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2 minutes ago, Overclock Gamer said:

sd 845 is faster than a10

In multicore, yes, as you'd expect out of an SoC with twice the core count of an A10.

In singlecore, not really. The A10 is still quite a bit beefier.

Can you notice the difference in normal real-world use? Not unless you do a ton of video encoding, which is not typical phone use.

4 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Regardless, I'm sure there are "new" equivalents out for about that price

It's not as easily obtainable in the US, but the aforementioned Pocophone F1 is usually the phone that's brought up when talking about <$500 phones.

SD845, 6/8GB of memory, 64/128/256GB SKUs with microSD support and a set of cameras that aren't actually bad alongside a 4000mAh battery. It's a shit ton of phone starting from $299 for the 64GB/6GB SKU.

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

Is that so?

He did say new Android phone.

Not dissing the S8. It's a mad phone and probably a much fairer comparison to an older iPhone, but I wouldn't call the S8 a "new" Android phone.

A Pocophone, though. It's actually quite close to an actual flagship in many aspects. You can't easily get it in the US, though

5 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

But iPhones wete always a Premiun device, no?

They always have been. Even the XR, the "cheap" iPhone is technically on the lower-half of the high-end spectrum.

The only "budget" models Apple sells are previous iPhone models. Minus the iPhone SE, iPhones usually only cater to the high-end.

To be frank, a lot of the reasons why people prefer one platform over the other is a subjective reason from an objective fact.

There’s things Android is better at and there’s things iOS is better at.

I concur.

The most I would want is an 8750H. That not even a slow CPU. And heck, the Core i7-U series CPUs would be fine for daily use

2 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

And further to this point, I don't expect to have to purchase something else or modify my new system just for it to work at base clock speeds. If we were talking about OC, and it couldn't handle the extra heat, i'd be much more lenient. Since this is just base speeds, I can't let this off the hook. They certainly should have upgraded the cooling solution, though I agree with you that the i9 had no business being offered in the first place

And that really is the issue.

It's one thing to not be able to turbo, but it's another to not be able to maintain base speeds. The i9 should not have been offered in this state, period