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Mr.Meerkat reacted to TrigrH in World’s first smartphone with a variable telephoto lens and 4K@120Hz display
I'm so down for a notchless "small" phone with a 4500mah battery, headphone jack, stereo speakers and expandable storage.
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to Mateyyy in Motherboard VRM Tier List v2 (currently AMD only)
The only board that has a clear advantage when it comes to power delivery over the rest is the B450I Gaming Plus from MSI; the rest are about in the same ballpark. Off the top of my head, the VRM on the Asrock B550 might be a little better than what's on the Gigabyte B450, but considering how anemic its VRM heatsink is, it's not like the slightly better components will make much of a difference in the real world anyway.
Realistically, for a 3700X, any of those boards should work, so I wouldn't really worry too much about it. Memory overclocking could be kind of hit or miss on these cheap boards though.
Again, the MSI board should be the best in terms of overclocking (likely including memory), but if you can't get over its looks, then I'd just get one of the other boards.
Another option would be Gigabyte's A520I AC. It's a very decent board for the money (I'd say it's better than at least the Asrock and Gigabyte B450 boards you mentioned), but the catch with A520 is the finnicky overclocking, as in you'll most likely have to mess with the BCLK to boost your CPU's frequency further. Though it's not like manual overclocking got you a whole lot in the way of extra performance with Zen 2 CPUs anyway.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from dizmo in Xiaomi launches Mi 11 Ultra; What a beast
Ah fairs. I guess because I've always had narrow/smaller phones with the iphone 5, Z3C, Xperia 1 and now my current Xperia 5 II (primary)/iPhone SE2 (secondary/for Japan), I'm just used to something nice n narrow. Mind you, I did use a Poco F1 at a point and tbh, that was too wide for me. My hands are tiny 😂
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to StDragon in Xiaomi launches Mi 11 Ultra; What a beast
So long as the sensor doesn't become a probe. Although for some people in the market, that would be a feature. 🤨
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from StDragon in Xiaomi launches Mi 11 Ultra; What a beast
Don't worry, Sony is very close to releasing their 1-inch sensor for phones. If we're going for bigger is better then... 😄
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to Fetzie in FE telephoto recommendations?
To be honest, I wouldn't consider any lens longer than 200mm without some kind of active stabilization. It makes so much of a difference (my 300PF feels like it's on a gimbal when VR is on). It's hard enough keeping a moving animal in frame at 50+ metres as it is, you don't want to have to contend with even more erratic movement from camera shake on top of that, along with having to run at 1/4000 and 3200+ ISO in broad daylight to compensate for it.
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to YellowJersey in FE telephoto recommendations?
I have the Sigma 100-400mm and it's quite good. It matches the GM lens in most cases. The only downside is that it's fairly big and heavy. But so far as IQ goes, no complaints here on my A7rIII.
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to GDRRiley in FE telephoto recommendations?
If your after aircraft or bird work go 100-400
Owning a 70-300 doesn’t mean you’ve owned this one on a mirrorless mount
Typically all the mirrored and mirrorless versions feature different optics
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from camieabz in Best budget B450/550 mITX mobo
Oh I know, haven't sold my 1700 just yet and will probs keep it around until I know the BIOS is new enough.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from Arika in A high performance mini television in your pocket - new Sony Flagship phone leaks
To be fair, Xperia phones are making a bit of a comeback (at least here in the UK, where in 2017 they held third place for smartphone market share). With Sony dropping the Xperia 1/5 II pricing to £700/600 during Black Friday, quite a few stores actually sold out all of their 5 II stock so the Xperia 1/5/10 series are actually slowly dragging them back to the table. I mean market share wise as of now, they're 6th (in the UK, 7th in Europe), which is about on-par with Motorola/Xiaomi so they're doing okay on this side of the pond. Also, they still do hold almost 10% market share in Japan and is the second largest (Samsung is at 6%) so they could be a lot less popular.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from Gegger in The Age of our Members..?
But doesn't that apply to everyone? You'll always have the child inside you so you can be 80 and still be immature
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from kelvinhall05 in Can I get a gaming pc for £190?
Damn, didn't edit it fast enough 😆😆
Thought he had a £170 budget but its actually 190. Perfectly doable. In fact, you could probably quite easily squeeze a PSU upgrade in as well with 190 😆
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to kelvinhall05 in Can I get a gaming pc for £190?
This right here. Used i5 (or i7 if you're lucky) Optiplex, 8GB of RAM, small SSD, and used 470/480/570/580.
But OP, if you don't need one right now, save your money.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from kelvinhall05 in Can I get a gaming pc for £190?
For £190, you can get a gaming PC but you will have to partially build it yourself to get any kind of decent performance. The GT710 that has, it's going to be close to useless for gaming however, the i5 2400 will be alright .
I'd personally recommend aiming something like a 2nd or 3rd gen i5 alongside a card around the performance of a RX470. You will need to hunt a little but you should be able to quite easily fit that into your budget.
Define proper components...
A RX470 can be found for approximately £70 which leaves £120 for other components (this is more than the typical price range the 3rd gen i5 dell optiplex with 8gb of RAM falls into). Perfectly doable.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from dalekphalm in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
30-pin was back when every manufacturer used their own proprietary connectors so can't say much about not using the "most common" as that didn't exist. Yes, mini-B was a thing but not all that many devices actually used it (especially MP3 players/phones). As for durability, from my limited experience and what I've seen/heard, it failed no more than any other existing connectors back then.
