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  1. 4 hours ago, luca_bernd said:

    There are SO many things where i can not understand the balancing:

    • relatively weak vibration and loud min. volume are valid points.
      • For (at least) many people they will just not be the key attributes, but fair mention
    • Software concerns?
      • Linus doesn't like stock android + screen brightness transition not smooth enough
        • not relevant / most people don't care
      • plex is buggy
        • has nothing to do with fairphone
        • gets shown in the intro which depicts the fp5 as buggy
      • Audio bug
        • Fairphone says it is due to the device being a prototype
        • nobody else reported something like this
        • linus speculates its not due to it being a prototype?!
      • general buggyness
        • No findable reports online
        • They show not a SINGLE valid example
    • Body thickness
      • They measure the fp5 at the camera bump and hide the s23s bump with the case. If they are interested in the thickest point it would not be different without case (They imply the opposite). In fact the difference between s23 and fp5 is 0.35mm in that regard!
      • fp5 weights less than the s23 Ultra
      • I don't claim the fp5 has a slim shape... but its misleading depicted and way more picked on than it plays a role for using a phone.
    • SD card
      • Complained more about having to power down for to be able to change sd cards than in other reviews about a missing sd card slot. WTF?!
    • Performance
      • You depict the Fairphone as beeing to slow and "more close to a ancient note 9"
        • In all benchmarks you show (except gaming) the fp5 is waaay closer to the pixel 8 than the note 9
        • most people don't care about gaming performance on a phone
        • you admit the performance for normal use of the note9 to be "pretty darn responsive" which is much slower than the fp5.
    • Repairability
      • Note 9 comparison is outrageous
        • fp5 has a iFixit score of 10/10
        • note 9 is a 4/10
        • you can swap the battery without braking the back and damaging the battery with a bunch of tools and being really careful, but its no comparison
        • you get no original replacement parts!!!
      • No mention of objective leadership of fairphone in this industry (just look ifixit numbers)
        •  compare that to the framework 16 review where they claim this about framework while the gap between framework and average  Laptops is much closer than the gap between fairphones and average phones 
    • Recommendation of buying note 5
      • Has no security updates since 2022!!!
      • is way solwer
      • will probably not being nearly as long usable as the fairphone 5 (In fact its not safely usable for oven 1 year, but even hardware wise; no replacements ect.)
    • Longevity!!!
      • No mention about providing spare parts for fair price
      • No mention of 8 year update promise
      • This all is relevant for assessment of the price.
    • Fairness / worker rights / environmental Sustainability:
      • GETS NO MENTION!!! (Or not more than the absolute minimum what could be considered as a the briefest possible mention)

     

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    • Software concerns?
      • Linus doesn't like stock android + screen brightness transition not smooth enough
        • not relevant / most people don't care

    The thing is, your paying for it.  Yes, most people care. thats why they buy polished phones, instead of virtue signaling phone. Stock is stock, to add value, you have to polish it. Fix bugs, FYI this is the 5th rev of this device. By now, we expect a finished product.

     

     

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    • general buggyness
      • No findable reports online
      • They show not a SINGLE valid example

     

    Look harder- 

     

    Unlike google pixel, Fairphone dosen't have control over the software they use. 

     

     

     

     

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    • Body thickness
      • They measure the fp5 at the camera bump and hide the s23s bump with the case. If they are interested in the thickest point it would not be different without case (They imply the opposite). In fact the difference between s23 and fp5 is 0.35mm in that regard!
      • fp5 weights less than the s23 Ultra
      • I don't claim the fp5 has a slim shape... but its misleading depicted and way more picked on than it plays a role for using a phone.

     

    Yeah,  it feels cheap. a budget moto feels more premium. It's also unbalanced, making it feel awkard. The plastic creaks, display is not the best quality off angle...etc

     

    Here is a size compassion https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Fairphone-5,Samsung-Galaxy-S23+/phones/12228,12000

     

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    • Performance
      • You depict the Fairphone as beeing to slow and "more close to a ancient note 9"
        • In all benchmarks you show (except gaming) the fp5 is waaay closer to the pixel 8 than the note 9
        • most people don't care about gaming performance on a phone
        • you admit the performance for normal use of the note9 to be "pretty darn responsive" which is much slower than the fp5.

     

    The 778( rebranded as QCM6490), has better CPU then the 855, but weaker GPU. 

     

     

     

    Yeah, a Ryzen 5600 + 4080 will age a lot beter then a 4050+ Ryzen 5900. Yes, we use GPUs a lot. Also fairphone 5 can't keep a 90 hz, doing anything. Have a bunch of apps open and see how it chugs.  Yes, it's closer to the Note 9 SD845, then a SD 8 Gen 3. FYI numbers looks wrong. UFS 2.2 is slower then 3.1 pixel 8 uses. 

    https://www.androidauthority.com/fairphone-5-hands-on-3359027/

     

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    you admit the performance for normal use of the note9 to be "pretty darn responsive" which is much slower than the fp5.

