General computer talk/advice

Most SSDs can handle several hundred TB's of data written to them before they fail.

 

If GTA SA came out in 2004 and for Android/iOS in 2014 we should be able to play GTA V on our phones by 2023.

My logic is sound. 100%.

 

Well, with the iPhone's "Console grade GPU" and a CPU that'll trade blows with an i3 and is almost as powerful as an i5, it may already be possible.

 

Apple lies though.

 

Ah, look at the PassMark scores. The phones score really close to desktop grade CPUs.

A Samsung Galaxy is slightly faster still, and there are even ports of console and PC games on the iPhone (FTL and The Walking Dead come to mind). It's really close.

 

BEAMNG ON PHONES? Remember that argument a few months ago? xD

 

Would this be a somewhat decent Beam build? I just mainly want to know if the GPU would bottleneck the CPU, but, whatever.
http://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/A-dogger/saved/nVvypg

 

minus how passmark for ios is twisted.
the powervr graphics chip is one of the weakest in smartphones,Intel gma was based on powervr....

 

Yes, but it has the word "power" in its name. That makes it easily 15x faster.


At least to iSheep.

 

I just love how I happened to mention an iPhone and everyone loses their minds. Social experiment complete.

Now, perhaps back to the whole GTA V on mobile discussion? It was actually rather interesting.

 

Not really interested myself. Can't imagine staring at a tiny screen (considering I have a 5.9" phone) and fumbling with touch controls. Also would get really hot and drain battery even if in the future phones are more efficient.

 

I dunno, I did used to enjoy playing SA on my Nexus 7 2012 a lot. Like, drain the battery every day a lot. Although I did get pretty bad performance (~20-30FPS with lowered settings) due to the lackluster hardware. I have no doubts that my current phone could play SA at 1080p max settings though.

 

I could see it, especially by 2023.

I know you all hate the iPhone, but it really is surprisingly good. It's a deep core for a smartphone. If they could scale it to 4 cores and ~3Ghz (obviously not possible for now, or even the near future) it would be one heck of a desktop chip. Also, Apple has filed a patent on a hyperthreading look-alike. Rumors (from fairly ok sources) say the iPad could have this "hyperthreading" in two generations.

Then, if Apple got into designing their own GPUs it would get really interesting.

 

An Android tablet and a wireless ps3/4 controller is really the best way to play.

 

Mmhm. I've played a bit with my wireless Xbox controller on my N7 in the past. Needed a USB OTG cable to plug in the Xbox adapter. (Why they couldn't have just used bluetooth is beyond me. Oh wait, Microsoft.)

 

I had a iPhone 3GS from a few months past its release in 2009 to August of this year (that's six years), and I loved that phone. Tough, sleek design, fast (for its time) and functional. I liked nearly every Apple product they made up until Steve died. From there, some of the company's followers' (the ignorant and vocal minority, dubbed "iSheep") continued hostility and overall thickness PLUS Apple's lack of innovation has completely disillusioned me to their products.

iPhones were everywhere in 2011, now Android is everywhere.

What does that say?

 

In other news, just completed my second computer assignment, its simple, install windows 7 via disc. the interesting part wasn't the install, but the hardware they made me do it on.

Have a guess! Celeron? Atom? i3?

How about a 1.5GHz Pentium 4!

The thing screamed trying to run windows 7, but what a scream it was. it operated normally, file explorer opened up fast, and everything was snappy, typing felt responsive and all, but the constant 50 - 80% cpu usage was not the best thing xD

Now when I had to shut it down, I knew that when I shipped the computer back that it was never going to be turned on again, so what did I do? I opened every program on the computer... 10 times... at once... without closing it down. and boom, soon enough it shut down xD it only had 1gb ram

 

That is rather underpowered for Windows 7... XD

 

I have an xperia m, a Lumia 64 and an iphone 5S. All 3 major platforms. I *hate* the iPhone. It should be the best phone of the lot, I'd rather use the aging xperia than it. Mum thought I would probably get my sim changed so I could use the iPhone full time, nope, been using my Lumia as my main handset, xperia for android dev, iphone for ios dev and fallout shelter only.

 

I've tried, I've really tried to like Android, I really have. I just can't I don't know what it is, but that platform just doesn't suit me. I came so close to upgrading to a Galaxy Note 5, but my 6 Plus just fits me as a person better.

People who know me in real life know that I'm not one for customization, and I really don't like change. I don't use RainMeter or sometimes even change the default Windows theme because of that. The most "crazy" I've ever gotten was a windowed case and an aftermarket blue LED fan. That's IT. Oh, and a BeamNG screenshot slideshow theme. My iPhone even runs the default blue stars background that has been there since iOS 7 and my iPhone 5S (which I HATED).