A follow up question on my original question (as I'm reading watching reviews of the Nextbit Robin).
Intel CPUs are sometimes famously released with bugs in them, which are then later fixed by software. As I'm reading/watching the Nextbit Robin reviews (the phone has the erroneous Snapdragon...
Oh. It's just the same display Microsoft Surface uses (according to Forbes), or at least it has the same parameters. Nothing special.
Otherwise, thanks for your great analysis!
Oops. So should we (me, you whoever), or shouldn't we buy it now for only $110?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/07/08/re-review-last-years-nextbit-robin-entirely-different-better-phone-130/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/07/10/deal-alert-nextbit-robin-just-109-99-ebay/
@dave_the_nerd had this to say about 1st gen. Intel Core i CPUs:
OK. Where to look for the CPU's idle power consumption on ark.intel.com? For example: http://ark.intel.com/products/95443/Intel-Core-i5-7200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz - It's a current gen. CPU, but the specs. sheets are...
Thank you for your referencing of TFT Central! I almost forgot about it. But to be honest, the resources you provided with me (TFT Central and the other) are probably a little too deep for my simple learning purposes. I mean, I could possibly read them for hours on end, and still not sure I get...
I said, light virtualization. That's a completely different animal. Software like Faronics Deep Freeze. May even change your life! :)
So, you find Geekbench scores useless for CPUs scoring below how many points/useful above how many point?
Fine. But I still don't quite get how in your view...
Dear moderator, I concluded that - even though the title of the topic explicitly mentions laptops -, given the scope of the topic, this discussion would be more interesting in the General Hardware forum section. I mean I expected insights from a wide variety of AnandTech Forums people, and...
How did you decide the widely used and respected Geekbench scores aren't good anymore? Even more strangely, only for those CPUs you define as low end. In Single-core Geekbench score, how many points it would be, where's the dividing line in Geekbench score between low end and not so low end for...
Hi DaQuteness,
Thank you for your insights! Let's dig a little deeper:
Geekbench 4 score for the Celeron N3450 (Windows 64-bit, best single-core score)
Single-Core Score: 1470
Multi-Core Score: 4220
Geekbench 4 score for the Core m3-6Y30 (Windows 64-bit, best single-core score)
Single-Core...
Relevant specs for laptop one:
Quad-core Celeron N3450 with Intel HD Graphics 500
6GB DDR3 RAM
eMMC 5.0 storage
Driving a display of a respectable 2376x1823 resolution
Relevant specs for laptop two:
Dual-core Core m3-6Y30 with Intel HD Graphics 515
4GB DDR3 RAM
SATA SSD storage
Driving a...
Basically I'm asking about laptop display technology, but all in all, I hope I'm posting to the right topic here.
I get the distinction between IPS and TN panel mostly; I'm sure you can give me more nuances, like is IPS always better than TN? What are good quality TN displays? Tech specs?
What...
Similar discounts in Europe? Thanks!
* Preferably without the Windows tax. As I stated in the OP, the machine (at least in my case) would be for experimenting with Linux.
Meanwhile, touchscreen Chromebooks went mainstream, but they all fold. (I don't understand why would anyone want to touch her non-folding laptop's screen, though.) It depends on your budget. What do you mean by cheap? No Full HD screens of size 11.6". It depends of which feature is more...
I'm not sure I understood this.
Indeed. But I did not heard about issues from Wikipedia. Not to go too far, in this very thread as well.
Good question! Why would I buy an old phone and not a new? For LineageOS. I'm not at all in anything like the Honor 8, especially for that price. As far as I...
Thank you for your tips, esp. EXCellR8 for your generosity of offering me this machine for free. Important point: on which continent are you? I'm on the European side, so shipping from overseas might be prohibitive. But thank, anyways! ;)
A few general questions, let me learn something here...
According to Wikipedia: The first 64-bit SoCs, the Snapdragon 808 and 810, were rushed to market using generic Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 cores and suffered from overheating problems and throttling, particularly the 810, which led to Samsung ditching Snapdragon for its Galaxy S6 flagship phone...
