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I don't know why anyone would want that. The name "commodore" doesn't really evoke high end gaming.
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Bargearse posted:Every now and then, there's talk of reviving Commodore as a brand for premium gaming stuff to compete with Razer and Alienware, but it always goes absolutely nowhere.
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Oct 23, 2019 23:21
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know why anyone would want that. The name "commodore" doesn't really evoke high end gaming. Kodak was used to sell a cryptocurrency scam. Better that Commodore is a generic gaming computer than something worse.
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Oct 23, 2019 23:41
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BRB, buying some quality electronics sporting the storied Bell & Howell name off this late-night infomercial
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Oct 23, 2019 23:54
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know why anyone would want that. The name "commodore" doesn't really evoke high end gaming. No, but it used to for a long time. (Not that it would still make sense.)
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Oct 23, 2019 23:59
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Bargearse posted:Every now and then, there's talk of reviving Commodore as a brand for premium gaming stuff to compete with Razer and Alienware, but it always goes absolutely nowhere. I have another amazing idea for a brand name to bring back from the dead and put on high-end hardware! 
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Oct 24, 2019 00:29
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Powered Descent posted:I have another amazing idea for a brand name to bring back from the dead and put on high-end hardware! I was just about to post that one lol
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Oct 24, 2019 00:36
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Cojawfee posted:I don't know why anyone would want that. The name "commodore" doesn't really evoke high end gaming. It would at least be somewhat in keeping with Commodore’s history.
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Oct 24, 2019 00:39
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Powered Descent posted:I have another amazing idea for a brand name to bring back from the dead and put on high-end hardware! god seeing that logo again is such a nostalgia rush.  That said, I'm buying a little aluminum Commodore badge for my laptop because of this discussion, thanks Etsy
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Oct 24, 2019 01:06
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Buying one to replace the Antec badge on my PC case right now
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Oct 24, 2019 01:08
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I just picked up this baby at the thrift store
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Oct 24, 2019 02:42
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Powered Descent posted:I have another amazing idea for a brand name to bring back from the dead and put on high-end hardware! Gateway 2000, but the old angular gold logo, not the new cow bullshit when they dropped the 2000
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Oct 24, 2019 03:00
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I think cows was always their thing.
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RandomFerret posted:I just picked up this baby at the thrift store I’m not convinced this is better than $35 worth of beer.
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Cojawfee posted:I think cows was always their thing. Hmm, maybe I'm mis-remembering. I knew I should have consulted gatewayhistory.xlsx first RandomFerret posted:I just picked up this baby at the thrift store buddy, I know a thing or three about lovely windows tablets (I'm typing this on one), and I feel you may have gotten worked here
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Oct 24, 2019 03:14
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Oh, it's absolute dogshit garbage and you could probably find the exact same tablet without the polaroid branding new on aliexpress for less than I paid, but gently caress it. Now I have netflix in the bathroom
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Cojawfee posted:I think cows was always their thing. yeah, wasn't the HQ in like iowa or something e: It's South Dakota e2: I was right the first time, why the gently caress did i know that
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Oct 24, 2019 03:16
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Remember when they had Gateway 2000 retail stores that had like hay bales and cow troughs
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:buddy, I know a thing or three about lovely windows tablets (I'm typing this on one), and I feel you may have gotten worked here The other day I was at Walmart getting an oil change so I wandered over to the electronics section to marvel at their selection of horrible computers. One of the only ones that had a working display model was a Windows 10 tablet with a 32 GB eMMC drive. On the display model only 700 megs of that was free  I hope whoever buys that thing doesn't need to install any applications or store any local files.
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Oct 24, 2019 03:49
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Oct 24, 2019 03:51
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Mr.Radar posted:The other day I was at Walmart getting an oil change so I wandered over to the electronics section to marvel at their selection of horrible computers. One of the only ones that had a working display model was a Windows 10 tablet with a 32 GB eMMC drive. On the display model only 700 megs of that was free You have to stick a flash drives into these things just to let them download and install Windows 10 version updates.
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Oct 24, 2019 04:31
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Aren't all tablets mostly poo poo tbh? I've been trying to find a decent droid tablet for awhile, or at least one for netflix and the play store usable with no luck.
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Captainsalami posted:Aren't all tablets mostly poo poo tbh? I've been trying to find a decent droid tablet for awhile, or at least one for netflix and the play store usable with no luck. I have a 2-in-1 Chromebook I'm happy with. Not sure what the state of Windows tablets is, though.
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Captainsalami posted:Aren't all tablets mostly poo poo tbh? I've been trying to find a decent droid tablet for awhile, or at least one for netflix and the play store usable with no luck. The selection of decent tablets is much more limited than decent Android phones. Samsung makes a few that are good (if you can stand Samsung's version of Android) but really you are probably better off getting a Windows 10 tablet or iPad.
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Lowen SoDium posted:The selection of decent tablets is much more limited than decent Android phones. Samsung makes a few that are good (if you can stand Samsung's version of Android) but really you are probably better off getting a Windows 10 tablet or iPad. I really just want one for Netflix and final fantasy record keeper and other mobile games. I dont think my google play stuff would carry over to appe sadly.
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Tablets are pretty much dead. You're better off getting a 2 in 1 chromebook with android and linux support. Some android apps might not work, and I don't think there's USB OTG support yet though. A few niche cases aren't supported, but most things are fine.
