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Except there's more to a laptop than just the CPU and the GPU. The trackpad, the build quality, the keyboard, the screen, the weight, the battery life, the warranty, the operating system etc. etc. Those things may not matter to you but they matter to me, and that's why I happily pay the...

I guess the high end stuff from Samsung, HP, Asus, Lenovo, etc. is all overpriced then, too? You don't compare a Mercedes to a Mini. You compare it to a BMW or an Audi or whatever, much the same as you don't compare a high end laptop with a low end bottom of the rung Dell.

For sure. Their kit is expensive, but I don't think it's a "rip off" like some people say. It's high end gear at a high end price. If you compare it to high end gear from other companies, it's normally priced around the same/slightly more expensive.

Depends on what you're comparing them to. Like I said in my post earlier, I used to buy the high-end Sony ultraportables. My Macbook was, in fact, cheaper than my Vaio. Even looking at other high end laptops, Macbook's are pretty competitive price wise. The refurbs are a great bargain, too...

Yeah, that was a dumb fucking post. The only thing worse than Apple zealots are irrational Apple haters.

I had the same idea so I bought a magic trackpad. Unfortunately, it forced my wrist into a weird position and I started getting RSI issues. It might be worth picking one up to see whether you have any issues or not. I'm tempted to buy a new desk so I can work out a way to make the magic trackpad...

Osx86/hackintoshes. It's the best of both worlds. Build your own computer and run OSX on it. It's quite amazing how far the Osx86 project has come over the past few years. Modern day builds are very stable and can run on a wide range of hardware. I don't think OSX is much better than Windows...

I think Macbooks are significantly better than virtually every Windows laptop. I used to buy the high end ultra portable Sony Vaios before switching to a Macbook and the difference in quality between the two was huge; Macbooks are really incredible pieces of kit. The reasons why I like 'em --...

I have some gripes with the phone (I posted them a page or two back) but it's still the best phone I've ever had. I came from an iPhone 4s and I couldn't be happier with it. With a custom kernel installed, battery life hasn't been a problem, either. It's a great piece of kit at a great price.

http://bgr.com/2013/01/11/nexus-4-su...-rumor-289453/ What. This has to be bullshit. It has to be. :|

It's definitely a Google problem. They've done an awful job of making the most of the hardware. They should be optimising Android and it's kernels to run as best as it can possible run on the Nexus 4 like Apple does with the iPhone - they shouldn't say "fuck, it's good enough" and leave it half...

Yeah, I know. I was hoping I wouldn't have to fuck around with this shit, either. That's one of the things Apple does right - the iPhone is well optimised and runs perfectly out of the box. The Nexus 4, instead, is poorly optimised and the screen is uncalibrated. It's quite annoying. Still...

Yeah, installing a custom kernel improved my battery life by nearly 60%. Pretty insane. Other people have managed a lot more with some tweaking, too (http://www.abload.de/img/uploadfromtaptalk1355c3jb7.jpg). Apparently certain drivers and what not are poorly optimised in the standard kernel...

I use this Google custom search engine to find books -http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=00...59:a1-kkiboeco It turns up about 99% of the books I search for. I have access to bibliotik but it's not too great. I'd throw you an invite over but I don't have any, unfortunately.

Yeah, agreed. I doubt Google wants to sell the phones at a loss, either. It does make me wonder what their launch day allocation was, though. 100k worldwide, maybe? It makes all the 'Nexus 4 sold out in 30 minutes!' articles dumb in retrospect.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/383...-sales-at-370k I thought they would have sold a million by now.. At least. Google and LG massively dropped the ball on this one.

Smartphone and tablets are enough to appease those people, too. Cut The Rope, Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride etc. are enough to fulfill their gaming needs. Nintendo's only hope is to focus on the console hardcore, but they're going to be more interested in awesome graphics and stuff. I think...

