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Started by Tsutarja August 10th, 2013 5:25 AM
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Tsutarja

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I wonder if Opera Mini uses the same Opera engine that the DSi browser uses, which is based on Opera. But then again, I doubt it if y'all say it really loads webpages faster, considering that the Opera browser on the DSi XL is really slow with loading non-mobile sites.

Legendary Silke

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I wonder if Opera Mini uses the same Opera engine that the DSi browser uses, which is based on Opera. But then again, I doubt it if y'all say it really loads webpages faster, considering that the Opera browser on the DSi XL is really slow with loading non-mobile sites.
Opera Mini has most of the rendering done on somewhere else (usually servers belonging to Opera) before the reduced content is sent to your device.

Nintendo DSi Internet Browser uses the actual Presto engine running on the Nintendo DSi to render pages.

Predictably, trying to render modern pages, even of the mobile variety, on a system with a single usable 133 MHz ARM9 processor (The 33 MHz ARM7 is secondary), 16 MB of RAM, and nowhere to page memory is difficult and full of "out of memory" errors. It's much easier to render pages when something else is doing the job for feature phones.

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Opera Mini has most of the rendering done on somewhere else (usually servers belonging to Opera) before the reduced content is sent to your device.

Nintendo DSi Internet Browser uses the actual Presto engine running on the Nintendo DSi to render pages.

Predictably, trying to render modern pages, even of the mobile variety, on a system with a single usable 133 MHz ARM9 processor (The 33 MHz ARM7 is secondary), 16 MB of RAM, and nowhere to page memory is difficult and full of "out of memory" errors. It's much easier to render pages when something else is doing the job for feature phones.
That also explains why the 3DS browser sucks in the multimedia department, I have to reduce whole sites to just text to get them to load.

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The Wii's internet browser (also powered by Opera) is just as bad. :S Who even uses the browser on the Wii? xD I only used it once to browse PC and it's even more painful than browsing on a phone.

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I'm also pretty sure opera mini utilizes cloud loading for websites to minimize the download size of each site. If you haven't an idea what that means, basically it loads the site on separate servers, and sends them complete back to you, in a compressed size. Or is that chrome? Anyway, one of those browsers definitely cloud computes the sites.
I believe Chrome does that. I signed in with my Google account on my iPhone's Chrome browser and was able to access my desktop bookmarks without the necessity of typing urls, or bookmarking everything all over again.

& yeah, you are correct on the above. Which is why I saved soooo much mobile data in the past several months because of it. :D
Opera Mini does the cloud compressing. Google Chrome just saves your bookmarks on their servers, then allows you to download said bookmarks on other computers and mobile devices.
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Tsutarja

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I will say though.. the 3DS browser is much better than the DSi browser. It's at least able to attempt its best to render desktop websites, as I've been able to load PC just fine without the WIP Mobile skin on my 3DS XL's browser.

Tsutarja

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You couldn't make me browse on a DS omg...
There was a point in time when the DSi browser was all I had for browsing on the go without a laptop ;;

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Try browsing the web with a phone like this, then you'll know how bad it feels.



this was a phone i had in the past before i jumped into my first android phone, which was the T-Mobile G1 lolol

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I don't think so..probably 2G. & yeah, every website you go to would look like you're browsing the net during the early 2000's or something maybe earlier, but with the keyboard it was easier to navigate/type.

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Either I like torturing myself with Internet Explorer Mobile 9 or it's really good after all these years on desktop sites. Your mileage may vary.
Then again, it IS a desktop browser in mobile form...

Tsutarja

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I had to browse for the last year with the 3DS so I know those feels....
Oh wow! I don't think I would be able to browse like that at all O_o but I'd probably just get used to it quickly at the same time :/

I assume now you have a computer or a phone/tablet to post with now though.

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So I bought my dad and my father-in-law each a 500 gb external hdd for Christmas. Loading both up with every episode and movie of Star Trek! <3
Star Trek <3 Voyager is my favorite :D I really need to get a big external hard drive and load it up with a bunch of shows and movies I like. I only have an old 120GB portable drive I bought years ago.

Meganium

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I don't even know what to fill with 2 TB of hard drive space. :| Maybe if I pick up my photography hobby again I could use it to fill it up with pictures.

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Oh wow! I don't think I would be able to browse like that at all O_o but I'd probably just get used to it quickly at the same time :/

I assume now you have a computer or a phone/tablet to post with now though.
Yep, that's why I'm back. It was getting frustrating posting on 3 other forums I frequent, adding PC to the list would have been mental.

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I don't even know what to fill with 2 TB of hard drive space. :| Maybe if I pick up my photography hobby again I could use it to fill it up with pictures.
2TB is a lot of storage to save all your games, music, videos, programs and stuff. However, you shouldn't fill it up with too many archives which makes your system slow.

Overall, it's a great choice for a hard drive space, and i'll recommend you to go fill it with games and stuff you need.
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Currently Playing (PC):
Euro Truck Simulator 2. Still have to get past the quick jobs.
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FIFA 09, or Pokemon Diamond because Battle Corner.I should insert more.

Legendary Silke

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You know how Seagate manufactures hybrid disk drives?

I don't regret getting the Laptop SSHD. Mmm, awesome boot times AND a capacity upgrade? Makes me wonder about the practicality of going with a single-storage-type or separate caching solutions - they now sound useless to me.

Tsutarja

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Seriously, what do you people do with all this hard drive space? :P

Of course, I don't torrent. So no need for me to max my hard drive.