My Lumia Icon has 2GB of RAM and a Quad-core 2.2 GHz processor.
Mostly correct. I may have a Macbook Pro but I try to avoid avid Apple people simply because it feels like a cult.
Some tidbits here:
- The HTC rumored to have a sapphire display would be the M9 which is not yet released. The irony would be that HTC would be buying its sapphire from GT Technologies as no one else has the factories or process to make a high grade sapphire in sufficient quantity. And GT is also the sapphire supplier for Apple.
- The MP of the cameras is the same but a lot of the underlying technology is different. In particular light capture is vastly higher (due to them using larger pixels in the vein of the HTC One) and focus is hugely faster - supposedly arising from them using "Focus Pixels" which is a brand name for a technology Fujifilm pioneered for professional cameras a couple of years back and which allows much smaller cameras to have very fast focus.
- Still waiting on usable benchmarks for the A8. While it does have 2 cores as opposed to four what will be interesting is per core performance along with its TDP envelope. It interests me because I have always been a bit of a microprocessor junkie (as witnessed by posts before I did looking at things like Solid State Drives, Iris Pro and so forth.
It's a nice phone and it will provide some good comedy as the cultists treat it like the ultimate device instead of a good, solid phone like it is.
I have no idea if Apple cultists will like the iGinormousPhone.
I think you're comparing the Surface Pro 3 to the Macbook Air which is their ultrabook entry. And they cost almost the same ($100-200 difference I think). Comparing to a Pro has a bigger price difference but then again a Pro is not an ultrabook.
Both the Air and the Pro are beasts due in part to the PCI-E SSDs which even now (which amazes me) have not been used on more notebooks. These puppies (I have one) are roughly 2.5x the speed of the fastest SATA SSDs. Add in AC WiFi and the latest Haswell CPUs plus USB 3.0 and thunderbolt connectivity and it is a FAST platform. In a way it is ironic that Apple has held the performance crown for non "jazzed up" notebooks (as in gaming rigs or ones with RAID 0 SSDs) most of this year mostly by chance. Typically they are a generation behind (like the phone) but their close relationship with Intel meant that this once they leapfrogged everyone (basically by being an Iris Pro Launch partner which meant inherently they got the high end Haswell i7 Quad core CPUs). I guess even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn.
Well, the Air does not compare with the Surface, which is an Ultrabook competitor. It is a full fledged PC like the Macbook Pro. It is much more powerful than any Air. I think comparing the Air to a Surface RT tablet is a closer comparison. The Surface should be compared to full fledged notebooks.
That's like comparing a Motorola flip to your Samsung S4. The Mac Air has a dual core Intel i5 processor and its specs put it right in the notebook category and runs the same Mac OS as the rest of Apple's notebook line. It is a full-fledged Mac notebook. The Surface RT sports a mobile processor and cannot run your PC software.
Air http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-air
MacBook Pro http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro
Still vastly prefer my Surface Pro 3. No walled gardens for me.
Air http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-air
MacBook Pro http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro
Still vastly prefer my Surface Pro 3. No walled gardens for me.
I dont blame you. Microsoft might be ogres in some ways, but they are not wardens or jailkeepers like all of Apple is.
I understand your contempt for Apple but now you're just skewing facts.
Apple's "walled garden" ecosystem at the notebook and PC level applies to apps going into iTunes:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/27/3186875/mac-app-store-sandboxing-frustration-mountain-lion
Microsoft is doing the exact same thing:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...reedom-with-the-windows-stores-walled-garden/
The idea here is to exert control over all apps allowed into their respective stores. However, both can still use 3rd party apps NOT in their respective stores, like crap you buy at Best Buy in a box or download off the net.
Here is the problem though. The iphone 6 launch took down apple's site. That shows how well marketing a a few words can do to a brand or a company.
Here is the problem though. The iphone 6 launch took down apple's site. That shows how well marketing a a few words can do to a brand or a company.
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-li...ashes-apple-online-store-20140912-10g6f3.html
It seems that these companies can't bring out anything innovative or something that actually solves real world problems so they bring out very small incremental updates and expect people to pay top dollar for it. The sad thing is people do fall for it. I am not sure why someone would want a better looking screen when it's way too small to watch movies/tv shows o it anyway. To me watching stuff on a small screen like ruins the whole experience but that's just me.
I could never see the reason why people get smart phones - I only got one because my older brother wanted to upgrade and I didn't want to spend another 200 bucks on another basic phone after my old phone broke for no apparent reason.
I mean if you lose your phone you are f***ed basically because I think google (not too sure on the iphone) asks for your email account and all of your personal data is on it.
I could never see the reason why people get smart phones - I only got one because my older brother wanted to upgrade and I didn't want to spend another 200 bucks on another basic phone after my old phone broke for no apparent reason.
I mean if you lose your phone you are f***ed basically because I think google (not too sure on the iphone) asks for your email account and all of your personal data is on it.