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We lost most of our PC parts shops in our area, but the funny thing is that the ones that stayed open have the least amount of new stuff on their shelves while the ones that closed had good prices and a lot of selection.
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Jerry Cotton posted:One reason hotel TVs (at least around here) don't really have standard inputs is that they're less likely to get stolen. Where do you live that hotels have TVs stole regularly? You have to have a credit card on file.
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I'm from germany too and for a while around the late 90s early 00s you couldn't throw a stone in the bigger cities without hitting the window of a computer store. They all died. There are still a few around but I think they're only around because they also sell online. (I personally have gotten wary from buying from small stores off ebay etc. because they make a huge fuss about returns or do other shady crap) I've also got a relative living in the US that comes back to visit sometimes and every single time I got this fantasy regarding cheap merchandise and I look up stuff online to see if he can bring me something from the states cheap and the result besides some rare exceptions always ultimately is that it's not worth the bother, only when the dollar is particularly weak. (The Euro is pretty weak itself right now in relation to the US-dollar which makes this even less worth it) One wtf thing computer related you're somehow not getting here is these small and complete x86 based systems like the Liva X. Somehow you just don't get them here and people also don't seem to be interested a lot which is kinda funny because power is outrageously expensive here. Police Automaton has a new favorite as of 01:03 on Mar 6, 2016 |
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Mar 6, 2016 00:58
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A couple years back some pictures surfaced online of a store in Eastern Europe. It was a computer store in the 90s that shut down for whatever reason. It still had displays advertising Windows 95.
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Mar 6, 2016 01:02
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Off topic, but why can't i find a 5.25 bay card reader thing that doesn't look like poo poo? Preferably one with some spare USBs, maybe one of those charger ports too. There was like one that looked decent and had good features but the reviews all say it just stops reading cards at some point, wtf. I guess the obvious solution is to use an external, and I do, but it would be helpful in my line of work to not have to dig around for the cable every time and all that poo poo.
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Mar 6, 2016 01:07
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Bovril Delight posted:Where do you live that hotels have TVs stole regularly? You have to have a credit card on file. Credit card? Credit is for poor people.
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Mar 6, 2016 01:11
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theultimo posted:I just picked up a 17 inch gaming laptop. Heavy as hell, but I'd recommend it to anyone who want a bit of portability and still have playable games My wife wanted to play games but insisted she wanted a laptop so she could easily clear it off her desk and have a clear workspace. Now she has a 17" gaming laptop which she says is too heavy for her to lift so I have to do it or else I might find out how well it deals with being dropped  I hope the thing at least lasts a few years.
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Mar 6, 2016 01:50
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I've wondered how viable carrying around a tiny desktop computer would be for people who travel for work or are couch surfing, since HDTVs with HDMI inputs that you can use as a display are ubiquitous these days. I could see a suitcase form factor computer with a keyboard that clips to the side like an old timey portable computer actually being useful. Probably only for very specialized applications (i.e. hardcore gamers who are also homeless), ever since laptops started becoming super-common. But speaking of hauling desktops around, I remember going to LAN parties around the year 2000 (  ) using something like this to haul the tower around: Unfortunately everyone's monitor (almost always a 17-inch or 19-inch CRT) was bigger, heavier and more awkward than the computer itself, and the shape wasn't anywhere near standard enough for anyone to make carrying straps for them. Still, for one of the two or three trips to the car, you'd feel like a total pro, carrying your tower with a real handle, while all those other scrubs had to use both arms for theirs. Monitors were the great equalizer -- we ALL had to carry it the old fashioned way, hoping that our ropey little arms didn't give out and let it bounce down the basement stairs.
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Buttcoin purse posted:My wife wanted to play games but insisted she wanted a laptop so she could easily clear it off her desk and have a clear workspace. Now she has a 17" gaming laptop which she says is too heavy for her to lift so I have to do it or else I might find out how well it deals with being dropped gently caress me man even a huge gaming laptop is gonna be like 10 lbs max are you married to an 80 year old
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Mar 6, 2016 02:54
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TheWhiteNightmare posted:gently caress me man even a huge gaming laptop is gonna be like 10 lbs max
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Mar 6, 2016 03:11
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She just likes to remind him that he's a bitch.
