Posts by MarkElmes

I would have just taken the 300k offered, still an obscene amount and better than nothing!

Come on Google....

This is really bad! I had both my mother and my partner contacting me with almost dead phones yesterday, unable to launch nearly every app, Google search, Gmail, Chrome, all instantly crashing. One phone was a Pixel 5 and the other an old Samsung S7, updates on the Play store didn't fix it, I had to get them both to revert webview/chrome to the factory version. This would have been hell for users that didn't know to do this, rendering their phones almost useless.

what is the point in the 2mp macro shooter, surely on a budget phone it's just better to not include, the extra expense is not worth it as who is going to be pleased with 2mp shots

Interesting to see how many elReg followers use Samsung yet hate on Google phones

Bit of a cheap dig!

I too wouldn't mind a pop up camera, I hardly ever use the selfie camera so it be nicer to be tucked away.

However as a Pixel 4XL user, I have to stick with a huge forehead with a few cameras instead :/

(Well worth it though, pixels are just the best)

Not a big deal. Unplugged my 400gb SD card from my surface book, updated, plugged it back in, swapped the drive letter in compmgmt...

The thing is, even a 13 year old Core2Duo or Core2Quad machine will happily run Windows 10, Office, Chrome and browse the internet. Put an SSD in said machine and they'll be perfectly usable. Heck, add an old and cheap Nvidia 750Ti and you'll be able to play most modern games.

It's easier than ever to keep old machines chugging along, so there's even less reason for poeple to upgrade when Windows 10 upgrade was free and they use their phones/tablets for most other things.

I'm sure the PC Hardware market is buzzing along as well as ever!

I for one love my Pixel 2 XL, it's an excellent phone. I've owned plenty of Samsungs and HTC's in the past, the last being the Samsung S8+, which was reviewed as having much better hardware, I actually prefer the Pixel 2's hardware. The screen isn't as bad as everyone made out apart from issues with blackness levels at low brightness. I can't go back to any other manufacturer after enjoying the cruft free android software, I always spent ages making any other phone like a Pixel because of their terrible modifications, I'd never want to touch a Huwaei with the quality of software and all their bloat... The speakers are great, the camera is excellent and the phone performs well at all times.

Gestures

All that complaining about the size of the pill button yet you can swipe up from anywhere in the navy bar to go to your recents

Just installed this on my S8+ on Oreo, that new task switcher is rubbish and a horrible UI. It's a bad copy of iOS task switcher, or the task switcher on Android P - but it's slow and still shows the app open underneath the task switcher and switching to an app is just poorly executed too.

I would avoid this if it's anything like Asus last attempt to make a dual screen laptop - I had the ASUS Taichi 13 laptop with 2 full hd screens and it was a fantastic laptop but ASUS dropped support for it after a year so it had no driver updates from Windows 8.1 and was a bitch to get running properly on Windows 10 without any official drivers. Great laptop but ASUS killed it themselves and I won't be getting another ASUS laptop after that.

I've got the Surface Book 1 with performance base and I love it - by far the best laptop I've used. Shame I can't afford to upgrade to the new one as the bump in GPU power would be appreciated!

Well I have Windows Hello set up on my surface book and it's rapid and very useful - far quicker and more reliable recognition than my Samsung S8+. To be honest if someone has physical access to your machine then you can count it pwned anyway so I don't see the issue here.

Hating on the phone based on 2 features you don't have to use...

Easily the best phone of 2017.

Mech Mods are stupid and dangerous

His fault for running .6 ohm on a standard battery, destined to blow up.