How big were the meters they were using to measure the depth? Given that information we can know how deep 100 meters are. Alternatively, give us the depth in metres.

Which means it's now on the long slow slide into obsolescence. I figure it's good for software updates for maybe another 12 months, after that it's just a matter of time until some software I need / want requires an OS version the tablet can't support.

The tablet has an earlier version in 2012, and a refresh in 2013 which was a major update in terms of the hardware. It's basically being retired after only 2-3 years, which is a shame, since it's quite a decent little tablet - the 2013 refresh at least is.

I expect it will still give me a couple more years of happy service in any case, and since that meets my "five year lifetime" criteria for buying, I'm still relatively happy.

It's working just fine on mine, though YMMV as they say.

In other words...motherfucking Google! Must you kill everything I love!

I'm not insisting any such thing. All I stated was the i7 line of processors is now 7 years old; people interpreted what they wanted to hear from there. I know full well the laptop will be using a modern version of a chip from that line.

The only thing this laptop has that's reasonably new and interesting is the 4k display, but that's completely wasted on the 15inch display. It would only be useful when hooked up to a large external 4K monitor where you can actually visually see the extra resolution it provides.

While 16GB RAM, and room for 2 hard drives is an ok feature, it's hardly anything worth talking about. Not in this decade, maybe in the last.

Haswell is well suited for use in laptops, so it's not really surprising that manufacturers are shipping devices using Haswell.

The model he mentioned does at least seem to have a nod in the right direction for video cards, instead of the usual garbage most laptops have installed - but then, for a starting price of $2355 I guess you'd expect something decent.

Still no.

You're still completely wrong.

That would be about the only reason I could imagine for two drives on a laptop.

I only state the i7 was available 7 years ago, in Nov 2008, according to Intel's own information.

Oh great, a technology that gimps your processor to prevent it heating up. Nice!

Apparently not.

First tell me why you need a 4k dual hard drive. At that screen size can you even tell the difference between 1080p and 4K? Why do you need 2 hard drives?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Apparently you are completely wrong.

So wait, it supports a processor that was introduced 7 years ago in November 2008, has room for the minimum about of RAM I'd expect on a modern PC, and well under half what I could have installed on my desktop 3 years ago, only room for two hard drives, and a 4k screen? it really doesn't sound that great.

Like pretty much every other piece of hardware on the planet?

Some of use still play games. You can say bye to all the low spec crap you like, but some of us like performance, and you don't get that from laptops or SBC. Not everyone wants to play flappy-birds. Some of us want to push Rome to the limits.

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Wikipedia has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.

First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.