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90s Solo Cup posted:I used to spend $1200-$1300 on mid-tier laptops with decent specs -- dedicated graphics, even. My last laptop buy? A used Surface Book I picked up from a local pawn shop for $300. And it's not so much a laptop as it is a tablet with a glorified keyboard dock that happens to be good at laptop stuff. Why would you pay the luxury tax on a Macbook while receiving an inferior product?
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*indignantly points to Apple logo while sipping overpriced Starbucks latte*Humphreys posted:My current car I took the drastic length of buying a complete dash of the newer version (2008 to 2010 upgrade). That way I had an infotainment system, could still have AC controls and USB/Bluetooth. This cost $2000 in OEM parts and then VIN flashing the new stereo, reflashing the HVAC to have the new firmware, then resistors to fake the thermocouples it expected values from. Oh and an adaptor loom. It is incredibly janky but works completely 100% with steering wheel controls etc. Right now I'm figuring out how to add Bluetooth to my current car -- a 2001 with a semi-primitive nav system. I'd like a larger touchscreen, too, but installing an AliExpress special means ditching the auxiliary climate/radio controls and I'm not keen on running everything through the touchscreen. I still want my physical buttons. Seriously, the nav interface in this car is hilariously sluggish and wonky and the maps are hopelessly outdated. Waze beats it hands down.
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Jul 31, 2020 09:06
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I put a peanut butter sandwich in the slot of the family VCR circa 1992. It's probably my earliest memory alongside Dune, Wheel of Fortune, Sim Earth, and World Class Leaderboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJNfMqEK7VI
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Jul 31, 2020 09:08
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90s Solo Cup posted:If you're just surfing the internet or using Office, a low-end laptop will cover 90% of your needs. And while on-board graphics used to suck something fierce, the latest stuff can handle light to moderate gaming, too. It's not a laptop, but the mini-ITX board in my DIY NAS has a passively cooled 10w TDP Atom-based Celeron and takes SO-DIMM memory, so it's basically laptop hardware. The onboard GPU can do four simultaneous 4K transcodes at better than realtime speed without bogging down, and it's 2018-spec hardware. It's crazy.
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Jul 31, 2020 09:21
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90s Solo Cup posted:*indignantly points to Apple logo while sipping overpriced Starbucks latte* I kinda lied about buying a newer version... I'm eyeing off a Jap R35 Skyline with a separate popup nav screen which looks nifty as all gently caress. I've been reading up on screen mirroring from my phone.... I'm almost going to buy the drat car JUST to gently caress with it.
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Jul 31, 2020 10:59
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All I did to add a nav system to my car was buy a mount and holder from https://www.proclipusa.com/ took about 5 minutes to install
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Iron Crowned posted:All I did to add a nav system to my car was buy a mount and holder from https://www.proclipusa.com/ took about 5 minutes to install You are a different kind of human. One that uses logic. Go away.
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Jul 31, 2020 13:06
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90s Solo Cup posted:*indignantly points to Apple logo while sipping overpriced Starbucks latte* I bought a Bluetooth module there that my car thinks is the optional CD changer. The physical buttons like track skip work, and even auto switches source if you get a call. I also have a proclip mount to go with it.
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Jul 31, 2020 13:09
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90s Solo Cup posted:*indignantly points to Apple logo while sipping overpriced Starbucks latte* Remember, every single person who uses an Apple laptop is an idiot who makes decisions based only on brands. That's why I bought an Asus Republic of Gamers laptop with the extra RGB upgrade, and a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra! Sure, they might cost a bit more, but this way everyone will know I'm a true nerd and not some vaguely gay-coded hipster stereotype. Wouldn't want people to laugh at me for thinking about using an Apple product! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 31, 2020 13:54
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Jul 31, 2020 13:56
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Space Gopher posted:Remember, every single person who uses an Apple laptop is an idiot who makes decisions based only on brands. Sorry about your brand loyalty
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Jul 31, 2020 14:06
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Jul 31, 2020 14:17
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Has Anyone Really Been Brand Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like Loyalty?
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Jul 31, 2020 14:25
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The very best in obsolete and failed technology is brand wars. I'd even go as far and say that brand stereotyping is the best indication of an idiotic rear end in a top hat
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Jul 31, 2020 15:01
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i just dislike apple because its design is opposite to what i like on all counts: i like straight lines, angles, physical buttons, durable plastic, repairability and customization and apple actively hates all of that. the old thinkpads are my ideal laptop designs
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Jul 31, 2020 15:16
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I do sort of miss the period when you could replace the CD drive with another battery or disk, all the memory was socketed, and you could even swap the CPU if you felt optimistic. On the other hand, I've never really felt the need to upgrade anything on my current laptop except the storage - and that's about the only thing that's still socketed, so fair enough.
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Jul 31, 2020 16:11
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Computer viking posted:I do sort of miss the period when you could replace the CD drive with another battery or disk, all the memory was socketed, and you could even swap the CPU if you felt optimistic. I had a laptop with an expansion slot and I was able to put a network card in it, and thought that was so loving cool. lol.
