 14, 2013, 04:07:25 PM »
New Samsung Galaxy S4 is getting announced today. Not my year for upgrade cycle, but still interesting to see how fast things are progressing.

The HTC One is damn sexy though. Just gotta root it and throw on stock Android.



http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/12/htc-one-review/
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Re: The Devices and Gadgets Thread
« Reply #34 on: March 14, 2013, 04:09:40 PM »
But it's not from Apple?   :-S

Hold on, it's got beats!


All kidding aside, it looks like a nice phone.  These things are getting pretty impressive.
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Re: The Devices and Gadgets Thread
« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2013, 04:46:05 PM »
I got Beats on my current HTC phone. It gives me *just* enough street cred to walk down Hunters Point before 11pm. Any time after that, all bets are off.

Crazy these things are probably more powerful than the computer I had 5 years ago.
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Re: The Devices and Gadgets Thread
« Reply #36 on: March 23, 2013, 06:53:20 PM »
With my limited budget I can buy a Lenovo W500 or T400 laptop. The processors are fast enough, 4GB RAM, and a HDD. I only have to upgrade the HDD to an SSD add Windows 7 and I'm done for less than 400 Dollars.

I only need the laptop for studying purposes and light entertainment. I'm not a gamer and it's required that the laptop survives at least 3 years of usage.

Is the possible deal worth it?
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