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Belgarathian

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  1. That was the news company that went to Louis Rossman, wasn't it? Yeah, that was particularly bad... These days though they run by check sheets much like cars do. If symptom X is present, replace component Y in its entirety. I guess their line of thought is that it's easier to do and more reliable than a repair. Even Louis Rossman admitted that it will eventually fail again (due to the cable fatiguring I think) and there is no way to know if it's tomorrow or in 3 years. That said his fix was a lot cheaper.
  2. Somewhat incorrect. It's managed by a crown entity and then Chrous has tendered for the work in different regions. Christchurch has Enable, and then there are a number of other players. But it boils down to there is only one entity putting comms cables in the ground with the Government controlling resale pricing per connection. No remotely significant companies (that I'm aware of) other than fixed wireless broadband providers or a few smaller players that have laid fiber in subdivisions sell connections and services directly to the consumer. All major ISPs simply resell connections & services from Chrous, Enable, etc. Telecom (now Spark) used to own the majority of the copper network, but in a world first in 2011 they voted to split the network and customer services so that Chorus (the network spin-off) could publicly list on the NZX and secure $1b of government funding to lay fiber and start the rollout.
  3. I'm calling bluff... 12TF GPU and 1TB NVMe SSD inside a package <$600. Also ray tracing is a DX12 API that Nvidia run on their RT cores but isn't restricted to Nvidia and will run on almost anything, albeit poorly.
  4. The battery replacements that I've had in the past for my Apple devices (macbooks, iPhones) have been expensive, but not throw the device away and start again bad. I think $200 for a macbook and $120 for the iPhone? Give the device another 2-3 years of use (800-1000 cycles).
  5. Apple has hired Soonho Ahn from Samsung SDI which supplied Apple with Li-ion batteries and has supposedly discussed purchasing cobalt from mines. Apple, particularly with the iPhone in recent years, has been on a crusade to in-house design of as many components as possible having more recently taken the design of the GPU for it's A series processors and now it seems continues the theme with the design and potential manufacturing of it's own batteries. An example of Apple's design 'innovation' My take? Could be a good move. There's a few of reasons for this: The iPhone slow-down fiasco and quality control of battery cells caused the company a bit of a PR nightmare, taking the design in house gives Apple a firmer hand in the design, manufacturing, and supply of their battery cells and if done well, the durability, consistency, and longevity. Increased density = smaller battery. More room for activities... headphone jack... They'll make the iPhone thinner and even lighter than ever before. We've seen how well this has worked for Tesla with them having the lowest cost battery packs of any BEV manufacturer despite having enormous volumes of cells. Part of this has to do with their continued investment in battery technology which means they use less rare materials and have better density than their competitors. Could Apple do the same? Yeah. Actually they could buy Tesla with their liquid assets so I'm fairly confident they'll be able to develop a competitive battery cell for small devices if this is true. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/apple-hires-a-samsung-battery-exec-suggesting-it-may-make-its-own-batteries/
  6. I had some serious trouble reading/comprehending what he was trying to say.
  7. Apple did buy PoweredbyProxi a few years ago, so the wireless charging rumor could be legit. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/24/16539604/apple-powerbyproxi-acquisition-wireless-charging-iphone-accessories
  8. It was cheap... At the time it was a smartphone I could afford that wasn't terrible.
  9. That's actually surprisingly affordable and could be a great buy. I love my bike, but cost savings have never been the aim of the game for me since they're economical and are easy to service/repair so BEV bikes for me just have to be a better experience. Yet to swing my leg over one, but I do love BEV cars. A 150 mile range is a little on the low side, but for a commuter it'll be more than enough and it's probably fine for a weekend rider given you might ride 1-2 hours, stop for a rest, and then continue and the 35min charge time is perfect for that. I think I'd miss the noise though.
  10. The other benefit would be the ability to use the battery to power tools and equipment through 240v plugs above and beyond what a standard ICE with alternator would be able to.
  11. Just sounds like AMD being realistic that for gaming GCN just can't compete with Nvidia's top offerings. Navi if I remember correctly will be a new architecture from the ground up.
  12. Yes because servers, development, support, advertising, and business development are free these days.
  13. Just do what they did for "Rome", 2x 7nm Vega 64 GPUs with the I/O controller in the middle, 12GB of GDDR6 RAM around it, 4x 8PIN PCIe connectors and water block only cooler ???
  14. First thought, WTF? Then I remembered that American's are wackos who use MM/DD/YYYY instead of the logical DD/MM/YYYY format.
  15. How is any of this bad news, Apple is literally extending first party support for products 7 years and older. Not too many other manufacturers of PCs or phones would have anything similar on offer? Sure there might be another agenda, but it's still good for the consumer. We should be celebrating and supporting Apple to extend the coverage of this program!
  16. With Apple releasing the A12X today, I'd say that it shows the power behind Apple's capabilities. Looking forward to benchmarks since by the looks of things it adds another Vortex core, and doubles the GPU.
  17. Probably the driver behind the Intel/AMD chipset seen earlier in their NUC.
  18. Valid, but the industry tends to follow Apple. Particularly since we can almost guarantee that there will be a flood of Apple certified USB-C accessories (so long as it's not patented, or locked to platform). The Mac Mini got a lot of love!
  19. The big news to me is that Apple now has a audio over USB-C standard. This means that the crap in the industry over everyone doing it differently can go and die and finally all our USB-C headphones, and DAC/AMPs will work with most/all phones
  20. The annual stock take and realised they had a few containers of returns that hadn't been put back into stock.
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