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what's the difference between a chromebook and a netbook of ages past? Other than OS I guess.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:what's the difference between a chromebook and a netbook of ages past? Other than OS I guess. My Chromebook isn't underpowered, for one thing.
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Cojawfee posted:Tablets are pretty much dead. You're better off getting a 2 in 1 chromebook with android and linux support. Some android apps might not work, and I don't think there's USB OTG support yet though. A few niche cases aren't supported, but most things are fine. surfaces are actually very much in use, and apple is about to kill off laptops and go to the surface/tablet model
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Grand Prize Winner posted:what's the difference between a chromebook and a netbook of ages past? Other than OS I guess. Netbooks tended to have really small screens, while Chromebooks (even the ones aiming for the Macbook Air demographic) tend to have screens that are scaled properly or sized properly to be useable. I had a bunch of HP netbooks because the place I worked at received a grant and, like, Windows XP was next to unusable without a graphics driver update because a system message window on a screen the size of a large iphone at 600x400 or whatever was just rear end. And Netbooks primarily wanted to maximize the battery so you had these tiny screens and tiny keyboards in low power configurations that were terrible to use all around. I rather think Netbooks made the same mistake that pre-iphone Smart Phones made, in that they smashed stuff into a form factor instead of actually adapting it to make the user experience good. Did it really matter that your netbook could run Photoshop Essentials if you couldn't have any tools of menus open while editing? FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 06:19 on Oct 24, 2019 |
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Netbooks were a cool idea that just wasn't ready yet. Like those tiny slide keyboard computers. It was cool to have a tiny little laptop that could do a bunch of stuff, but it's terrible to work with because it's so small. Now I have a chromebook with a 1080p screen that does nearly everything I want it to.
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Plinkey posted:surfaces are actually very much in use, and apple is about to kill off laptops and go to the surface/tablet model Jesus christ, pick a thing and stick with it. 3-4 years ago, I told my friends that laptops were on their way out because Tablets with keyboard attachments were the future. Everyone told me I was an idiot and everyone needed real laptops. And then tablets went away and everyone was into convertibles, and now it's back to tablets again? What the gently caress?
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I ended up formatting my Eee PC netbook and installing FreeDOS on it. It boots up into Word 6.0 to let my wife write distraction free. There's a little 8GB USB nub plugged in so she can transfer to her laptop when she's done. Well, that was the plan, but after two uses it's just been collecting dust.
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Cojawfee posted:Jesus christ, pick a thing and stick with it. 3-4 years ago, I told my friends that laptops were on their way out because Tablets with keyboard attachments were the future. Everyone told me I was an idiot and everyone needed real laptops. And then tablets went away and everyone was into convertibles, and now it's back to tablets again? What the gently caress? Surfaces and ipads are really popular in the art communities I run in. You can do digital on the go, and ic you're not using them, they're a great animated display for your con table.
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Cojawfee posted:Tablets are pretty much dead. You're better off getting a 2 in 1 chromebook with android and linux support. Some android apps might not work, and I don't think there's USB OTG support yet though. A few niche cases aren't supported, but most things are fine. DicktheCat posted:Surfaces and ipads are really popular in the art communities I run in. You can do digital on the go, and ic you're not using them, they're a great animated display for your con table. Which one is it? 
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Tablets are great for reading and noting stuff on the go . I'm a postgrad finishing his PhD and my life would suck a lot more without my cheap Samsung pad for rifling through articles without having to print them or trying to read them on my laptop. I think academia is one of the main reasons iPads still exist.
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My laptop's power supply died when I was deployed last year and it took 2 weeks for its replacement to show up. I was drat glad I had an Amazon Fire to watch movies on.
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FilthyImp posted:Netbooks tended to have really small screens, while Chromebooks (even the ones aiming for the Macbook Air demographic) tend to have screens that are scaled properly or sized properly to be useable. I had a bunch of HP netbooks because the place I worked at received a grant and, like, Windows XP was next to unusable without a graphics driver update because a system message window on a screen the size of a large iphone at 600x400 or whatever was just rear end. There was a phase where they made them wide but slim, the one I had was like 13"x5" or something like that, 1024x720 or something weird like that. Windows ran like absolute poo poo but HP actually put out a Linux distro for it and that was good enough for word processing and email. Wouldn't have wanted any more than that but it was kinda good that I couldn't do any gaming on that thing when I was in undergrad.
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I picked up a Chromebook about a year ago and my mind is still blown that there are now laptops that can be used on your lap.
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FilthyImp posted:Netbooks tended to have really small screens, while Chromebooks (even the ones aiming for the Macbook Air demographic) tend to have screens that are scaled properly or sized properly to be useable. I had a bunch of HP netbooks because the place I worked at received a grant and, like, Windows XP was next to unusable without a graphics driver update because a system message window on a screen the size of a large iphone at 600x400 or whatever was just rear end. The second gen (most popular) netbooks were 1024x600 which was just not quite enough resolution to be a good experience. Where they really failed is that it is an aspect ratio that does not work well with a lot of Windows apps: So many times, you would get a window popping up and the 'OK' button was below the bottom of the screen and unclickable. Then they seemed to go down the route of getting a little bit more powerful at the expense of a lot of battery life: I remember HP did one that seemed really nice, apart from a <2hr battery life on a device designed to be used on the go. Finally, they got expensive and one of the joys of the original netbooks was that they were cheap and cheerful and you could throw them in a backpack and not worry too much.
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