General computer talk/advice

Yeah, they'll come out somewhen in the next three months or so. I was told to see which brand will be better though. Will maybe buy an R9 490 when they get cheaper.

 

ThinkPad came today, had enough charge to boot into the BIOS then after I turned it off wouldn't power back on, my ac adapter was supposed to be here yesterday but alas it didn't arrive so I'm hoping it gets here today, looks pretty snazzy sat on my desk.


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The seller who I bought the AC adapter from sent me the wrong item, he sent me a kensington lock rather than my AC adapter :I

 

Sounds like a scam. Locks are cheap, but heavy enough to feel like a real item.
Could be a legit mistake though.

 

He does have a Kensington lock for sale on his eBay account and it looks exactly the same as this one for £20 given the charger was £10 ish I think it was a honest mistake.
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So I ended up just buying a universal adapter from Argos, might just tell the seller I want my money back and just use this universal adapter. Feels fairly well built, doesn't get hot, rated for 90w.

 

Looks great, how is the newer style keyboard comparing to the T420? I've always been a bit scared of those flat island type keys, although my laptop has particularly bad ones which doesnt help my expectations. I have heard the shaping on the Thinkpad keys supposed to help a little though.

 

I might double down and go crossfire for when I get a vr headset. Supposedly multi card setups will get over 90 percent scaling as there is no AFR bullshit and each gpu does the image for each eye. Pretty cool tech.

 

So I ended up just buying a universal adapter from Argos, might just tell the seller I want my money back and just use this universal adapter. Feels fairly well built, doesn't get hot, rated for 90w

They're nice enough to use, however the keyboard on mine is faulty, talking with the seller about a replacement keyboard or a partial refund.

 

Said it before, will say it again: If a laptop with Cherry Browns comes out, mail me. I'll buy it. (I mean dude, the best laptop Keyboard I've ever seen is on a ten-year-old super cheap Medion.)

 

It already came out http://www.anandtech.com/show/8669/msi-gt80-titan-a-beastly-notebook-with-a-cherry-mx-keyboard
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Doubtful as all VR solutions right now are single screen with a lens focusing each eye on the respective half. If it was driven as a dual display with independant framebuffers that would make sense, but they arent

 

Looks extremely heavy and expensive. Might have to save some money first, but it's a good start.

 

if anything it just shows why you dont put cherrys in a laptop. As nice as they are, cherry switches are huge

 

The MSI GT80 series has MX Browns. They're a bit expensive though starting at over $3K.

 

Its what I linked him above.




Why do so many gaming laptops and motherboards emphasise having the Killer NIC's? They're the arguably second worst on the market and actually crap for gaming compared to some others

 

Well the seller agreed to give me £45 back to cover the cost of a new keyboard. Just tried Beam on it, medium settings 16x anti aliasing and high textures, at 20 - 30FPS on East Coast. Not bad for a business laptop and will certainly do me for the holiday coming up in a few months.

 

What ThinkPad model is it?

 

Edge E420s

 

I am learning C++

 

If its first programming experience, dont go C++.

I always recommend python for newbies. Then migrate to C# or Java (I prefer C#, others prefer Java) and try C or C++ after that.

 

so far no problems I have learned the basics and it's not that bad

 

until you try to get your head around variable scope, memory management, object orientation, pointers/references