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I wasn't a fan of the title, then I read some of the comments under the twitter post pushing the video. The number of people who live under the illusion that Linus is somehow "anti-apple" and are having a go at him for his "biased reviews". I mean it's always been clear that these people are full of it as a long time watcher of LTT (he's actually pretty Pro Apple if anything) but this makes that abundantly clear. So for me, as misleading as the title is and as much as I don't like that it's a thing, it makes for a damn good social experiment in how little people actually engage with content. And for me that was more enlightening than the video itself could ever be. And for what it's worth, as someone who doesn't have anything Apple outside of iPads.... after watching the video I'm tempted to get a Macbook....

True, but as I said it depends on what level of success we're talking about. I think it's fair to say that everyone who's at the absolute peak of anything has worked very hard. But if success is a sum of hard work and luck then, almost by definition, the people at the absolute peak were also incredibly lucky. And by that same logic if you come down from the elite levels of success you'll start to see people who didn't quite work as hard but were just more lucky. And also you'll see people who worked harder than the people at the top but just didn't catch the same breaks (eg being born near a large NA PC retailer HQ and at the right time to be entering the workforce when YouTube was in its infancy) Anyways, that's enough internet level pedantry for today. Probably worth watching the video I linked to rather than listening to me. It explains the maths/psychology it better than I could.

True, but to be pedantic it also depends on your thresholds for hard work and success. Anyways, this video does a better job explaining the maths I'm on about:

@Master Disaster Don't get me wrong, I wasn't suggesting otherwise. And frankly being able to do that kind of video is precisely where I think financial independence for a media organisation matters most. I was just saying that for say..... "RTX 3090 8K Gaming - First in the WORLD!!111"? It doesn't really bother me as much. Actually, turns out that video was sponsored by NVidia and I don't even remember it being sponsored. Couldn't care less because, frankly, I expect a channel into tech to geek out about bleeding edge tech. @Maury Sells Wigs I mean, that's true. But as someone who doesn't at all buy into the world view that train of thought takes you down I'd add this large footnote. If success is a combination of luck and hard word then, by definition, all people who are successful were both lucky AND worked hard. The trap is that for people who find themselves in that position it's VERY easy to dismiss the luck part of the equation because working hard was the bit they had control of. Basically what I'm saying is.... I agree with you but I'm not a fan of the reverse side of what you're saying. No doubt successful people worked hard for what they have. But there are also plenty of people who worked just as hard and got nothing for it. There's a correlation between success and hard work but there are also a lot of other variables out of your control.

Marketing or not having two drivers, two amps and basically a small ARM based controller is quite a bit more engineering than pretty much all of the Subs in the same price range. That and the cabinet itself which is far from a simple box. My point was more that while Subs are relatively simple in general Sonos' is far from simple compared to the majority of other subs. I'm not really that surprised it costs more than, say, the Yamaha NS-SW200 I mean, define "one" speaker. I mean we're comparing apples and oranges here anyways, I wouldn't expect a Sub to "cost a little more" than a single amplified bookshelf speaker. They're entirely different categories of speakers with different requirements. Here, I think this video will add a bit more to this convo: It's not particularly scientific, there's more to speaker performance than draw from the wall. Even so the Sub at full volume draws more than twice as much power as the Arc (245W vs 110W). And remembering this is two drivers and amps vs 11, so basically on average over 10x more wattage per amp/driver. Now I'm no Audio engineer but I'd imagine an amplifier capable of delivering 10x more power and a driver that could handle 10x more power would cost a fair bit more. Fair?

