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Buoysel

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    Alex said:
    This one does great with GNU/Lunix, but Windows 7 is morbidly obese so naturally it's having a hard time adjusting from the old XP. A friend gave me a copy of Seven and I was having a hard time with XP's lack of support for apps I use, so I said Wynaut. It's a legacy N280 Atom from mid-2009 running at 1.66GHz, so I guess it's kind of expected that it does what it does.

    Windows is gobbling up the CPU cycles. :P
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    Ouch, that's a really old Adam, Good luck with that. It's probably going to be slow on any OS. You can optimize Win 7 to reduce system resource usage. Windows isn't gobbling up CPU cycles, that processor is just plain struggling.
     
    Alexander Nicholi

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    Buoysel said:
    Ouch, that's a really old Adam, Good luck with that. It's probably going to be slow on any OS. You can optimize Win 7 to reduce system resource usage. Windows isn't gobbling up CPU cycles, that processor is just plain struggling.
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    Be that as it may, it's definitely not a product quality issue or anything like that. I'm actually getting better performance out of this five year old Atom than I was AMD's competing E1 series APU (which I also had W7 SP1 running on, similarly) on another laptop I used to have that was three years newer. It's an Atom after all, I can't expect it to do wonderfully with its power consumption on top of its age... :P
     

    Buoysel

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    Alex said:
    Be that as it may, it's definitely not a product quality issue or anything like that. I'm actually getting better performance out of this five year old Atom than I was AMD's competing E1 series APU (which I also had W7 SP1 running on, similarly) on another laptop I used to have that was three years newer. It's an Atom after all, I can't expect it to do wonderfully with its power consumption on top of its age... :P
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    That's because Intel outperforms AMD.

    The new Bay Trail Atom Processors aren't bad at all. I'm not going to trade in my i7 for one though. But they are more than capable of powering an OS without drawing a lot of power.
     
    Alexander Nicholi

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    Buoysel said:
    That's because Intel outperforms AMD.

    The new Bay Trail Atom Processors aren't bad at all. I'm not going to trade in my i7 for one though. But they are more than capable of powering an OS without drawing a lot of power.
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    Yeah, I um... I'm well aware of that. :b

    I've really only had any experience with AMD to begin with because as a kid I've never had the opportunity to pick and choose PCs, and AMD is good enough to be workable but their CPUs don't have near as much of a lifetime as Intel's equivalents do. I was cleaning out a work PC for my uncle that was running a Core 2 from 2007 and it was doing better than that E1-1500 from 2011 I mentioned earlier. Personally, I've always been one to pay more for better as far as indispensable tools go particularly. Then again I'm also one to pay more for better with dispensables, disposables, and perishables too, so... I guess I really appreciate quality. I dunno.

    I also really like NVIDIA, so don't expect me to clamor onto too much of AMD's... anything. ^^;
     
    Legendary Silke

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    I'm still rocking a Surface RT, complete with an ancient-by-mobile-standards NVIDIA Tegra 3!

    For some reason, though, that thing still feels fast enough. I wonder if the 2012 Nexus 7 is still feeling fast enough now?
     
    Tsutarja

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    I'm not sure if I ever mentioned it or not, but I'm now the owner of a Dell Venue 8 Pro. For a manufacturer's install, there's not a whole lot in the way of bloatware on the thing, compared to other manufacturers.
     

    Buoysel

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    Twiggy said:
    I'm still rocking a Surface RT, complete with an ancient-by-mobile-standards NVIDIA Tegra 3!

    For some reason, though, that thing still feels fast enough. I wonder if the 2012 Nexus 7 is still feeling fast enough now?
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    No. It's laggy at times. Not terrible, still usable, but you can tells it's age when you compare it to newer devices that are much quicker.

    Tsutarja said:
    I'm not sure if I ever mentioned it or not, but I'm now the owner of a Dell Venue 8 Pro. For a manufacturer's install, there's not a whole lot in the way of bloatware on the thing, compared to other manufacturers.
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    (I'm guessing) That's because there is no room for bloatware on that device.
     
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    Sorry to change the topic, but I need some advice.

    sphericalice.co just expired: do I renew it and buy sphericalice.com too or just stick with .co. It's only like £5 and I can afford it but I dunno if I want to bother with making .co redirect to .com and whatnot, but on the other hand .co is ugly. help bls
     
    Legendary Silke

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    Sometimes it's just easier to not do things when you can get away with it.

    I feel crazy wanting a new 32 GB iPod touch even though it's the 2012 model and it hasn't been refreshed for quite a while. It's overdue for one.
     
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    Twiggy said:
    I feel crazy wanting a new 32 GB iPod touch even though it's the 2012 model and it hasn't been refreshed for quite a while. It's overdue for one.
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    I'm pretty sure that's less crazy than buying a 5th gen iPod Touch weeks before an Apple announcement, which is what I did.
     
    Altius

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    At this point if I desperately want an iPod touch, I'll get a used one or Apple refurbished.

    Don't really see the need for one though, especially if you're an iPhone user. Most phones these days can perform a lot better than the touch.
     
    Legendary Silke

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    I suspect even said iPod touches would run games better than a Galaxy S II. Everything just stutters there now.
     
    Legendary Silke

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    Buoysel said:
    Guys, I think I have device ADD.

    Here's to hoping I can stick to one phone through 2015
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    It all boils down to whether said phone is decent enough to not be a bother in the first place ;)

    (Seriously - save up, get something nice, and you'll probably end up having a phone that can stay with you even after it's out of support. Apple iPhones are good at this part.)
     

    Buoysel

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    VK_DEVIL said:
    https://www.thlmobilestore.com/thl-...-4-2-mtk6592-octa-core-5-3-inch-2gb-32gb.html

    This phone is better than everything.
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    Impressive specs, but the Note3 has higher specs. (Which is what I had. )

    Twiggy said:
    It all boils down to whether said phone is decent enough to not be a bother in the first place ;)

    (Seriously - save up, get something nice, and you'll probably end up having a phone that can stay with you even after it's out of support. Apple iPhones are good at this part.)
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    That's what I got, a 6.
     
    YellowTemperance

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    Due to some unforseen circumstances around Christmas, I became the custodian of my dad's Galaxy Tab 3, which he received completely complimentary from Sprint about a year ago. It's running Android 4.4.2 on stock firmware, and it's pretty nice to use. I'm somewhat experienced with Android devices having used a Galaxy SII from Sprint for a while, but I'm still getting used to all the differences between my old SII's ICS and the Tab 3's KitKat.

    I do love the lockscreen widgets in KitKat, though, they're absolutely wonderful. Using DashClock is my particular favorite way to go.

    Speaking of which, anyone got any good suggestions for Android tablet apps? Preferably ones I don't need root for, but I'm willing to root the tablet if I have to...
     
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