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Arthur Newman Technology, and the numbers behind it

The number nobody prints

Every spec is a millisecond in disguise.

Consumer and business technology, and a run of game reviews. The thread through both: the figure on the box is a headline, and the number that decides how something feels is one division away from it.

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Two strands, one deskConsumer and business technology, plus game reviews.
Announcements are not productsA lot of the 2022 archive is the metaverse being promised.
Dated, and it showsTechnology writing rots fastest. Every page carries its date.
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The frame-time table

A frame rate is a millisecond budget. Put one in and the table returns the budget, what a spike costs you at that budget, and which refresh rates can show the rate evenly — which is the difference between a number that is high and a picture that is smooth.

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Corrections

Has a product here shipped, changed or died?

A lot of this archive is from 2022, when several of these things were still promises. If something we wrote about launched differently, or never launched at all, tell us and we will note it on the article.

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