General computer talk/advice

What's a good laptop for school with:
Athe least 7 hours battery
Below 13" screen
Under 200 USD
Touchscreen
32GB
Less than 3lbs
Preferably:
2 in 1
4GB RAM
64GB

I'm thinking the IdeaPad Miix 300

 

do you mind 2gb of ram, cos then i recommend an ASUS T100TAF for that price point (used), or the T100HA (better intel gpu+newer gpu) or an ASUS Chromebook of your choice, ARM Or X86?
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ASUS Chromebook Flip C100PA is a good choice for ARM and its practically a tablet, comes with google play store and should be fine with just about anything

 

Thanks! With the play store, I can download Microsoft Office android edition

 

Or, you could've used the in browser version or Google Docs.

 

So recently (past few months) I have been looking around for a new 2in1 laptop style device to replace my Intel Atom tablet. The tablet is a pretty nice device, however the performance is not really there and sometimes a USB port or two might be nice to have. So in general I have been looking for an I5 device with a 1080p touchscreen and SSD for under £500. However they seem to start at "not cheap" and range up to "extortionate" in price.

For the past 2 weeks the Lenovo yoga 510 (I3 6100U, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 1080p IPS touchscreen) has been on sale for £349. Which as far as I can tell is a pretty reasonable deal. The only difference between the I5 and I3 is turbo boost anyway. Today I went in to store to see a physical unit (different specs but same model) and it felt decent enough, the keyboard and touchpad both felt pretty ok.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/compu...th-faster-ssd-storage-black-10153587-pdt.html

My use case is pretty much MS Office, Visual Studio, streaming online video (YouTube/Amazon Prime, the atom can't do 1080p smoothly) and some games such as Broforce, super meat boy etc at native res (1080p). Basically any of the easy to run stuff that could already run on the Atom (at a lower screen res), anything it can do that the Atom couldn't is a bonus.

What do you guys/gals think?

 

Seems pretty good comparing it to actual laptops which aren't 2-in-1s with similar specs, a HP x360 with marginally better specs is £500 so the yoga is very similar obviously with the bonus of the literal flexibility.

or there is a HP 15.6 inch laptop with a 7th gen i5 on sale for 399.99

 

No SSD + 1366 x 768 screen res makes that a no go

 

I suppose so haha

on another note, I have never owned anything with an Intel i3/5/7 processor and I might be getting one soon

 

Well, apparently I would have to go to a store 200 miles away from where I live to pick up the laptop. So I will probably give that a miss also. Back on the waiting game I guess...

 

That's not ideal I guess , I have two PCWorlds one short bus ride away from my house, and they have absolutely everything, not to mention a mini Carphone Warehouse inside them. I guess living in the city has its ups, and many downs.

 

I also live in a city, with a PC world less than a mile from me. They also have everything inside with 2 floors of stuff. However neither them nor any other PC World store within 190miles of me have this laptop

They are also unwilling to do delivery on it either, it is collect in store only.

 

Why does it always have to be like that for stuff that's really good.
It reminds me of the nearest Apple store (not that that's good ) because that's in Leicester. It's not too far I guess.

 

Order it for collect in store and they can have it added to next stock order for that store

 

They won't let me select a store that doesn't have the item in stock.

I had to hit that "search further away" box while it incremented in 3-4 mile increments until it found a store, which happened to be in another country

It a shame really. I want to give them my money in exchange for the laptop they are selling and would even be willing to pay a few £ for delivery. But they won't let me buy it without having to spend £60 on train fares.

 

So my Xeon 2680 V4 ES CPU arrived today, full 14 core, 28 thread crazy stuff

Already got the Asrock X99M motherboard and the 16gb Corsair Vengance DDR4 RAM a while ago.

Everything installed pretty easy and booted up first time, was expecting something to go wrong for some reason but all is good! The only quirk is that it reads as a "Genuine Intel CPU 0000", but thats to be expected from an ES CPU.

So far in my testing its incredibly fast and in BeamNG i just can't make it lag, the game crashes before I have enough cars spawned

Cinebench score is absolutely insane too at 1627 https://i.imgur.com/4Ogb696.jpg

Wish I had tested my old FX 8350 in Cinebench too but from what I've seen online this is about 1000 points better.



Weirdly the CPU is actually printed upside down, not sure if thats normal but it bothers me none the less lol. Now the last order of business is to get some decent sleeved cables, the cables I have at the minute are pretty awful looking but function over form I suppose.

 

Network problem with this computer.PLZ help.
specs:
System:Windows 7 Enterprise K 64bit
Processor: 4x Intel Core i5-4670 CPU 3.40 GHz each.
Graphics: Geforce GTX 960
Network status:Home network
Reciever:IPtime N300UA
Router:Asus RT-AC68P
RAM:24.0GB
ROM:
C:256GB NTFS SSD System storage
D:3TB HDD Extension
E:100GB HDD Backups
F:200GB HDD Backups
G:180GB HDD Secured Backups
H: Disk Drive

 

What problem?

 

How many cars I7-6800K would run at minimum 60fps if gpu is not a limiting factor? It's ok if fps drops under 60fps for a second or so when crashing, but other than that kind of drops.

 

You will be able to get around 6 cars all together and still be getting 60fps, won't matter what vehicle it is either as they are calculated per core. However past 6 vehicles unless its a reasonably simple car you will start to see a bigger dip in frame rate, but I imagine it will run at least at 30fps up until around 8-9 cars.