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Rhyno posted:Laptop talk, here's what I need: What price is 'Affordable' for you?
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Oct 23, 2014 19:52
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$1000-$1500. I'm not gaming, I watch HD video on occasion but I have no need for super graphic performance.
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Oct 23, 2014 19:55
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Rhyno posted:$1000-$1500. I'm not gaming, I watch HD video on occasion but I have no need for super graphic performance. Lenovo Y50 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8992871&CatId=3998
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Oct 23, 2014 19:59
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CommieGIR posted:Lenovo Y50 You're a moron. Not a X or T series.
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Oct 23, 2014 19:59
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Hey Phone, do you guys need another person to turn wrenches with on that SC300? I'm demotivated to work on my 240SX, but I wouldn't mind working on something else.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:05
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Rhyno posted:$1000-$1500. I'm not gaming, I watch HD video on occasion but I have no need for super graphic performance. If you don't want to do anything with gaming or 3d cad software you can get a 3540 for like $800. Just get the max specced one. Replace the 500 gb drive with a 256 ssd for like $100 or so. It's built pretty decently. I've taken it on a few trips including a desert and it coped just fine.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:08
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Anphear posted:The coffee is terrible. I literally put up with caffeine withdrawal headaches for 3 days to not drink this poo poo. You are going to the wrong places. The US is pretty much dominating 3rd wave coffee right now. There's a whole coffee thread in gws that cab help. That said, flat whites are milky as hell.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:11
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Phone posted:You're a moron. Not a X or T series. Fair enough: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3579352&CatId=7001 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8798044&CatId=4939
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Oct 23, 2014 20:21
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Rhyno posted:$1000-$1500. I'm not gaming, I watch HD video on occasion but I have no need for super graphic performance. Lots of my co-workers have these: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-carbon/
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Oct 23, 2014 20:26
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Pham Nuwen posted:Lots of my co-workers have these: $2k to get the one with 8GB RAM... Can you replace the memory on these? Or is it soldered like the macbooks?
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Oct 23, 2014 20:31
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Raluek posted:$2k to get the one with 8GB RAM... Can you replace the memory on these? Or is it soldered like the macbooks? It's soldered  Everybody here just orders the 8GB ones so I guess this never came up.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:46
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Pham Nuwen posted:It's soldered So looks like getting the actual good version (8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) puts it out of Rhyno's price range.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:48
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This might be heresy to you IT nerds but Rhyno could also get an ultrabook. I had largely the same needs as Rhyno (plus I wasn't too keen on lugging around a huge, heavy laptop) so I bought a Yoga 2 Pro, and I couldn't be happier with it, to be honest.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:56
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You don't need 8GB of ram to post on SA.
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Oct 23, 2014 20:58
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Yeah, you need 16GB (if you use firefox or chrome, anyways.)
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Oct 23, 2014 21:00
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kastein posted:Yeah, you need 16GB (if you use firefox or chrome, anyways.) Seriously. I have 8GB in my desktop, and it sits at ~75% capacity just diddling around on the internet. God help me if I run a VM.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:02
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I only use the most secretive, streamlined browser that uses no memory but it also has all the features of Chrome and Firefox and more. You've probably never heard of it. I usually control it using my phone tethered to my microwave over a DOCSIS LAN WRT 3.58 version Alpha Rho Wireless Boondoggle Unit. This is what I read when some people talk tech in this thread I swear.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:04
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Surely if internet explorer wasn't the best it wouldn't be what comes with the computer right?
