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Yeah, you'll still see a huge difference. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, meaning that an HDR enabled monitor or TV can support a much wider output of colour and brightness levels than a normal standard dynamic range TV can. HDR enabled games just support this standard, so they output a wider colour range. Essentially dark parts will look darker, bright parts brighter and colours in general should have a bit more depth in them; though all of this depends on the quality of the monitor or TV, as not all TVs marketed as supporting HDR truly support the 10-bit colour output and improved contrast levels required to do it justice. You'll still benefit from the increased resolution of the games with Pro support patches however, as well as framerate improvements in general and a few graphical boosts here and there. With or without HDR, the PS4 Pro will give you a fairly decent graphical upgrade over the base PS4 if you have a 4K TV or monitor.

I think Apple are a company some love to love and others love to hate. I always find the “iPhones are overpriced” thing to be a really odd argument though. iPhones have custom-designed ARM chips which typically destroy anything available in the Android market and unlike on Android most of the first-party apps and services don’t sustain themselves through advertising revenue or user data collection. iOS itself is a proprietary OS worked on exclusively by Apple and thus requires income to fund its development whereas Android (the OS itself) is open source and can be freely contributed to by pretty much anyone. Financial investment requirements aren’t necessarily as steep. Or for a tl;dr: iPhones usually have the most powerful hardware you can get in a mobile phone and tends to be at least a generation ahead comparatively on the CPU/GPU side. And you’re paying for the development of Apple’s services and applications. I don’t see how it’s any more overpriced than equally expensive Android flagships which inherently require less financial investment from the manufacturer to create; Google’s Pixel phones for example use pretty average hardware with the flagship off-the-shelf Snapdragon chip (which will definitely be much cheaper for them than the development and production of Apple’s custom chips are) with only the camera being particularly great on a technical level. And Pixel-specific software enhancements are fairly limited in scope compared to the amount of software you’re paying for on the iPhone side, so what justifies the Pixel’s price and not the iPhone? I agree that the iPhone X is overpriced, and I have some of my own hypotheses as to why that might be. But for the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus I definitely don’t see them being any more overpriced than flagships Android devices are.

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Yeah. Like I said it’s just one of these things that can happen. Anyone can have a brain fart or just be distracted when doing something. I guess most of us can just be glad that if we do accidentally post our phone number and delete it after a minute there won’t already be a couple thousand people trying to call us.

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Like others have said, it'll depend on how you will use it. Normally going for something which can render at 4K would be a no-brainer, because you could just downsample it to your 1080p and get effectively killer anti-aliasing. But the PS4 Pro doesn't enable downsampling by default in the same way the Xbox One X does; instead, downsampling will depend on game developers adding the feature to their games. With a 1080p TV you still get some advantages with the PS4 Pro however even when the game doesn't support downsampling. The more powerful GPU, higher-clocked CPU and higher capacity (and speed) RAM means there'll be performance benefits across the board increasing framerates substantially (so you won't see framerate drops as often if at all beneath the framerate lock), Games which have received a PS4 Pro patch may also unleash additional graphical features which aren't available on the base console such as improved texture filtering, better ambient-occlusion, larger draw distances etc. Ultimately I'd say if you have a 1080p TV right now and aren't planning to buy a 4K one any time soon, you're better buying the PS4 Slim. The advantages of the Pro aren't likely to be so obvious or noticeable as to make the experience worth the 2 times higher pricepoint. If you were looking at the Xbox I'd say it'd be more worth it because the base Xbox One has loads of performance issues in games (framerate drops and resolutions being fairly low), but the base PS4 doesn't have many performance issues in general.

I don't want a bezel-free iPhone. I'm glad Apple are one of the few manufacturers who haven't decided to get rid of the bezels yet. For ergonomics, bezels are just sort of necessary. When you get rid of them as much as the S8 does there's barely anywhere to hold the phone securely. It's one of the reasons I got rid of my Galaxy S6 Edge. What I'd like to see on the iPhone 8 is support for the Apple Pencil (on the Plus model anyway), or at least the implementation of a Wacom digitizer. I used to use my Note 2 quite often for doodling and note taking and I'd love to be able to do the same on my iPhone, but I can't stand capacitive styli and from what I've read most other solutions suffer from pretty bad input latency.

How disgusting. This is a huge overstep of their authority, I feel. (The Department of Homeland Security, I mean.)

I was playing the game a few days ago and noticed the performance issues too. Curiously, my GPU usage sat at around 80% or so and my overall CPU usage fluctuated between around 15 - 50%. But when I looked at core utilisation I noticed that core 2 was pinned at 100% use pretty much the entire time. Changing the game's resolution even down to 480p resulted in only a 4fps improvement because the game was being CPU limited. Which is pretty amusing when it's running on a 3770k @ 4.7GHz. Assuming I'm not the only one this is happening to, they're definitely not threading the game properly. The load should be much more evenly distributed. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

That's enough of that; locked. Throwing insults around is not acceptable. Be helpful and respectful, and if you can't do that... don't reply at all.

Locked. I'm afraid we don't allow advertisement or self-promotion of this kind of thing. Good luck with the challenge, however.

I've merged both of your threads on this. Please don't post multiple threads about the same thing, it's better to post it together in a single topic.

Could you provide examples of this? I've heard this accusation multiple times and have yet to see an example of it.

