in 3 years it'll probably be about as cutting-edge as a 960 GB SLC SSD is right now - only about a factor of 2 outside the price range of enthusiasts like us
but that's for mass storage
for RAM or graphics VRAM purposes, you need far less of it
you'd be perfectly fine (great, in fact) with 64 GB of VRAM on top of crosspoint
And what about the old guard? I know that 3dfx was taken over by Nvidia, but weren't there other crreators of hardware accellerators for home computer graphics?
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@NateKerkhofs honestly, if you're looking for "full-fat", laptop-scale and up GPUs, the only ones you pretty much have are Nvidia, Intel and AMD, with a minor mention of PowerVR possibly being sufficient for a desktop OS, but not for any serious gaming.
in the mobile space there are probably at least 7 or 8 independent GPU manufacturers that can hold their own
@Bob "Exists", but if they're going to sell a SoC, it will be x86(_64), and nobody wants to touch that. Also, they struggle to get their hungry chips to run at the power levels that Qualcomm et al. have achieved.
I feel like whenever Intel tries to make a good SoC for phones/tablets, they significantly overshoot the average TDP targets desired by hardware OEMs like Samsung, so even if their performance is amazing, their battery life isn't.
@Bob Depends on the manufacturer and the target device. MediaTek's focus is on cheap and low-power, performance be damned. Nvidia Tegra is all about performance at any cost (including $$$ and battery life). Qualcomm and Samsung and Apple try to reach a happy medium.
Once they move on to testing the battery life while doing CPU work, it's comparable to and actually better than a lot of ARM phones including flagships
hmm. once i order my 980 Ti it's going to be interesting uninstalling the AMD Catalyst operating system from Windows and putting in the Nvidia operating system
@Bob none of the manufacturers are especially good with updates in the US; I think the FCC has to approve them, and the carriers take 1-2 months to approve a build. Even if the manufacturer could develop, integrate and test any patch of any complexity in 10 microseconds and send it off downstream for verification bug-free, the fastest patches would land in 1 month after final code.
Samsung issued a bunch of rapid-fire updates for the galaxy S5 in the US, but it wasn't consistent - you don't actually receive a build every few weeks - I think they just fired off a bunch of separate builds in a sequence to be tested and deployed, so for a few months there, we were getting 1-2 updates per month (most of them not bumping the Android ver, though)
they've never done that for the Note, though - less popular = lower priority
@Bob in the US, to unlock the bootloader you have to blow a qfuse on the chipset which is electrically detectable as rooted, permanently - for simple rooting, if there's an exploit, it's easy, but if not (and lately it's been more "not" because of Android's new focus on security) you can get stuck without root, as many have
warranty-wise, they won't service a phone with a blown qfuse
I'm an Android end-user sheeple now :/ except for USB tethering on unlimited data... if they take THAT away from legitimate paying customers, I will protest in the streets
PSA: If you get "Something happened" while upgrading to Windows 10, make sure your locale (Control Panel > Region > Administrative > Change system locale) is set to English (United States). Source
I think we might get a few updates push really quick, heard rumors the original RTM date was in Oct, so all updates that comes through Nov are what Windows 10 was going to have basically.
I am proud of Microsoft instead of keeping everything back, they released what was stable and complete now, instead of just waiting
Anyone see an incorrect statement in ""Windows 8 is not eligible to be upgrade to Windows 10 for free" because I am having to explain myself and I am confused.
Find a cardboard box. remove all components from PC, place in cardboard box, or simply find some really old hard and just move his actually equipment and just leave the cardboard box pc on his desk hooked up configured to be turned on when he returns
He actually moved his computer to a hidden area that I don't know where, so I couldn't do that. I had ideas for messing with his computer, but they didn't fan out. I didn't realize that when I wrote the question
When upgrading to windows 10 from windows 8.1 the folder C:\PHPPOS was removed and replaced with the version it had on March. I am trying to downgrade back to windows 8.1 but what would cause this to be restored to such an old date? I lost all my data :(
This folder held a mysql database. This h...
So, my girlfriend just came in to my work, and had bought a Justin Bieber Singing Toothbrush. I wrapped that up with his old mouse pad, and put it in his desk drawer. God, I love that woman... My girlfriend, not Justin B... (Reference)
The Windows 10 desktop has more eye candy than ever. The minimize, restore, and maximize animations are more sophisticated than before and the Task View animations feels like Compiz.
> While Microsoft’s changes could prompt security concerns over the validity of OS updates, it’s likely that the company has built in methods to prevent tampering and a means to verify update packages before they’re applied to Windows 10 systems.
I really hope so. A P2P update system introduces real potential for someone to tamper with update packages and use them as a vector for distributing malware.
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@DragonLord of course they thought of that, of course they sign updates
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they already do that iirc... Windows Update isn't the only way they distribute updates