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Mar 6, 2016 03:31
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lol if you don't just stick it under your armpit, with your fingertips barely gripping the bottom whilst simultaneously holding another bag of stuff, and your shoulder slightly dislocated, LIKE A PRO Cojawfee posted:She just likes to remind him that he's a bitch. It's probably this.
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Mar 6, 2016 03:36
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Buttcoin purse posted:lol if you don't just stick it under your armpit, with your fingertips barely gripping the bottom whilst simultaneously holding another bag of stuff, and your shoulder slightly dislocated, LIKE A PRO Don't forget banging it on random things while walking out.
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Mar 6, 2016 03:42
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And stuffing several systems and monitors into the back of a tiny hatchback or my mate's disintegrating Holden Gemini. This would become a game of human tetris as the battered vehicle would doorstop on the way to the event and everything get reshuffled around to fit in another system while cursing at the individual who upgraded to a full tower which could only just fit behind the passenger seat that was pushed forward. My Lan monitor used to be a tiny 14" from my 486 days which slowly got softer and softer; "poor man's AA".
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Mar 6, 2016 04:42
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Buttcoin purse posted:which she says is too heavy for her to lift Sever
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Mar 6, 2016 05:36
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handles on computers you say? 
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Mar 6, 2016 06:18
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The gum drops are semi-mobile space heaters with a passive heat sink. I had a iMac DV G3 400MHz for years until I decided to OC it by messing with some resistors. Got it up to 450MHz. Not surprisingly, it got hotter.
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Mar 6, 2016 06:26
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Light Gun Man posted:Off topic, but why can't i find a 5.25 bay card reader thing that doesn't look like poo poo? Preferably one with some spare USBs, maybe one of those charger ports too. There was like one that looked decent and had good features but the reviews all say it just stops reading cards at some point, wtf. not only do they look like poo poo, those things are pretty much poo poo too the one i have in my computer broke after like 6 months. I got one of those ones with "charging ports" and it had a molex power connector on it thing was, if you plugged in the molex power, the power would backfeed through the usb connector to the mobo and it made my DVD drives go nuts and my computer wouldn't turn on. if you need more front USB ports just get one with some usb ports that go straight to the usb header on the mobo.
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Mar 6, 2016 06:37
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:not only do they look like poo poo, those things are pretty much poo poo too Man that sucks. I don't see what's so drat hard about making a decent one of these things.
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Mar 6, 2016 07:06
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Light Gun Man posted:Man that sucks. I don't see what's so drat hard about making a decent one of these things. Almost nobody is willing to pay for a really nice one. They are gettable and are sold to forensics people and normally have write blocking features etc. Edit: I've checked it out, the Atech Flash Pro-77U is supposedly good and recommended by people doing digital photography work. It's about $60 USD, so a factor of ten less than the forensic grade gear. yoloer420 has a new favorite as of 09:45 on Mar 6, 2016 |
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Mar 6, 2016 09:41
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Wow, thanks, that one has not once come up in several rounds of shopping for one of these. Added to wish list for later! And yeah, I want it for photography purposes, so it sounds like the best match to my wants I am likely to find.
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Mar 6, 2016 10:02
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Casimir Radon posted:I'm apparently not staying in the right hotels. If this was a bit more commonplace then the portable desktop would be a great idea. Hotels are just going to have to accept that people would rather crowd around an iPad to watch a movie than get gouged on pay-per-view.
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Can I ask for this here? There was a gif you used to see all over the web of a 2 little computers, one a mac, one a pc, you'd see the windows and apple logo boot and they'd say "mac sucks, no windows sucks" and one would shoot up the other, and the first would smack the second with a bat. Try as I might I cannot find this loving thing anywhere. Hope it didn't die with Geocities. Is there a collection of early web animated gifs somewhere? Edit: This loving thing right here.  Animated Mother loving Gifs! http://www.heathersanimations.com/computers.html Vanagoon has a new favorite as of 00:29 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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Mar 6, 2016 19:43
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https://youtu.be/I-SUu4epa-g Speaking of old Mac parodies!
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Mar 7, 2016 00:12
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thathonkey posted:handles on computers you say? 
