Posted on 03/17/2016 1:44:19 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge flagship phones are now six days old. Apple’s iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are six months old. Is it fair to pit these two smartphones against each other in performance tests? After all, things progress so quickly in the tech world that the passing of six months can seem like six years… unless of course you’re talking about battery technology, in which case progress comes at a snail’s pace.
Regardless of age, a new video published on YouTube offers what is likely the best real-world performance testing we’ve seen so far for these two flagship phones, and the results may surprise you.
YouTube user “PhoneBuff” has created a model that has become one of the better methods for testing real-world performance. It’s in no way scientific and we’ve explained the various issues with this methodology in the past, but it’s a good way to get a feel for the experience users can expect from a phone during actual everyday usage. As we all know by now, benchmark testing isn’t always a good representation of real-world performance.
In his new test, the vlogger pits the reigning champion iPhone 6s Plus against Samsung’s latest and greatest, the Galaxy S7 edge, which is my new favorite phone in the world despite the fact that I’ll never ditch my iPhone for one.
Since Samsung is one of the world’s top component makers in addition to being a smartphone vendor, its devices often are the first to feature exciting technological advancements across a number of key areas. Does all that great new tech add up to killer performance? Can the cutting-edge Snapdragon chipset make up for the fact that the S7 edge has far more pixels to power?
You’ll have to watch the video to find out, and I bet you’re going to be surprised at the results.
You’re getting into why Linux isnt for everyone either.:-)
I appreciate your sentiments, but just pretend I’m Trump to get a feel for my attitude at this point. :-D
It is best to clean your PC during off hours, midnight would be typical. Generally only a 30 minute job if you do it regularly.
I never had to clean my PC, ever, either. Because I don’t install junk on my PC.
You got essentially the same protection on any modern Windows OS that you do on OS-X. The junk can’t install unless you give it permission. The difference is, most of the malware is wrtten for PCs, not Macs. But that is changing now that Mac market share is increasing, and if you blindly click “ok” you’ll be “cleaning” your Mac too - Or worse; the big trend in malware these days is to encrypt the user’s important files and then make him pay ransom to get them back. This Happened to one of my friend’s dad just the other day - on his Mac.
I saw some stats from Sparkfun the other day. They have data about the OS that is used to visit their website. I was surprised to see that the Apple growth was very small, as was the Windows growth. What was growing significantly was Android.
Your friend can buy MP3s from Amazon’s music store instead. Then there is no portability issue, the songs are MP3 format, and he’s also not stealing. Amazon even has a little app to download the music and move it into the correct folder, add to iTunes. or whatever.
remember, they were doing this when limewire was active. I don’t know how they do it now.
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