There's a considerable difference in the bulk of a phone with an external battery pack and a replaceable battery. I'd definitely rather have one than the other.

The Galaxy S5 and LG G3 are probably the best fit options.

I carry an S4 and I seldom need to replace the battery, but a few times a year I go to events where I hundreds photos or videos over four or five hours. I probably wind up swapping the battery at least twice on those days. Even if the need is irregular, not having the ability would be a deal breaker for me, too.

Generally speaking, the CPU branding is an indicator of feature set and relative performance within a generation and product class. We have desktop, mobile and (ultra)low-voltage part. If you're getting hung up trying to determine which CPU is faster between two CPUs of wildly different architectures (desktop Sandy Bridge vs. low-voltage Broadwell, for example), it's almost always going to be an apples to oranges comparison anyway; you're probably looking at different classes of devices. Just pay attention to the product class (desktop/mobile/LV) and product generation and the i3/i5/i7 designations will be appropriate.

Pentium as a brand name has too much consumer good will for Intel to drop it. Remember that Intel Marketing spent 20 years convincing people to buy them. I have met people who bought a Pentium-based notebook rather than a Core i3 specifically because of the Pentium sticker. And current Pentium CPUs certainly aren't bad. They're pretty much i3s without hyperthreading support. They're perfect adequate for light-use machines.

I jokingly tell people that Celeron is an ancient geek word that means "Don't Buy Me", but the fact that they continue to exist is mostly a statement to the levels of ignorance present in the computer-buying public.

On a per-core basis, a Haswell i3 is significantly faster than an i7-920, but the extra threads and dynamic overclocking in the i7 feature set make up for it. In day to day computing, the two are probably about equivalent. For thread intensive tasks like video encoding, the i7 is still the better option. Which just shows how completely insane i7s are, to remain competitive with mainstream desktop CPUs FIVE YEARS after their launch date.

You can get about 85% functionality from loading four specific APKs to get some Google apps on a FireOS device. You can also root it and load the full suite at the cost of your warranty. But some apps sourced from the Play store use Google components that won't work without Google licensing even if they themselves are not products of Google.

Many Android devs simply don't publish their apps on Amazon. I'm not a mobile dev, so I don't know why that's a problem, but it is.

You can tell people not to use third party stores, but there's a greater problem when the first-party option is completely off the table and the second best and universally compatible choice is wholly inadequate.

I'm more likely to use Spybot's, on systems that support it. That's mostly out of laziness. It's actually possible to do both. Spybot will append its list to whatever is already present, but functionally they're close enough that I don't bother.

MBAM does have an AV module in its paid product, but I think you're not making a distinction between anti-malware and anti-virus applications.The two things are distinct and primarily differentiated by whether or not the software in question tries to spread itself to other files or computers. I agree that anti-malware is much more important because it is much more commonplace, and in my experience there is no single tool that is actually worthwhile for both types of protection, but Windows machines do need both and are best served with best of breed protection from multiple products rather than a single tool that might only really offer worthwhile protection from one side or the other.

I'll also say that Spybot Search and Destroy offers a much more comprehensive array of malware blocking tools when compared to Spywareblaster and it should probably also be in your tool belt.

I think the MVPS.org hosts file is a good idea for everyone on every device, but anyone using Windows 8+ should know that if the Windows Defender Service is enabled (and I've seen system updates re-enable it), Windows 8 will ignore the content of your hosts file.

My standard protection list is: Adblock+ with Easylist, Malware Domains and Fanboy's Annoyances subs (I also use Warning removal and turn off unobtrusive ads) for every browser on every user account. I actually impregnate the default user account on whatever desktop OS to make sure every account gets CREATED with those options turned on for Mozilla and Google browsers.

Adblock+ for IE doesn't have all those options, but as of version 1.3 at least unobtrusive ads can be turned off. IE does support TPLs, so in an AD environment I mandate the Easylist TPL for basic ad blocking, even if the user disables other ad blocking tools.

On Windows machines that don't have some kind of security appliance or web filtering in place, I also install Spybot Search and Destroy for its Immunization function.

I'll also throw Malwarebytes on absolutely everything and I urge end users to avoid installation of Java and Adobe Acrobat Reader as much as humanly possible. On systems that I maintain, I have a script that adds a scheduled task to install Chocolatey.org's repo + scripts to update browsers, flash, PDF reader et al on Windows machines.

Some Android devices don't have licensed access to the Play Store, including anything that runs FireOS and tits-knows how many generic devices that somehow manage to get random retail distribution. You can tell people "Don't buy those things." but what do you say to the people who already own them?
In some cases (e.g. Firefox), an APK will be available from the developer, but because of the way Android works, there's every possibility that even a random developer's packaging (e.g. Pushbullet) will rely on Google's authentication framework and therefore their software will be worthless on unlicensed devices.

I'd say that Avast is best among the free Windows options and that the free version is specifically a better product than the paid one. One of the paid modules is god-awful for system performance.I only install the Virus and Web Shields and the Browser Cleanup and Rescue Disk options. The rest is just fluff and my local mail gateway will check emails anyway.

Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 is more of an antimalware tool than functional antivirus and testing has shown it to be progressively less effective even at that.

Avira insists on generating pop-ups every time you do anything with it. At least Avast can be put permanently into game mode if you never want it to put messages on screen.

AVG is a performance boat-anchor and some the branded add-on tools distributed by AVG are now recognized by removal tools as Potentially Unwanted Programs. Between those things, I put AVG in the same "uninstall on sight" category as home versions of McAfee, Norton and Webroot security products.

That's true to a degree. Heroes need to be challenged on par with their abilities. Superman will never be meaningfully threatened by anything, and Thor's opponents will always ancient, magical beings since anyone from Iron Man's rogues gallery would be instant toast against him.
But there had never been a movie like the Avengers before, and I'd like to put forth that Captain America 2 made a wonderful pivot to being as much an espionage thriller as a super hero movie.

Cap is very much a squad level leader. He knows what's going on in the moment and how to direct others to greatest good. He spent years in combat and he literally never tires, so he's always on the front line. In the Avengers movie, he took charge of keeping civilians safe and made sure each of the others was doing the most good.

And before it's asked, Hawkeye was acting as a spotter for Iron Man and the ground team and the Widow ultimately went on a stealth mission after helping Cap at first. No one was useless.

They're completely different continuities separated by an unfortunately short period of time. I think the Raimi movies are vastly better and more watchable and that Andrew Garfield was the worst possible choice they could've made, but I suspect some of that is generational.

Spidey should be the journeyman hero. He does have great powers. He's much stronger and faster than Captain America, and possessed of the same courage and sense of responsibility. He doesn't have experience or skills at first. He never properly learns to fight, but if you follow his journey long enough, he becomes the guy who has seen absolutely everything and not only that, had to DEAL with absolutely everything because whatever it is Spidey is doing isn't big enough to get Avengers out of the mansion, or because the Fantastic Four is out of town, or because it's two blocks out of Hell's Kitchen and Daredevil doesn't care.