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Original_Z posted:https://youtu.be/I-SUu4epa-g Here's to the crazy ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY57NgcZ8C0
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The C128 Plastic model (there was a cheaper, metal one) has also a carrying handle  You can pull it out, feels fairly solid. You have to know that the Mainboard inside sits in a massive metal cage so it's pretty heavy. (Fun fact about that - The mainboard often won't work outside of this massive metal cage because of lack of grounding/interference)    On the backside you also have these hooks where you can put it on a cord and sling it over the shoulder, on the underside you can snap the keyboard into the case for transport. The plastic hooks are not very solid and on many units you see they have snapped off, I don't know if that was from carrying though as I can't imagine why anyone would want to carry around a C128 like this.   It's a strange little computer, or rather two computers in one. One part C64, another part an all around more powerful Z80-powered 8 bit machine with RGB (digital RGB, like EGA) capabilities shipped with CP/M right around the time where the Amiga 1000 was released. (you can see the case even looks similar to the Amiga 1000) Commodore wanted to make a serious 8-bit machine for business and apparently didn't really trust itself to pull it off, so they also put in a complete C64 in it for compatibility. CP/M is nice and all but slow on this thing and also you couldn't get a lot of software, so the most useful thing as end-user you could do with the C128 part is running GEOS I'd say, especially if you had a RAM Module. (Wonder if anyone remembers/knows GEOS) Again a perfect example for Commodore competing with it's own products. (and failing) I don't think you had the plastic version in America or at least if you had it it wasn't widespread. You mainly had the cost-reduced metal version which didn't have these mobile features AFAIK but had some improvements in graphic capability of the C128 Part IIRC. E: Also this thing needs active cooling because of the cramped case and the fan is LOUD. Police Automaton has a new favorite as of 01:53 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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Mar 7, 2016 01:48
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Yes except the GameCube is cool and good 
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Mar 7, 2016 01:53
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I still have a gamecube it functions perfectly and boots up so fast. Nintendo makes some drat near indestructable hardware... Ive got a wii also that has been crushed and stepped on a number of times that still works fine even though the shell fractured
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thathonkey posted:Nintendo makes some drat near indestructable hardware... That's because it's made out of Nintendium - The hardest, most durable material known to mankind
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Mar 7, 2016 02:42
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I have TWO bongo controllers.
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Just thought I'd brag.
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Police Automaton posted:the most useful thing as end-user you could do with the C128 part is running GEOS I'd say, especially if you had a RAM Module. (Wonder if anyone remembers/knows GEOS) I learned about GEOS recently by watching Computer Chronicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XLgAR_vmZo I only ever used C64s at friends houses and K-Mart, so never really knew much about them, found the show interesting.
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Mar 7, 2016 04:01
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y cant these types of things be public information right now
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Let us reminisce the greatest handle computer of all, the computer that Tony Stark himself uses in the Iron Man movie: The Dell XPS M2010. That's a 20" LCD in a portable computer. However, Tony Stark did not look like this carrying it around:  They were also giant pieces of poo poo that had hardware that constantly needed to be replaced. Edit: The text is in Russian, but Google translate will take care of that, and the pictures are good: http://www.3dnews.ru/265568
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Vanagoon posted:That's because it's made out of Nintendium - The hardest, most durable material known to mankind My original SNES fell from a ledge and took a tumble down a flight of hardwood stairs, shattering the plastic casing and bending and cracking the exposed mainboard in a few places. It still worked perfectly, so I sloppily glued the many, many pieces of the case back together and used it until emulators caught up on PC. If I hadn't thrown it in the trash, I think it would still be working today.
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It's a shame the Dell M2010 had so many hardware issues, I love the shape and the sheer ridiculousness of it This is my favorite video review of it, annoyingly not on youtube: http://www.cnet.com/videos/20-inch-laptop-on-the-london-underground/
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Jerry Cotton posted:I have TWO bongo controllers. I don't even have one and now I feel lower then garbage 
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Vanagoon posted:That's because it's made out of Nintendium - The hardest, most durable material known to mankind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo Obligatory.
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Oh my god this owns and I'd love to get one that was better quality, that's awesome.
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