Thursday, June 04
Daily News Stuff 3 June 2020
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Tech News
- This apparently is a real thing.
Why it is a real thing I cannot say.
- The Surface Book 3 comes with an Ice Lake i7-1065G7 CPU. (AnandTech)
This has Intel's new Sunny Cove architecture, but that doesn't stop it losing horribly against a Ryzen 4700U on any benchmark with a multi-threaded component.
Here are the two directly compared, with a desktop 9700K thrown in as a baseline. (CPUBenchmark)
It's still tough to implement Thunderbolt on AMD processors, but the Surface Book doesn't have Thunderbolt.
Otherwise a fairly nice laptop, and still unique as far as I know in having dedicated graphics in the keyboard half.
- Italy wants to shut down Project Gutenberg for copyright infringement on works that aren't copyrighted. (TechDirt)
Probably just an overzealous prosecutor and not actual policy.
- The elephant is very like a wall says Mike Masnick. (TechDirt)
Probably because he's blindfolded and a hundred yards away from the elephant, facing in the opposite direction with his face buried in a shrubbery.
- Intel's upcoming Whitley server CPU will take the fight to AMD's Milan in much the same way that fruit takes the fight to a fruit bat. (WCCFTech)
Whitley has the new Sunny Cove core.
Sunny Cove loses benchmarks to Zen 2.
It will be competing against Zen 3.
- How Take 2 murdered Star Theory and why KSP2 is late. (Bloomberg)
The article doesn't present Take 2's side of the story where they try to explain why they deliberately torpedoed the company.
- A look inside Intel's new server Atoms. (Serve the Home)
12 cores at 25 watts sounds good but it sadly gets reduced to paste by AMD's Epyc 3251, a first-generation 8-core Ryzen part.
- How good can a $90 tablet actually be? (ZDNet)
The Amazon Fire HD 8 is, as it turns out, pretty good. Certainly worth the money if it has the features you need. Personally I need a 1920x1200 display, though, and it doesn't have that.
- How good can a $730 tablet be? (Thurrott.com)
The problem with the Surface Go 2 is not the hardware - except on the base model, which you shouldn't buy - but the price, and the fact that Kindle on Windows is garbage.
Disclaimer: Not that Kindle on Android is anything to phone home about. It's sprouting bells and whistles from every orifice but if you want to do something simple like make hyperlinks anything other than obnoxious blue, then forget it.
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"Why it is a real thing I cannot say."
Because people can be dumb. A coworker bought a Game Boy Micro when they came out and I got to try it, and the screen works, but it's goofy and hard to use because it's so small, and there's no way this can't be worse.
Because people can be dumb. A coworker bought a Game Boy Micro when they came out and I got to try it, and the screen works, but it's goofy and hard to use because it's so small, and there's no way this can't be worse.
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