Desktop PCs in good condition previously used in a corporate setting are abundant in the marketplace. The main benefit, for my purpose, is they are x86, oops, amd64 based, so much more versatile than a Raspberry Pi and similar gadget. Yes, I'm looking for a cheap, old desktop PC as in competing...
It depends. If you want to use it as a Linux or Windows machine as many do, then obviously you need Intel. If you want to use it as a Chromebook, then you may have other preferences. :)
How about Ubuntu > Any Linux? That includes Ubuntu derivatives, like the popular Linux Mint as well. At least, it's not spying on you like the default Ubuntu install.
On the horizon: the Samsung Chromebook Pro, 12.3", 2400 x 1600 for $500: https://liliputing.com/2016/10/meet-samsung-chromebook-pro-convertible-chromebook-pen-support-high-res-display-leaks.html
Oh, it's ARM-based.
Maybe this...
I'm seriously interested in your 2016 update on this topic. :)
My main pet peeve is the screen ratios. I understand PC manufacturing has became a low margin, commodity business, but I never understood the claim 16:9 screens are cheaper to produce than 16:10 ones.
Apple has sticked with their...
The guys over there at Hacker News state the XPS is a consumer notebook. With the exact same specs (RAM, CPU, storage) it costs exactly the same as a MacBook Air, which the Hacker News guys claim is a business class notebook. How did you decide, what's your conclusion? For consumer or business...
@you2
Thanks for correcting me on the picoPSU! Meanwhile, I've figured this out as well. Here's a real internal power supply: http://www.hd-plex.com/HDPLEX-Internal-80W-AC-Power-Adapter-with-19VDC-Output-for-Intel-NUC-and-Thin-ITX.html
It all comes down to Geekbench scores to me. This year's Celeron or Pentium scores comparably to an i3 from years ago. As an added bonus (for me), they are already designed for fanless operation.
@AnitaPeterson: I'd truly appreciate if you rated Hystou as a brand over there...
For a reference, here is Laptop Mag's famous(?) yearly rating of laptop brands: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings
I'm very much interested in the same for mini PC and barebone manufacturers. It's much more of a niche market, so who else could do this, if not us? A 100-point...
Ney Apollo Lake Celeron and Pentium processors with 6W TDP, via Liliputing suggest cool, fanless future mini PCs possible:
Celeron N3350: 1.1 GHz/2.4 GHz dual-core 6 watt CPU with Intel HD 500 graphics (200MHz/650MHz
Celeron N3450: 1.1 GHz/2.2 GHz quad-core 6 watt CPU with Intel HD 500 (200...
Seeing the Skylake mobile CPU lineup reveals the "Core M" Pentium 4405Y with a 6W TDP. I could live with that in a fanless mini PC. More established PC makers, are you listening?
The only fanless, Core M mini PC from an established brand I'm aware of, is the ECS Liva Core. Which starts at a...
From $145 in a smaller case: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-Quality-Core-i5-Fanless-PC-Windows-7-1-7GHz-Speed-INTEL-Ivy-Bridge-with-USB/2035645137.html
$160 for the version with a newer generation CPU. Whoever buys this first, report back whatever value the Chinese wrote on the package for...
I guess, the drivers are for Windows, and that's the only OS you can expect the machine to work with. Oh, I didn't explicitly mention in the first post, but I'm also looking for hardware more suitable running various open source distros as well, such as popular Linuxes. For that, a more popular...
Or not. ;(
I gave myself some time over this...
First, I'm looking forward to your review, as there isn't much out the on the Internet. Suspicious?
Second, all PC companies operate on very thin margins, including major brands. This one is still so much cheaper than the competition...
Looking good!
I just wanted to ask which second hand machine to buy, which ships from Europe, but this Hystou with free shipping from China (and no tax, this is how the Chinese do), looks even better than any used models!
Every 941 days the forum asks me to change the password. That is very annoying.
Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and writer argues requiring your users to change their passwords, for no other reason than it being old, makes the average user less secure...
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