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There are legitimate reasons to do this that aren't backwards compatibility. USB is a bus, and PS2 is a more 'direct' input. Not only is it more secure as it can only accept HID devices, this means that in the case of ANY os you put in your pc, the keyboard will be detected and the layout will be correct regardless of driver problems. It's mostly compatibility with older peripherals though, and it's there because why not?  There's room. Note that most motherboards only give one port now instead of two. Not all have it of course, it's just offered on some motherboards for people who would want it. 
Why, oh why, is this a problem? Laptops and phones are portable, and need to save room. People would complain if they got a desktop and had to have a breakout cable to plug 2 separate devices in. Oh and there's usually 4 more ports you are forgetting about that come on pcs. Some pople have surround audio. Why the hell would you make it a three pole to bring that down to 5?
The next time I lug my desktop into starbucks I'll curse this one. 
This is purely cost. There is no reason or demand for this, and if you need a wifi card, you can add one. You can even drop a laptop one in some motherboards. Some itx ones come with it as itx boxes are portable. Why increase the price for everyone when most will just plug it in directly? In fact, a lot of motherboard have 2 lan NICs because that's more useful. 
 
Aesthetic is what sells. Suddenly, there's a ton of RGB because there's a demand for it. Most PCs don't actually need a ton of air flow to be cool. If you're going for some crazy setup, you buy a case accordingly. 
 
....no, it is not. It blew up as the new "thing" in 2012ish I think, but people moved away from itx as they realized it's doesn't offer them much for most people but takes away expandability and small things like a lot of itx boards have trash on-board audio. Even though its popularity has waned off, there's still plenty out there. More itx enthusiast cases than micro atx, a much more practical form factor. In fact, I'd say there are more itx cases today than there were enthusiast cases AT ALL some years ago. 
 
Very few people want this. Most people want a backlight of some kind these days, even if it's not rgb or whatever. There's very little use case as well. I don 't move my keyboard around the desk when I game. It'd be nice for my couch setup, but that keeb NEEDS a backlight anyway. 
 
Ultra compact is a niche market. Most people have a hard time giving up the numpad if they have space for it, they're not giving up arrow keys or shit like that unless they're on r/mk. And there's plenty of options anyway imo
That's who buys them
 
lol but it kinda is. The waves are so fast you can't actually predict how many you'll need, the production process is far too large. There has been gpu crashes before, they're not gonna risk loosing BIG to make a little more money. It just so happened to last longer this time. 
 
This goes back to the days that multi gpu setups were far more common. And it's not a bad thing if they are good quality and they are not so underloaded that they are less efficient. 2 of my psus have never once kicked the fan on in their lifetime as I purposely made sure the draw would never be higher than the load percentage that the fan kicks on. They're not expensive, more ins't bad. Getting a bad psu is bad. 
 
But most desktop machines need an atx psu...lol
Seriously, you'd have to both get a bracket and cable extensions, and it'd look garbage and likely be louder in some cases. 
One manufacturer made these a thing, I think it was silverstone, and they did it right when itx was first starting to wane in popularity (itx was like a bubble) as R&D takes a long time. By the time these came out, it wasn't as big. Note htis for the GPU mining thing you asked. Other manufactures slowly started making more options, but this was slow as demand was small, silverstones were fine and not expensive. 
SFX isn't the only small psu form factor. We'd used atx for years as why not but itx demanded something smaller that wasn't like a 1u or 2u psus (those are typically loud). Previously, the compact PSU market was limited to servers. I'd go as far to say that SFX was completely unnecessary and they should have taken an existing form factor and make an enthusiast psu with it. 
People seem to want them. They're like less than 20$ and people literally list-compare when they buy PCs. This is entirely why intel switch to the i3-i5-i7 scheme. "i7 da best" when it may be a dual core laptop. "that one's a 5, this one is a 7. 7 is more than 5" thats seriously how people shop for PCs. Here's a 3 and a half year old thread where I shit on aliewnare for the way they market these things back when I wanted their 13 (the first gpu dock available in a laptop, ever) but they were only avaible in dual cores, so when people complained you could only get a dual core i5 with hyperthreading, they responded with a dual core i7 that was marginally  better. That's how dumb they treat their customers as they are that dumb
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/270810-mfw-alienware
 
They are mostly basic atx or matx builds. The demand isn't for small, though most offer a small option. Why make them harder to service and more expensive? Pre builts are all about marketing cheap shit like its state of the art. Bigger is better or whatever. And you can get small prebuilts, like smaller than itx lol. They just cost more because R&D, cost to make parts, assemble. And very few want to buy a non upgradable desktop. Might as well get a laptop and use it as a desktop like most people do that have space concerns.  