     

    Nope, Note 9 is slow. See Linus, opening the cam on his s24U video. It's slow, even for normal user. Older family member uses one, they complain about the speed. 

     

     

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     objective leadership of fairphone in this industry

     

    yeah, the Airpod clone, no headphone jack...etc, Slow updates, Camera that makes a Nexus 6p from 2015 a DSLR. 

     

    If they did care, they would leave the headphone jack alone. 

     

     

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    • No mention of 8 year update promise

    But, are you going to use your in 8 years?  The SOC is slow now, software will get more complex, unlike the pixel 8 with a whole company that can optimize it, fairphone has nothing. 

     

     

    Linus was fair, look at a device for what it has not the virtue signaling. 

     

     

    Also 8 years update, how timely are they? Features? How bug free? How much testing did they do? Would you give one to your mom? 

     

     

     

    6 hours ago, Senzelian said:

    The Linux of phones.

    Linux is free,  Fairphone is window 11 price with gelentoo level issues. 

  2. 11 minutes ago, D-reaper said:

    Actually, in a way, you are being forced. Take Google Chrome for example; soon it will no longer work on Windows 7.

    >Initial release date: October 22, 2009

     

    It will stop in 2022

     https://www.makeuseof.com/google-chrome-windows-7-stop-2022/

     

     

    for most poople 13 years support is good enough.  Also most people use windows 10 not 11. by the time October 14th, 2025 comes, most users will upgrade. Or microsoft might drop requirement. 

     

     

    Linux is still a clusterfuck for most users like my parents. You can't expect everyone to learn how to use it. 

     

     

    I love POP OS but they have a long way to go. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  3. 1 hour ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

    linus chose a bad distro 

    What does that mean? POP OS is an excellent OS overall, with really good community support. But even with that, it sucks POP OS is not ready to shine for mainstream consumers( same with linux as a whole). Before anyone says anything, i know servers run linux, i was talking more about consumer use at home. 

     

    I judge a OS by how normal users use it. You can't expect Joe to spend an hour reading through forums. Linux is a good OS to mess around but not ready to shine for most users, i wish devs would make more optimizations for mainstream users. 

     

  4. Just now, elmomote said:

    Haven't done those, where should I do that? I am a noob.

    Also, link with specs has been added.

    Your issues are 

     

     

    - SIngle stick ram-  try to get another stick 

     

    Are you on windows 10 or 11? 

     

    - Bloatware- bunch of things running in the background. 

     

    This will take a lot of work, if you can i suggest reinstalling the OS. 

     

    1- Get a USB 

    2- follow this steps here https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

    3- for laptop driver- https://www.msi.com/Laptop/support/GF65-Thin-10UX?sub_product=GF65-Thin-10UE#down-driver

    4-  GPU driver https://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/436.15/436.15-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe&lang=us

     

    This will take a lot of time but IMO it's worth it, companies like MSI put a lot of stuff that slow down laptops and get another stick of ram. 

     

     

     

  5. Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

    As covered in the video, yes.

    The os will put them on the E cores.

    Plus, the cpu itself can talk to the os to get low power tasks moved

    so it's actually active, did they bring it over to the surface pro x? or is it X86 only? 

     

    windows 11 has been a such a mess, half of the promised feature are missing or working very poorly. 

  6. Hope Intel and AMD can close the gap in a few years with apple silicon. It's glorious to see competition, thank god the days of 7700k are over, we can finally see double digit improvements. 

     

     

     

     

    As a side note, does windows 11 handle background tasks on on Alder lake using power efficient cores? 

  7. 21 hours ago, bob33 said:

    send linko

    This, you can find the 1660 model on sale if you look around, they are more of a flash sale. 

     

     

    https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops/new-dell-g3-15/spd/g-series-15-3500-laptop/cng3024

     

     

     

    This is 1k but goes on sale for 800 https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8732466

     

     

     

    lower tier model for 800

     

     

    https://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-acer-nitro-5-nhq7pek001-144hz-fhd-ips-i5-10300h-8gb-ddr4-512gb-nvme-ssd-6gb-gtx-1660ti-win10-hom

     

     

     

     

    Look at Dell and lenevo refurbshed deals, look at i5+ 1660 or better, it will be time and regon dependent. so you will have to refresh the page a few times to get some good deald, if you fine with used. 

     

     

    It it's a longterm investment, look at a new laptop. 

  8. Just now, Dxnx said:

    Isn't it not possible to do it through Ryzen Master software

    All ryzen have OC features called Precision, which is fine. Unless you clicked an "optimized" OC buttion, it whould be fine. 

     

     

     

    What verson of windows are you running? 

     

     

    Are you full screen? 

    13 minutes ago, Dxnx said:

    -32gb Corsair Vengeance. 2 sticks 3200mhz and 2 others 3600mhz

     

    are both ram running at 3200MHZ? is XMP on? 

     

     

    are you running the latest windows verson? 20H2

     

    try running only the game without other programs running in the background. 

     

     

     

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