I called them out on it, they preceede to downvote my anser, acuse me of voting down there answer because they posted one, and I assume was th person who did it
What is funny is I provided feedback, honest feedback, I was nice about it. All that happen is, I was told my feedback didn't apply, and i should downvote my "competition" which is ridiculous.
@Bob Real OEM batteries — not fake "OEM" batteries which might really just be low-quality knockoffs with fancy knockoff hologram stickers — are expensive. What is this a battery pack for?
And if they're fresh batteries — not new old stock, which have probably degraded in storage — they might cost even more.
Even if I was rude to the person, attacked on a personal level, does not give that user the right to downvoted 33 of my answers.
There are users who honestly believe I have nothing better to do then be negative towards their answers. They don't even consider their answers might actually need to be improved. Telling somebody who indicates they have taken the time to make sure they have removed what they don't need, to use program where their disk space has gone, is not really helpful.
And as far as degrading in storage - which doesn't really happen to Li-ion - these have probably been sitting on display longer than the entire production/delivery chain for Xiaomi
@DragonLord Agreed. buchmann.ca/chap10-page6.asp says: "Avoid purchasing spare Li-ion batteries for later use. Observe manufacturing date when purchasing. Do not buy old stock, even if sold at clearance prices." But it seems to me that this advice is excessively conservative for many use cases.
If I own a laptop, and the laptop model was only released three years ago, it's probably fine to buy a new-old-stock battery for it.
Such a battery can't be much more than three years old. And, as you said, it loses less than 5% of capacity per year when properly stored by the manufacturer under proper conditions.
@Bob Though, if you're buying a rechargeable battery pack which is designed to charge cellphones, it could be rather older than three years old. Check the copyright date on the packaging to get a rough idea of how old the pack might be.
@Bob Xiaomi does indeed seem to be charging much, much less than Samsung. But you should compare Samsung prices to the prices of another top-tier manufacturer.
@Bob comScore report that, in June 2015, the top five smartphone vendors in the US were Apple (44%), Samsung (28%), LG (8%), Motorola (5%), and HTC (3%). Xiaomi didn't even make the chart. I haven't looked for Australian data.
@Bob Xiaomi devices are far more popular in other countries than in the US.
The BMW sedan will cost more than the Hyundai Genesis sedan. What more do you get? Maybe only a better brand name. Maybe more. I don't know enough about cars to say for sure.
It gets more complex, obviously, with something like a motherboard.
Those can have tiny niggling bugs that remain undiscovered for years.
But that seems to occur equally for big brand names as small ones, so... :\
My main point here is: the Samsung pack is grossly overpriced. It certainly cost them at most 20% of that price to manufacture it, probably less - I'd guess 5% or 10%.
Yes, they need their profits, but a 90+% markup is ridiculous.
@Bob But one has a much bigger brand backing it, so that you can more easily start lawsuits, or file Better Business Bureau complaints, if you wish. (If Better Business Bureau exist in Australia.)
@Bob Samsung are bent on ditching their core Note customers and replacing them with iphone users. Their profits slide and they seem to want to just kick them down the hill
@Bob btw, I ultimately opted to replace the whole "execute external applications" module in our code with one that uses child_process.spawn and now everything works. Yay
It's really fun when you're navigating the W10 advanced boot menu and all of a sudden your mouse does its random double-click thing and activates the "refresh from system copy" option.
Fortunately, A) that menu is interactive and B) this computer does not have a system copy to refresh from
My Anker Astro3 is starting to show its age, do I upgrade?
It's still managing to bring my Nexus 9 to a full charge from empty, but my power demands have grown substantially since I got that power-hungry tablet.
I suppose I'll wait a bit until they revise the charging circuitry on the PowerCore series. One user (a top reviewer) has reported a problem that Anker is working to fix.
My Astro3 is still serviceable and I'll continue to use it.
The Anker Power family is a brand-new product line (less than two months old) with a brand-new design and some teething problems are not unexpected.
The Astro family has been the gold standard for portable USB chargers for a while, so improving upon it isn't exactly easy.
The PowerCore chargers have a new feature called VoltageBoost which increases output voltage to compensate for voltage drop due to cable resistance, ensuring the highest possible charge rate.
Even something as conceptually simple as a portable USB charger has room for innovation.
@djsmiley2k why would a "white" hat hackers be telling mass crouds of people how to participate in criminal activity even if they themselves would not participate in such?
patched? how do you patch the other 500,000 2013 vehicles that the owners didnt see these things?
when much of the criminal activity done by young people , was previously written by hackers who claim to be all moralistic , yet reveal the methodlogy to everyone, which guarentess that thier fun little adventures in learning, create real criminals.
and real crminials are often quite stupid :-) so without the assistance of the LOL white hack big mouth , paid for apperances hackers, there is little anyone would have to worry about this stuff. Making the white lean into shades of grey.
Hello I have a question that I posted to Super User meta, and I was sent here to ask my question in the chat section. Here is the link: http://meta.superuser.com/questions/9658/netbooks-huge-gap-in-the-price?noredirect=1#comment26336_9658 Or I can copy - paste my question here
no need to paste your question into here; we can read it from your meta post
Most hardware that would be saleable at the $500 price point (the midpoint between the $300 and $700 you stated) is "larger scale" than can fit in a netbook. That means: higher voltage, higher power consumption, larger dimensions, etc. - but very low-end. Stuff like Core i3 CPUs and cheap 2.5" HDDs.
Getting that cheap hardware smaller increases cost, so you slide right past the $500 price point.
A $500 laptop is typically large, has a large, cheap screen, fairly good hardware that nevertheless chugs energy way faster than a netbook's battery could keep up with, and nothing as expensive as an SSD or discrete graphics card.
I call these "craptops".
Remember: miniaturization is expensive. To have decent components at small sizes and low consumption, the price increases exponentially with performance and capability and capacity.
To fit something like a "full-fat laptop-scale" Core i3 worth of performance into the form factor of a small netbook (smaller than 11" diagonal), would probably cost on the order of $1100, as you said.
That's because you'd have to cut power consumption without significantly hurting performance. The cheapest way to throw out lots of high-performance hardware, is to trade greater physical dimensions (larger) and higher power consumption for lower price.
To get that same high-performance hardware but smaller, you're going to necessarily have to pay more money for it.
@allquixotic can we get back later to this discussion? My shift is over and I can not continue until I get home from work. I have a few more question that I would like to ask You
#StackOverflow and the #StackExchange network has played a key role in my studies. Thank you. http://stackoverflow.com/users/681231/dragonlord #SOreadytohelp
@allquixotic You did answer in 90% to my question. A few things are left unclear to me: So what You say is, it doesn't worth for the companies to invest money in mid range netbook? I could not find a netbook with an average configuration. I can only choose between the crappy processor, limited amount of RAM (not changeable), and the high end part that [I can not/do not want to] afford. What I wanted was an i3 processor, hybrid HDD at least 4Gb of RAM, and a dedicated video card, and a good brand
@allquixotic there is a website where I usually look for products because they have a wide variety. So as I sorted the 14" notebooks ascending after price, the results are: it raises until $339, and the next step is $575 The gap appears again
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