 
 
This one has 250 gigs and the other one has 1000 gigs and is cheaper! 
That's literally why. I've hated this for years with laptops. 95% of laptops i serviced were nowhere near even 100GB of space used, hell most had less than 10Gb of personal crap, most people dont actually store much shit if they are basic users. Laptops should have dropped HHDs asap for space they took up and more importantly keeping data safe when they are dropped. That's been changing recently. It's just prebuilt desktops are garbage and (almost) always have been.
 
You are so wrong about that. Laptop repair used to be my thing, and I also kept up with enthusiast laptops. I had a dual GPU 18 pound with brick laptop at some point. 
It was not until the 9xxm series that laptops were actually competitive with desktops. This is a fact. 7xxm was pretty good too, but 9xxm is when the jump happened. Before, the top end laptop gpus were equivalent to mid range desktop gpus. I'm talking 650ti, 750ti, those cards of each generation. A part that costs on its own more than most desktop pcs would get you just around the performance of a 100-150$ desktop part. It was laughable. This made gaming laptops not only a bad initial purchase for most, upgrading was near impossible unless you were lucky enough to dump money into an mxm laptop that by chance you were able to get new gpus in, flash the vbios right, and still have a compatible cooler. Gaming laptops were a hobby for the well off really.  
When the 9xxm parts dropped, the performance parity was unheard of- they were closer to the desktop parts because the dekstop chips were actually low power, and didn't have to be cut down that much, but they were still expensive. Eventually, we saw the first desktop gpu in the mxm form factor in a laptop in the 9xx series. A 980. This became the norm for the next generation and now you can even get midrange GPUs and even on-board. Not only were laptops now close to desktops, the price difference closed a LOT. 
We are just now getting true small form factor gaming laptops that are not trash, and I assure you most of them were hot garbage. I know, I fixed them. Now they are great performance wise, but they are still not upgradable if you dont want an external gpu, which btw is a very recent good thing. All of this is past couple of years. 
Why would you drop 1500$ on a laptop when you can build a desktop for less, get WAYY better performance, and drop in a new gpu for 100$ a few years later and keep gaming very well? Keep in mind that until recently, gaming CPUs were stagnant. You can still game perfectly on a i7-2600k and that's just now starting to change. For several generations quad cores where it for the main enthusiast sockets, with minor ipc improvements. Laptops were more practical when you had to upgrade every few years, but for quite a while, you didn't need to upgrade your base system unless you bought a laptop. You'd be stuck cursing the fact that the only important part to upgrade wasn't upgradable -  the gpu. I watched kids in college drop 2-3k$ or more (sometimes much more) on laptops for them to not even run games on medium settings in 2 or 3 years. 
 
So to take away anything from this all,
-consider that everything needs a market, and companies make what will sell. This shit ain't cheap to r&d.
-Getting rid of cheap extras features because they aren't useful to most doesn't apply to anything other than small form factor 
-adding expensive extra features with little demand isn't practical 
-consumers are mostly uninformed, and the marketing matches the audiance
-laptops sucked until recently 

He is actually not denying, nor confirming anything.
 
 
To be serious though... I strongly suggest not to submit any false warranty claims.
Yes, retailers like Amazon can simply replace items without requiring a return. However, the more expensive the product is, the less likely that will become. Plus, if such an expensive item has a defect, they might sometimes want to return it to the quality control departement of the manufacturer. (Future product design improvements are often based on customer complaints or returned defective products.)

Are you asking if you can abuse the warranty system?
You're threading on thin ice my friend...
 
