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jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
i have a desktop posting rig and a laptop workstation and they're both good for their own uses but i should really get a kvm switch & dock for the laptop because it's also just good to sit at a desk and use a real keyboard, mouse and monitor imo

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Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

SmokaDustbowl posted:

I need a new 2tb drive for my desktop

Yes, you should get 4 x 1Tb western digital blues and put them in a raid 10.

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Smythe posted:

In the year 2017 there's a lot that's different than the world of 2003 when I reg'D this Accy on richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's something awful.com, hell, instead of a chipper teen I'm a 32 year old fat, balding, incel peice of poo poo. I've got more medicated creams than I got beauty products, simple. my dick Doesn't work and my cum smells rotten. That's easy. I've got fungus on my balls and pay a woman $300/hr to call me racial slurs in an upcycled downtown warehouse - everybody needs a hobby.

Anyways, in 2017 people can computer on the go with a mobile phone that's got a quad core cpu and a gazillion petaflops of pure power. In 2017 people can make theyr computer do a back handspring and turn into a tablet and blast out epic pdfs and powerpoints. in 2017 people can connect to the internet wirelessly with the throughput of 10 t1 lines and use use an ipad as a thin client to render huge vids using a massive cloud render farm. hell, that's true - and it's simple for every nontechnical women and children.

but in 2017? just as in 2003, i prefer to use the Desktop. I prefer the big montior, the desk, and mouse, and chair. Sure., this computer chair gave me a patch of big dangling 'Roids on my keister, that's alright - I can deal wiht that, but you know what else it gave me? Over 9000 frags and a comfortable life in IT.

In 2017, I prefer to use the Desktop.

lol

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i thought smythe was canonically volcel

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Cold on a Cob posted:

notebook in the streets, desktop in the sheets, iykwim op

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
:pram:

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Phoenixan posted:

i should also just cave and turn my desktop into a hackintosh

highly recommended

you get to experience all the fun geeky custom janitoring of a Linux but the end result is a real desktop OS that does useful things

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

r u ready to WALK posted:

highly recommended

you get to experience all the fun geeky custom janitoring of a Linux but the end result is a real desktop OS that does useful things

except isn't compatible with any modern gpu lol

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

Smythe posted:

In the year 2017 there's a lot that's different than the world of 2003 when I reg'D this Accy on richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's something awful.com, hell, instead of a chipper teen I'm a 32 year old fat, balding, incel peice of poo poo. I've got more medicated creams than I got beauty products, simple. my dick Doesn't work and my cum smells rotten. That's easy. I've got fungus on my balls and pay a woman $300/hr to call me racial slurs in an upcycled downtown warehouse - everybody needs a hobby.

Anyways, in 2017 people can computer on the go with a mobile phone that's got a quad core cpu and a gazillion petaflops of pure power. In 2017 people can make theyr computer do a back handspring and turn into a tablet and blast out epic pdfs and powerpoints. in 2017 people can connect to the internet wirelessly with the throughput of 10 t1 lines and use use an ipad as a thin client to render huge vids using a massive cloud render farm. hell, that's true - and it's simple for every nontechnical women and children.

but in 2017? just as in 2003, i prefer to use the Desktop. I prefer the big montior, the desk, and mouse, and chair. Sure., this computer chair gave me a patch of big dangling 'Roids on my keister, that's alright - I can deal wiht that, but you know what else it gave me? Over 9000 frags and a comfortable life in IT.

In 2017, I prefer to use the Desktop.

lmao

The XKCD Larper
Mar 1, 2009

by Lowtax

hifi posted:

i wish they made a desktop you could put on your stomach in bed.

i replaced the power jack on my x220 and it 's godawful, you have to remove the heatsinks

Tablet or fixed screen version

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

akadajet posted:

except isn't compatible with any modern gpu lol
it doesnt work with the nvidia 10 series yet but every other 6xx+ nvidia card works fine

it really doesnt require that much janitoring anymore. hackintoshing most gigabyte motherboards is quicker and simpler than a windows install.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

it doesnt work with the nvidia 10 series yet but every other 6xx+ nvidia card works fine

yeah, but if you want to dual boot windows for playing games at a high resolution it's kind of a pain because your video card options are limited right now.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

they just announced today that pascal drivers are coming later this month. fleek 100 af, fam.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Desktop supremacy crew checking in

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Captain Foo posted:

Desktop supremacy crew checking in

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork
Fun Shoe
posting this from my desktop

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
i'm
posting from my phone but with hard desktop envy

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
desktop more like BESTop

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork bork
Fun Shoe

FMguru posted:

desktop more like BESTop

laptop more like CRAPtop

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

that feel when u launch your mega super ide or game or w/e and the fans barely get louder while dingus over there is icing his hands while his laptop tries to take off like a jet

DaTroof
Nov 16, 2000

CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof
posting without reading

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
laptops for todays demanding on the go professional

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
where is the yostop

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

That is an ambiguous label, I propose the name from now on should be the deskpos and lappos to avoid confusion

Rolls right of the tongue, doesn't it

One lappos, many lappos, all the lappos

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
there can be only one yostop

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


if there was a deskpos it would be shipped once and then the project would be immediately scrapped because do you know how much it costs to ship an ibm displaywriter

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


ship the chromepos instead

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
I bought a Nvidia Shield as my first tablet purchase and it is extremely needs suiting. I do most of my web browsing and email from it now. I'm yosposting on it right now! I also have a desktop for my pleasure computing and a laptop when I computer for money

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

a man dips his fingers in fetid rear end sweat. "nvidia," he murmurs

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe

PyPy posted:

pleasure computing

mods

Kuvo
Oct 27, 2008

Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!
Fun Shoe

Salt Fish posted:

I'm building a desktop right now and listening to Computer World by Kraftwerk and drinking Trappist monk beer and reading yospos all at the same time.

same

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

posting from a chomebook right now and it's not nearly as good as desktop posting

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

this workstation laptop wants to be a desktop, but falls short of the true experience

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



i'm posting from my work desktop and it's a massive pile of poo poo.

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

i no longer have a desktop computer. i regret many decisions in my life.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


anybody posting from their windows phone in continuum mode? like a modern day webtv.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Thanks Ants posted:

anybody posting from their windows phone in continuum mode? like a modern day webtv.

that would require anyone to have purchased one

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe
i can't gently caress my laptop

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
your holding it wrong

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Spasman
Nov 9, 2009

now i'm a jerk and everybody loves me
Working as IT for a grade school, sometimes the kids who get to use the computer lab for the first time have never used or seen a desktop before and try to touch the monitor. Dang ol' generation being raised by ipads i tell you H'wat.

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