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  1. I occasionally browse his vids and he makes decent teardowns of phones of a pretty wide variety (price point, brand, etc.).
  2. The FE models were available for a couple hours this morning on Nvidia's website and Best Buy for MSRP but they're sold out too now. Same story with some models 40-100$ over MSRP being available. This is in the continental US.
  3. Eh, they made decent stuff before their push to smart stuff too. All my aunts in China have had their Haier washing machines for like 2 decades so far not replacing them. Its mostly the useless push to "smart" stuff and planned obsolescence that affects everyone. You get what you pay for really.
  4. That seems really nice. In my region in the US though, its pretty much MSRP except for sales periods. Maybe Amazon will be 50$ cheaper occasionally, but the Apple certified refurbished are still cheaper. Even better if you can find Apple certified refurbished on Amazon since its like your normal 10-15% discount + 50 or 100$ off. But again, thats hit or miss and usually only on select models. Only place I can find 15% off consistently is from Apple.
  5. I've looked around local retailers and their online stores but they have generally the same prices as Apple, unless its during peak discount time periods like black fridya or something else. I just find that the Apple refurb store generally is the most consistently discounted with the most consistent quality. I'm sure there are better deals out there but it takes a lot more time and effort to find imo.
  6. Apple certified refurbished products are so nice its like 10-15% discount for almost brand new. I've gotten my older parents 2 m2 macs direct from Apple refurbished and Amazon, which was also Apple certified refurbished and my parents couldn't tell until I told them.
  7. Perhaps the original boards aren't an easy size to work with so they take the actual GPU die off and put it in custom board that better fits their needs? That's a good question though, I'm just speculating. Seems like a lot of effort.
  8. I think the point is to have it be easily installable in server form factors. There's nothing wrong with the stock coolers, they're just too big for putting them in the normal server farms and AI training box sizes.
  9. I am interested in how this plays out. What will the licensing fees look like and how they would be implemented in different video games.
  10. Imagine if the RTX-4070ti launched as the RTX-4080 12GB for 100$ more like they planned to do originally.
  11. Nah, its still going to be a huge hit to the CCP, alongside the average person. The difference between legally buying thousands of datacenter/AI chips straight from Nvidia and smuggling RTX-4090s or whatever other banned GPU they can get their hands on is humongous. Nobody is expecting 100% watertight restrictions, thats wishful thinking, but the near term reduction in compute is definitely significant. Doesn't mean China can't catch up with domestic solutions, but its gonna be a while.
  12. I guess it was only a matter of time before the Chaebols manage to monopolize streaming in SK too. Its a damn shame for any Korean streamers on Twitch that had majority non-Korean audiences since I imagine migrating to Afreeca or another Korean owned streaming service is not gonna be easy, and unless you already have a Youtube following, Youtube doesn't have great discovery for streams.
  13. The statement makes no sense to me too. If Raimondo thinks currently unbanned chips are still to much, then just increase the restrictions. Nvidia have been following the recent curbs pretty well, so I don't understand why she thinks they're doing anything wrong. Nvidia isn't going to voluntarily limit themselves based on a sense of moral well-being and patriotism, but they definitely will follow whatever legal restrictions or export bans the US government passes.
  14. Hallelujah! Even if the slower ssd on the old base model was still plenty quick, im glad to see they addressed that downside here. Knowing Apple, they could have just as easily ignored that problem forever.
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