My guess is that they look at your history and decide how trustworthy you are based on that. Have you spent thousands of dollars over the years, without any complaints, and now you're having an issue with one product? Chances are you are trustworthy and gets some nicer treatment (which may include not needing to send the stuff back).
Are you someone who has made warranty claims several times on a handful of orders, or exhibit other suspicions behavior like claiming warranty for more and more expensive products? They might demand proof that it is broken and it was not you who damaged it. If you get caught, you might be charged with fraud.
 
 
The only similar instance I am aware of would be this case. Someone reported issues with a non-existing firewall in order to get the manufacture to send him a new one. He had to pay 50,000 dollars in bail.

So you don't deny you're trying to to abuse the system to get a free monitor.
 
Is it actually defective? I'm guessing not given the context of this thread
 
Which is...you know.. fraud

I'm guessing they want to stop production of GP106 dies to clear a fab line for something new, yields and cost of GP104 must be good enough for it to not matter.

No, This is nvidia, you'll have the:
 
GTX 1060 3GB
GTX 1060 6GB
GTX 1060 3GB
GTX 1060 6GB
 
And maybe the:
GTX 1060 3GB
GTX 1060 6GB
 
 

It is impossible to get the right distances with a non-optical adapter to allow FD lenses to be used on EF bodies, as the FD mount distance is shorter. All adapters therefore act as extension tubes, unless "corrected" by optics which then generally turn them into mild teleconverters.
 
For some FD lenses, people have made mount conversion kits that allow their use, but they are lens specific and you have to swap it yourself.

That was a comment on what IP is, physical things cannot be IP. IP can be used to make physical things, physical things can have attributes that are IP but the item itself, the thing you can touch or hold is not IP.

Except ownership of an idea means that you can do whatever you want concerning that idea, but that does not entail you own everything produced with that idea. That's where you stubbornly won't understand. Maybe it's too subtle for you.

He's clearly been hardened from eating all that lead.

I'm surprised @leadeater is still replying.... You need a mallet and a chisel to get the point across to some of these guys when it come to Green and Blue matters. It's like their brains switch off when either of those companies are the topic at hand and they argue for the sake of it but not to learn anything from it, reminds me ROM.

I'm not even talking about any of this at all though, that's not the point. Like I said way back I have no idea how far I have no issue with Nvidia having branding requirements as part of their partnership and supply contracts. The how is important.
 
ROG is a huge brand it's not inconsequential and people buy ROG products over others all the time, yes people may want a GeForce GPU but they have options from multiple AIBs and that is where ROG comes in.
 
ROG was not created for Nvidia or for an Nvidia product.
 
 http://edgeup.asus.com/2016/10-years-republic-gamers-history-innovation/
 
The first ever ROG product was an AMD motherboard.
 
So you can stop with the down playing of ROG and AIB brands because they mean a lot, these companies invest a fair decent amount of money in to their brands and utilize funds from many different vendors to bolster them. They have never belonged to Nvidia, Intel, AMD etc and Nvidia didn't gain ownership over them with GPP they only gained exclusivity to them, for GPUs only, and that is the part I don't agree with.
 
I have a very specific issue, there rest you or others keep bringing up I'm not that interested in. Nvidia wants exclusive branding stump up and create it not take it, it's not theirs.
 
Again this is not about GeForce or Nvidia's market share, it's about AIBs and their products. I buy ROG over other products, others may prefer another brand and this is what it is about.

I think the problem is people start applying conditions like who built the products value and market share as arguments for why they believe the AIB or Nv should be held accountable/subjected,   Instead of sticking directly with the conditions of  law (as we understand them).  Once people move beyond the legal realm and into their own ideals about what is legal/ethical then we have many different arguments that cannot be resolved due the arbitrary nature of their motivation.

That's irrelevant to the product owner, AIB's make more than GPUs and the brands they use for the GPUs are across multiple product segments. This isn't a discussion about market share or why the market is like is now it's purely who is the product owner because if you think Nvidia owns the end product designed by the AIB, parted out by the AIB, branded by the AIB, sold by the AIB then you're sorely mistaken.
 
