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POCO is relatively new to the “ultra” high end smartphone market. It was only last year when they released their first, the POCO F7 Ultra (POCO F7 Ultra Review: The first ultra POCO phone). It was one of the first phones to have the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, which was the first time in a long time when smartphone processor speeds had a seriously noticeable speed boost. Today’s POCO F9 Ultra uses the …
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It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten to try an ARM processor laptop running Windows. Probably because I really hated the poor performance, but that was 8 years ago back in 2018 when I last used Windows on ARM and lots has changed since then! My Pinebook Pro Linux laptop running an ARM processor was pretty fantastic back in 2019. Today there are many new laptops, including Chromebooks and even Apple Macbooks running ARM …
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Since the Xiaomi 17 Ultra was released, I’ve been looking for reviews that really talk about the photography capabilities and especially the RAW output capabilities. 50% of photography takes place in post-production, so you don’t want to just let the camera apply whatever post processing values and filters it has right there as you take the picture. You want to have control over the post processing like an artist and to get the most flexibility …
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I’ve been using Wacom tablets for computer graphics since I could afford the cheapest one they made in 1997 as a broke college student. Since then, I’ve used many graphics tablets, tablet PCs, and pen tablet displays. Wacom is still the industry standard, and still my favorite, and now I’ve been able to test their latest innovative pen display; the Wacom Movink. This one is a significant departure from the thick and heavy pen displays …
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“Too Long Didn’t Read” Summary: Managing too many messaging apps can cause cognitive overload and contribute to cognitive decline or burn-out. It’s smarter to focus on the one publicly democratic system that works with everything everywhere there’s internet, is completely open for you to control/customize on your own within the largest messaging ecosystem on the planet, and is already built into 99% of the electronic devices in use by 100% of the humans on the …
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