New Asus 'gaming' phone has more USB ports than 13“ Macbook Pro
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#3And exposes a common flaw in phones, cant run at full speed without throttling due to heat. It has to have a fan to be used at its advertised available performance.
If I buy a car, and expect to do the speed limit on the highway, but it will only do the speed limit for a few minutes, then needs to slow down due to heat, that sounds like fraud.
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#4It also has the same amount of RAM. :)
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#5And exposes a common flaw in phones, cant run at full speed without throttling due to heat. It has to have a fan to be used at its advertised available performance. If I buy a car, and expect to do the speed limit on the highway, but it will only do the speed limit for a few minutes, then needs to slow down due to heat, that sounds like fraud.
Wouldn't a more fair comparison being buying a car, doing the speed limit on the highway all day but also going much faster on the track? But of course you can't drive at full-tilt on a track all day without additional parts?
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#6And exposes a common flaw in phones, cant run at full speed without throttling due to heat. It has to have a fan to be used at its advertised available performance. If I buy a car, and expect to do the speed limit on the highway, but it will only do the speed limit for a few minutes, then needs to slow down due to heat, that sounds like fraud.
Wouldn't a more fair comparison being buying a car, doing the speed limit on the highway all day but also going much faster on the track? But of course you can't drive at full-tilt on a track all day without additional parts?
I think the original comparison is more valid. If you follow the prescribed maintenance schedules, new cars are designed to run to the edge of their operational envelopes for their warranty period. Note this isn't usually dictated by engine power, but suspenstion and tire speed ratings.
Cars are incredibly over engineered machines.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't a more fair comparison being buying a car, doing the speed limit on the highway all day but also going much faster on the track? But of course you can't drive at full-tilt on a track all day without additional parts?
I think the original comparison is more valid. If you follow the prescribed maintenance schedules, new cars are designed to run to the edge of their operational envelopes for their warranty period. Note this isn't usually dictated by engine power, but suspenstion and tire speed ratings. Cars are incredibly over engineered machines.
There are performance limits reached where the brakes will overheat and you'll need to give it a rest before having another go. Even built-for-purpose race cars have these limits and drivers carefully conserve their brakes so they don't go bad before the race is over.
I think you might be terribly disappointed if you tried to stress your new car all day long on the edge of its suspension, braking and engine limits.
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#8Looks like they may as well have put a sim card in a Nintendo Switch cartridge and called that a phone.
I can't see it gaining any adoption when all the add ons make it a worse phone, it's too bulky to carry around and probably unsupported by most developers.
I'm pretty confident this will end up on top of the increasingly large pile of failed convergent devices, because convergence is a fundamentally flawed idea.
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#9I personally can't remember however when I cared about the amount of USB ports in my Mac.
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#10Looks like they may as well have put a sim card in a Nintendo Switch cartridge and called that a phone. I can't see it gaining any adoption when all the add ons make it a worse phone, it's too bulky to carry around and probably unsupported by most developers. I'm pretty confident this will end up on top of the increasingly large pile of failed convergent devices, because convergence is a fundamentally flawed idea.
> Looks like they may as well have put a sim card in a Nintendo Switch cartridge and called that a phone.
It's the exact same size as a pixel 2 XL, so I have no idea what you mean. A switch is twice the size and thicker too. This isn't actually bigger than a normal phone.