TBH I only care to the extent that, as the video implied, LTT being financially independent makes it harder for them to be brought. I mean I also don't really care that much how "biased" they might or might not be because for most of LTT's content the video is just a "here's a tech thing, isn't that neat". And often it's not even something particular to a specific product. Absolute worst case there I'm being advertised to rather than being given an independent point of view. Which is kinda gross but far from the end of the world for a channel that when I started watching it was literally just a dude reading the bullet points on the product box..... With that said, occasionally the current LTT wanders into topics where I think editorial independence matters more. The video on WD selling SMR under their WD Red line comes to mind. Where it's less about highlighting a product/use case and more about highlighting some sketchy goings on. You can imagine a scenario where a smaller channel more dependent on money from WD, not unlike LTT from several years back, might be less willing to do a video like that. And that's where this matters. Beyond that? Really, I couldn't care less how much they're making from LTT store. Frankly the more they make the better

Two quick points in what is largely a dead thread otherwise. Firstly I'm not saying that Sonos speakers aren't expensive, they most certainly are, all I'm saying is that the Sub isn't outrageously priced in comparison to the other speakers in its lineup and other decent subs. A decent Sub, which the Sonos Sub most definitely is, will be the most expensive single speaker in a setup by quite a margin. Some of that's the higher power delivery, the larger driver but I'm sure a fair chunk of that it making space for it on the shelf and physically shipping it around Excuse Australian pricing but looking at my local HiFi retailer their non-Sonos subs start at $750AU and most are in the $1000-2000AU range with one at $7500AU and probably your left Kidney. Their standalone soundbars at this same store go from ~$550AU upto $2000AU. For comparison the Sonos Sub is $950AU, the Arc is $1400AU and their cheaper soundbar the Beam is $550AU (and also happens to be the cheapest soundbar this store stocks). Sure you can get some junk Bose something for far less but compared to your other premium HiFi options? Sonos is priced relatively low. On a second slightly more technical point. Sonos gear doesn't use passive crossovers and also your numbering is off. The Arc has 11 amplifiers, 8 mid range drivers and 3 tweeters. The Sub has two amplifiers and two low range drivers which are physically in sync to reduce cabinet vibrations. I mean call them overengineered or overpriced if you want and frankly I'm with you on that even as a fan. Even so.... I don't think it's fair to call either of these products simple or basic

Great review. Though as someone who's clearly into Sonos' gear for me the ~$1400AU for a soundbar which lacks any kind of HDMI passthrough it's a bit of a tough sell. If I'm spending that much all at once on a piece of tech I don't really want major compromises. Especially once you add the cost surrounds and a Sub which, lets face it, you're going to end up doing with Sonos gear given how great it sounds. I think the bigger question is whether or not the Arc with Atmos is better sounding than their cheaper Beam (~$600AU) paired with two Ones (2x ~$250AU, less if you get some Play1s used). Especially as someone who has a Beam plus Ones setup. I mean Beam + 2x Ones is basically the same number and power of drivers as the Arc by itself. So is Arc without rears much of an upgrade from a Beam with rears. That's what I want to know. My gut feeling is that having speakers physically behind you is better but.... I'm probably biased given that's the setup I already have It is relatively expensive for a sub but it's really not THAT expensive compared to standalone subs with similar levels of power. Also the number of speakers is kinda irrelevant, the only two metrics that matter are the power output and the frequency response. A sub is designed to output lower frequencies and, generally, at a higher power output than other speakers. Mids and tweeters you generally have more speakers running at a lower output because higher frequencies are more directional. Saying "one has 11 speakers and the other has two" is like saying "this 16TB HDD is better because it's more capacity than this 1TB SSD" Also the Sonos Sub has had the same look, more or less, since it launched in 2012. I might be wrong but I don't remember seeing any Jonsbo cases back then, certainly not at the retailers I shopped at. Also Jonsbo doesn't have a patent on rectangles with rounded corners....

