TechPowerUp reported that Maxon's Cinebench R23 runs for a minimum of 10 minutes so the system reaches peak temperatures, a change that lowers scores for systems that throttle (cut speed to shed heat) under sustained loads. source
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What would prove this wrong
A default Cinebench R23 multi-core run that finishes in under 10 minutes, or that scores a throttling laptop the same as a short single pass, would show this wording wrong.
A 2005 study published by the Architectural Institute of Japan measured noise in 139 large-scale stores selling groceries, electrical appliances, or household equipment and found overall noise levels from 52 to 76 dBA (A-weighted decibels, a loudness scale). source
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What would prove this wrong
The study's own data showing store noise levels below 52 dBA or above 76 dBA in its 139-store sample would show this wording wrong.
A survey of 208 MacOS and Windows users on Amazon Mechanical Turk, presented at USEC 2024 (a usable-security symposium), found that MacOS users tend to rate Windows cybersecurity as neither perfect nor poor, leaning slightly positive. source
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What would prove this wrong
The paper's own figures showing most MacOS users rated Windows cybersecurity as poor would show this wording wrong.
A 2009 paper in the Journal of Consumer Research reports in Studies 1-3 that even when consumers can directly experience the products and the specifications carry little or no new information, their preference is still influenced by specifications. source
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What would prove this wrong
A replication of the paper's Studies 1-3 finding no effect of uninformative specifications on preference when products can be experienced directly would show this wording wrong.
A 2024 PLOS One paper reports that, pooling the means of all its treatment groups, treatment participants reported significantly greater initial confidence than their control counterparts. source
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What would prove this wrong
The paper's pooled confidence data showing the treatment groups no more confident than the control group would show this wording wrong.
iFixit's 2018 teardown of the MacBook Air Retina says neither storage nor RAM is upgradable on that laptop. source
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What would prove this wrong
A 2018 MacBook Air Retina with a user-replaceable RAM or storage module would show this wording wrong.
Notebookcheck's 2019 report on the Dell XPS 13 says its final battery life tallies for the FHD (full HD) and 4K UHD (ultra high definition) versions come out to 13.2 hours and 7.7 hours, respectively. source
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What would prove this wrong
A Notebookcheck page or table giving the XPS 13 FHD version a final tally other than 13.2 hours, or the 4K UHD version one other than 7.7 hours, would show this wording wrong.
Lenovo says its ThinkPad P Series laptops are certified by ISVs (independent software vendors, the makers of professional software) for all major applications. source
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What would prove this wrong
Lenovo's ThinkPad P Series page or ISV certification lists showing the line lacks certification for major professional applications would show this wording wrong.
Notebookcheck says the ThinkPad P15 Gen 1-20ST000DGE, with decent cooling and a 75 W long-term power limit (the sustained power cap), can be about 80% faster in CPU-bound workloads (tasks limited by the processor) than the slowest system with the same 10750H chip in its database, as of August 2023. source
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What would prove this wrong
Notebookcheck's database showing the ThinkPad P15 Gen 1-20ST000DGE less than about 80% faster in CPU-bound workloads than the slowest 10750H system, as of August 2023, would show this wording wrong.
Notebookcheck's 2019 report on the Dell XPS 13 says its final battery life tallies for the FHD (full HD) and 4K UHD (ultra high definition) versions come out to 13.2 hours and 7.7 hours, respectively. source
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What would prove this wrong
A Notebookcheck page or table giving the XPS 13 FHD version a final tally other than 13.2 hours, or the 4K UHD version one other than 7.7 hours, would show this wording wrong.
Notebookcheck says the Core i7-10750H has a default TDP (thermal design power, here the long-run power limit) of 45 W, and that laptop makers may lower it to 35 W for leaner designs at the cost of performance. source
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What would prove this wrong
A Notebookcheck or Intel listing giving the Core i7-10750H a default TDP other than 45 W, or a lower limit other than 35 W, would show this wording wrong.
The pmbench paper by Yang and Seymour says the maximum sustained bandwidth of swap (memory moved out to storage) on a NAND SSD (a flash storage drive) is 20 MiB/sec (mebibytes per second), which it says is three orders of magnitude smaller than DRAM (main memory) bandwidth. source
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What would prove this wrong
The pmbench paper's text giving a maximum sustained NAND SSD swap bandwidth other than 20 MiB/sec, or a gap to DRAM bandwidth other than three orders of magnitude, would show this wording wrong.
