• 0 Posts
  • 41 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: June 4th, 2025

help-circle




  • X2 “Elite Extreme” probably in ideal conditions vs. the base M4 chip in a real-world device. Sure, nice single core results but Apple will likely counter with the M5 (the A19 Pro already reaches around 4,000 and the M chips can probably clock a bit higher). And the M4 Pro and Max already score as high or higher in multi-core. Real world in a 14 inch laptop.

    It doesn’t “crush” the M4 series at all and we’ll see how it’ll perform in a comparable power/thermal envelope.

    I don’t hate what Qualcomm is doing here, but these chips only work properly under Windows and the Windows app ecosystem still hasn’t embraced ARM all that much, and from what I’ve heard Windows’ x64 to ARM translation layer is not as good as Rosetta 2. Linux support is pretty horrible, especially at launch.



  • In practice, they either use system authentication if you use the implementation bundled with iOS/Android - and sure, that can be Face ID if setup, or other forms of biometric authentication. Both operating systems have APIs that allow password managers to provide their own implementation of passkeys, and in that case you have to authenticate with your password manager - sure most of them support using system authentication (biometrics) as well, but this could also be a master password or hardware key (which work very similar to passkeys by the way).

    I’d argue if you don’t assume that whatever system you’re using is reasonably secure/private, you probably shouldn’t enter any passwords on that system either. This isn’t a passkeys vs. passwords problem.



  • Some points are valid, but this looks more like the author (of the image) wanted to highlight as much as possible to confirm their own bias (that it’s not well designed). Maybe I’m being ragebaited, but here we go:

    Different font size and styles for main panel header

    Yeah, one shows breadcrumbs and the other a title.

    First icon is narrower than the rest

    First one is the “start menu” button. The tasks could also have text labels on them, of course they can have a different width to an unrelated element.

    Content not even remotely close to being vertically centred in its box.

    It can show two lines of text (as evidenced by the third item in the same row). It would look pretty bad if every item was centered on their own.

    This is absolutely pixel perfect alignment. More like this please!

    It looks good, but the red line the author connected from the snowflake to the horizontal line of the “H” doesn’t necessarily back their claim that this is “absolutely pixel perfect alignment” because the horizontal line of the “H” might not be geometrically centered to the line height of the text and you could also have different characters in different languages.

    Yeah, some elements like the scrollbars aren’t positioned well (in this screenshot, this is a bit outdated tbh). But there’s also the concept of a visual center as opposed to the geometric center.



  • Yeah, but the old display supports VRR via VESA Adaptive-Sync. Nvidia supports that as well, but not sure if their mobile GPUs don’t for built-in displays?

    If it is supported, I don’t see any advantage of having Gsync vs. standard VRR.

    If not that’s a shame. Pretty wasteful having to buy the same display with different firmware just to get adaptive sync working.










  • A Google search preview from the official Barcelona Asus store “Asus by MacMan” has accidentally revealed what many feared: the ROG Xbox Ally X will retail for €899, while the standard model sits at €599.

    Not sure how this would translate to USD 1000 to be honest. Prices in euro usually include taxes, which is what, 21% in Spain? So minus taxes the 599,-€ model would translate to about $550 (taxes not included).

    This still doesn’t undercut the Steam Deck which I feel it should do considering it’s likely using the same APU and the Deck is a couple years old at this point, but it’s not as bad as the headline/article makes it sound.