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10 years
Thank you for everything, announcing my retirement RT @anandtech : The Road Ahead http://t.co/EHI691x8tZ
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The AnandTech Mantra: Be the best first, then try to be the first. It’s the standard we all aimed for.
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Nothing makes me miss writing more than tonight :)
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Welcome 2019. Happy New Year everyone!
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I’m seriously humbled by the outpouring of support and kind words, thank you all. You are the best, I’m lucky to have served or known you.
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!
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5 years
A little late on this one - happy new year!
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9 years
Happy new year!
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Happy new year! Wishing you all a great 2017.
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11 years
I just spent the past week doing the best I can to understand Apple's A7 SoC. In short? It's insanely fast. http://t.co/AgWzGv1ljr
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Speaking at a private event next month, the company running it wanted a pic from around when I started AT. Here we go http://t.co/ciM3KKnury
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Definitely don’t feel deserving of all of the kind words, thank you all so much
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Thank you all for the outpouring of support. I have tremendous faith in the AT crew to continue the legacy, they are the best around
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Weekends are nice
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9 years
Happy holidays! How’s everyone doing?
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12 years
I had fun playing with some old GPUs for this RT @anandtech : How Fast is Your Smartphone in Desktop GPU Terms http://t.co/7hwvz1wWwQ
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Happy holidays everyone :)
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Cleaning out my parts closet, software relics of the old days http://t.co/AxntRw1Unq
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Curious about how Intel's HD 4000 stacks up to the GPU in the iPad 4? http://t.co/hBYuDWxQU7
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11 years
Anyone want to read a Mac Pro review?
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Hooray! Todd Episode!
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all-nighter complete RT @anandtech : The ARM vs x86 Wars Have Begun: In-Depth Power Analysis of Atom, Krait & Cortex A15 http://t.co/IVv9RVka
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Everyone who wants to see what a PS4 looks like, give me like 5 mins and ill build a PC real quick
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annnnnnnnd both console CPUs just went obsolete. Jaguar is replaced by Puma: http://t.co/mCsJwB0vdT
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This is seriously everything you need to know about understanding smartphone cameras and imaging: http://t.co/Fkchg0cGy6 by @nerdtalker
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Let’s not forget the main driver behind current OEMs talking about wearables is a desire for another market for exponential revenue growth
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WWDC 2013 is about two things: iOS 7 and Haswell
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Revenue driven product design is always trumped by design motivated by an end user need
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So Sony gave us compute and bandwidth figures, MS gives us transistor count
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I hope you guys like it, thanks for being patient :) RT @anandtech : The Mac Pro Review (Late 2013) http://t.co/QYairsgC9r
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@siracusa :) well done sir
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And for everyone who is really impressed by there being an ARM SoC in a Lightning adapter, wait another 7 years: http://t.co/moMuPNsGNg
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Rahul did a great job here RT @anandtech : Exploring the Floating Point Performance of Modern ARM Processors http://t.co/51rQisaeRh
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Ok I’m really loving iOS 7.1, give me a bigger screen (and quicker way to initiate multitasking on a phone) and I’m sold
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Just doing some writing and benchmarking at JFK http://t.co/D0l7pwl6AZ
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I am so excited to present our very first deep dive on an Imagination Technologies GPU: http://t.co/xvljZwnHlj
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You want more details on A7? I have them: RT @anandtech : The iPad Air Review http://t.co/lKqlHfly9C
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Over the past 2 months @randewich from @reuters and I had several discussions about what we do at AT. The result: http://t.co/VpLvw6VP
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Only got asked by TSA once about the Mac Pro I’m carrying back to NC
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I find myself at the other end of the spectrum. Want a premium feeling, lower cost phone. Waiting for the Celeron 300A of smartphones.
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Seriously, if at first you can’t reach me via twitter, apparently just hire a private investigator.
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@MKBHD dude you’re killing it, keep up the great work :) if you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask
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I can't stress enough that this isn't the 360 vs PS3 debate all over again. Sony's hardware advantage is easily exploitable this round.
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I spent some time with @reneritchie talking about mobile - http://t.co/QIpYW6rCa5
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So I finally am sold on the idea of a larger than 10" tablet
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RT @anandtech : Apple iPad 2 GPU Performance Explored: PowerVR SGX543MP2 Benchmarked http://bit.ly/dVne0p
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@tarlbot Thanks for the kind words. I am happy with my life. I hope the same for yours!
