Aethelbert

I thought the point of ARM devices was to be cheaper than x86? Might as well go for Intel. ARM on windows won't take off with manufacturers pulling this crap.

Looks like it is happening. TL;DR - Good luck getting AORUS or ROG or 'Gaming' branded cards from AMD. Edit: you can get a 'Gaming box' still.

There is a razor margin on these products in the Australian market. For MSY to do something like that, they'd be pricing at the RRP of competitors.

Huehuehue. Maybe G2A should sue them for defamation then. Except they won't. Because they're full of it.

Some audiophiles stand by Wolfson DACs in phones as being great for headphone audio. So Samsung phones or phones using the Exynos chipset would be included. But having trialled the Galaxy S6 Edge for a month I can't say I agree with these people. Sound was too thin and very treble biased to make long term listening comfortable. The iPhone is generally the phone many point to for audio quality but in reality it merely has decent audio production. Not great. The soundstage is too narrow and subtler sounds get lost in favour of producing a strong bass sound. 'S' iPhones usually have better sound production than non S devices which has continued in regularity since the iPhone 4. I imagine the 6S will have better audio output than the 6 but it's impossible to quantify exactly how much so. The HTC One M8 has a solid audio profile, having one of the most powerful nonpamplified headphone output on a phone to date. It's probably my personal favourite for audio quality in a phone so far. The HTC One M9 failed to impress me over its predecessor but it still has decent to good sound quality. The Xperia Z2 had average audio quality. Lots of foreign distortion worked its way into the headphone output making listening less than enjoyable. The Z3 supposedly fixed this but I have yet to try it out. My all time favourite music listening phone is the HTC One M8 but YMMV.

I hope the camera has Optical Image Stabilisation. It can have as many MP as it wants, but unless it has OIS it's going to take rubbish photos unless you have stable hands.

The new Clevo P650SE and P650SG both have far improved fan noise profiles over the previous generations (the fans rarely run at full speed), but I must still give this crown to the G751 series from Asus. They've clearly put a lot of time and effort in developing a cool and quiet fan system and it shows in reviews. I've heard good things about the MSI GT72 as well, but I don't know how this would compare to the G751 in real life.

If you're after more than 4 hour of battery life the GS60 Ghost Pro won't pull you past 3 hours under normal medium usage scenarios. So my vote is for the Razer Blade.

Following firmware updates XDA users have seen SOT of greater than 5 hours with the M9 now. This is significantly better than it was at release making me think it was rushed at release. I get 4 hours of screen on time on average. This is pretty good for a 2015 Android phone.

I quite like the One M9 despite all the hate it gets. After updates it runs extremely well. Taking all factors into account though and going by phones already released though, I think the OnePlus One is damn hard to beat. I don't think the new model will come close if it costs a hundred or so more.

On Linux, YouTube had the fans spun up a bit but not terribly loudly. The audio is average. Not the worst on a notebook but not the best either. HTWingNut has good videos on this.

Okay. I used to have a Clevo W230SS (NP7338) with the i7-4810MQ and a GTX 860M. Thing was a great little beast. The W230SD from what I have seen is just the Maxwell refresh model since the 960M offers little if any tangible benefit over the 860M except that the 960M doesn't allow for overclocking. Anyway, The W230SS was a lovely 13.3" laptop which was reasonably light to carry around and had decent gaming chops to go with it. I don't recommend speccing it with the 1800p screen since I found that particular model to be subjectively bad (didn't like the pentile matrix and the gloss was unbearable for office use). The battery was pretty good, it could last between 3:30-5:00 hours of use depending on workload and magic and under Ubuntu 14.04 it could pull between 2:30 to 4:00 hours. On this, I could easily run TF2 and other Valve games on max at 1080p; performance was about what you'd expect from an 860M (it ran games about as well as my OC'd Radeon HD 6950). Being compact it was very easy to carry around and though heavier than a classic Macbook Pro, it did way, way more and came into handy a few times in the earlier parts of my degree for computations and other boring stuff. But ultimately I sold it and got the P650SG instead (the GTX 980M version of Linus reviewed). Why? It was loud. In quiet environments where I had to share a room with other people, the computations would run pretty cool at first, but the single heatpipe for the CPU and the single heatpipe for the GPU were not adequate to provide a quiet cooling system. It was however perfectly sufficient for gaming without throttling (in fact, the 860M could very easily overclock to within 5-10% of that of the 870M or 965M). But what I needed was quiet and the W230SS couldn​'​t provide that. Also it seemed a bit thick given its compact size and socketed CPU (which is effectively useless now since Intel only make soldered CPUs for notebooks). 31mm might not seem thick but I regularly found that the palm rest would stick into my wrists and cause discomfort after a while, but it wasn't sharp. It was cleverly rounded about those edges. If you could get around this, the keyboard was a joy to use providing minimal flex (if any at all) and comfortable typing response. I have to add that the keys could feel a bit mushy, but it still lies among the best of the laptop keyboards I've used (it's less stiff that the P650SG and a little softer than a classic Macbook Pro). So if this was tl,dr: - Fast with a quad core - Approximately 3 and a half to 5 hours of battery life - Pretty light for its hardware. - Smallest screen size with a full-featured quad-core CPU in it - Decently powered graphics processer that didn't have any issues with cooling - Loud when under heavy/medium load - Can be quite thick to type on. - Screen can be customised, but get the 1080p screen since the 1800p is not that great If the Asus you're talking about is the ULV one with the 940M, I'd probably go for that one unless your workload specifically calls for a quad-core, lots of computations or anything that basically needs rendering. Get the Clevo if it's going to be a portable workstation for home and away.

M9 has some of the best sound I've heard on a phone. Subjectively surpasses the M8 and the iPhone 6 which seems lackluster in comparison to the iPhone 5.

Both are good phones. Try and hold each in your hands before you make your decision though. I ended up with the M9 because while the S6 is a phenomenal improvement over the S5 I still prefer the HTC design language more. Bar-bar chin and everything.

This'll be great for all the people who want a Surface Pro 3 but can't afford the higher price and don't demand enormous power. Most of the time I just take notes on my SP3 so if this were out when I bought the Pro 3, I'd have probably gotten this instead.