Whiskers

Any octa-core mobile device can only have 4 cores active at a time. 4 cores are dedicated for use in lower power states and for processing less demanding tasks, whilst the 4 more powerful cores are utilised for more demanding tasks. This allows the device to be more dynamic and flexible in terms of both performance and battery life.

Because hardware is never going to be powerful enough when developers make poor design decisions for their games. I don't see console hardware as the limiting factor for gaming. I see the attitude of developers and publishers as the limiting factor, big-time.

I own one of these too. Must say I actually found the build quality and performance surprising considering the price it's available for in the UK - the biggest limiting factor of it is the fact it comes with a hard drive instead of an SSD, but you can hardly expect different for a ~£200 laptop.

Locked. Don't repost a topic which has been locked, it will only be locked too.

I think it's good personally. Having a lot of content is nice, but I've always found it jarring in games to have random conversations which are voiced and others which are not. Much better to be consistently one or the other in my opinion - and so long as Fallout 4 still brings with it a decent number of opportunities to choose multiple dialogue options, I'll still be happy with it.

So long as it doesn't negatively impact upon the experience of the core game, I can't say this bothers me. If they're planning on releasing a lot of post-launch DLC (which makes sense for a Star Wars game, and a game of this scale and nature, let alone both together) then having a $50 season pass to get access to all of it makes sense. For the diehard fans that want access to all of that content it provides them a cheaper means of obtaining it than simply buying each DLC separately.

Moved to the "Mobile Devices" section. Quick reminder to everyone - if you see a topic located in the wrong section, please use the report feature to bring it to the mod team's attention. There's no point responding to the topic to inform the OP that they've posted the thread in the wrong section, as they can't do anything about it themselves. Leave it for us to deal with.

No need, I've fixed it. Please keep this in mind for the future though. If you copy text over from a site which has it formatted then paste it on LTT it tends to retain that formatting, and doesn't display properly for those who use the night theme.

Impressive. It has a marginally smaller battery than my BlackBerry Z30 but manages to get roughly comparable battery life, with a significantly more powerful CPU. Nice. I hope this phone does well, Sony deserve more success than they usually get in the mobile scene.

You're not entirely correct on overclocking. Most modern games are primarily GPU-bound, meaning that you are unlikely to notice a performance limitation resultant of your CPU as your GPU will encounter a limitation beforehand. RTS and MMO games are a good example of this kind of thing, where they are usually very CPU-bound and for older ones even significantly (or entirely) single threaded. In such a case, overclocking your CPU might actually yield a decent performance benefit.

No problem. Glad you got it working.

Topic moved to correct section. Plus, bump to encourage some activity. Have you tried enabling the "Power On by PCI-E" function in your BIOS?

It's a headset, not a pair of headphones. Whilst headphones are objectively better value, some people prefer the convenience of having an all-in-one solution for their audio. And when it comes to the G933 in particular, there's not a ton of competition - decent wireless headphones are few and far between, let alone decent wireless headsets. (And those which are decent usually cost considerably more than either of these do!) We can't compare the headsets to anything else yet in terms of audio quality. There's no way of knowing for sure how good or bad they will be in that regard until they are released and people have had time to test them under fair conditions to the competition. I'm interested in buying a replacement for my Corsair Vengeance 2100s so if the G933 is decent enough I might go with them.

Just a note: the moderator team will be keeping an eye on this thread. Keep it civil and friendly or it will be locked, and those responsible will earn warning points.

Oh yay another GPU argument. You know what that means! Thread locked. LTT is not the place for name-calling, one-upmanship and ego boosting. If you want to discuss something do it in a civil manner, otherwise the thread will be locked and you might receive warning points.

True. But there's one problem - Android is not secure. It is very much insecure. In order to solve its security issues, BlackBerry would need to considerably alter the OS. With the amount of time and money necessary to accomplish this, what would be the point when they already have their own operating system with higher security that does not require such extensive modification? I'd expect it would be more economical and even easier to simply improve BB10's compatibility with Android applications. Perhaps they could work on reaching a licensing agreement with Google to provide an official copy of the Play Store (and Google Play Services) on BB10 devices.

I suppose it depends on your perspective. With BlackBerry 10, they have complete freedom to create an OS that distinguishes their devices from the generic Android-powered crowd. They can focus on including unique productivity features, tools and security. At the end of the day Android is far from a 'get out of jail free card'. It's a very competitive, very saturated market which is enormously difficult to achieve a lot of success in. The adoption of Android could indeed prove to be lucrative for the company but I'm dubious. Companies such as Samsung are successful because they have a fortune to spend on marketing and advertisement for their devices, whilst companies such as OnePlus are successful by utilising very clever marketing techniques, artificially limiting availability of their devices to drive hype and significantly undercutting their competition price-wise - BlackBerry do not have enough money to afford grandiose advertising like Samsung, and I don't think they have an appropriate brand recognition to pull marketing ploys in the same manner as OnePlus have. For BlackBerry to succeed then with an Android powered device I feel that they will need a lot more than just a physical keyboard - those interested in such a feature are a minority of even the business and enterprise market, let alone the general consumer one. So why would a normal consumer buy a BlackBerry Venice if they can buy a Samsung Galaxy S7 or some such instead? I'd possibly even go so far as to suggest that a good number of the users who would be interested in such a device would likewise be interested in the enhanced productivity features present in BB10. Perhaps the device will feature both operating systems, allowing the user to choose between them on bootup.

I am very happy with my BlackBerry Z30, and MG2R is quite fond of his too. I very much prefer BB 10 to Android.

It's a sturdier, stronger and more reliable connector. Micro USB is very delicate owing to its design. Its advantage lies in how widespread it is, but the standard itself is not particularly good.

I'm really looking forward to Cortana evolving and improving. Having a real-time, interactive voice assistant that you can use at any time would be enormously beneficial for productivity, and even for gaming. Just imagine playing a game on your primary screen and asking Cortana for help, with her either helping you via voice or by throwing up relevant stuff on another monitor. A lot of possibility here.

You can't really dictate to someone that what they perceive is wrong, though. If 30 frames per second appears to be smooth to him, then it does. Different people have different tolerances for it - if it was as big of a deal as people make out in the PC gaming community then it would have been commented on a lot in the console gaming community. They've had access to plenty of 60fps titles for a long time (Call of Duty being a primary example) but continue to enjoy 30fps games regardless. If I'm playing a game with mouse and keyboard, 30 fps is generally unpleasant for me. If I'm playing it with controller and the framerate is consistently at 30fps I find it perfectly fine.