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slidebite posted:I travel a fair amount for work and like gaming in my hotel at night instead of going to the bar and getting hammered. I think a gaming laptop makes perfect sense for me and works well. Getting hammered is where you forge embarrassing stories of senior employees which you use to leverage into promotions, rookie.
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:Read newspapers? gently caress no.
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Feb 22, 2016 21:12
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Bovril Delight posted:Getting hammered is where you forge embarrassing stories of senior employees which you use to leverage into promotions, rookie. LOL, no, when we have group gatherings getting hammered is still the norm. It's when I'm away solo it keeps me out of trouble.
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Feb 22, 2016 21:18
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slidebite posted:LOL, no, when we have group gatherings getting hammered is still the norm. It's when I'm away solo it keeps me out of trouble. Carry on then. Feed them shots.
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I run heavier applications like ArcGIS, Photoshop, and Blender. I also like to be able to play games if I'm travelling. Also my previous laptop was 7 years old at that point, and my desktop was almost 5. So I spend more money but they stay good longer. Casimir Radon has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Feb 22, 2016 21:39
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Cojawfee posted:Gaming laptops have never made sense. They made sense when I spent a couple of years couch-surfing amongst friends and family. Since I didn't have a place I could permanently set up a desktop without wondering if it was going to be broken or stolen, I longed for a gaming laptop, nevermind how gaming laptops are rolling compromises due to this one simple fact: their form factor means they can't dissipate heat very well. Well, that and the most powerful laptop GPU is still not nearly as powerful as the upper-mid-tier desktop GPU.
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dedicated gaming laptops are a racket but if you're ok with taking a graphics hit a lot of development machines can play games pretty well
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:They made sense when I spent a couple of years couch-surfing amongst friends and family. Since I didn't have a place I could permanently set up a desktop without wondering if it was going to be broken or stolen, I longed for a gaming laptop, nevermind how gaming laptops are rolling compromises due to this one simple fact: their form factor means they can't dissipate heat very well. Well, that and the most powerful laptop GPU is still not nearly as powerful as the upper-mid-tier desktop GPU. so basically the target market is homeless people who have $2k to drop on a gaming computer
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Tumble posted:And if you aren't gaming or rendering you don't really need much processing power anyways; it's not like Excel or Salesforce get sweet graphics with a lightning-fast desktop. you say this but in practice its not true, at least in my life. my wife is always on my computer instead of her laptop because its so much faster, so shes in and out much faster than her laptop, to the point where if I want a new computer, I have to build it all from scratch because she wants mine and never gently caress with laptops again
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Augmented Dickey posted:so basically the target market is homeless people who have $2k to drop on a gaming computer Lol
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Laptop chat: I used to toy with a Mac for a while, but my real love are Thinkpads. I've got a 1993 486 Thinkpad up in storage which I boot up every now and then just to get a feel of the keys, the typing action is so good. The thing is encased in jet-black unobtanium made to last through a nuclear war and I occasionally toy with the idea of setting it up as a distraction-free writing machine, I even managed to hook it up to the Net through an old PCCard ethernet adapter. My current workhorse is a X230 from 2012, the last of a dying breed - the new small Thinkpads have unfortunately given up the classic design and traded in processing power for battery life, meaning that this beast is still the most stylish and powerful there is. You can reach every component by just taking off a few screws, and a SSD and a RAM update later I believe I can keep using this machine for years to come if nothing critical misfires. Macs might be sleek and beautiful, but nothing can beat the classic Thinkpad aesthetic. e: what did you use to call the trackpoint? I don't remember ever not calling it the 'nipple mouse'. barbecue at the folks has a new favorite as of 22:56 on Feb 22, 2016 |
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Naxuz posted:e: what did you use to call the trackpoint? I don't remember ever not calling it the 'nipple mouse'. The official term might be "pointing stick", although I've heard some people call them "clits." Computer relic chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jChtlWNIAL4 Always wondered what was going through the company's collective mind when that came out.
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I always called it a clit mouse. I've been using the T-series thinkpads for about 10 years and they're rock solid. I forget what killed my old one, but it had been through a bunch of abuse and new fans and stuff. Very easy to work on.
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I used to dislike laptops when my primary use for a computer was poo poo launched from steam. When I had to do work with one I realized that yeah most cheap non-apple laptops are disposable crap but theyre just a means to get poo poo done and mobile > not mobile
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Sometime in the early 90s, I remember furiously digging at the track point on a thinkpad display model, thinking I was doing everyone a favor by removing the eraser embedded in the keyboard by some naughty kid
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UIApplication posted:I used to dislike laptops when my primary use for a computer was poo poo launched from steam. When I had to do work with one I realized that yeah most cheap non-apple laptops are disposable crap but theyre just a means to get poo poo done and mobile > not mobile I can't stand the 768 vertical resolution on cheap laptops, is that still the standard cheapo res?
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Houle posted:
my family's first computer was some budget Mac that I was always scrounging /begging for games to play on. This game fuckin blew everyone's mind when we finally got a PC. Was very sad when it wasn't in Windows 7
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grading essays nude posted:my family's first computer was some budget Mac that I was always scrounging /begging for games to play on. This game fuckin blew everyone's mind when we finally got a PC. Was very sad when it wasn't in Windows 7 Can't you just find it online somewhere?
