Andrew

Regarding the F1 race in Austria today:

This is a great idea, but couldn't they have changed the design a bit? It's got a 2009 laptop aesthetic going on.

Not sure why they used F1 22 for benchmarking, that game is awful for this kind of thing. Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably the best game on the market right now for benchmarking. But overall, it's pretty much where I expected it to be in terms of performance.

Yeah, it's always been a Sony thing, but if true, it's a bit rich that Sony are are involved in the complaints about this.

FTC: Xbox Making Starfield and Redfall Exclusive 'Powerful Evidence' Against Activision-Blizzard Merger - IGN WWW.IGN.COM The United States Federal Trade Commission has said that Microsoft's actions following its acquisition of ZeniMax and Bethesda is "powerful... Sony is allegedly part of the complaint that lead to this. I look forward to playing Gran Turismo 7 on Microsofts platforms.

Trailer:

That's a good channel. I want to know how they're able to get in the cockpit for these videos.

Texas. New Vegas is a very good game. It's like Skyrim with guns.

What happened to the laptop? MSI and Asrock do seem like good brands, so it's worth checking them out as well.

$11,900. A little out of my budget, so I think I'll have to pass on this one. I also thought AMD pulled out of the server market?

Explainer: Reddit protest: Why are thousands of subreddits going dark? WWW.REUTERS.COM Thousands of popular Reddit communities dedicated to topics ranging from Apple Inc to gaming and music locked out their users on Monday in protest against the company's plan to charge for access to its data. Reddit are also claiming it's because of Ai or something. I really doubt it. They're just being greedy. Imgur, which started off as a third party website to host images for Reddit, has a similar sized userbase and they don't charge anywhere near as much, nor are they going to. And what's even worse is I don't think this protest is going to do anything, not if it's only 2 days long. It should go on indefinitely until the higher ups at Reddit go back on what they're going to do. That's the only way there's going to be any real change. The 2 day blackout is just temper tantrum that isn't really going to do anything. If the protest goes on indefinitely, Reddit are going to lose an incredible amount of users, because without subreddits, Reddit is nothing. And given that a majority of the subreddits that went private are the huge ones, this could have potentially made a difference.

Update: Microsoft apologized for their poor communication when it came to announcing this. All content purchased for FS2020 should just be drag and drop into FS2024 and it should work without issues or requiring updates from developers. I'm fine with this, but tbh I don't see why that couldn't have been a paid for update, similar to the how the Top Gun DLC was. Except,obviously paid for.

Nah, this is taking the piss. Microsoft announced that 2020 is a 10 year project, they just announced this, a standalone sequel. It really should have been an update like the 40th Anniversary edition was. Even if it's a full priced update. I'd gladly pay £60-£70 for this. But not if that means the £350 I've spent on third party aircraft and airports doesn't work on it.

The new 15 inch MacBook Air just released If I were going to go for a gaming laptop, I'd probably go for the Dell G16. 13900hx, RTX 4070, 32GB RAM and a 1TB nvme SSD. It comes with a 240hz 2560x1600 screen for £1900.

Remember when the iPhone first came out? Everyone made fun of it for being too expensive at $500? Now $1000 is the norm for a top-end phone with some reaching close to $3K. I do see Apple announcing a "Vision SE" for around $800 next year.

$1300 laptop, not $1300 chip. This is a "laptop" that you wear on your face. Yes, there are other stand alone headsets. But only one does AR and it doesn't do it very well. It's also $1500, requires controllers for an additional $300 making that a $1800 headset. Yes, there is a stand alone AR headset. Just the one. It doesn't do VR and it's $3500. This does both AR and VR (according the people who have used them briefly at WWDC) very well. This is what Apple does. They take a technology that's been out for a while, improve it massively, and then that technology becomes mainstream because every other tech company tries to make their own version. This headset is coming out next year. Watch VR and AR come into the mainstream in 2025.

The device has a full blown M2 chip in it. It's effectively a $1300 laptop built into a headset. It's also a standalone device. The PSVR2 $550 + $400 for a PS5, so you can't really compare the PSVR2 on it's own to the Vision Pro. It is still quite a lot cheaper for a PSVR2, but you also get a lot more with the Vision Pro. The PSVR2 does just games. It looks like the Vision Pro, can in theory, replace your tablet, laptop/desktop and play games. Apple seem to be going after both the Meta Quest Pro and Microsoft Hololens with this. The panels are also higher res than 4K. I don't think they gave an actual resolution beyond "more pixels than a 4K TV to each eye" but with the pixel count, I estimate it to be closer to 6K per eye. Which if correct, would make it higher res than any other headset currently on the market by a long way.

Considering the hardware that it has, that price is pretty good. Especially when you compare it to the $3500-$5200 Microsoft Hololens, which is the only other AR headset on the market right now, and that only does AR. The Vision Pro does both AR and VR, according to Marques Brownlee who did try it out, it does both very well. If these things can be used with Windows/Steam VR, I'm selling my Index and picking one of these up eventually.

Yeah, absolutely, but it's just insane how much prices have come down over such a short amount of time. $0.04/GB for an nvme drive today vs $0.46/GB just 4 years ago is an insane price drop. This is new for new prices as well. Going on used, the nvme drive I have now is going for less than £25.

It kind of was a thing before VS. You could have paid for an Overclocked account and this is something that went back before Wikia took over. However, you were also able to get a free Overclocked account permanently once you got to 250 rep. I don't remember what the prices used to be, but current prices are $5/month or $50/year with no option to have a permanent Overclocked account. It's absolutely not worth it, especially if you compare it to the premium account features here. On OCN, you get: No ads (doesn't matter, tech forum, pretty much everyone is blocking them anyway) Access to the premium forums (no one posts in there) A badge that says you have a premium account. Here (going with Gold membership because monetarily, it's the closest), you get: Whoever is at the computer at the time in the VerticalScope office. Yes, that is all they want. I do remember when GDPR became a thing, they had to show how many trackers there were. There were 250+. I don't remember the exact number but ti's the most I've seen on any website. They couldn't not careless about anything else. I've made suggestions to make the forum better, things that are pretty minor and shouldn't take too long to implement. Took weeks to get a reply. Made a post about someone threatening to sue them, got a reply within an hour.

Get a heat pump that does AC as well. Hot and cold, plus no need to use gas for central heating. You get pretty much instant heat as well. Don't need to wait 20-30 minutes for the radiators to get hot.

That's pretty damn good. I paid £195 ($240) for a 512GB nvme drive in 2019. I'm looking forward to 4TB+ SSDs from reputable brands coming down to below £150. In the mean time, I am going to buy a Seagate Ironwolf 4TB as a media storage drive. Technically, isn't all SDDs and HDDs you own, Enterprise SSDs and HDDs?

I've not tried yet, I will try it a couple of days after the next update releases though. I don't want to try on the day because the servers are going to be pretty loaded.

It will be fine. The middle setting was too stiff for grass. I'd only use that and stiffer on a literal race track.