Why does this matter, because it's not Geforce vs Radeon. It's who's allowed to use the AIB's branding, their IP not Nvidia's or AMD's.

Well it varies on what you are doing. For the mirrorless systems, if you want something versatile and small for landscape use, the lee seven5 system is quite nice, but that is mostly useful for photography. If what you want to do is simply cut out light to be able to shoot at a given shutter speed wide open in broad daylight, variable nd filters are mostly the way to go. 
 
Cheap nd filters in my experience are a waste of money, they give unwanted casts, there's loads of light leaking, which is untenable in darker ones etc. That said, if you need to shoot video in broad daylight wide open, you are better off using a cheap one than not using one. Also, they should be cheaper for narrower threaded lenses. Also keep in mind that in wider focal lengths, the use of step down rings might introduce vignetting to your image. 
 
So i'd just wait and see if you need it. That said, I did buy a cheap set off amazon (like £15) before going into a proper system and it did help me narrow down what sort of filters I actually needed, eliminating quite a lot of cost. 
 
It really depends on what you are shooting. If you are doing portraiture, the 18-55 and 50 f/2 seem like great options, if you are doing landscapes and cityscapes, the 10-24 is the most versatile option, but those are pretty pricy. 

Panasonic AF isn't the best at all, so if you want good AF Panasonic is not for you.
 
But I'f you are ok with AF that is just meh(okish) then fine.

No I'm talking about evidence. There is evidence, I have no movement on this but I don't know why I have to say it again for what the third or fourth time? You're not going to get a different result out of me. You want facts or proof, it's not there but we do have evidence. Call it circumstantial evidence if you like, I'll happily back that stance on it but it's still evidence.
 
What you want is direct evidence, you're not going to get it. Fingerprint and DNA evidence is not considered direct evidence before you start trying to hold direct evidence as some ultimate from of evidence and circumstantial is baseless and inconsequential.
 
You seem to be coming from the line that evidence can only lead to one common conclusion, so if there isn't the evidence you are looking for then there is no evidence. If only it were that easy. You can actually have conflicting conclusions, or none at all, from the same evidence, usually because there is still some lacking evidence but that does not mean there is no evidence.
 
This is the impasse we have, you say there is no evidence and I say there is. I'm happy for you to say there is a lack of evidence but not that there is no evidence.
 
But they did give information which is part of my evidence.
 
I've told you where I got my evidence and how to address it if you wish to but do not come at me with the no evidence line.
 
It is the first time no explanation has been given for something such as this. Asus not being forthcoming with information is not a counter to my assessment of why Arez was created, it literally means nothing.
 
If Asus or any other AIB, or Nvidia, want to clarify the matters they can go right ahead but until they do their silence is irrelevant and I will use what information that does exist.
 
That is not the only Gigabyte product that had changes being made nor the only AIB. Do I need to state the there is no such thing as coincidences tag line again. If something is happening there is a reason. If these were all isolated events then they wouldn't account for much but they are not isolated.
 
GPP is the reason Arez exists unless you can show me something that would sway this opinion. Not a high bar to reach, it's not hard, all you have to do is put something forward that isn't evidence denial which I will immediately dismiss.

I wonder why Asus made Arez I wonder why no Arez products use ROG I wonder why no AMD GPU's were suddenly not branded rog anymore I wonder why the official Asus Arez twitter liked and shared all articles about it, when the articles literal headlines stated it was because of the GPP I wonder why Arez was only going to be used on AMD GPU product categories, and not AMD motherboards I wonder .... don't you? Like @leadeater stated, evidence isn't always conclusive, but requires extrapolation of several data points. There has been plenty in the GPP case. 
 
 
 

I guess you're ignoring this definition then, "signs or indications of something." So don't period me. It doesn't even work that way in court either, "smoking guns" just don't exist in practicality. If that is your bar for something to be evidence then that is highly unrealistic.
 
Say what you want evidence simply isn't what your implying. You can draw your own, different, conclusion from the evidence but I'd appreciate the end of "this is not evidence", it is and I will not budge on it. If you can't agree that there is evidence then we have nothing to discuss, there is no common ground so it's impossible.
 
