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I decided it was time to upgrade my 2015 Leaf this year, and I looked at several of the options in this list. I did a test drive in a 2026 Leaf and was very impressed. The sticker on the SV+ trim is about $36k, which is exactly what the sticker on my 2015 was when it was new -- but I didn't...

My wife and I had a pre-launch reservation for an ID4 for almost a year for a $40,000 base model, but after being techno-yucked out by the test drive we decided to just buy an Odyssey instead for almost exactly the same price. Just for yucks, I took a look at the prices of the 2022 models that...

The biggest problem with this vehicle wasn't mentioned in the article: There's no heat pump, only a resistive heater. If you have to run the heat, you're going to dip well below 2 mi/kWh and your range will drop dramatically.

The same thing could have more or less been said about Windows RT machines, and we know how that turned out: they were returned in droves when customers discovered what they couldn't do. The list of uncertainties and disqualifiers is still just far too long: The translation layer isn't good...

They're "more powerful" because they can process more instructions per second. Would 4 efficiency cores boost CPU performance more than 1 extra performance core? Judging by the chip designs I assume the answer is yes, but that those gains reverse if you continued to drop performance cores for...

View: https://medium.com/@thetechfan/the-apple-price-ladder-a-master-strategy-explained-9a49919fe330 It's designed specifically so that overpriced memory and storage upgrades are attractive. If the base models were sufficient, they couldn't make the huge extra profit margins on the upgraded...

Assuming you have the thermal headroom to do it, wouldn't a machine with 8 Performance cores always outperform a 4/4 core setup? I understand that if you're restrained by targeting a specific TDP that the efficiency cores help to provide more performance per watt and performance per amount of...

It's interesting that we're looking at an across-the-board refresh only for the Desktop chips. inhales a huge puff of hopium If they decided to get rid of the efficiency cores, focus on raw performance instead of performance per watt, and actually make a bespoke chip design for desktop chips...

“softer control kinematics” should probably read “software controlled kinematics” I can hear this with Lucas’ accent!

Mahindra also makes road cars, though I don't think they're sold in the States.

The start was nice and clean, and the last 6 minutes were all fireworks. Best of all, we go green again tomorrow!

When you paint the car red, it unexpectedly spins. Full realism.

This was enough to push me into cancelling too with no live sports to watch right now. Even splitting the cost with another household, the value is just not there compared to what I get out of $13-$15 a month for Netflix or HBO. I'll just go back to rabbit ears for sports/live.

I'm in about the same boat. I do web development, which I could basically do on any platform but prefer MacOS, but we also have a windows desktop app that I need to have available for testing that connects to hardware that doesn't play nice with virtualization, so being able to boot Windows...

I have had to pay an extra $100 to register my EV the last 3 years in Wisconsin... guess who controls our state legislature?

Certainly true for most, but an eGPU is not very portable. There are plenty of folks that want maximum video editing horsepower on the go, and are ordering the very expensive configs with the biggest SSD options available. What's another $600 on a machine you're spending $5000+ on already...

This was a great blast from the past. It's particularly amusing that many of the points made can still be made today. Windows apps still have no UX guidelines that anyone can agree on, and Apple still can't seem to make hardware that caters to what devs are looking for. I've been rocking a...

Judging by how much your average gearhead already hates fake engine noises coming through a car's sound system, I don't think that crowd would take kindly to such imitations :) But hey, who knows -- If I had a button on my Leaf that made it sound like a GTR from 0-40, I think I could have some...

Once you get a taste of what a performance EV can do, you may change your tune -- unfortunately, manufacturers seem to be so focused on "practical" EVs that there isn't anything on the market that I'm aware of that's more focused on Performance than Luxury or Economy. The first time I drove a...