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Jul 31, 2020 16:14
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Space Gopher posted:Remember, every single person who uses an Apple laptop is an idiot who makes decisions based only on brands. lmao Humphreys posted:I'm eyeing off a Jap R35 Skyline I envy you Australians. 
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Jul 31, 2020 17:15
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LifeSunDeath posted:I had a laptop with an expansion slot and I was able to put a network card in it, and thought that was so loving cool. lol. I had a laptop with PCMCIA and ExpressCard slots! Too bad I didn't have anything to take advantage of the latter. Can't find anything like that today. Most laptops have ditched optical media in the neverending pursuit of thinness.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:27
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The closest thing to that feeling today is probably thunderbolt over USB-C. I haven't made any use of it, but having multiple lanes of PCI-E in a convenient external port is kind of cool. The idea of being able to plug a gaming GPU into a USB port and actually getting good performance is the sort of thing that would sound like a joke not too long ago - and you even get multiple slots in the eGPU boxes, so I could stuff a 10GBe card and a SAS controller in there and run a fileserver off an ultrabook if I were feeling silly.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:34
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Space Gopher posted:Remember, every single person who uses an Apple laptop is an idiot who makes decisions based only on brands. Lol at that bullshit probe
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Jul 31, 2020 18:42
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Quit gettin' mad about brands.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:47
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Moon Slayer posted:Quit gettin' mad about brands. no
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Last Chance posted:Lol at that bullshit probe Nah. it's valid.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:50
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I got an iphone because my cyborg hearing aids work better with Apple stuff, and also my car has carplay or whatever it's called which is nice as well I miss my Samsung Note but not enough to care, I also don't really like / dislike this iphone, as I can listen to Spotify directly conducted to my cochlea which is pretty slick and shout at my car which is awesome. It's the brain music and shouting at a car which is cool, not what badge the device has on it.
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Jul 31, 2020 19:47
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Moon Slayer posted:Quit gettin' mad about brands. You guys seriously need to be shown this pic  every time? What is this, reddit?
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Jul 31, 2020 20:02
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90s Solo Cup posted:*indignantly points to Apple logo while sipping overpriced Starbucks latte* Apple detractors seem way more obsessed with that logo than people who actually use Apple products.
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Jul 31, 2020 20:04
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Shibawanko posted:i just dislike apple because its design is opposite to what i like on all counts: i like straight lines, angles, physical buttons, durable plastic, repairability and customization and apple actively hates all of that. the old thinkpads are my ideal laptop designs Somewhat relevant, but I hate the continuing trend of software where they remove all words and hide everything behind a couple vague icons. In another few years, they'll have everything consolidated under a single icon.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:17
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Johnny Aztec posted:Somewhat relevant, but I hate the continuing trend of software where they remove all words and hide everything behind a couple vague icons. Then we can have small phones again! e: reports coming in that it is one very large icon so phones remain huge
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Jul 31, 2020 21:24
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taqueso posted:Then we can have small phones again! I can kind of understand on phones,but they've been pulling this poo poo on PC.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:26
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I always wanted a Packard-Bell because of the brand.
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Jul 31, 2020 21:43
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We had a packard bell when I was kid. The name sounded super cool.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I had a laptop with an expansion slot and I was able to put a network card in it, and thought that was so loving cool. lol. My Thinkpad X220i has been upgraded from 4 to 8GB RAM and from a 320GB HDD to a 500GB SSD. It has had the crappy 2.4GHz WLAN card replaced with a fancy dual-band card and the extra antenna added to make proper use of it. It has an ExpressCard slot, so I put a USB 3.0 card in there just because I could. I don't think there's much more I can easily upgrade, putting a full HD IPS panel in it is a bit more complicated, but certainly possible.
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monolithburger posted:I put a peanut butter sandwich in the slot of the family VCR circa 1992. Whoa, whoa, whoa. World Class Leaderboard with commentary? The Commodore version only had the sounds of golf swings and the gently hitting things. Fantastic game, though.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Somewhat relevant, but I hate the continuing trend of software where they remove all words and hide everything behind a couple vague icons. 3D Megadoodoo posted:I always wanted a Packard-Bell because of the brand. Cojawfee posted:We had a packard bell when I was kid. The name sounded super cool. Something relevant to all 3 of you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9fUBKlrZ4 Packard Bell Navigator.
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Cojawfee posted:We had a packard bell when I was kid. The name sounded super cool. Packard-Bell, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Nokia, Unisys, IBM, Commodore, Osborne, Olivetti, Siemens were the real PC brands when I were a lad. Compaq? Amstrad? What the gently caress are those?
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A refurbished thinkpad T440p is only a couple hundred bucks now, it’s all most people would need. Decently fast i5 processor, 8gB ram, and feels fast even without an SSD.
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monolithburger posted:I put a peanut butter sandwich in the slot of the family VCR circa 1992. sensibly chuckled at this ah, old video game voices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0U6h5mvr9E
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Whoa, whoa, whoa. World Class Leaderboard with commentary? Welcome to Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge. I am Carvallo.
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Cojawfee posted:Welcome to Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge. I am Carvallo. Ball is in. The parking lot. Would you like to play again?
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