Lightning wise, it's straight up better than micro USB. Yes, type C is a thing but given lightning came out 2 whole years before type C was even published (and almost 3 years before the first device with type C actually came out), you can't exactly call it "dumb" as it was designed to replace 30-pin and make the micro look horribly outdated, and it did do that pretty well.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from kaiju_wars in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
30-pin was back when every manufacturer used their own proprietary connectors so can't say much about not using the "most common" as that didn't exist. Yes, mini-B was a thing but not all that many devices actually used it (especially MP3 players/phones). As for durability, from my limited experience and what I've seen/heard, it failed no more than any other existing connectors back then.
Lightning wise, it's straight up better than micro USB. Yes, type C is a thing but given lightning came out 2 whole years before type C was even published (and almost 3 years before the first device with type C actually came out), you can't exactly call it "dumb" as it was designed to replace 30-pin and make the micro look horribly outdated, and it did do that pretty well.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from Commodus in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
As a university student, my experience funnily enough is that most people have lightning and micro but not type-C. With close to a 50/50 split for IOS vs non-IOS market share in the UK and the student population leaning quite heavily towards IOS, it probably comes to no surprise that lightning is more plentiful when compared to type-C as you also have to remember that the non-IOS section also includes devices without type-C.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from Blademaster91 in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
30-pin was back when every manufacturer used their own proprietary connectors so can't say much about not using the "most common" as that didn't exist. Yes, mini-B was a thing but not all that many devices actually used it (especially MP3 players/phones). As for durability, from my limited experience and what I've seen/heard, it failed no more than any other existing connectors back then.
Lightning wise, it's straight up better than micro USB. Yes, type C is a thing but given lightning came out 2 whole years before type C was even published (and almost 3 years before the first device with type C actually came out), you can't exactly call it "dumb" as it was designed to replace 30-pin and make the micro look horribly outdated, and it did do that pretty well.
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to Blademaster91 in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
Those proprietary phone connectors were really dumb, but every manufacturer had patented their own connector, micro usb was an upgrade even though those were fragile and the cheap cables never stayed connected.
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to sub68 in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
ok fair point its just I don't have a ton of diveices with type c
and I just dont really like proprietary connectors
anyway a cable is cable and are preference of cables differ
and I don't care about it as long as I have said cable
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from sub68 in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
30-pin was back when every manufacturer used their own proprietary connectors so can't say much about not using the "most common" as that didn't exist. Yes, mini-B was a thing but not all that many devices actually used it (especially MP3 players/phones). As for durability, from my limited experience and what I've seen/heard, it failed no more than any other existing connectors back then.
Lightning wise, it's straight up better than micro USB. Yes, type C is a thing but given lightning came out 2 whole years before type C was even published (and almost 3 years before the first device with type C actually came out), you can't exactly call it "dumb" as it was designed to replace 30-pin and make the micro look horribly outdated, and it did do that pretty well.
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Mr.Meerkat got a reaction from Commodus in Stupid things manufacturers did pre-2010
30-pin was back when every manufacturer used their own proprietary connectors so can't say much about not using the "most common" as that didn't exist. Yes, mini-B was a thing but not all that many devices actually used it (especially MP3 players/phones). As for durability, from my limited experience and what I've seen/heard, it failed no more than any other existing connectors back then.
Lightning wise, it's straight up better than micro USB. Yes, type C is a thing but given lightning came out 2 whole years before type C was even published (and almost 3 years before the first device with type C actually came out), you can't exactly call it "dumb" as it was designed to replace 30-pin and make the micro look horribly outdated, and it did do that pretty well.
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to AlTech in EA rebrands FIFA 20 as FIFA 21 on Nintendo Switch and changes the character roster | Available for $49.99
Our dEaR fRiEnDs at Electronic Arts have decided for the FIFA 21 release on Nintendo Switch, known as FIFA 21 LEGACY EDITION, that they are just going to copy and paste FIFA 20's Nintendo Switch release and change the character roster. That's it. No bug fixes, no new gameplay mechanics, etc.
This means ultimately that this installment in the franchise release on the Nintendo Switch is still using the outdated Ignite game engine from EA last used on PC and Console in FIFA 16.
Reviewers have said this results in the game's character animations being choppy and not as fluid as on EA's Frostbite powered FIFA versions.
This all adds insult to injury as FIFA 20 release on Nintendo Switch was itself the Switch's FIFA 19 release with a new roster and no notable changes.
Yongyea as one of the sources I listed has done some investigating and found that EA has de-listed the older FIFA 19 and FIFA 20 on Nintendo Switch as an attempt to force people to buy FIFA 21 on Nintendo Switch.
The only way to buy FIFA 19 or FIFA 20 on Nintendo Switch now is through physical copies.
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This is honestly just a sad joke. How this was accepted last year is beyond unbelievable.
If they wanted to sell new character roster packs I would have not be opposed to that if they had just released FIFA 19 and released FIFA 20's roster as a roster pack for $10 or whatever and then do the same for FIFA 21's roster pack. But no, that would make too much sense and would be too reasonable for consumers.
For EA's Sports based video games, milking their customers for every penny is just barely acceptable enough.
This is truly a disgrace to the video game industry. It's the literal fastfood of video games but at a full price $49.99 price tag.
Sources
https://culturedvultures.com/fifa-21-switch-legacy-edition/
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Mr.Meerkat reacted to sub68 in I'm not at liberty to discuss
umm I just noticed what a gun looks like and chaos started
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