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yesterday's decent computer is dirt cheap nice new computers will always be about a thousand bucks to account for all of the sparkly new consumer requirements like VR, 4K, HDR, USB C, OpenCL, Vulkan, etc and so on I have an every day asus AMD laptop that's like 6 years old (and cost like $300 at the time) and it works fine for me. But once there's a nice inexpensive laptop with a good keyboard and USB C, I'm upgrading.
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Video Nasty posted:Fry's has decent cases under $50. Monoprice has cheap cables. Newegg has decent HDD prices, sometimes even Amazon has good deals. You can get an 8gb stick of RAM for ~$25; it wasn't too long ago that SSDs were a luxury item. Now, they're cheap enough to be considered a necessity and you can get a 4 tb drive if you really need the storage. But a lot of prebuilt systems don't have SSDs. You used to be able to get good Ultra-brand PSUs for free after rebate. Now, I just get Corsairs for $15 or $20 after rebate. Building your own rig can really save you cash!
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Jun 26, 2017 09:08
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el dorito posted:But once there's a nice inexpensive laptop with a good keyboard and USB C, I'm upgrading. There is no keypad. Where is pg up/down and print screen? It's a fine laptop, for sure, but I want a real keyboard.
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Jun 27, 2017 04:43
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some real keyboard nazis up in this joint
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Jun 27, 2017 09:46
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Silver Alicorn posted:a keyboard has at least 101 keys 
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Jun 27, 2017 18:08
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hifi posted:i have a Dell and i'm not sure how to enable the goofy staggered numeric keypad that takes up half of the regular keyboard I have one of those for work and it's such a joke I'd rather hit the number keys at the top than try to use those keys and secondguessing myself all the time regarding accuracy
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Jun 28, 2017 01:44
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carry on then posted:same but 15" thinkpad with keypad and also its everyone 15" asus with keypad I opted to get a new battery this week instead of replacing my laptop because it just works
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Jun 28, 2017 01:45
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I pray everyday for the death of expansion cards via utilization of thunderbolt everywhere external gpus will be the only gpus, besides the ones that come integrated with your motherboard or cpu chipset does anyone still get dedicated sound cards? creative labs still sells PCIe sound blaster cards...
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Jun 28, 2017 01:53
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welcome to the future, same as the past htc vive requires three cables to connect just the vr, not including the controllers - hdmi, power and usb I think you can get away with just one thunderbolt cable if you redid everything, so there's a spot of improvement. At least we'll get away from the "no mom, that's the serial port, you want the blue vga port with three rows" support calls
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Jun 28, 2017 03:23
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SRQ posted:oh man yes, date sperging is a wonderful thing. taskbars looked like taskbars for some reason, I have the feeling that 2k is much more stable than XP Is there a perverse fandom of Windows ME and Microsoft Bob users? "We must use ME and Bob as Ballmer had envisioned it!"
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Jun 30, 2017 00:08
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The only reason I had to ditch my trusty 486 (which came back as a Linux router and occasional Ultima 7 gaming machine) was because it couldn't play Quake.
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I feel like the 486 was the last gasp of the turbo button I don't really remember Pentium machines that had them. On the other hand, that was the time when I started building my own rigs and maybe I never bothered to splurge for a case with a turbo button. But the motherboard manuals didn't mention one anyway.
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