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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
So if we're going by subjective standards, anything iOS is a negative to me. The fact that it has weaker hardware, in addition to being so locked into one specific echo system, just adds to it's many shortcomings.
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Except, of course, that it doesn't have weaker hardware. The fact that Apple has chosen, as a marketing strategy basically, to deemphasize specs doesn't mean that its products don't have good specs. The iDevices tend to have slightly less RAM than equivalent products, but much better GPUs and in general better processors (a lot of this has to do with the Tegra 2 chip, I think).
Which is part of the problem with specs now - there are so many *different* specs that it's hard to choose the ones that matter, even if you follow these things. Are you better off with less RAM or a latest generation gpu?
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But all of the above is one of the reasons that specs matter and will continue to matter. Because everything else is subjective. Apple fans love their computers because they "just work". I can barely stand using one (and believe me, I do on a daily basis) because it's so dumbed down and lacking in what it allows me to do beyond opening and using programs that I feel like I'm a passenger in the computer experience instead of the driver. As if Apple has deliberately done their best to keep me as powerless and ignorant as possible. Yeah, I know that it works. So what? My Windows computers work just as well, and I don't recall ever being plagued by all the horrific problems that the above mentioned Apple users mock my preferred platform for.
But the benchmark comparisons between a E8500 and an i7-720Q are objective numbers, and that makes it possible for us to compare them on a more objective level than "my experience", or "how I feel".
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