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mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Mr. Nice! posted:

is that not still the case?

depends, really. i have an 8-inch samsung tablet i really like because it has an oled screen which makes it the best for reading in bed at night. i wouldn't necessarily want to use it for much else, though, so i'd argue it has good hardware and mediocre software.

# ? Apr 15, 2021 15:52

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 01:06

klosterdev: Oct 10, 2006; Na na na na na na na na Batman!

Wild EEPROM posted:

which bad ipad competitor had the most laffs

ExoPC Slate. Intel gave everybody who attended their MeeGo conference an ExoPC Slate running a MeeGo Alpha and lmaaao

iirc there was a sticker on the back, which when removed revealed a Windows 7 key. Couldn't even take the free upgrade to Windows 8 because it was running one of those Intel Atoms that never got 8 support.

# ? Apr 15, 2021 16:02

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

the words 'dual liquid-metal extensions of my body' have occupied some corner of my mind that would probably be reserved for the memory of my first kiss and will remain embedded there until the day i die

right next to 'your wife will love the dual core Tegra chipset'

# ? Apr 15, 2021 16:40

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

flip video

# ? Apr 15, 2021 17:04

The Leck: Feb 27, 2001

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I got a Dell streak for free because my company ordered 10 trillion Dell laptops. still wasn�t worth it.

my dad was really upset when he had to move on to a new phone after his stopped working for some reason. I think he's probably gotten over it now, but he really liked that thing for some reason

# ? Apr 15, 2021 17:52

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

carry on then posted:

yeah but that was still the era of people saying "why does anyone need an ipad when these are perfectly fine? steve jobs stealing another idea from bill gates!!!"

i remember trialing a win 7 tablet for a project and, in addition to looking like a decapitated laptop that weighed as much, it proudly could get 3.5 hours playing a video and worse doing anything we needed them to do

this was months after the ipad 2 release which weighed half with three times the battery life

# ? Apr 15, 2021 17:57

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD: Jul 7, 2012

psiox posted:

and cyrix processors!

transmeta crusoe

# ? Apr 15, 2021 18:13

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

transmeta crusoe

imagine a beowulf cluster of them!

# ? Apr 15, 2021 18:36

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

kitten emergency posted:

the words 'dual liquid-metal extensions of my body' have occupied some corner of my mind that would probably be reserved for the memory of my first kiss and will remain embedded there until the day i die

hell yeah. was that originally uttered in iyg?

# ? Apr 15, 2021 19:36

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

The N-GAGE commercials describing the amazing games like Call Of Duty you could play on the go, then showed something on sub Quake 1 graphics for like 2 seconds.

# ? Apr 17, 2021 22:45

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

transmeta crusoe

CentaurHauls

The length of the CPUID wikipedia article jfc

# ? Apr 17, 2021 22:48

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

The commercials that Comcast did when Verizon started rolling out FTTP, that said "DON'T FALL FOR ~~FIBER~~ FIOS" but never explained what that meant aside from showing a smarmy installer wrecking the place.

e: it was *don't fall for FiOS", not "don't fall for fiber"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-RFKJA3xiU

Volmarias fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Apr 18, 2021

# ? Apr 17, 2021 22:49

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD: Jul 7, 2012

"fios" is short for "fiber optic service"

# ? Apr 17, 2021 23:48

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

"fios" is short for "fiber optic service"

I know, I originally wrote "don't fall for fiber" which gave me some then-baffling results searching for the video afterwards.

# ? Apr 18, 2021 07:49

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD: Jul 7, 2012

iphone 5c

beautifully....plastic

# ? Apr 19, 2021 05:37

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

RoastBeef posted:

The Galaxy Note reminded me of the weirdest Thinkpad:

The IBM TransNote. The pad of paper had some kind of digitizer that stored an image of whatever you wrote, and the screen was a touchscreen. I think it cost more than three grand new.