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calvus posted:Can't you just find it online somewhere? Probably. I just only remember it when I'm nostalgic and bored. I just got a new laptop last month which was my first with a modern OS so I forgot about it
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Feb 23, 2016 03:49
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calvus posted:Can't you just find it online somewhere? It was a 16 bit game so you can't run it on a 64bit OS according to legends around the internet.
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Police Automaton posted:What would you Mac specialists say would be a good PowerPC Mac of the 90s? Imagine you had unlimited money. Lufiron posted:9500 with the 604e processor, preferably the one with two of em These so called Mac specialists have lead you astray. You want the Daystar Digital Genesis MP932+ Four 604e's running at 233mhz. Suck it mid-90s Apple.
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shovelbum posted:I can't stand the 768 vertical resolution on cheap laptops, is that still the standard cheapo res? According to the Steam Hardware survey, 26.6% of users have 1366x768 as their screen resolution, which is second behind 1920x1080 (35.1%).
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Feb 23, 2016 06:27
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computer parts posted:According to the Steam Hardware survey, 26.6% of users have 1366x768 as their screen resolution, which is second behind 1920x1080 (35.1%). thanks to tons of laptops with budget screens and tons of HDTVs that use 1366x768 as their working resolution
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grading essays nude posted:my family's first computer was some budget Mac that I was always scrounging /begging for games to play on. This game fuckin blew everyone's mind when we finally got a PC. Was very sad when it wasn't in Windows 7 i had mac as a kid too, but fortunately we had crystal caliburn 
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shovelbum posted:I've been using the T-series thinkpads for about 10 years and they're rock solid. I had a T22 or something which would blue screen a lot and had hardly anything installed on it. I finally worked out that this happened when I was using WinAmp with the volume on max, turning it down fixed this. I guess their power budget didn't include the speakers. It never seemed to mind being unintentionally pulled off the coffee table due to tripping over the power cord though.
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Police Automaton posted:What would you Mac specialists say would be a good PowerPC Mac of the 90s? Imagine you had unlimited money. if you want to play classic games get yourself a quicksilver G4. not 90s but it's one of the very last macs that could boot into OS 9.
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Wall Balls posted:i had mac as a kid too, but fortunately we had crystal caliburn So, so much better than weak-rear end Space Cadet. Fight me. e:  it works on windows 10
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computer parts posted:According to the Steam Hardware survey, 26.6% of users have 1366x768 as their screen resolution, which is second behind 1920x1080 (35.1%). 1920x1080 isn't even that new right? I thought most people would have that by now
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This thread inspired me to go on craigslist and find a Powermac g5 locally so I can run classic mac stuff again. Got one last night for $50 and spent hours playing shadowgate. Still can't believe I was able to score this SUPERCOMPUTER with so many GIGAFLOPS for $50.
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Haha I wanted to buy a G5 but the cheapest one is $300 or $150 for one with a dead hard drive. Keep dreaming dickheads.
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G5 has such a good looking case. I've always been tempted to mod one to fit a modern computer.
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There's a commercial from a while back that shows the inventor of the USB walking through a room while people cheer and hi-five him in slow mo like a sports star or something. USB did do away with so much pain but I got a little irked when I saw it because of the physical design of the port itself - a connector that can fit both ways. How many times have you had to reverse a cable, particularly on a new machine or piece of hardware or if you're in IT and have to deal with racks and new configurations all the time (haven't worked with hardware in years but still)? It's a huge improvement but a notch or other obvious indicator or better yet the ability to insert in either orientation would have made it perfect. Sten Freak has a new favorite as of 16:58 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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I don't know how someone could make a connector that doesn't fit any way you rotate it until you actually look at both the connector and the port to find out which way it goes. They did it.
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Sten Freak posted:There's a commercial from a while back that shows the inventor of the USB walking through a room while people cheer and hi-five him in slow mo like a sports star or something. USB did do away with so much pain but I got a little irked when I saw it because of the physical design of the port itself - a connector that can fit both ways. How many times have you had to reverse a cable, particularly on a new machine or piece of hardware or if you're in IT and have to deal with racks and new configurations all the time (haven't worked with hardware in years but still)? The mystery of the USB, it doesn't fit on the first try, flip it over, it doesn't fit, flip it again and it fits. 
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Sometimes the port is on the back of a machine in a rack, under a desk, in a dark space. That's a lame design.
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know how someone could make a connector that doesn't fit any way you rotate it until you actually look at both the connector and the port to find out which way it goes. They did it. I loving hate the optical cables on my setup for this. like, there's only one way they can possibly go in but until I rotate them 360 degrees at least once both clockwise and counterclockwise, there's no way they're going in.
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The ideal connector shape was used widely in the 70s. Why USB couldn't something similar, with its definite "up" and "down" and a tactile "up" makes no sense.  Thank christ that the smaller form USB connectors use this type of design. I can't even imagine the frustration of a microUSB sized rectangular connector.
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drat, I have or had one of these things laying around, went to take a picture of it but I guess somebody took it. Anyway here's a stock image.
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Germstore posted:G5 has such a good looking case. I've always been tempted to mod one to fit a modern computer. This is probably what I will end up doing when I become bored with Dark Castle and Glider.
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