A 2023 Nature Communications article says an LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery cell with a specific energy of about 160 Wh/kg (watt-hours of stored energy per kilogram) can lead to pack-level energy of about 135 Wh/kg, where the pack is the whole assembled battery. source
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What would prove this wrong
The text of the Nature Communications article gives a pack-level figure other than about 135 Wh/kg for an LFP cell of about 160 Wh/kg.
A 2026 study in Sensors says the relatively flat open-circuit-voltage profile of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells makes voltage-only state estimation (reading the charge level from voltage alone) difficult over the central state of charge interval. source
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What would prove this wrong
The Sensors study's text does not say the flat LFP voltage profile makes voltage-only state estimation difficult in the central charge range.
A 2023 Nature Communications article says an LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery cell with an energy density of 330 Wh per litre (watt-hours of energy per litre of volume) can lead to pack-level energy of about 210 Wh per litre, where the pack is the whole assembled battery. source
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What would prove this wrong
The article's text gives an LFP cell energy density other than 330 Wh per litre or a pack-level figure other than about 210 Wh per litre.
A 2015 Journal of Power Sources study reports that its LFP (lithium iron phosphate) pouch cell showed the highest level of hysteresis, 38 mV (millivolts) near 5 % SoC (state of charge), where hysteresis here means the gap between the cell's resting voltage after charging and after discharging. source
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What would prove this wrong
The study's hysteresis results for its LFP pouch cell show a maximum other than 38 mV, or a maximum away from about 5 % SoC.
A 2023 study published by The Electrochemical Society analyzed the cathodes (the battery's positive electrode) of 160 spent laptop batteries and found around 70% used LiCoO2 (lithium cobalt oxide) as the cathode active material. source
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What would prove this wrong
The paper's abstract reports a sample other than 160 spent laptop batteries or a LiCoO2 share other than around 70%.
Chips and Cheese tested an AMD Zen 2 chip and found that turning off its op cache (a store of already-decoded instructions) raised power draw by 0.375 W per core under an all-thread CPU-Z load (a processor benchmark program), a figure it calls an overestimate of decoder power because the benchmark score rose by around 1% with the op cache enabled. source
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What would prove this wrong
A repeat of the all-thread CPU-Z test with the op cache off showing a power increase clearly different from 0.375 W per core, or no benchmark score gain with the op cache on, would show this wording wrong.
A University of California, Berkeley report posted to arXiv says x86-64 (the 64-bit instruction set used by Intel and AMD chips) is not very dense, averaging 3.71 bytes per instruction, while ARMv8 (64-bit ARM) uses a fixed 4-byte instruction size. source
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What would prove this wrong
The report's own text or tables giving an x86-64 average other than 3.71 bytes per instruction, or a size other than a fixed 4 bytes for ARMv8 instructions, would show this wording wrong.
Igor's Lab says absolute SP scores (a silicon quality estimate Asus calculates) are not comparable between Intel's i9, i7 and i5 chips, so an i5-13600K with SP 100 does not have the same clock potential as an i9-13900K with SP 100. source
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What would prove this wrong
An Igor's Lab statement or dataset showing SP scores are calibrated on one shared scale across i9, i7 and i5 parts would show this wording wrong.
Intel's processor datasheet (document 743844) says PL1 (the long-run average power limit) should not be set higher than the cooling system's limits. source
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What would prove this wrong
An Intel datasheet revision that tells designers to set PL1 above the cooling system's limits would show this wording wrong.
Intel's processor datasheet (document 743844) says that during a maximum power turbo event the processor could sustain PL2 (its short-term power limit) for longer than the Turbo Time Parameter (Tau, a time setting in seconds). source
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What would prove this wrong
Intel documentation stating PL2 always ends when the Turbo Time Parameter elapses would show this wording wrong.
PC Perspective's January 2014 review of a StarTech USB dock built on a DisplayLink chip (a chip that sends video over USB) says that, using the flatpanels.dk Input Lag Test, it measured around 50 ms (milliseconds) of total input lag (the delay before the monitor shows what the computer sends). source
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What would prove this wrong
A rerun of the flatpanels.dk input lag test on that same StarTech dock showing total lag well above or well below 50 ms would show this wording wrong.
