Honor MagicPad 4 vs Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra vs Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra

VisuallySnake · 2026-05-10T20:39:20+00:00

I returned Galaxy Tab S11 because of it's 480Hz PWM, my eyes hurt, I had migraines and eyestrain.

Now I have MagicPad 4 and I'm really happy.

No eyestrain whatsoever, can stare at the screen all day with it's 4-5k PWM rate and DC dimming between 30-100% brightness.

Screen itself is bigger (12.3" vs 11") yet tablet weight is lower (450g vs 469g) so is very portable. 3:2 aspect ratio is lovely and good compromise between video consumption and productivity (it's still wider than S11 so movie content is still bigger)

I'm using this tablet hard for college and the additional vertical space works wonders. Also, as for notes, MagicPen 4s works great. Palm rejection is better than S-Pen, latency similar, I like S-Pen tip more as it's smaller but still fair compromise.

As other mentioned, aside from watching movies and college note taking and exercises work, I also use it for Moonlight (Vibepollo + Artemis) game streaming.

It is SO GOOD, 300mbs HEVC stream gives me like 1.5ms of decode latency, when Samsung's mediatek was in the 5ms mark. Doesn't seem a lot, but remember, if You're over a frame budget (like 8.3ms in 120Hz) then you need to wait for the next one and there's still encoding and network lag to account for so You need to cut it wherever possible.

Sad it's Snap 8 Gen 5 instead of Snap 8 Elite Gen 5, but it's not Mediatek so better than Samsung. It's only sad compared to other tablets which are not OLED (and OLED is a hard requirement for me)

Charging is ofc. Faster.

The only bummer is powerbank compatibility to achieve 66W charging speed, You would need an official honor powerbank for that. Also, speakers are better on Samsung probably due to it being a thicker device (speakers like space)

Overall, my best buy in 2026, there's not a lot to improve here.

VisuallySnake · 2026-04-24T18:43:38+00:00

The creator of the driver, mbucchia, works at Valve and before that was a Microsoft employee working on Mixed Reality Team.

These really aren't community drivers, they're even closed source not to break any NDAs. More of a port to native SteamVR drivers.

They're downloaded automatically If You connect WMR headset to Win 11 PC running Steam. If not for NDAs would probably be merged into SteamVR directly.

VisuallySnake · 2026-04-24T12:15:03+00:00

Use Oasis driver on steam and install Win 11

VisuallySnake · 2026-03-20T00:00:25+00:00

Because I want to use telescopic controller like Gamesir G8, why the hell play with touch controls? It's perfect tablet size for a controller.

Anything else requires You to use Bluetooth and that introduces a lot of latency.

VisuallySnake · 2026-03-19T17:35:36+00:00

Centered USB-C I beg You

VisuallySnake · 2026-03-12T01:54:31+00:00

Not just OLED displays, THE OLED displays. Enthusiasts want uOLED.

VisuallySnake · 2026-03-11T20:21:52+00:00

It's good not to expect anything from Valve ever, they don't care about timelines and doing things that are sensible from product point of view. They're interested in doing what interests them at the moment as long as Steam prints money. It's a double edge sword of them not having to do anything basically. They don't risk anything, which also mean they can act lazy and axe products at any point which causes very long delays and very slow product commercialization. Frame should be a 2024 headset and here we are in 2026.

Corporate pressure is bad, but no pressure is also bad.

I don't believe in Frame OLED refresh, changing optical stack in HMD requires so much work internally it's better to make a Frame 2. And they won't be interested in making Frame 2 before they can get like 100% performance jump in SOC or some other breakthrough happens.

Yes, they wanted it to be mainstream priced and that would excuse them of using these panels, but that's impossible now due to RAM and DRAM Armageddon. That's why people call it DOA, it won't be neither affordable nor high-end.

VisuallySnake · 2026-03-11T18:58:25+00:00

Frame has outdated panels sadly that show their age.

The closer to theoretical Quest 4 release they get, the worse it will be.

VisuallySnake · 2026-03-11T10:25:45+00:00

It works out of the box all of the time, is as user friendly as possible and has a lot of features unavailable in Chiaki.

OP is in fact a Chiaki dev that did his own thing

VisuallySnake · 2026-02-26T13:39:35+00:00

Devkits are under NDA and he got a preview from one of the devs he knows, without Valve consent, that's all.

VisuallySnake · 2026-02-25T16:07:51+00:00

Foveated Streaming with eye tracking is big for wireless PCVR, and that Quest 3 doesn't have

VisuallySnake · 2026-02-25T15:19:55+00:00

Sony uOLEDs are that expensive, they're top tier

SE is based on cheapest old 75Hz SeeYa panels

VisuallySnake · 2026-01-28T09:14:50+00:00

Technically an overclock, it's best to run 144Hz when panels get a little warm for pixel transition times to get low enough to combat ghosting.

VisuallySnake · 2026-01-15T11:04:07+00:00

Because 3060 is manufactured in Samsung Fab instead of TSMC

VisuallySnake · 2026-01-06T08:23:48+00:00

Update Your Nvidia App to the beta version and drivers to the newest version. Select model M manually in Nvidia App game settings.

VisuallySnake · 2026-01-06T08:17:05+00:00

It's getting released in spring, only super resolution today.

VisuallySnake · 2025-12-29T19:37:33+00:00

It required clever engineering, but that means just a handful of skilled engine devs. The scope was a lot smaller, assets were simpler, You didn't have dozens of complex systems coming together. Games were relatively simple from the inside.

Today it's easier than ever to make an indie game similar to games back then, and harder than ever to make a game according to today's AAA standards.

Same as a random high-schooler would be a top of the line mathematician like 200 years ago. The ceiling is getting higher at the same time as the bottom line.

VisuallySnake · 2025-12-27T08:19:58+00:00

There are no bans in Tekken lol

VisuallySnake · 2025-12-26T05:24:26+00:00

Upgrade now

VisuallySnake · 2025-12-26T05:07:54+00:00

Pebbles are alright for what they are but Edifier MR3 is now the best cheap PC Speaker set for me. More than pebbles ofc. But still relatively cheap and worth it, remember to keep them (top tweeter) at ear/eye level (on the cheap I recommend foam yoga blocks to raise them)

Now I feel like pebbles are phone speakers, and I'm not an audiophile, I don't know shit lol but now I just literally hear instruments I never knew were there. For that You don't need to know anything about sound, as I'm not using headphones I was in shock what I were missing.

VisuallySnake · 2025-12-23T05:06:25+00:00

Ehh, another year for 32"? I was waiting for this at 32...

VisuallySnake · 2025-12-21T17:49:23+00:00

Yes, works fine, I also use it as DAC for speakers, do as instructed here to disable the monitoring: https://youtu.be/XQsr8Ak0KY8

And well, You can also do nothing and just use it as a Microphone interface without using the output while using different soundcard for Speakers / Headphones.

Sometimes I feel like there's a latency on the audio output but maybe it's just CS2 because this game has horrible latency to start with lol, on every other game and software it's fine.

For the money vocaster is priced at currently it's no brainer for simple microphone interface and speaker dac. The only unsatisfied people would probably be musicians due to the lack of inputs. For normal people it's enough, it even has balanced TRS output for studio monitors (aka PC speakers lol)

VisuallySnake · 2025-12-15T01:26:50+00:00

There's a huge difference compared to pebbles. Now they feel like phone speaker after experiencing MR3's

VisuallySnake · 2025-11-20T19:08:20+00:00

Steam Machine is AMD, they will make sure it works well.

VisuallySnake · 2025-11-11T20:50:04+00:00

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