You need to use a multi threaded FTP client. Read this -- http://filesharefreak.com/2010/03/10...ed-downloading

I'm using gbox.me with payment via bitcoins. Upload and download speeds are quick and they're cheap. I'm happy with their service.

I wouldn't take their opinion on 48fps seriously. Like they said, they had shitty seats and, as a result, the screen looked awful. Judging by people's reactions, 48FPS seems to be a 'love it' or 'hate it' thing. I've seen so many differing opinions about it. The BBC is filming some nature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFh6c...ature=youtu.be "I feel like Tolkein had no idea what he was doing.." Hah. Good review. Sums up the majority of the problems with the movie.

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Free leech up on what.cd until xmas day. @Ben - Get a seedbox. You can get a decent one for $6 per month from seed.st or $5 per month from giga.me. It's worth it.

I did a quick search on Google and found the official Apple one on the Apple store for ?15($20) and third party cables from China for ?2.69 ($4.35). Not that expensive.

It's not a dealbreaker. It's just an annoying niggle. I think, had I not used my brothers iPhone 5, I wouldn't even list it as a complaint. It's just hard to deny that Apple's lightning connector is a far better design than micro usb. Nah, I haven't underclocked or anything. My screen on time...

Oh, I forgot to mention that the earpiece buzzes constantly, too. It's really annoying. I was talking to a friend on Skype the other day and I could barely hear her over the buzzing noise. I had to plug in a pair of headphones to actually hear her properly. The back of the phone gets really...

I think I've only once managed to put the cable in the right way on the first try. It's annoying. I used my brothers iPhone 5 for a week and the lightning cable just slots in effortlessly. The micro usb connector also makes a loud 'crack' sound whenever I insert a cable, too. It's quite...

I've had my Nexus 4 for about a month now and I really love it but I definitely have some issues. - I don't understand why I need to root the phone and install a third party kernel to get good battery life. Surely Google should have sorted this shit out themselves. - Android apps just aren't...

I used to sneak in to the Nokia Ultra cinemas when I lived in Bangkok. The cinema costs $35-40 per ticket but the seats are incredibly comfy. I used to walk through the back entrance and pretend not to speak English if I was ever stopped. Saw about 15 or 16 movies there. I miss the place...

InstallQuicktime AlternativeorQuicktime Lite. I used to use them when I had a Windows computer. They're way better than standard Quicktime.

New trailer - http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/p...kintodarkness/ And the extended preview - edit: I don't know what the fuck this is but it's an .exe pretended to be an .mp4. -tuco Looks good!

Awesome! Thanks. Glad to hear that it's not a limitation of the tech.

HFR stands for 'high frame rate', or 48FPS. HFR is recorded in 2k resolution because it's not possible to record at 4k resolution at 48fps at the moment.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=2150 That's the guy who took the shot. ^ He claims it's real. It could easily be a shop though. Edit - Sorry, it appears he didn't take the shot. He says that people are saying it's real, though. Fuck knows if it is.

http://i.imgur.com/yrLcT.jpg Fucking 4chan. Edit - NSFW!

Jack Thompson. Haven't heard that name for a while. What an arsehole. And this killing was obviously pre-meditated. He killed his father and then went to his mothers school and killed her and her class. Dude was obviously fucked in the head.

They just said on Al Jazeera that he was the father of a kid at the school. I'm really confused about this missing class.. Where the hell they could be?! Very odd.

Charlie Brooker did a piece about this. It's worth watching --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4

I just got back from seeing the film in imax 24FPS. For some reason, the film was a juddery mess during panning shots and both me and my cousin came out feeling dizzy with bad headaches. I've seen multiple 3d movies in that imax and never had a problem so I can only assume it was due to the...

Personally, I love the fact that the Kindle isn't good for anything but reading books. I get so distracted doing millions of things at once when using my laptop or my ipad and it can be difficult to concentrate on a single task at times. With my Kindle, all I can do is read. So I read...