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RShiki

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    Comment #4751866

    No but they used to make 13" MBP with nvidia chipsets rather than intel's crappy ones. Even the 11" MBA used to have nvidia chipsets. It is a new trend with Apple to downgrade the …

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    Comment #4725324

    "Linux kills everything that cannot differentiate." Yeah, and Windows differentiated by offering an insane level of backward compatibility which makes both developers happy (they d…

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    Comment #4717036

    > If they have a feature/smart phone why would they want a 7 inch tablet? Yeah you're right, why would someone want something that can achieve 9 hours screen-on battery life when t…

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    Comment #4715379

    I don't know when it has been introduced, or even if it was always there and I didn't notice, but iBooks also supports continuous vertical scrolling and it IS much faster than look…

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    Comment #4715174

    Point taken, and I'm not really hating on Apple either so I don't really think of you as "defending" them, I'm just stating my thoughts about their strategy. Apple completely chang…

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    Comment #4715072

    "I also don't think the kind of people that buy Android devices are the same people that buy iOS devices." Really ? I used to own an iPad 2 and an iPhone 3g. Because they were much…

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    Comment #4715012

    I don't see the point of a rear camera on a tablet. The kind of people who have enough spending income to afford a tablet usually own a smartphone, or even a feature phone, that ha…

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    Comment #4714930

    The entry level, 16gb iPhone has a profit margin that is bigger than average, but not huge. The 64gb iPhone on the other hand.. it's like printing money. The markup doesn't even be…

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    Comment #4714903

    It's not sold at a loss, but with a very low profit margin. At a loss would mean that they're actually bearing the cost of manufacturing the device even after they got your money, …

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    Comment #4714857

    LTE isn't even available yet in my country and it's not the third world, but France. 300 euros is cheap for a smartphone like the Nexus 4, in comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is 5…

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    Comment #4714819

    Laptops have gotten nicer but it's still rather hard to find a 19" desktop monitor with a nice DPI.

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    Comment #4707983

    > This is the first time I've seen that outside of dedicated chargers and Macs (I assume of course that some PCs do this as well but I haven't seen one yet). My Asus motherboard ca…

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    Comment #4699851

    > it sells premium products at premium prices, and it never discounts. I fail to see what's premium in a tablet that has an inferior screen compared to the cheaper alternatives. Ap…

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    Comment #4679264

    Even if it's a nexus device it's pretty different from what we were used to with stock android : it's a blend of both the phone and tablet UI. Some apps are using the tablet UI, wh…

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    Comment #4642248

    > Its all over the Internet Explorer thing happening again. But with IE at least you could tell your users to download a better browser if they want to use your app. You can not te…

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    Comment #4621951

    Yeah. Kies is slow as hell (more than iTunes on windows.. it says a lot, because iTunes on windows is not a shiny example of good software.) and TouchWiz is slowing down Android, s…