Interesting Tech Articles

[mevinyavin]

List of reliable brands for MicroSD cards, courtesy of TechRadar:

Should you buy a microSD card, make sure it’s one of these 14 brands: Samsung, Kingston, SP/Silicon Power, Teamgroup, Sandisk, WD, PNY, Lexar, Inland, Gigastone, Patriot, Transcend, Amazon Basics and MicroCenter. We wouldn’t trust any others.

[stooges44]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/tech/first-generation-iphone-auction/index.html

[mevinyavin]

[mevinyavin]

In preliminary tests, the RTX 4060 mobile appears to be performing at about the level of the 3070 TI, at least when allowed the maximum 140W. (I have a sneaky suspicion that most of the gains come from the up from 6 to 8GB of VRAM, but fine.)
Based on preliminary 4000 series laptop pricing, though, prices are also on par with the 3070 TI laptops. Hmm... 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Impressive-RTX-4060-laptop-GPU-performs-on-par-with-RTX-3070-Ti-laptop-and-beats-RTX-3060-mobile-by-27-in-preliminary-review.693503.0.html

[mevinyavin]

Integrated graphics in the new AMD laptop processors are being called "on par with PS4," whatever that means.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-7736U-integrated-Radeon-680M-achieves-Playstation-4-level-graphics-runs-God-of-War-Horizon-Zero-Dawn-and-Final-Fantasy-XV-at-1080p30.697472.0.html

[aygart]

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/youtube-as-infinite-file-storage/

[mevinyavin]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/potatop-laptop-promises-2-years-of-battery-life

[yuneeq]

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/youtube-as-infinite-file-storage/

Reminds me of the gmail invite-only days, when they were offering a whopping 1-2 gb of space (compared to 10x less for yahoo/others), we would upload files to a draft or attachment to use it as free online storage. Using drafts was a bit unwieldy but then somebody built a program that made it much easier to manage. I remembering storing my music library in gmail, which now sounds super weird when I say it.

https://techcrunch.com/2005/07/31/profile-gmail-drive/

[mevinyavin]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-9-7945HX-gets-ridiculous-on-PassMark-by-brushing-aside-the-Intel-Core-i9-13980HX-and-squaring-off-against-the-i9-13900KS-instead.700308.0.html