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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005


apple bought the company that made the range sensing tech in the kinect, so they had no means of really continuing it

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pram
Jun 10, 2001
good

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

the xbonx will be hilarious if only to watch the insane logic microsoft will use to try to claim that it's not a failure for the next 6 months

"best selling HDMI 2.1 console"
"fastest preordered six teraflop system ever"
"80 petabytes of os updates downloaded in the last 30 days"

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

what was the windows laptop everyone was crowing about recently? i have a friend who asked for a windows laptop reocmmendation and although it goes against my better judgement as an apple fuckboy, i want to give a reasonable recommendation

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
xps 15. the current model is the 9560. get the 4k touch screen.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Last Chance posted:

what was the windows laptop everyone was crowing about recently? i have a friend who asked for a windows laptop reocmmendation and although it goes against my better judgement as an apple fuckboy, i want to give a reasonable recommendation
The surface book 2 comes out next month.

If you can't wait the macbook pro is available 2day and can run windows!

If you want a cheap plasticy laptop only a shaggar could love then get a dell I guess.

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

or the x1c (lenovo is mostly bad, but the x and t thinkpads are still good)

the x1c is expensive but i maintain it is the actual no-headaches mbp-like on the pc side

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
yeah the surface book 2 might be good, but the price is a little silly.

lol @ getting a mac book pro tho. those things are turds.

Sapozhnik
Jan 2, 2005

Nap Ghost
agreed, x1s carbon are good

especially when they run linux

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Shaggar posted:

lol @ getting a mac book pro tho. those things are turds.

once u go mac u never go back

necrotic
Aug 2, 2005
I owe my brother big time for this!

akadajet posted:

once u go mac u never go back

:wrong: i switched to lenovo and don't ever want an alluminum tin can again

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER


Last Chance posted:

what was the windows laptop everyone was crowing about recently? i have a friend who asked for a windows laptop reocmmendation and although it goes against my better judgement as an apple fuckboy, i want to give a reasonable recommendation

there was a heated debate in which two conclusions were reached:

if you want a good laptop with windows you have to pay all the money

alternatively pay as little as humanly possible and buy a new laptop annually

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

akadajet posted:

once u go mac u never go back

because ur stuck in the past where u had to go to get the mac book

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

thanks for your windows advice everybody i appreciate it

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
if you get it from the Microsoft store its also $100 cheaper than from dell.

jony neuemonic
Nov 13, 2009

is it worth replacing the stock xps wifi card? it looks pretty trivial and mine gets like 1/3rd the speed of any other device in the house.

kinda wish i had gone x1c.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
what if zfs, but on windows https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/922924249462870022 additionally

https://github.com/lundman/zfsin posted:

Download free development Windows 10 image from Microsoft.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines

and create two VMs.

The newer VM images comes with Visual Studio 2017, but this is currently not compatible with Kernel Development. At the moment, the correct version to use is Visual Studio 2015 update 3. You can download and install it for free. But it can be a challenge to find as Microsoft hides it well. They also put VCredist 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2017 on there but skipped 2015 for some reason. They dropped the ball that day. You will have to use Add/Remove Programs to uninstall 2017 version before you can install 2015.

pram
Jun 10, 2001

jony neuemonic posted:

is it worth replacing the stock xps wifi card? it looks pretty trivial and mine gets like 1/3rd the speed of any other device in the house.

kinda wish i had gone x1c.

the yospos approved windows laptop sounds like a real piece of poo poo

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
theres no reason to replace the wifi card afaik.

jony neuemonic
Nov 13, 2009

pram posted:

the yospos approved windows laptop sounds like a real piece of poo poo

it’s fine though the bad keyboard (not macbook bad though, thankfully) and bad wifi are starting to annoy me.

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Why not just get Wirecutter's pick for this year's best Chromebook, throw the world's best Operating System (Windows 7) on it, and just get a new one next year?

:shrug:

Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Oct 25, 2017

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
wirecutter and sweethome have some good suggestions imho

jony neuemonic
Nov 13, 2009

also windows sucks out loud at sleep battery life but that’s probably not xps-specific.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

pram posted:

the yospos approved windows laptop sounds like a real piece of poo poo
and then there is the matter of its os (it is a pos)

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/923283844815638528

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
idgi

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
idgi

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

all the extra white space, maybe? idgi

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
the whitespace is there cause when you click on a thing in the exchange admin ui details show up there. if you expand the window the list expands w/ it so idk what the responsive is about

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
exchange control panel is especially poo poo with chrome

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
it sounds like twitter user Taylor Swift But On The Internet (LOL can you IMAGINE someone like Taylor Swift doing COMPUTERS....LMAO) should learn how to use powershell

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

look what you su made me do

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

flakeloaf posted:

look what you su made me do

pram
Jun 10, 2001

anthonypants posted:

it sounds like twitter user Taylor Swift But On The Internet (LOL can you IMAGINE someone like Taylor Swift doing COMPUTERS....LMAO) should learn how to use powershell

lol

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars



apple buying and bullying their way into having the only even potentially capable and reliable computer hardware, mostly using it on disposable shackled computing, and not necessarily even making it reliable anymore: cool and good

sure why not

pram
Jun 10, 2001
lmao :qq:

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer
Windows 10 continues to drop my primary network like a hot potato no matter what channel it's set to and various other settings, but it connects just fine to the guest network that has literally on the exact same router.

On a lark I even changed the ssid of the network in case there was a corrupted profile hidden deep inside windows but no joy. After connecting for a few minutes it just quietly fails over to my guest network. Fuckin windows.

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

I CANNOT HELP BUT MAKE THE DCSS THREAD A FETID SWAMP OF UNFUN POSTING
plz notice me trunk-senpai
does the surface book 2 still run windows RT oops I mean windows S?

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


Amethyst posted:

does the surface book 2 still run windows RT oops I mean windows S?

hope not; windows s is disgusting in principle

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dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


too x86 for rt though

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