Flipping Hard Choice

[TheCheese]

I've got $1200 to burn on mobile tech, my current ideas are iPhone X + accessories for $200, S8+DJI Spark(With fun stuff) , iPhone 8P + Spark (No bonus) or some other choice. I don't care about software since I use both nearly everyday and like both. 

I've got a desktop setup so I don't need one since my only change there will be to update my i7-7700k to 8700k

wtf do I do?

 

[DrMacintosh]

Don't get the iPhone X
 

1.) There are going to be like 3 of them

2.) You are paying a lot more for a smaller display even though its OLED

3.) The 8 and x have the same specs except the cameras. 

 

If you want an iPhone get the 8 Plus. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

10 minutes ago, TheCheese said:

I've got $1200 to burn on mobile tech, my current ideas are iPhone X + accessories for $200, S8+DJI Spark(With fun stuff) , iPhone 8P + Spark (No bonus) or some other choice. I don't care about software since I use both nearly everyday and like both. 

If you want a phone that is clunky, breaks parity on iOS with the rest of the line up, and just plain ridiculous in terms of price, then by all means get the iPhone X. If not, the 8 lineup will serve anyone well. Also... $200 in accessories, really? 

12 minutes ago, TheCheese said:

I've got a desktop setup so I don't need one since my only change there will be to update my i7-7700k to 8700k

wtf do I do?

What is all that about?

[TheCheese]

 

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

16 minutes ago, TheCheese said:

I've got a desktop setup so I don't need one since my only change there will be to update my i7-7700k to 8700k

wtf do I do?

What is all that about?

I was on another forum and the dumba**** couldn't get over the fact that I did not need one. I had thought Reddit was better than that tbh

 

If you want a phone that is clunky, breaks parity on iOS with the rest of the line up, and just plain ridiculous in terms of price, then by all means get the iPhone X. If not, the 8 lineup will serve anyone well. Also... $200 in accessories, really? 

Meh I generally just compound the remainder of my budget so if I don't find any cool stuff I just shove it into another bank acc

[TheCheese]

8 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

3.) The 8 and x have the same specs except the cameras. 

Chipset is mo powerful on iOS's side tho in the short term I don't see the value of a more powerful chipset

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, TheCheese said:

Chipset is mo powerful on iOS's side tho in the short term I don't see the value of a more powerful chipset

What?

[TheCheese]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

What?

From what I have seen the A11 out performs the SD835/Exno in terms of synthetic tests (GeekBench)

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, TheCheese said:

From what I have seen the A11 out performs the SD835/Exno in terms of synthetic tests (GeekBench)

Yes, and? 

[TheCheese]

5 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Yes, and? 

Those phones outlast in the long term so therefore you would see higher resell value thus reducing the loss on the phone.

Like most people think Oh No! $999, I have an algo for this which predicts the cost of the phone after an amount of time and over the last half decade apple products have consistently outperformed their android counterparts.

My also predicts a 64% loss over 2Y of using the phone with is better than the 84% for the S8

Edited October 8, 2017 by TheCheese
Wrong %

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, TheCheese said:

From what I have seen the A11 out performs the SD835/Exno in terms of synthetic tests (GeekBench)

The Dr was comparing the iPhone 8 to the iPhone X. Both phones have the same internals except in the cameras, which makes the iPhone 8 the one to get. 

 

1 minute ago, TheCheese said:

Those phones outlast in the long term so therefore you would see higher resell value thus reducing the loss on the phone.

Like most people think Oh No! $999, I have an algo for this which predicts the cost of the phone after an amount of time and over the last half decade apple products have consistently outperformed their android counterparts.

My also predicts a 69% loss over 2Y of using the phone with is better than the 84% for the S8

What in the world are you talking about? You've just strayed off to a different conversation. 

[TheCheese]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

The Dr was comparing the iPhone 8 to the iPhone X. Both phones have the same internals except in the cameras, which makes the iPhone 8 the one to get. 

Sorry Dr. my mistake

 

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

What in the world are you talking about? You've just strayed off to a different conversation. 

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21 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

2.) You are paying a lot more for a smaller display even though its OLED

I really don't care about price, just usability and other phone stuff +budget