It heavily damaged the value of the pound, caused many companies to contemplate moving their base of operations to outside of the UK, already having an impact on the influx of foreign students studying in the UK, already having an impact on science funding confidence if not actual levels quite yet. And all of that before Article 50 has even been invoked. How has it allowed us to make strides towards being a more successful state? We've traded a position of relative power and authority within a strong union of allied countries for having a tiny bit more control over our own countries - most of the power we sought to get from leaving the EU is power we already have, it's just that our Government haven't wielded it properly. At the very least Brexit has divided the United Kingdom into two very clear sides - Scotland and Northern Ireland who strongly want to remain in the EU, and Wales and England who want to leave. I see no positives having come from Brexit yet, and I doubt we'll be seeing any soon.

@Enderman @Nicholatian Tone down the hostility. It's unnecessary to throw insults at each other; either discuss your difference of opinion in a civil fashion or don't bother responding at all. And to be clear, this works both ways - accusing people of being a fanboy because they don't agree with your opinion isn't acceptable, and nor is telling them they must 'open their mind' just because they view things differently. Your opinion is not law. Keep it civil or the thread will be locked.

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As long as you have a decent power supply (which you do, though a lot of people will want to argue otherwise) and you're not pushing your computer way beyond its acceptable limits (running CPU at a high voltage, CPU running at really high tempereatures etc), your computer should be fine running for extended periods of time. You might want to see if you can contact your ISP to enquire about your connection speed though. Sometimes they can fiddle with your line remotely to get you better speeds, if you're lucky.

I don't hate Apple, and I generally like their products. That said, I entirely disagree with (and dislike) some of their design decisions. Their design focus is just in the wrong places at times. Apple used to be a company focused on the important things - user experience, creating practical and tangible uses for existing technology and functionality, making technology more simple and straightforward to use. But they're starting to reach a point now where they're going down the opposite path. Their decision to remove the headphone jack provides an inherently worse experience for users, as does the decision to limit battery life to accommodate making their devices less than a millimetre thinner. The iPhone 6, 6S and 7 all have far too little battery capacity - less than 2000mAh on a modern phone is ridiculous. iPhones may be more power efficient than most Android devices, but the difference is not great enough to make up for this inadequacy. The Samsung Galaxy S7 manages to contain a larger battery than the 7 Plus in spite of being only marginally larger than the 7. If Apple would give up with their relentless determination to make their phones as slim as possible, the non-Plus model iPhones would have adequate battery life. iOS started off life as a fantastic mobile Operating System. It was incomparable to anything else at the time - attractive, efficient, responsive, simple and most importantly intuitive. But over the years they've added so much more functionality, so many new features and so many new applications that it's a much messier experience. The functionality is great - but the interface was not originally designed with it in mind so they've had to figure out new ways of adding to the UI to accommodate the functionality. As a result you've got an absurd number of interaction levels, button combinations and navigational complexity to consider as a user. The home button, once dedicated to being just a home button, is now responsible for accessing your multitasking tray, Siri and even accessibility controls. But you can also switch between apps by using 3D touch at the edge of the screen. You have a notification dropdown available by swiping from the top of the screen - but also a quick controls centre available by swiping from the bottom. Quick controls used to be one pane with all controls easily accessible; now it's 2, with music controls separated from the rest. iOS, in my opinion, needs a fundamental overhaul in user interface design. They need to carefully consider how to better design the OS so as to allow functionality to be more easily and more intuitively accessible. Perhaps they could consider the implementation of a gesture based control system like BlackBerry 10 which I find to be significantly more responsive, efficient and simple.

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Moved to the Storage Devices section.

Thread locked. Personal attacks on this forum are not acceptable; direct or indirect. This thread has descended into nothing worthwhile. I suggest all of you have a close look over the Community Standards.

I think this thread has gone on for long enough. Plagiarism is already forbidden on the forum, and we will remove any such content when it has been brought to our attention. Swearing is allowed up to a point; this falls under the rules regarding freedom of expression. We generally frown upon 'garbage topics' regardless of where they are posted - so if you see a topic which you think serves no purpose whatsoever that should be removed, please report it to us and we'll look into it. As for an application process to be a mod, this is not feasible. By allowing applications we would be increasing the amount of work necessary to find a new mod considerably. The way we have chosen new mods until now has served us very well, and it is unlikely it will be changed any time soon. Thread locked.

This whole situation is a mess and it's only going to get worse. England is looking like it's going to either have Theresa May (the woman responsible for the Snooper's Charter, woot woot), or Jeremy Corbyn as its next prime minister. And I'm not expecting Labour to do particularly well in the next general election, so we're stuck with a second Thatcher... The most concerning thing is the rapid increase in reports of racially motivated crimes and incidents. I heard recently there has been a fivefold increase in such after the referendum, and a lot of EU immigrants and foreigners living in the UK have been made to feel entirely unwelcome and even hated. Disgusting.

Alright, thread re-opened. If any more insults, name-calling or crappy behaviour happens again in this thread it will be permanently locked, and those responsible will receive a good ol' barrel full o' warning points. LTT is not the place for being a dick to one another. Discuss your differences in opinion politely or don't bother posting at all.

I did. I think it has potential, but like the main show definitely needs some work. It felt like the pacing was pretty off, and it felt sort of 'empty' to watch if that makes sense. Given time to improve though I have more faith in it being good than I do the main show itself.