WhyPhone 6 "Sringboard edition" gets some love...Windows 9, and ebola.

Apple iPhone 6 ‘Bendgate’ Debate: Consumer Reports Test Finds New iPhones ‘Tougher’ Than Believed. Hey, no one has said that the whyPhone 6 is scrapworthy. The issue is not one a single stress test. It is an issue endemic to most malleable materials. Repeated stressors over time are what kills aluminum cases. If Consumer Reports had really done a good test of the various phones case performance over lower load, repeated stressors, the outcome would most certainly have been different. Apple seems to want to live or die by the aluminum case. This not-real-world test only illustrates that in a single incidence of stress, the whyPhone 6 comes out looking better than the tech press would have one believe. Set the load at 50 lbs of force(whatever that really means) and cycle it ten thousand times. Then you can separate the various phones likelihood od surviving over the longer term. No doubt, someone is performing a test very like the one just described as I type.

There is too much smoke and mirrors surrounding Windows 9 to make any firm statements other than the return of the real Start Menu. Will Cortana be included in the desktop version? If so, all versions, or just some? I am betting that by the end of next week much more will be known. People that write tech articles for mass consumption are all scrambling to discern what Windows 9 will be named. This seems to be missing the point badly. It is all about features that users want, and some that users did not yet know that they wanted. I think Cortana DT is a good example of a possibility.

Everyone that has bashed Windows 8 and/or Windows 8.1 has seemingly done so for strange reasons. I have two PCs with Win 8.1. One I really wanted control over so I installed Classic Shell on that box. Oddly, neither box has ever crashed or even hung on something. One is an i3-2130 based box, so it is no speed demon. The other is an overclocked i5 Ivy Bridge, and that box is really fast. Oh, I put SSDs in both boxes so that is a big reason for the great performance. I bought the i3 machine from Lenovo outlet, and it was absurdly inexpensive. $223.00 with 6 GB of RAM and all the other stuff. I popped in a $50 DX 11 video card, and grabbed an MX100 Crucial drive. All told I have $373 into the machine, and it is plenty fast enough for lots of tasks.

I have to run. Ebola later

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