Recent comments in /f/gadgets

SharkyIzrod t1_j45kjwr wrote

Reply to comment by Timequake-Droid in RIP Surface Duo—Microsoft reportedly gives up on the weird form factor - But Microsoft is still "all-in" with Android, plans a Galaxy Fold-style device. by speckz

>Microsoft has the duo, the zune, surface pro x, the neo, basically every arm-based mobile product I've ever made has been abandoned, The windows phone.... The surface book appears to be dead. Continuum..

This is a dishonest way to put it for the bolded products, though.

  • The Duo, as the article mentions, will simply not continue with two separate screens and instead will have one foldable screen. That's like saying they "abandoned" the Xbox because they released a successor product. They are iterating and changing the product, and we'll see if the name sticks or not.
  • The Surface Pro X was just an ARM-based Surface Pro with an SQ 1 or SQ 2 chip, as it was refreshed in late 2020. It was not abandoned because the last ARM-based Surface Pro to come out came out two months ago, it's just in the same body as the x86 Surface Pro products now. You can get a Surface Pro 9 with the SQ3. The 9 simply merged the X and the regular x86 lines.
  • The Neo never came out (and I'm guessing it won't).
  • The Surface Book was superseded by the Surface Laptop Studio, which means that, similarly to the Pro X, the concept/product category changed/evolved with the successor, not that it was abandoned.
0

OldBoyZee t1_j45fag2 wrote

Reply to comment by Wuyley in Intel breaks the 6GHz barrier with $699 Core i9-13900KS processor by Avieshek

They changed the naming convention a while ago, due to more stable release launch window and a specific project name. For ex. Skylake i3, vs coffee lake i3. They are different generations, but anyone can easily know its an i3. While the pentium was long running with many, many variations, if i recall, and they used to figure that out with ghz since it was a one and done core processor or dual core, etc.

Actually, amd had the same thing. They would just call their processors, zhambezi, or some weird name no one understood, but it was always ghz based due to oc and how many cores, even when the core processing sucked.

Personally, ghz matter little now, specially since most applications already use multiple cores and threads. Singular core stuff is more ghz related, and honestly, its good we made it past that stuff.

2

MercatorLondon t1_j45blmq wrote

Reply to The Fairphone 2 will hit end-of-life after 7 years of updates by ennuinerdog

That sounds like my iPad Pro. I bought it in 2015 and I have full software updates 8 years later running their latest iOS. I believe it will also run next year update. I also had a battery replaced last year in Apple Store. I looked around the 3rd party repair shops but the cost was similar. So far this was the best supported IT product I had up to date. We need more companies doing this.

31