100% and this is true of a lot of applications not just gaming. When I moved from a 5400RPM IDE drive to a 7200RPM SATA drive in the early 2000s that was a noticeable jump in performance, when I was a fairly early adopter of SSDs around I want to say 2010? That was another big jump in performance. But SATA to NVMe? .... on paper sure but was it a game changer? Not so much. Of for like media distribution. Was BluRay a jump up from DVD? Hells yes, massive. BluRay to UHD BluRay? As someone who has a collection I must admit.... not so much. Hell, technically BluRay is often a step down from the bitrate you'd get from Netflix etc. Frankly even Netflix is good enough. Same with music. Cassettes were better than Vinyl, CDs were better than Cassettes, SACD was better than CD and mp3s were worse than CD. How to people consume music in 2020? mp3s via Spotify/AppleMusic or Vinyl. Why? Diminishing returns. Same thing is happening with gaming. We're still getting these improvements but it's getting to the point where the only people who care could present a video on Digital Foundry. Which is great and more power to you but the average dude just wants to spend maybe 1-2hours relaxing at the end of the day. And for them there's, frankly, not that much of a gap between the Switch and PS4 let alone the PS4 and PS5. It's about playing games not looking at graphs and side by side comparisons and the gap between the best and worst hardware is tiny compared to what it used to be. And to the people who disagree consider this. Is there a bigger gap between the GBA and original XBox or the Switch and the a high end gaming PC? If you're answer isn't the GBA and original XBox I think you're kidding yourself....

Depends on how many games you intend to get. I have a 128GB SD card that I got probably a couple of years back for the Switch. It's not quite full but is I'd say probably 3-5 major releases away from me needing a larger card. I buy most of my games digitally but not all of them so what I have downloaded is slightly skewed towards smaller titles. For example I downloaded Animal Crossing, Smash Bros and Mario Maker but I have Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart and Odyssey on cartridge. Even so I have 46 games downloaded on my Switch and 11 additional games on Cartridge with save data/patches/DLC and I'm ALMOST at the end of my 128GB

Fair call. I think after New SMB, New SMB Wii, New SMB 2 and New SMB/SL U they all kinda started to blend together in my head a bit. I definitely got the least out of the Wii U release but by that point I think they'd well and truly milked the style. Personally I think SMB U and Super Mario Maker 2 is more than enough New SMB on Switch. If they were to remake/remaster/port any 2D Mario game to Switch I'd rather they went with the Super Mario Land titles. Even then, there's plenty more in their catalogue I think would make sense before that.

I haven't got into it myself but even without digging into it there are definitely limits. At some point the lower resolution fonts, textures and UI elements are the things that stand out. At which point I would assume you get into texture packs and so on. Kinda like how this is also a legit portable version of Super Mario Galaxy, there are definitely ways to do that also and if people are into that then more power to them. But personally ....... I'd rather just pay the extra to Nintendo and save the time/patience of the other methods. As a long time Nintendo fan I get we're all attached to specific games from our childhood but.... why New SMB? I really don't see what a HD remaster of New SMB Wii brings to the Switch. In my eyes that's basically what the Wii U port of New SMB U is. It's kinda like asking why the Switch doesn't have the Super Mario Maker. Why would you even want it? Plenty of Mario on the Switch in any case at this point. If we're going to complain about them not porting something I'd be calling for Skyward Sword. Between the Wii U, 3DS and Switch they've done remakes/ports of Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Even a Link Between Worlds was a re-imagining of LttP. So, Skyward Sword?

Good to see this getting some positive attention. As one of the many Nintendo fanboys on the internet I've been singing the praises of gyro-assisted aim since the Wii. It's kinda maddening that the gaming community brought into the "waggle" dismissal of any motion control to the extent that it did. Especially given that Nintendo, the only company who continued to bet big on it, doesn't make many games that require precision aim. Outside of Metroid Prime it's what.... Splatoon, barely, and maybe the arrow sections of Zelda games. That's it. Analogue sticks are great for fast, non-precise movements. Gyros are great for very fine movements. Combine them? Once you get used to it you get very close to the fast and precise movement of a mouse. That and it's super intuitive, you naturally want to move the controller for aim, that's what every kid who first picks up a controller instinctively does

