Re: General discussion chat My 32gb one also came today. Advertised at 20mb/s write speed, I accomplished 16 copying my music library from internal storage. Not run any actual benchmarking application on it, not done any "proper" reading from it either (advertised read is 50mb/s) besides playing my music library from media player again. Also changed internet explorers download settings to target the SD card. Yes, I use internet explorer again, in windows 8 mode its touch UI is actually really good (well, what you expect for any tablet browser) and it may be internet explorer but that is still alot better than stripped down mobile browsers that rival tablets would run and as a windows browser its not awful anymore. Chrome I tried, awful on touch, its actual windows 8 mode is more fiddly than plain old desktop I found. Opera and firefox I may try at some point but havent yet. My laptop and desktop I still use chrome but on the tablet I like internet explorer. Setting up remote tools for visual studio right now so I can remotely deploy & debug applications from my laptop onto the tablet. Then I get to play with a few things
Re: General discussion chat Even better. The firewire cable for the FCA202 audio interface that i was given by school came today. I tried to install the drivers and have now found that there are no 64-bit drivers. Are they F'ing kidding me. Although i will give recommendation for the firewire cable that i got, it cost ~£0.80 and feels really sturdy as well as looking pretty sweet Yes, i have reached the point where i am now praising a cable for working as advertised as well as being of way higher than expected quality :/
Re: General discussion chat with all this talk about slow sd cards, i decided to find my 128mb generic sd card that was used on a REALLY old kids digital camera before it broke this is it's speed: dem slow speeds
Re: General discussion chat Got remote debugging of windows runtime apps (the full screen windows 8 tablet style ones) working between tablet and laptop. Visual studio runs on laptop, develop and compile all code there, but it loads and installs the application over the network onto the tablet, the tablet then runs it and you get full breakpoint support etc over the network too. Seems to be working just fine with a windows runtime monogame project I did as a laugh once, well, kinda fine, tablet has no keyboard connected right now and the project needs the arrow keys (basically does nothing though so no biggy, project does display correctly on tablet though). Guess next step is add touch support.
Re: General discussion chat Nice, Well at least i can appreciate that my micro sd card isn't that slow. I also got a 4 port usb hub from akasa. The build quality is also far better than i expected but there is no reinforcement on the cable where it leaves the product so i am a bit unsure about how long it will last. It LED on it also happens to function as a torch. Its so bright. You can easily see 5 meters away with it in the dark, im not sure how i am going to be able to cover it up. So all in all not a great haul
Re: General discussion chat I hate school. This is my first day back after break and I'm just done. I had the chance to choose to graduate after the first semester, but I chose to take an easier schedule and stay all year due to peoples' recommendations. Now I'm done and just want to be out of here.
Re: General discussion chat Mine is an HP Stream 7. Aljowen I think is a LINX 10. Both are 1.33ghz quad core intel atoms supporting upto 1.86ghz in turbo running windows 8 on a 1024*800 display. I know I have 32gb of eMMC storage internally and 1gb of RAM, don't know if the LINX bumps those specs up a notch. Micro USB works just fine as a USB 2 host port with an OTG cable, or something even cooler is the memory stick I got yesterday which has a full USB connector on one side and a micro USB on the other wired up as an OTG port so I can plug that straight into laptop or tablet without issue.
Re: General discussion chat Stream 7 looks really apealling but it's not on sale here and if it was it would be like €200. :|
Re: General discussion chat so in my case if i wanted to get one the hp stream 7, as from what i can tell linx doesn't sell their tablets in the USA
Re: General discussion chat The ThinkPad may have been the best built laptop when IBM built them. But since then, after IBM sold all of their home computing to a company who cares absolutely no where near as much (Lenovo), they really aren't any nicer or better built than current offerings from Asus or HP (noisy fans, not anymore). I'll take a Pentium 3 IBM ThinkPad from the late 90s (maybe the T23?) over anything Lenovo currently producing. I'd even take a Dell, their Latitude line is really nice.
Re: General discussion chat Yeah, The Linx 10 bumped up the specs a little bit. It has 2GB of ram and separate charging and usb ports. Now i find out that you cant install vb on the sd card. This day has suddenly took a turn for the worse :/
Re: General discussion chat Read my post, 2010 Lenovo ThinkPad, slammed with a car door, screen cracked but still worked just fine. Build quality? Check.
Re: General discussion chat no, just no. lenovo cares a lot about their products, and they are far better than anything asus or HP or dell or anything sells in terms of build quality, price/performance, and amount of damage it can take Build quality/amount of damage taken? Check price/performance? the cpu and gpu in the topend macbook pro has a neglible performance gain over the top-end lenovo y50, said performance gain is not worth an extra $1K AT ALL so once again, CHECK
Re: General discussion chat I paid £79 for mine in UK, that was on sale though, usual price is £99. They are $99 in the US which is a bit unfair. Only thing I would say is that 7" is a bit small in order to use the desktop frequently. Some things really are quite fiddly, particularly hitting scrollbars rather than just resizing windows or accidentally minimising rather than maximising. Also battery. This isn't android or iOS which are both optimised for power consumption. Its good for about 6 to 8 or so on battery power alone which I am completely fine with, but "locking" the screen on a windows tablet is simply the same as sending a normal windows PC to sleep. One of our Hudl 2 tablets (uses same atom chipset as the stream but runs android) was used by sister for a bit, then locked, got left for 2 days unused, unlocked and played with again just fine. Not sure the stream would have much juice after 2 days, I actually shut it down completely if I am going to have it locked for longer than an hour, it only takes about 10 seconds max for it to boot again. Hibernate is not available on atom devices. Its either on, asleep or shut down.
Re: General discussion chat I hate GTA IV. Yesterday it was working just fine, now it's laggy and gets massive FPS drops.
Re: General discussion chat strange also rockstar should really get rid of GFWL and translate to steamworks or even social club or something
Re: General discussion chat gAbEn_UnusualFancyGABEN_gAbEn: it's just a side benefit that I can watch porn in bed with it gAbEn_UnusualFancyGABEN_gAbEn: and call my mommy to pick me up from work c: gAbEn_UnusualFancyGABEN_gAbEn:
