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Oh, dang. Going to check there next time a family member needs a new machine. Thanks! Sorry about the multiple posts. On mobile.
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Are HP laptops good now? I remember about a decade ago that everyone who had a HP laptop had them overheat in about a year.
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Jan 18, 2017 22:55
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mariooncrack posted:Are HP laptops good now? I remember about a decade ago that everyone who had a HP laptop had them overheat in about a year. The trick is: Never go for consumer models. Always go for Enterprise models.
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Jan 18, 2017 22:57
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CommieGIR posted:The trick is: Never go for consumer models. Always go for Enterprise models. Vendor doesn't give a gently caress about enterprise models lasting more than 3 years.
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Jan 18, 2017 23:00
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puberty worked me over posted:Vendor doesn't give a gently caress about enterprise models lasting more than 3 years. No, there is a build quality and maintainability difference.
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Jan 18, 2017 23:04
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or you can you a macbook for 6+ years with no problem 
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Jan 18, 2017 23:05
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funny Star Wars parody posted:or you can you a macbook for 6+ years with no problem I have Dell Precisions older than that, and they are still in use. This is not a magic property only Mac's have. Just don't cost as much and have better parts availability. And I don't have to deal with a 'Genius Bar'
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Jan 18, 2017 23:09
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CommieGIR posted:No, there is a build quality and maintainability difference. The last elitebook/latitute/t-series I've seen with any semblance of build quality was about 10 years ago.
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CommieGIR posted:I have Dell Precisions older than that, and they are still in use. This is not a magic property only Mac's have. Just don't cost as much and have better parts availability. a huge number of the macs customers brought in were 10+ years old and they only wanted to know how to clear their cookies Macs (at least until the touchbar monstrosity) are the superior computer
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Jan 18, 2017 23:11
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my latitude e6540 and my thinkpad T430 from work are both garbo with poo poo build quality and i strongly dislike them the thinkpad is the better of the two but the trackpad drives me bonkers
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Jan 18, 2017 23:12
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funny Star Wars parody posted:my latitude e6540 and my thinkpad T430 from work are both garbo with poo poo build quality and i strongly dislike them God help you if they give you a T440/T450/T460. Lenovo just keeps getting worse with each generation.
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Jan 18, 2017 23:16
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puberty worked me over posted:God help you if they give you a T440/T450/T460. Lenovo just keeps getting worse with each generation. i just looked and yup it's a t460 not a 430 
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Jan 18, 2017 23:23
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funny Star Wars parody posted:my latitude e6540 and my thinkpad T430 from work are both garbo with poo poo build quality and i strongly dislike them Both of these are entry level Enterprise laptops. Comparing them to an Elitebook or a Precision is laughable. But yeah, I should've been more specific. http://valid.x86.fr/ts58tz This came out in 2011, but I can upgrade graphics cards, push it up to 32 GB of RAM, and run three seperate hard disks plus up to 4 screens, and upgrade the CPU. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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Jan 18, 2017 23:24
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Computers are loving garbage no matter the brand. The Apple/PC pissing match gets really old quick.
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puberty worked me over posted:God help you if they give you a T440/T450/T460. Lenovo just keeps getting worse with each generation. There is no way it can be worse than my W540. The wifi antenna comes loose if I put the computer in my bag so I have to carry a screwdriver with it until I can buy some Kapton tape. It's also on motherboard #3.
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Jan 18, 2017 23:48
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Macs (at least until the touchbar monstrosity) are the superior computer LOL No they arent LOL
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On laptop chat, today is a momentous day -- I do not have a warranty on my laptop. That's the first time since 2006 -- ON ONE DELL ORDER. I bought an M1710 for $2200 in 2006 with their Complete Care warranty, they couldn't give me a laptop that lasted more than a year or year and a half, each time replaced with a "like or better" unit. It was an ordeal with Dell Hell every time, but they replaced about 7 or 8 laptops since the original purchase. I took advantage of warranty extensions that were offered on some of the replacements, $350 one time for a couple years, $600 another time for a few years. It caused much strife with Dell, since I was fully outside their system (that said no more than 4 years, total, of warranty on a purchase), I ended up speaking directly with one of their senior VPs on a couple replacements, but it was a fun ride. As it is, I ended up with an Alienware 17 R4, i7-6700HQ, 32gb ram, 970 vid card and a couple x.2 drives. One of my better deals.  Insurance ended yesterday.
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Seminal Flu posted:As it is, I ended up with an Alienware 17 R4, i7-6700HQ, 32gb ram, 970 vid card and a couple x.2 drives. One of my better deals. Alienware was kind of floundering under Dell for a while, till Michael came back. Michael Dell is probably the only reason Dell didn't end up like HP. 
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Jan 18, 2017 23:59
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CommieGIR posted:Alienware was kind of floundering under Dell for a while, till Michael came back. Michael Dell is probably the only reason Dell didn't end up like HP. I can tell you, from experience, that some of then were pure crap. The M17x R4 I had before this one, though, was a goddamned tank. This one has been solid, I had my first accidental repair on it (out of the entire 10 years, all were machine failures other than this) when my dog knocked it over and stomped the UHD display.  Hopefully this last one lasts for a while.
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BraveUlysses posted:Is there a polite way to respond to Craigslisters who are only smart enough to ask "how low will you go" Yeah, respond with a price 20% than your listed price. It's like 'gently caress YOU', but more polite.
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I bought a cheapo gateway gaming laptop in 2009. It was flimsy then, and it's flimsy now, but it still runs like a beast. i can deflect the screen an inch or two either way, and deflect the body about an inch either way. I was sure within a few years the screen would fail and fall off or something like that, but it's still going. They only release a driver for the video card about once a year, but it still keeps on trucking, paying most newer games.
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Lightbulb Out posted:Computers are loving garbage no matter the brand. The Apple/PC pissing match gets really old quick.
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Jan 19, 2017 00:25
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Hunter Harrison is out at CP Rail, who wants to take bets on whether he ends up at Amtrak?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Hunter Harrison is out at CP Rail, who wants to take bets on whether he ends up at Amtrak? But are the trains okay? how are the trains?
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I exchanged help polishing and waxing a '95 Eclipse GS-T thats pushing 26lbs of boost for a ride in it. Its hilariously fast until it hits the limits of the injectors and cuts fuel in 3rd gear. It isn't tuned either, so its rich as gently caress off bost, going lean on boost. And oh so violent the whole way through.  And we made the 25 year old paint look good. Even with the clear coat peeling in spots and it having weird scratches where panels meet each other, you could see a perfect reflection in it by the time we were done. 
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My mums still rocking my original white Core2 duo MacBook from 2004. It's on it's 2nd battery but still chugging along. Apples new fetish with soldering everything to the board is why I'm still hanging onto my old 2012 MacBook Pro because it's the last one before the Retina display but I can still upgrade the ram and removed the optical drive to run twin HDD's in it. In other news, some days I hate working in a place the public can access. Last week we had a solenoid on one of our picnic areas jam on and not turn the sprinklers off. So we dug that mess up cos it was 600mm underground for SOME REASON, and got it fixed. The over the weekend some shitheel jumped out temp fencing, grabbed a brick from the dirt pile from the hole and threw it in and smashed the pipe, flooding the whole area. Then we found that the isolation valve didn't close off properly so we had to dig that out to replace it. And that's when we found that the tee off the 1200kpa 4" main line wasn't a glued joint from a previous half arsed repair and it blew out. Replacing one solenoid has turned into an entire weeks job and a trench that would impress a western front soldier.
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My biggest problem with using Macs is learning the terminology and how obtuse they made relatively basic tools. Give me basic access to a Windows style control panel with clearly labeled tools and I have no issue with the platform. Business practices are another story, but I don't really care since they're not what I'd even look at buying I've got a cheapo Lenovo netbook that I use for school because it's so tiny and it has touch screen input. It's barely able to run XCOM:EW, but it works for what I need out of it. I've been going back and forth on building an actual PC for a while, but I don't want to spend a few hundred dollars on another toy that I don't need
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Ferremit posted:My mums still rocking my original white Intel didn't release the Core2 Duo until 2006, and Apple wasn't even using Intel processors at all until that year.  My Apple laptop from 2004 has a G4 in it.
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fridge corn come save us from this Mac vs PC pissing match, please!
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MrChips posted:fridge corn come save us from this Mac vs PC pissing match, please! Pissing match? Is Donald Trump a poster?
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Speaking of macs, I still have to get my Powerbook 5300 up and running for some sweet Escape Velocity action. Good thing I lost the diagram I drew after I stopped halfway through re-celling the battery in 2011
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The Door Frame posted:I've been going back and forth on building an actual PC for a while, but I don't want to spend a few hundred dollars on another toy that I don't need This is me, basically. I really just need a SSD for archiving photos. Beyond that, anything can handle what I want to do (youtube, forums, office, etc). That being said, I really want something that can play Kerbal Space Program decently, so I might need to investigate those refurbished laptops.
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Shrugs Not Drugs posted:Speaking of macs, I still have to get my Powerbook 5300 up and running for some sweet Escape Velocity action. I wonder if that would run in sheepshaver. Otherwise, isn't there a Windows and OSX port of Nova? I have a 5300ce, but the ribbon cable for the display got torn so it's just a pile of parts somewhere.
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so cars hey
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Shrugs Not Drugs posted:Speaking of macs, I still have to get my Powerbook 5300 up and running for some sweet Escape Velocity action. You have a Firebook? I can probably help you out with this. We should hang out again soon. Raluek posted:I wonder if that would run in sheepshaver. Otherwise, isn't there a Windows and OSX port of Nova? Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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SquirrelGrip posted:so cars hey I like cars and cinema, art, fashion, architecture. I had a satisfying chat with an old mate last week about fine art, and an individual's definition of a "luxury" item. Where do you set the threshold for a luxury? Is it "anything beyond the bare minimum to survive" - bread and water? Is a can of beans a luxury? meltie fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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Jan 19, 2017 02:14
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meltie posted:I like cars my favourite car is the te27 corolla, yeah buddy
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SquirrelGrip posted:my favourite car is the te27 corolla, yeah buddy You have good taste but it's not as good as it could be. I'm thinking RA24 Celica.
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Say what you want about apples hardware robustness but I just dropped my iPhone 6s in a gravel workshop yard and my coworker ran over it with a 3.5T bobcat. hosed the case and added some nice scratches to the back but it's still perfectly fine and working! Didn't even break the screen or screen protector!
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You have good taste but it's not as good as it could be. I'm thinking RA24 Celica. you need to consider whats on the inside, rxx engines were not good. 2tg extremely good and cool
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