@ZoeSoft Also Unifi Protect does have adaptive bitrate so the bitrate will change dramatically depending on the scene. Based on some forum posts I can find on it, we're probably talking about ~16Mbps max from the G4 Pro. This would be if you have the camera pointed a very noisy scene, for example having a tree in the wind filling the entire frame. Would be kinda interested if someone on the forums had some of these and could actually post what a typical bitrate is for a "max settings" on a G4 Pro was. Maybe a rare appearance from @LinusTech himself to shed some light? But even for the sake of argument lets assume what I think is probably the worst case, all 9 cameras doing 16Mbps 24/7. 144Mbps. That's ~16hours per TB. Which is a lot and kinda insane.... but not quite as insane as it might have been 10 years ago. And for this guy? I'm not sure storage is a huge concern.... I'm also pretty sure storage is not an issue for anyone spending (excuse Australian dollerydoos) ~$7500AU on cameras. For more sane people however who don't accidentally order pyramids of HDDs? You can set the cameras to 15fps, you can drop the max bitrate to a more sensible <10Mbps, you can set recording to only record when there's motion in a zone as @mikeybabes suggested. Also probably for a house 9 cameras is pretty insane, I think for most people 3-4 cameras would give you pretty decent coverage for things you want to record (eg front/back entrances, carport, road)

It's LTT so this is content for the channel but I think it's worth noting that this is a pretty dumb AP to buy for home use. Most of the high end features of these two APs are designed for high density deployments for a large number of clients. There's a reason why these two products are marketed as stadium access points. For home use the issue isn't usually a high number of clients, the problem is usually your house blocking the signal. So what you want in a house is more lower powered APs I mean sure these APs will do a decent job but even if you've got money to burn on WiFi that wall is still there. That wall is your issue. You'd probably be better off getting nanoHD multipack and putting an AP in every room you want a decent signal. Avoiding the walls entirely and with more radios probably better overall performance. As an added bonus, given you could turn down transmission power, this option also means happier neighbours. edit: oh, and I believe there is a WiFi6 AP from them in the works. "UniFi 6 Lite" I believe. Just for early access users ATM

Not using Antivirus is like not backing up your important files. Of course if you're not super careless you can go for years without ever having to have actually needed it. But if you ever do need it the impact can be pretty huge. Sometimes things slip through the cracks or things that happen that are out of your control. Do you trust all the devices on your Home/Work/School LAN? Do you trust the machines you have to VPN to for work? There's a reason why Antivirus exists, it's the same reason why if you talk to anyone even remotely connected to IT professionally they will (or should) rattle on about the importance backups. Shit happens and when it does it can be pretty devastating. The only reason you should ever be so flippant about things like backups and antivirus is if you have nothing to loose. And, well, I think we all have something to lose if our HDDs were wiped and accounts logged into.

I think it's worth pointing out that I'm not really the specific target audience for this video either. Most of us are not. My once-every-five-year upgrade last year was to a 3600X and 1660Ti, well short of the bleeding edge. I like networking and network storage but I only have 4TB of network storage and Gigabit infrastructure. But I also know that the vast majority of content made isn't for me specifically. Content on LTT only very occasionally lines up precisely with my upgrade cycle and budget. But that's not really why I watch LTT videos, it's probably not why most people watch this kind of content. Lets be honest, the super high end is FAR sexier. And frankly as someone who sees LTT in my subs I don't really want to watch videos about what can be done on the hardware I own. I own the hardware I own, I can do it myself. It's far more interesting seeing someone throw gaming benchmarks at a 2080Ti and a 9900k. Just like it's fun watching the 3950X crush cinebench or seeing a file server with 100s of TB of storage. Because I can't easily do or justify playing around with that stuff myself. It's escapism, like most content.

That kinda defeats the entire point doesn't it? Of course if you are GPU bottlenecked the CPU isn't going to matter much. Even at this extreme with 2x 2080Ti it's a 10% gap. The video is about what CPU makes the most practical sense for gaming at this extreme high end. It's not about mid-range gaming, if it was they'd be once again simply saying "throw a Ryzen 3600 in there and call it a day"

There's heaps of videos like this, get a Ryzen 3600 and an RTX 2060. Didn't they do a build stream for that like a week ago?