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Oct 23, 2014 21:08
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Viggen posted:and peatmimp was getting cucked. Ahaha, hilarious, viggen. You know, I have intentionally not replied to any of your lovely posts and have refrained from even mentioning you since the last probation fest. However, you keep bringing me up. This time you do it with an awesomely current hivemind meme, so kudos for that. You're probably better off with sticking to hivemind regurgitation, because unlike your brain, the hivemind actually functions. Please keep me out of your posts until your next medication-fueled crazy train derail. Kthxbai. In other news, who cares, new bike day! YOLO SWAG: 
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Oct 23, 2014 21:11
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Could you two just gently caress already and get it over with? Jesus.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:19
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Nice, that will probably be my next road bike. Want to buy a race wheelset and maybe a few other things for my caad 9 and ride that another year or two though. Speaking of bikes, I got a cross bike last month and had a fairly ok race last night. Not entirely sure where I finished but I think around 10th, which is better than the last two.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:21
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Raluek posted:Seriously. I have 8GB in my desktop, and it sits at ~75% capacity just diddling around on the internet. God help me if I run a VM. And yet somehow ChromeOS (Linux with a Chrome UI), runs perfectly well on Chromebooks that max out at 4GB. Odds are that most of the memory usage shown on your desktop is used for disk caching and buffers. For instance, I have 16GB in my desktop. Currently, it's showing 15.8GB "in use". But after splitting out the numbers, only 3.4GB is in use by applications. The rest is OS-level cache and buffers, and thus actually free. Also, Firefox and Chrome do some caching in RAM, which can artificially inflate their memory usage statistics. In my case, they inflate it a lot, since I mirror all of my profile/cache directories to a RAM disk for performance and to reducing wear on my SSD. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 21:21
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I use a Dell Latitude 820 from like 2006 or so running Ubuntu with 1GB ram and a 40GB hard drive. It's got a 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, which seems to be enough for my typical use. I got it for the low price of $free, so I can't complain. It works fine for dicking around on SA and watching dumb poo poo on YouTube, which is like 90% of my home use, so I can't be bothered to get anything better. The one thing I have considered is upgrading to 4GB ram, but that would cost infinitely more than the computer itself, so I have a hard time justifying it.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:25
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bandman posted:I use a Dell Latitude 820 from like 2006 or so running Ubuntu with 1GB ram and a 40GB hard drive. It's got a 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, which seems to be enough for my typical use. I got it for the low price of $free, so I can't complain. It works fine for dicking around on SA and watching dumb poo poo on YouTube, which is like 90% of my home use, so I can't be bothered to get anything better. The one thing I have considered is upgrading to 4GB ram, but that would cost infinitely more than the computer itself, so I have a hard time justifying it. Just do it. RAM is cheap and the benefits are noticeable, if not world-shaking.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:26
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KozmoNaut posted:Also, Firefox and Chrome do some caching in RAM, which can artificially inflate their memory usage statistics. In my case, they inflate it a lot, since I mirror all of my profile/cache directories to a RAM disk for performance and to reducing wear on my SSD. Seriously, tabs in chrome that I haven't actually done anything other than scroll up and down (reference data I keep open while working) will be consuming 500+MB after a week or two. Closing them and reopening results in this dropping by an order of magnitude. Programmers just really really suck at memory management, and unfortunately us computer engineers keep enabling them by giving them more. If you do the same thing in firefox eventually the whole browser hits 3GB (which is a magic number because firefox for windows is only released as a 32 bit app, and WoW64 processes get a 3/1 split memory map these days) and it can't allocate any more, so it just barfs everywhere. Not kidding, poo poo just stops rendering properly, black boxes appear in strange spots, corrupted data from pages long closed shows up where something else should, fonts suddenly go monospaced, etc. It's pathetic to see and tells me that whoever wrote the code responsible for it had no idea what this strange thing known as a "return value" from malloc() is, and why it being -1 means something. e: before people say "well don't do that" - I'm sorry, it's a valid loving use case, and pushing usage to the extremes is how you find the bugs that normal users will be annoyed by every few weeks much faster than that. If they just checked their return values and handled it gracefully I'd have no complaint, but I spent 3 years of my life finding this kind of bug professionally and harping on retarded software developers to fix their lovely code, so it really annoys me to see it in production releases of software. kastein fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 21:27
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meatpimp posted:Ahaha, hilarious, viggen. You know, I have intentionally not replied to any of your lovely posts and have refrained from even mentioning you since the last probation fest. However, you keep bringing me up. This time you do it with an awesomely current hivemind meme, so kudos for that. Save up and buy a car you fucker! Seriously, sexy piece of hardware you have there. I'm so excited to cycle SF.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:29