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11 years
Current favorite SSDs? Samsung SSD 840 Pro for low idle power, Seagate 600 for performance consistency
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. @scottwasson congrats! Tremendous respect for your work. You were a great competitor & made passing the time at events so much better.
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The first iPad prototype used a Pentium M
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Sunday morning? Time for some Titan SLI work. 14 billion transistors baby. http://t.co/9DwOzqC9ID
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And Apple implemented a PCIe SSD in their mainstream consumer notebook, that's pretty intense. Nearly 800MB/s sequential speeds.
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. @chrisheinonen I will seriously move in pursuit of Google fiber
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Replacement Surface Pro 3 just arrived. Initial review sample’s touchscreen started failing, then device died completely.
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Ran back to the hotel to grab Surface Pro 3, gonna try it during the liveblog
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Time to HTML this thing
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Sometimes my doorbell rings and there's over a terabyte of NAND sitting there.
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I've been traveling a lot but I managed to review the new 2013 21.5-inch iMac, with Iris Pro http://t.co/3kWyABkUup
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whew, finally done with this RT @anandtech : iPad mini Review http://t.co/9v4NvyWW
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YES! New 3D API
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Can I go buy GTA now? Please?
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If you're staying up late tonight, I strongly suggest this required reading: http://t.co/P4gal6GR
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Don’t listen to anything he says @reckless is 100% jamming out to the Surface event music
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Intel really needs to fix this out of sync desktop/enterprise tick-tock cadence. Shouldn’t have to trade single threaded perf for PCIe lanes
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Literally about to determine the best screen brightness for battery life testing a watch
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. @AbomAnemone agreed. I was cleaning out my parts closet, found notebooks that were many years old, SSD upgrade made them totally usable
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My biggest concern? How to prevent @MarkRein from coming over and stealing my Mac Pro review sample
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Why is it that all game console execs sound like people who don't play games?
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I finally replaced my old 4U HTPC in the theater with this little mini ITX system: http://t.co/xNrqJYNB guide here: http://t.co/fnQnapbO
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Just got something in for review that smells like coriander and cumin, maybe some garam masala, someone was hungry while testing this
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I did a very quick look at what's new in the MBA RT @anandtech : 2013 MacBook Air: PCIe SSD and Haswell ULT Inside http://t.co/d4eVxSsGiW
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Wheee filling the Mac Pro’s SSD, time to torture test
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My Blade 2014 sample was a mess too, replacement just arrived, fun times in Windows review device land
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FWIW: 3dfx, ATI and NVIDIA have a long history of educating customers about their architectures without competitive or legal ramifications
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This has never happened before, but after using Surface for a while I keep trying to touch the Chromebook's screen to do things
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Can I just put everyone here under NDA so we can have a discussion of what is going on in my testing right now?
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Ok this is getting a little ridiculous. Apple and Google beat the PC makers to ultra high res notebook displays?
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. @DoeboizMyers SSDs are non-negotiable in any deployment, client, workstation, server
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Jarred points out how close desktop & mobile CPU perf is these days RT @anandtech : Analyzing the Price of Mobility http://t.co/xRcLSAtlWB
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ARM joins IMG and NVIDIA as mobile GPU vendors opening up RT @anandtech : ARM’s Mali Midgard Architecture Explored http://t.co/gJgeiJV79q
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The Surface Pro 3 fan is definitely audible, it’s what you’d expect from a 12-inch Ultrabook-like device
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Definitely improved over surface pro 2, still not quite as good as a laptop in this usage scenario
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so this was kind of interesting from the iPhone 4S event today, this is Apple's shot of the A5 die: http://t.co/2294TAht
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It seriously never ends - http://t.co/qrbpUIuopm
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@codinghorror no one has ever given me an answer to that, I presented data to countless OEMs years ago on this exact problem.
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Social analytics: airport security called my Surface an iPad. They didn't know what to call the Samsung Ativ Clovertrail tablet.
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So here's the thing, MS built a far less powerful console than Sony this round: http://t.co/lD6iIVuJ47
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Anyone up for bizarre story time?
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The "Multicore Enhancement" option in modern UEFI setups needs to be renamed to "Ruin All of Anand's Benchmarks"
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It’s like 2007 all over again, but smaller
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I love the attention on focus and capture latency in high end smartphone cameras, it’ll be nice when the mainstream designs get there too
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I answer a lot of SSD and display questions here: RT @anandtech : The 2012 MacBook Air (11 & 13-inch) Review http://t.co/cfRNoR4l
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