They did, and found that there's a couple of degrees difference on a cooler the size of the Noctua D-15 vs a 240mm AIO. So pretty insignificant even when pushed. Of course at the extremes that matters and there are bigger radiators than 240mm but as a general rule? For the average user, especially someone who's not pushing all cores (i.e. someone playing games), an AIO doesn't have much of a performance advantage and generally costs more. Water isn't magic, it's all surface area and airflow. I mean, of course the black one isn't faster and you could spend less on the ugly silver and brown one. Though all these tech youtubers have just done videos on the black one so they'd have it on hand. Kinda similar with the 32TB of storage, they have a enough of those Seagate drives to build a HDD fort. So why not use a couple? It makes zero impact on the performance. I think you guys are getting into the weeds a bit too much with this one. It was really just an AMD vs Intel CPU battle in gaming at a similar (v high but not farcical) price point. Intel just barely won which shouldn't really surprise anyone at this point. Of course they could have done more to make the two machines absolutely identical.... but they also went into lockdown half way through this so, the trivial differences make sense But I guess fanboys and cynics gotta fanboy and cynic.....

It was pretty clear the point was to make a high spec machine optimised for gaming performance without spending extra on things that don't improve performance. As you said, in terms of cooling performance (and therefore performance in general) water cooling doesn't really matter. If you are spending extra on water cooling more power to you but it is most definitely a waste of money if all you want is better CPU performance. Cooling performance is just surface area + airflow, nothing more. And in any case the real story is AMD v Intel in this particular use case at this budget. The end point being that Intel still have the upper hand..... barely.... and possibly won't hold even that for much longer. I can see there are some AMD fanboys fanboying on this one. Personally, I don't see how AMD fanboys could possibly be upset over a video that highlights just how small the scenario for rationally picking Intel for performance has become. The AMD machine was also on an open bench so......

Just remember how quickly prices for flash drop. Less than 128GB is kinda stupid given how cheap a 128GB card is currently, 256GB is also reasonably priced. Above that you start paying a bit of a premium for the higher capacities. Looking at the games I have I'd say the average "retail" game is around 7GB which gives you ~20 games with the 32GB included flash and a 128GB card. More if you're buying a lot of indie titles which are usually closer to ~500MB. If you think you're going to be getting more games than that in the next 18months get the 256GB card. If not get the 128GB card now and get a larger card when you use it up, because by then the larger cards will be significantly cheaper.

Just remember how quickly prices for flash drop. Less than 128GB is kinda stupid given how cheap a 128GB card is currently, 256GB is also reasonably priced. Above that you start paying a bit of a premium for the higher capacities. Looking at the games I have I'd say the average "retail" game is around 7GB which gives you ~20 games with the 32GB included flash and a 128GB card. More if you're buying a lot of indie titles which are usually closer to ~500MB. If you think you're going to be getting more games than that in the next 18months get the 256GB card. If not get the 128GB card now and get a larger card when you use it up, because by then the larger cards will be significantly cheaper.

I know I'm a dude with Super Mario Kart as my avatar so you're going to ignore whatever I say anyways. Especially when you're throwing out words like "shill" and "fanboy". Even so I fail to see how Nintendo's aggressive stance towards creators, modding and fan projects hurts consumers. Do I agree with their approach? No. But making things harder for content creators is kinda the opposite of what a company should be doing if they want favourable coverage. By rubbing content creators the wrong way all they've done is ensure that a large section of people will nit-pick. The way Nintendo does things one thing you can pretty much guarantee that videos like this one from LMG are not sponsored in any way. Especially in a video about running unauthorised software on it. Not saying that LMG are "shills" for anyone else but because they're clearly not being supported at all by Nintendo in the above video? When they talk positively about the Switch in the above video, it's clearly not something they're saying to get a tick from Nintendo. And if you think Nintendo's approach means they're "bullies" who push people into being positive about their products? Clearly you have forgotten about the Wii U ............... As a side note, as cool as running Android on the Switch is as an owner of an early model Switch I don't I'll bother with it. Seems more of a "because you can" thing than something actually useful. Besides, it's not like there's a shortage of other Android devices that can fill that gap for me. Very cool, very impressive but only in the "running Doom on your Fridge" kind of way.

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