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kastein posted:If you do the same thing in firefox eventually the whole browser hits 3GB (which is a magic number because firefox for windows is only released as a 32 bit app, and WoW64 processes get a 3/1 split memory map these days) and it can't allocate any more, so it just barfs everywhere. Not kidding, poo poo just stops rendering properly, black boxes appear in strange spots, corrupted data from pages long closed shows up where something else should, fonts suddenly go monospaced, etc. It's pathetic to see and tells me that whoever wrote the code responsible for it had no idea what this strange thing known as a "return value" from malloc() is, and why it being -1 means something. I have literally never seen that happening, and I consider myself a heavy tab abuser. Like "I never have less than 10 tabs open, ever" usage, with javascript/plugin-heavy interactive sites. On the other hand, I have Chrome barf on my old Thinkpad T42 with 1.5GB ram and a 1.7GHz Pentium-M. Chrome really doesn't like single-core low-memory hardware, and it starts by clearing tabs from memory so they take 5-10 seconds to switch to. I've had it give up completely sometimes and just render a grey/white grid instead of the actual pages. It actually happens on my work laptop as well, but that thing is loaded down with a metric shitton of corporate crap, so everything runs slow as molasses on it.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:34
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I'm the fucker that carries a 10 lb Dell M6800 Precision, netbooks and ultralights go home.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:40
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CommieGIR posted:I'm the fucker that carries a 10 lb Dell M6800 Precision, netbooks and ultralights go home. Says the dude that shipped me a netbook.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:42
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Plumbing companies around here love hiring smoking hot female apprentices god drat son. I love girls in hardhats.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:51
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jamal posted:Nice, that will probably be my next road bike. Want to buy a race wheelset and maybe a few other things for my caad 9 and ride that another year or two though. Speaking of bikes, I got a cross bike last month and had a fairly ok race last night. Not entirely sure where I finished but I think around 10th, which is better than the last two. It should be your next road bike. I've never had a ride like this bike. I thought I had the Chinarello dialed in, but I jumped on this evo and yeah, I have some adjustments to make, but I had one of the best "feeling" rides I've had, even recognizing there will be some coloring of the experience with the fact that it's the new thing. Cross bikes are great. I just got mine out last week, but felt the 35mm tires, big time. cursedshitbox posted:Seriously, sexy piece of hardware you have there. My uncle lives in Oakland. I rode with him in Ohio a couple months back and he kicked my rear end in, in a cold-blooded fashion. Hills make you a good rider. CommieGIR posted:I'm the fucker that carries a 10 lb Dell M6800 Precision, netbooks and ultralights go home. Alienware M17x R4 here. Complete desktop replacement, and can run games. 32gb of ram? Seriously? Why?
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Oct 23, 2014 21:54
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I wanna build a cross bike next. Something I can beat the poo poo out of on all terrains. as for hills? I loooove hills. Flats are fun too. but the hills are GREAT. Commie had an Alienware. I'm shitposting from it right now.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:58
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Man, my computer is about eight years old (at least the motherboard, processor and RAM are). I just don't have a reason to get something smaller since my phone works fine.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:00
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cursedshitbox posted:Commie had an Alienware. I'm shitposting from it right now. cursedshitbox posted:Says the dude that shipped me a netbook. To be fair, its far from a normal netbook, being a miniature gaming machine and all. I shipped him a M11x R2 meatpimp posted:Alienware M17x R4 here. Complete desktop replacement, and can run games. 32gb of ram? Seriously? Why? MatLab, CAD/CAM stuff, programming, Virtualization, etc. The machine was my bonus for a job well done for one of my contracted companies. ....oh, and Kerbal Space Program. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 22:22
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CommieGIR posted:MatLab, CAD/CAM stuff, programming, Virtualization, etc. The machine was my bonus for a job well done for one of my contracted companies. I was making fun of my own system that has way too much ram. Kerbal is super interesting, but I know if I get my son into it, I'll never see him again. He's currently waist-deep in Civ V and I'm worried about the new Civ in space.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:31
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meatpimp posted:I was making fun of my own system that has way too much ram. Kerbal is super interesting, but I know if I get my son into it, I'll never see him again. He's currently waist-deep in Civ V and I'm worried about the new Civ in space. Dude tell me about it. My spouse has been playing Civ V till 3 am, then waking up at 8 for work irritable as gently caress. Bitch is gonna get a boot in his rear end if he doesn't cut the poo poo.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:34
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cursedshitbox posted:I wanna build a cross bike next. Something I can beat the poo poo out of on all terrains. as for hills? I loooove hills. Flats are fun too. but the hills are GREAT. The cx bike is great, but I need to convert it to tubeless tires (and maybe get a set of tubulars for racing). Besides the lack of traction and lovely braking, I'm pretty much constantly trying to avoid hitting anything hard enough to get a pinch flat, and it still happens pretty often. Also want to go single ring with a wide range cassette because the 36/46 rings and 11-25 cassette is pretty narrow.
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Oct 23, 2014 22:38
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cursedshitbox posted:Dude tell me about it. My spouse has been playing Civ V till 3 am, then waking up at 8 for work irritable as gently caress. Sounds like another friend of mine. When a new game comes out, he get's all cracked out on it for a couple weeks then they resume normal relations. Your names don't both happen to be Kevin are they?
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Oct 23, 2014 22:39
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So it'll be like my KLR. Awesome! Thanks for the tip on the gearing. E: I'll probably be looking for a LBS for a dayjob once I'm up there as well. Something to fund beers more or less. Keykey: Nope. I'm Sedat. He's David. cursedshitbox fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 22:41
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Since we seem to be doing NerdChat, any of you guys try alternate shell options for Windows 7? I'm currently using Emerge and it's super slick and actually pretty easy to tweak and adjust. Back when I had XP I had bbLean installed but it was a complete pain in the rear end to edit and dress up since it was basically CSS editing at points.
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