* Posts by Aaronage

5 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Nov 2013

Overclocking to 5GHz? We put Intel Devil’s Canyon CPU to the test

Aaronage

Re: New cooling is great

5c is almost margin of error, you could've gained that 5c from a clean thermal paste application.

Android to drop Dalvik VM for high-performance ART in next version

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I use ART...

... on my HTC One M8

I've had the phone with ART enabled for 3 months now and haven't had a single app crash.

Performance is great, but I don't know whether ART is making a difference on hardware this fast.

There is a noticeable improvement in app launch times with ART, though.

Users folder vanished after OS X 10.9.3 update? Here's a fix

Aaronage

Re: I find Apple hardware extremelly good...

It's a two second process to toggle online search off, hardly the greatest inconvenience of all time.

14.04 is solid - I'm using Xubuntu 14.04 at work and Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 at home, both have yet to throw a wobbly.

Thinking about it, I never had issues with 13.10, 13.04 or 12.10 either. Some of my hardware didn't work out of the box with those releases, but you can't blame Canonical for none-existent support in the kernel (some will try, I'm sure)

Nokia Lumia update spreads Black death

Aaronage

Don't bother with FGLRX, the radeon driver is so good these days there's no point.

If you're on linux kernel 3.11 or higher you're hood to go (just pass radeon.dpm=1 to the kernel on boot so power management works)

Google and Samsung bare teeth in battle for LANDFILL ANDROID™

Aaronage

Re: I think you underestimate MS benefits from this

That's some pretty funky logic.

Google Play/Services has always, and will always, run in the background on an Android device. It handles syncing, notifications etc. Killing it would be a bit silly.

Moving to another platform because you see this as a loss of control is just daft. You've moved from a platform that allowed you to strip back everything to one which strictly defines your use of the device.