(Sent from my Samsung� Galaxy Note 8)

this thing was an awesome design and I will brook no dissent

# ? Apr 19, 2021 06:19

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

floating point accelerators

not units, these were not part of the instruction set like a floating point unit�or coprocessor as they were originally called, as they weren�t integrated physically into the main CPU

no, floating point accelerators were peripherals you used to perform floating point operations

so you�d have a library or in-line assembly macros to call the thing, and you might even have to arbitrate which process has access to it (depending on its degree of OS integration) and it was enough of a pain that it would only end used by Important Applications (and maybe locally compiled software)

and typically it would be implemented as a board or board set about the size of your main CPU�s board or board set

# ? Apr 19, 2021 06:25

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

in that same vein, the motherboards with an extra socket for the math coprocessor

and then the ones with the socket but it was actuially fake and not linked to anything

# ? Apr 19, 2021 08:25

Fuzzy Mammal: Aug 15, 2001; Lipstick Apathy

eschaton posted:

floating point accelerators

not units, these were not part of the instruction set like a floating point unit�or coprocessor as they were originally called, as they weren�t integrated physically into the main CPU

no, floating point accelerators were peripherals you used to perform floating point operations

so you�d have a library or in-line assembly macros to call the thing, and you might even have to arbitrate which process has access to it (depending on its degree of OS integration) and it was enough of a pain that it would only end used by Important Applications (and maybe locally compiled software)

and typically it would be implemented as a board or board set about the size of your main CPU�s board or board set

hell yeah starfox ruled

# ? Apr 19, 2021 09:56

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Star fox suxit

# ? Apr 19, 2021 10:26

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

I've only actually played Lylat Wars but I can't imagine the older ones being any better.

Star Fox Adventure is good.

# ? Apr 19, 2021 10:27

git apologist: Jun 4, 2003

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I've only actually played Lylat Wars but I can't imagine the older ones being any better.

Star Fox Adventure is good.

aka star fox 64

# ? Apr 19, 2021 10:49

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

eschaton posted:

this thing was an awesome design and I will brook no dissent

seems like another example of the overwhelming burden that is the hegemony of the right hand

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

iphone 5c

beautifully....plastic

i super liked the look of those tbqh

also no antenna grip issues :v

# ? Apr 19, 2021 11:16

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Gentle Autist posted:

aka star fox 64

omg they made 63 before that?

# ? Apr 19, 2021 11:18

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

3D Megadoodoo posted:

omg they made 63 before that?

unpopular opinion but star fox 37 reigns supreme in my mind. sure the graphics aren�t quite as good but the depth of the story is wild.

# ? Apr 19, 2021 11:33

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

mediaphage posted:

unpopular opinion but star fox 37 reigns supreme in my mind. sure the graphics aren�t quite as good but the depth of the story is wild.

please. anything after 14 is pleb-tier casual garbage. i bet you play �games� on your ipad too. :rolleyes:

# ? Apr 19, 2021 12:01

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

I like Sim City 1999

# ? Apr 19, 2021 12:03

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

President Beep posted:

please. anything after 14 is pleb-tier casual garbage. i bet you play �games� on your ipad too.

3 - 22 were literally just rehashes with new sprites, nostalgia brain is real

# ? Apr 19, 2021 12:05

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

President Beep posted:

i bet you play �games� on your ipad too.

# ? Apr 19, 2021 12:16

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

eschaton posted:

this thing was an awesome design and I will brook no dissent

was there a left handed version

# ? Apr 19, 2021 14:22

President Beep: Apr 30, 2009; i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

sounds sinister to me

# ? Apr 19, 2021 14:28

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

President Beep posted:

sounds sinister to me

boo

speaking of funy tech poo poo i am displeased that the forums will no longer resolve on the hp touchpad!!

# ? Apr 19, 2021 14:55

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

the official battery case for the iPhone

# ? Apr 19, 2021 15:35

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

carry on then posted:

was there a left handed version

just turn the computer upside down op

mediaphage posted:

seems like another example of the overwhelming burden that is the hegemony of the right hand

i super liked the look of those tbqh

also no antenna grip issues :v

they looked nice in use! they're also basically what the magsafe silicone cases look like

# ? Apr 19, 2021 15:53

RoastBeef: Jul 11, 2008

carry on then posted:

was there a left handed version

Apparently yes

# ? Apr 19, 2021 15:58

Presto: Nov 22, 2002; Keep calm and Harry on.

Wild EEPROM posted:

in that same vein, the motherboards with an extra socket for the math coprocessor

and then the ones with the socket but it was actuially fake and not linked to anything

Then there was the 487SX, which was actually a 486DX that you plugged into your motherboard along with your old 486SX (it wouldn't work otherwise), and would then take over all the functions of your original CPU which afterwards just sat there consuming power.

# ? Apr 19, 2021 21:08