The Switch has a 720p IPS display. The Vita originally shipped with a smaller but similar pixel density OLED display. The Switch’s display was much closer to what you would find in low-end tablets at launch while the Vita was a lot closer to the highest-end smartphones. The Vita actually had an insanely good screen…

I meant the value of the hardware at the time the Vita came out was much higher than the Switch, in terms of what you were paying for the console. Even if you throw out the R&D cost, I’m not sure Sony was even breaking even as the thing had a lot of the same guts you would find on much pricier smartphones at the time.

The current Switch hardware, to the best of my knowledge, technically should support 4K rendering at 30 FPS and the current Switch Tegra chip should be able to support 4K 60 FPS decoding. I’m not sure if they’re intending or capable of enabling 4K video support in older Switches.

4K graphics aren’t the same as games rendering at 4K. Right now, the Switch outputs at 1080p and most games render at a lower resolution.

4K capabilities doesn’t mean 4K games. It means that they’re going to include hardware that’s meant to fully support 4K output, including a GPU that can use newer 4K video decoding standards. It doesn’t mean that most games are even going to exceed 1080p, much less run at a full 4K.

I mean, I don’t think it’s low end hardware, but it’s a lot lower-end than Nintendo could have gone with at launch. They could have gone with a higher resolution screen or an OLED. They could have gone with Nvidia’s newest chipset instead of their four year old one. They could have included thunderbolt 3 and opened…

Honestly, I think that 4K just refers to the actual capabilities of the hardware. If it remains a portable system with no extra GPU in the dock (which is likely), then I don’t see many new games running at more than 1080p or maybe 1440p. But it will have hardware designed for 4K video streams, including the latest…

A lot of games, however, made good use of the additional hardware even though they ran on the old 3DS too, just like the PS4 and Xbox one. 

This seems. . . . unlikely. This is going to be the equivalent of the New 3DS or the upgraded versions of the PS4 and Xbox 1. There’s no way that at this point in the Switch’s lifecycle, Nintendo is going to spend significant amounts of resources developing games only for the new console or letting third parties…

Or, you know, we could use our consumer power and freedom of expression to actually push back against this, because we live in a free society. Heck, we could even use our free elections to push for laws that fine or otherwise impose penalties on companies that engage in certain types of censorship in response to…

I guess that’s true if your definition of security is security through obscurity. Yes, there is a lot more malware for Windows.

Mac does a lot better in a corporate environment these days. It’s one big advantage over Windows or Linux is tight integration between the OS and hardware. You can usually push out updates to Macs fleetwide without being so concerned if one of them has some funky different hardware configuration that will cause a…

$800K for a 2-bedroom fixer-upper sounds about right. Berkeley is one of the more affordable places to live. I wish the rest of the Bay was that cheap. 

Yes, and since TikTok operates at the application layer, there is no legitimate reason for them to track it. This is very likely intentionally done in order to gather immutable hardware information.

I would say it’s certainly worse, from a national security perspective. Google doesn’t give its data to Chinese government. Does TikTok? I don’t know, but I wouldn’t trust them not to.

I live in California. I don’t know which other states have similar tax laws, but I thought worth mentioning since it’s the country’s most powerful and populous state with a ton of people doing business and working here,  the fifth largest GDP in the world.

If I didn’t have any planned medical expenses and there were no rollover, I probably wouldn’t use it at all or just put like $100 in it to buy medicine and supplies.

I’d have to check on it, but that doesn’t sound right. Since you’ve already paid the income tax on HSAs and the capital gains tax on any dividends or profits from investments, HSAs shouldn’t show up as taxable income when you withdraw them. It would be just like withdrawing money from a regular brokerage account. It’s…

Bienvenido a California! We tax income at 0.093, starting at $56K. Add in the standard deduction, and this is what the median income is in my area, so that’s the tax bracket that I chose to use. California taxes income over $1 million at 13.3%. We probably have a lot of high salary earners here too compared to other…

Yes, and you can’t contribute directly to a Roth IRA if you make a decent salary. But you can convert most other retirement funds into a Roth IRA. For instance, you can roll-over Roth TSPs and 401ks directly and you can convert regular 401ks and IRAs to Roths IRAs.