And why would they? Another unrealistic expectation to have and one that could potentially have legal consequences if such a person went on record.
 
If Arez was unrelated to GPP then is it not odd that Asus will not comment further on why they brought it in? Don't read in to that, it plays no part in my assessment of GPP being the cause but Asus stating something counter to my assessment would instantly change my opinion. It's actually very easy to change my opinion on this, I believe very little about what is claimed about GPP but currently I have no doubts about the branding requirements.
 
Neither did I say it was fact, I've said based on the evidence I have seen my assessment is GPP is the reason for Arez, without it Arez would not exist.
 
There is reason in action, in this case Arez, so again all ears on one. Does Asus think there are too many products under ROG? That could be one, unlikely to warrant such a large branding change. AMD wanted the change, also unlikely given their response to GPP and press announcements in the last month.

And just after all vendors have either stripped their branding from AMD cards or made new branding outright. The damage is done you anticompetitive twats.

I've been using them for years with no issue, other than that the original seems to last quite a bit longer ( Come to think of it, its possible it's worth its money given how long it lasts in comparison). 
 
I wouldn't imagine a lot, although it does depend on the bit rate too. Keep in mind there are also speed requirements on the sd card to record 4k footage, so that is something you may wanna look into. 
 
I'd get a cheap trigger or intervalometer too. Soft release button might be nice on the xt20/xt2, I have one on the xt10. 
 
If you are getting the xt20 and are gonna be shooting off a tripod a lot, you may want to buy some sort of bracket that moves the tripod mount, because as it is, any sized plate will obscure access to the battery and sd card. (that is probably the single thing that drives me completely crazy on that camera). I've almost bought an x-pro1 every time I carried it out with a plate on. 

I do that as a matter of routine, and also enable the "show kernel times" option in menu also. But Windows does what I've nicknamed core smear where a single program thread doesn't sit still, and tends to occupy partially both threads of a core. If there is much of that going on, with multiple software, it can become difficult to tell what is where. 
 
On that note, it might also be interesting if it could offer a hybrid view of top processes using CPU time (minor ones are unimportant), and also colour code them so you can see on which core(s) it is running, potentially allowing manual optimisations via affinity. This is beyond Task Manager. Resource Monitor is closer but not quite there.

Just change Task Manager to display all threads rather than summarized percentage?
 

Wonder if you could externalize L3 cache to the bottom die to make room for more cores and other logic, and bigger L2 cache. L3 cache is a very significant portion of the die area and a purpose built design for such a thing might not have that big latency penalties, IF latency are high for other reasons than just because it's cross die communication.
 
Intel has already drastically changed their cache architecture and inter core data flows, also increased L2 cache size per core to accommodate it.

 
TSV connections at all the current indicated points to the L3 die might reduce the L3 cache area usage by 50%-70% maybe? Might be worth it?

This news is from Feb 17. I just came upon it and found it very interesting, and definitely worth the read.
 
SONY has managed to create a new backlit & fullframe cmos sensor. This sensor wasnt even 2mp, however the tech behind this is very promising for future cameras. 
 

 
To be able to buy a $2,000-$5,000
 camera that has 15 or 16 stops of dynamic range, almost no noise at even high iso at night, 4k+, 35mm, and with a global shutter... this would be the holy grail for prosumer cameras i believe. Which i am now expecting, as i expect sony to always push technology.
 

 
-VideoMaker-
"Big news is coming out of Sony and it’s that they’ve developed a back-illuminated CMOS sensor that enables global shutter function. Now, the sensor is only 1.46 megapixels, so don’t expect it to be integrated into any Sony cameras anytime soon, but regardless, it's still a big feat for Sony.
The advantage of backlit CMOS sensor is that it basically allows cameras to capture images at lower light levels with a lot less noise. This is because the sensor’s electric circuits are placed at the back of the sensor, not the front, meaning that more light can get to the photosites and less readout amplification is required."
 
https://www.videomaker.com/videonews/2018/02/sony-develops-back-illuminated-global-shutter-cmos-image-sensor