VESA's 2010 announcement of DisplayPort v1.2 says multi-streaming (sending several separate display streams down one cable) lets one cable support two 2560 x 1600 monitors at 60Hz, or four 1920 x 1200 monitors, in a daisy chain or hub configuration. source
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What would prove this wrong
The VESA DisplayPort v1.2 announcement text stating a smaller multi-monitor capability than two 2560 x 1600 monitors or four 1920 x 1200 monitors per cable would show this wording wrong.
Synaptics' DisplayLink Ubuntu download page says DisplayLink (technology for driving extra screens over USB) for Ubuntu (a Linux operating system) is distributed from the Synaptics APT repository (a software source Ubuntu can update from), allowing automatic updates, or with a standalone installer. source
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What would prove this wrong
Synaptics removing its Ubuntu driver downloads and APT repository, or stating that DisplayLink no longer provides an Ubuntu driver, would show this wording wrong.
VESA's 2014 announcement says that with DisplayPort Alt Mode (DisplayPort video sent over USB-C), one USB-C cable can deliver full DisplayPort audio and video performance, SuperSpeed USB data and up to 100 watts of power. source
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What would prove this wrong
A VESA or USB-IF document stating that DisplayPort Alt Mode performance must be reduced while the same cable carries up to 100 watts of power would show this wording wrong.
The Register's 2020 article on the end of the Butterfly keyboard says it had as little as 0.7mm of travel (how far a key moves when pressed). source
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What would prove this wrong
A measured or published key travel figure below 0.7mm for a Butterfly keyboard model would show this wording wrong.
iFixit's 2018 teardown of a MacBook Pro keyboard says grains of sand got through the corner perforations in the membrane (a silicone dust shield) and jammed the butterfly mechanism (the thin hinged key switch). source
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What would prove this wrong
Repeating iFixit's sand test on the same keyboard with no keys seizing and no grains found in the mechanism would show this wording wrong.
A 2007 Sandia National Laboratories paper on gold-plated copper contacts says contact resistance rose over time for a fraction of corrosion blooms (corrosion growing through tiny defects in the gold), while the median value stayed relatively unchanged. source
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What would prove this wrong
Aged gold-plated copper contacts in the same test showing the median contact resistance rising steadily with exposure time would show this wording wrong.
A 2008 paper in Corrosion & Protection says the surface of the films on its treated magnesium alloy was not obviously corroded after 200 h (hours) of neutral salt spray testing (an accelerated corrosion test) under ASTM-117 test conditions, and that the alloy's corrosion rate declined significantly. source
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What would prove this wrong
Obvious corrosion on the film surface of the treated magnesium alloy after 200 h of the same neutral salt spray test would show this wording wrong.
A 2007 DTIP conference paper says a heat pipe's capillary limit (the point where the wick can no longer pump enough liquid back) occurs when the capillary pressure difference is not enough to overcome the sum of the pressure drops in the liquid flow and the vapor flow. source
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What would prove this wrong
A heat pipe that keeps carrying more heat after its liquid and vapor pressure drops exceed the wick's capillary pressure would show this wording wrong.
A 2024 MDPI study reports an equivalent thermal conductivity (how well the flat chamber spreads heat, stated as a conductivity) of 3837 W/(m·K) (watts per metre-kelvin) as the highest in its comparison, for a 30% FR (filling ratio) UTVC (ultra-thin vapor chamber) with 3 SWMs (spiral-woven meshes). source
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What would prove this wrong
The study reporting an equivalent thermal conductivity other than 3837 W/(m·K) for its 30% filling ratio vapor chamber with 3 spiral-woven mesh layers, or a higher value for a different configuration, would show this wording wrong.
Notebookcheck's i7-13700H page says the MSI Pulse 17 B13VGK, with its powerful cooling and a 90 W long-term CPU power limit (the sustained power cap), can be 60% faster in CPU-bound workloads (tasks limited by the processor) than the slowest system in its database powered by the same chip, as of August 2023. source
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What would prove this wrong
Notebookcheck's i7-13700H page or database showing the MSI Pulse 17 B13VGK less than 60% faster in CPU-bound workloads than the slowest i7-13700H system would show this wording wrong.
Intel's 12th Generation Core processor datasheet lists a PL1 Tau (the time window Intel uses to average turbo power) of 56 seconds in its package turbo table for 6+8 core 45W parts, with PL1 (the long-run power limit) listed at 45 W. source
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What would prove this wrong
The Intel datasheet table not listing 56 seconds in the PL1 Tau row for its 6+8 core 45W parts, or listing PL1 for those parts at other than 45 W, would show this wording wrong.
