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One of the reasons I dislike intel is that they give you the product name expecting you to know (or to ignore and buy by impulse) the specifications of it.
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:24:47 UTC from web-
@nerthos I dislike that both major makers try to intentially obfuscate how many actual cores the processor has.
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@maiyannah I always had less issues figuring out the specs of AMD ones, but they do it as well at times.
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:26:58 UTC from web-
@nerthos Much like how hard drive makers keep trying to move the goalposts on the size of the MB and GB listings.
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@maiyannah Yeah, they'll never give you an actual GiB size, though if you have a basic idea you can roughly guess how much usable size it'll have. Same with ISPs and their "3Mb/s=360KB/s"
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:30:16 UTC from web-
@nerthos There was a bill just prior to Trudeau's election requiring mobile phones and other things with a reported memory capacity to be advertised with their actual capacity available to the end user, but it died when Trudeau got in as basically all conservative motions did.
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@nerthos So for instance a 32GB iPhone is actually closer to a 26 GB one after the OS, which is a 20%ish difference.
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@maiyannah Yeah, that'd be useful, though I like it listed with the total capacity AND pre-allocated at the same time, rather than just free memory.
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:34:34 UTC from web-
@nerthos Still more honest than the tech industry is now, but sadly it went poof when Trudeau came in.,
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@maiyannah When I bought my last phone I think allocated memory was listed.
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:36:52 UTC from web-
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@maiyannah The market here tends to be more overpriced but also more honest
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:41:37 UTC from web
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@nerthos On the flip side, whenever I see an AMD processor for sale, they give me SO MUCH information I don't really know what to do with it.
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:25:47 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation More info=better, as you can just skip whatever you don't care about
Monday, 27-Jun-16 20:27:15 UTC from web
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