I don’t go within 10 meters of the thing if it’s running. I don’t want to have to buy a new cellphone.
I dispute that claim.
Ref: Android Tablet vs. iPad price, (Any roughly equivalent model)
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What does it do?
Thank FSM I am not the only one that remembers.
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Former enterprise class employer was too cheap to get a drive wiper. The solution was to make me sign a document for each drive that I have received it and would destroy it, and then the drives went with me to the range.
I dutifully documented their destruction, along with a few BlackBerries with a variety of firearms and sent the proof back to HQ.
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In general I am a tad apprehensive with firearms, but this seems to fit into the class of Perfect. Use. Of. Bullets.
If someone can piece together those platters, you are dealing with a superior force that has more than just your hard drives.
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That’s exactly the way I see it. An incomplete platter all kinds of linearly deformed would need substantial work before any chance of reading, and many times the flexing causes the metallic disc surface to flake. Good luck retrieving anything after that.
Flash chips are the same way. Once a bullet’s been through it, the data’s gone.
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Holy shit, that’s cool.
Reminds me of the quarter shrinking machine this guy made.
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That’s just a rough simulation. The knot is much tighter when it really goes through the machine.
Holy hell, this is cool. I’d love to replace my PCs garbage bios with something like this.
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Using a corporate refurb lenovo tank right now…
Probably more current than what I’m running.
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Yeah, at that point, we start getting into utility discussions - when I started seeing cheap Android tablets that didn’t have things like Bluetooth, that was what killed me on that. Sure they’re CHEAPER, but you’re getting substantially less utility in my opinion, and that lessened utility far outstrips any cost benefit.
Once we start saying “equivalent model” and speccing out what constitutes “equivalent”, then that price difference is a lot shorter, and there’s still the question of perceived comparative utility.
I’m not, mind you, saying “Android is bad!” or “Android is actually more expensive!”. Just that the received wisdom that Apple products are overly expensive for what those products are is not really borne out these days.
About 90 days ago, my daughter bought a tablet on Amazon with a 9" screen where the bezel and whole case are physically smaller than the (three!) other 9" tablets in the house. It has BT and Wifi and even GPS, and even FM radio!
Not a single problem with this thing. She can play 3D games and whatnot. It has a pretty-good-but-not-quite-as-fancy-as-retina LCD that, I admit, might justify some of the difference toward an iPad.
But, surely, your iPad doesn’t beat for value and power her $65 on this thing.
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@bibulb I respectfully disagree…
@slybevel Yeah, no joke, you get so much more value per dollar with Android devices.
I recently bought this quad core 7" tablet for $40 CAD, free shipping.
I threw in a 64gb micro sd card for $30 CAD, so it has 72gb total storage.
Most of these android devices support micro sd cards so you can upgrade the storage anytime, unlike iOS.
It has bluetooth, wifi, you can hook up usb devices like drives to it (usb host…iOS doesn’t have true usb host and can’t hook up to most usb drives). It also takes sim cards for cellular data or to use a phablet (phone tablet). It also has GPS and FM radio like yours.
The screen is great, the only area where it lags is the cameras, but I’ve never used a tablet for any real photography, and they are good enough for video chatting etc.
Metal exterior comes in silver and copper, i opted for the copper because i liked the look.
For $70 CAD ($53.55 USD) total I have a 72gb mini tablet that can access wifi and cellular data.
The 64gb iPad mini with cellular data ability goes for $689 CAD…10X the price.
So yeah…there is that…
(This isn’t even mentioning tax…the TAX on the iPad mini here in Canada is more then my android tablet cost.)
Also…Google Play store has VLC so you can watch just about any format video using the player I prefer…Apple store pulled VLC ages ago.
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The worst thing about these Lenovo laptops is that they still haven’t worked out all the bugs…
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I did a data destruction job once. No fancy equipment around, so it involved taking the disk apart, and removing the platters and running a few strokes of sandpaper over them. I got the magnets, the heads and the motor as a payment.
Not salvaging at least the magnets and the very-high-precision head actuator bearing is an awful waste.
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