General computer talk/advice

Well that sucks.

 

Do your whole family use FX processors or something?? I bought a HDD from there once and it was very very loud and the transfer speed was crap. Never again.

 

Never had the pleasure of buying something from CEX but I know the pain of having a PGA chip arrive with half it's pin's bent...

 

Welp, its dead. Booted once in 20 restarts and then just doesn't boot again, can only conclude its the CPU.

Edit: Actually got it posting now, it was one of the 4 RAM sticks which came from a working computer went in an anti static bag for a day and somehow stopped working during that time. I dont even.

Well almost, I'm switching to X99 at the minute so not for long

 

Shut down my phone, and Android crashed in the process just when it happened to vibrate and I couldn't seem to get it turned off. It was just vibrating for ages and even holding the power button and volume button at the same time didn't turn it off

I just left it on the table for 5 mins, it seemed to turn off in that time.

 

That happemd to me once with my old nokia phone during school and the best thing it was during an exam so needles to sail i failed it because the teacher thought i would use the phone to cheat

 

i wasnt expecting that an Intel HD 4600 is pretty much perfect for minecraft even at 1080p which my trusty old ATI Radeon X1600 cant do too brilliantly. The HP is loosing reasons as to why its still taking up space in my house .
Oh and my ADVENT 5301 laptop has such a bad GPU (SiS Mirage 3+ -beaten by intel gma)that it cant run powerpoint, it loads the presentation and when you play it it freezes and then bluescreens. cant play above a 360p video either.

And it all is fine even with the TDP limited to 15watts, it still runs perfect!

 

so editing with movie maker i have an issue when adding so many audio the software replaces a previously placed audio why?

 

I'm using my old phone right now, which has a 5 inch screen, and it feels completely tiny (as I upgraded to a 5.5inch) and small in my hand. And there's people I know claiming 4 inch is all they need and ever need, if you're going to upgrade to a larger phone you will definitely get used to it and see the benefits. It's such a good upgrade.

 

Welcomed a refurbished Dell Latitude E6430 to my fleet today.

i5-3320m, 4gb of ram, 14" 1366x768 display run by an HD 4000. It came with a 320gb Hitachi drive in it, but I swapped it out for a PNY CS1311 240gb SSD. It's my Linux machine for school and as such is currently running Linux Mint 18.1 with the Cinnamon desktop environment. I love this little computer, best $184 (minus the SSD) I ever spent. It's made even made of magnesium, blyat!

It has some real I/O options too. 1 USB 2.0 port, VGA, HDMI, 2 USB 3.0 ports, eSATA port that's also another USB 2.0 port, SD card slot, expresscard slot, Ethernet, and a DVD-RW drive that's going to be replaced with another battery when I get the chance. It also has Intel's more premium Centrino wireless card in it. I was pulling almost 65 Mb/s down wirelessly from my router.

All in all, very happy, it'll be sticking around. Highly recommend business grade laptops.

 

Huh. I prefer having the larger screen, everyone has their own preferences of course.

 

When you carry a laptop everyday like I do, you want something small and light. I wanted something smaller than a 15, but larger than a 12, and so I went 14. Just the right size, honestly.

 

I was replying to audicat (I forgot to quote), but yeah I do agree that business grade laptops are much better, my brother had a Latitude E4300 and I was jealous about that because my cheap crappy HP which was considerably newer was much worse. I am excited to be given my Uncle's Dell XPS(?) with a Core i7 soon, it will be an appropriate upgrade from an AMD E2 "Vision"
Plus it has another 10gb of ram haha

 

I was a fan of the 4 inch phone, but when i upgraded to 5.2 inches its fine, also the new phone is a gorgeous 1080p panel so it runs circles round the iphone 5S
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my HP Compaq NC8430 is magnesium, i suppose it doesnt matter, that is until a drop it into hydrochloric acid, but im not techrax

 

I am welcoming a Dell Latitude D600 into my life. It is now running BunsenLabs Linux. It will be my new school laptop, and will be named Elli.

Pentium M 725 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 14" 1024x768 display powered by a Radeon 9000, 40GB HDD. As for I/O, it has 2x USB 2.0, S-video, RJ-16 for the built-in modem, RJ-45, a parallel port, VGA, RS-232, a PC card slot, a smart card slot, infrared, and a hot swappable DVD drive. I will soon buy a battery that will hotswap with my DVD drive.

 

My 14" ThinkPad T430 is 14.5" wide by 9" deep, it's not that bad to carry around. The T420"s" model is a slim version so the CPU is non upgradeable as it's a BGA design I.E soldered to the System board or Planar as Lenovo call it. Same story with the X220. So keep that in mind too.

 

I just had a printer problem.
When I was trying to print a pdf thru adobe acrobat, it wouldn't show up on the printer/queue. But when I used MS edge to print it, it worked flawlessly.
What could be wrong?

 

after 3 near sleepless nights on my HP Compaq i have managed to get a modified driver to work properly with the machine, it seems to work well, now windows 10 anniversary edition is installing on the god awful slow hard drive.

I have kept windows 7 on my ADVENT 5301 laptop (Advent is a company that is from DIXONS (same company as Currys PC World) and they put high end cpus into cheap laptops) because there is no way that i will get the sis mirage 3+ to work properly!

 

Why do you all want a small size laptop? I have to use mine everyday at school which is 1,5 hours by bus and train. I like the 15.6 size because you can open two screens and have no problems with makig 3d models since you can see everything. If I would have used a smaller laptop, I couldn't do those thing comfortable. And I can still use it on my lap in the bus and train if I can sit

 

its easier to carry i guess, i like the 15inch form factor, but my laptops are old and well they arent that portable (20min battery life at best)