Recent content by John Lin

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    Smartphones with the Longest Battery Life (Archive)

    Low quality and biased review like this make the site lose credential, I used to come visit toms website, nowadays I go to other more reliable and structured site such as linus, notebookcheck, anandtech and gsmarena. Quality research and review bring you audience.
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    Smartphones with the Longest Battery Life (Archive)

    Blu studio energy 2 has 5000 mah battery, out last any of the phone listed. Also other brand such as Lenovo, Asus...etc all have huge battery phones. Agree, people make decision base on a wide range of qualities, such as spec, weight, build quality and so forth. The title of this article...
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    MacBook Air stuck at blue screen

    Is it a brand new MBA or second hand? what model is it? usually they have MBA by the year, like MBA 13' early 2013. Base on what you are telling us, I would suggest bring it to apple store. If you like to try, you can get a external CD drive, should be around 25 bucks. Then buy the appropriate...
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    Help me choose! (processor question)

    I5 is still the most cost effective one, it has turbo boost which help for single thread workloads (almost 50% better). In multi thread workloads, the I5 and I3 are not too much different (I5 is better by 10%), since both are 2 core processor with hyperthreading. The question you need to ask...
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    Help me choose! (processor question)

    Difference is actually pretty big, I would say it worth the extra cost, in the long run, it can mean delay laptop replacement for 1 or even 2 extra years. When I try to google the cpu, the name does not come up correctly, it show me I7-4510U instead, can you double check the cpu names and model?
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    Help me choose! (processor question)

    The I5-4210U is the best option here. 4 gig ram is enough for your needs. The game you play are not very graphics demanding, so Intel would serve you well.