huh, I must have lucked out with my work laptop. It's a basic dell (don't even remember the specs) 13" that I use all the time for remoting in to one of my work machines or their VMs. I bring it to from work a lot on the bus and it's been sturdy as hell. I think it's about 2 years old now and I've had no problems.
It is no powerhouse but for local stuff it is well capable of work stuff (visual studio, office) and using as a remote terminal.
So guys, work is being a fascism and won't let me buy a $2300 Macbook Pro on my department's budget. They will however let me buy literally any computer from Dell, HP, or Lenovo. I might be able to get them to buy Asus or something if I find something great.
I like this one from Dell, but people seem to not love it in reviews. They say things like "the wifi straight up doesn't work" and "it has poor quality control". Does anyone own a hellishly expensive PC laptop they can recommend? I want something thin and light with an i7, a legit GPU, a reasonably sized SSD, and ~15" ultra HD screen. It can omit legacy garbage like optical drives and serial ports. Touchscreen is, oddly, a plus since all the software I write ends up on factory touchscreens anyway, so usability testing is a lot easier when I can do it continuously as I program.
They still dredge up the occasional interesting article
Not often, but sometimes
Also their redesign really improved matters by putting the comments several clicks away
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
edited October 2014
It's really telling that when Apple makes a commercial, it shows people using their products (or maybe a band playing music or something).
when pretty much every other consumer tech company makes a commercial, they spend time either talking about how they are better than apple, or how bad apple is, or how you shouldn't be like the masses who use apple.
Defensive advertising always seems desperate. And yes, I felt the same way when Long and Hodgeman were doing it, even if their versions were a bit cuter in execution.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
huh, I must have lucked out with my work laptop. It's a basic dell (don't even remember the specs) 13" that I use all the time for remoting in to one of my work machines or their VMs. I bring it to from work a lot on the bus and it's been sturdy as hell. I think it's about 2 years old now and I've had no problems.
It is no powerhouse but for local stuff it is well capable of work stuff (visual studio, office) and using as a remote terminal.
Two years? About time for it to suddenly collapse into its own core.
btw: I said Alienware first rather than a Surface Pro 3 because a surface has an integrated video chip rather than a good card like an alienware. My wife and I both have 14" alienware laptops that are about 3 years old now and work great.
It's really telling that when Apple makes a commercial, it shows people using their products (or maybe a band playing music or something).
when pretty much every other consumer tech company makes a commercial, they spend time either talking about how they are better than apple, or how bad apple is, or how you shouldn't be like the masses who use apple.
Defensive advertising always seems desperate. And yes, I felt the same way when Long and Hodgeman were doing it, even if their versions were a bit cuter in execution.
it's a strategy
if everyone wants to be the competition there is money in saying you don't
I had a beautiful time on Sunday lifeboat was just a bit unfortunate
I liked cthulu and the company
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
WTB Marriage Counsel. PST
here is sekrit relationship advice
game of marriage moar important than game at hand
game of marriage is being pop tested when Resistance goes down
I almost dumped Beast for killing me in Coup
watch ur back
i really wanna play life boat with you guys. We'll all regret it and hate everything. It'll be awesome.
I'm pretty sure Deebs is trying to get all of us to murder each other
btw: I said Alienware first rather than a Surface Pro 3 because a surface has an integrated video chip rather than a good card like an alienware. My wife and I both have 14" alienware laptops that are about 3 years old now and work great.
huh, I must have lucked out with my work laptop. It's a basic dell (don't even remember the specs) 13" that I use all the time for remoting in to one of my work machines or their VMs. I bring it to from work a lot on the bus and it's been sturdy as hell. I think it's about 2 years old now and I've had no problems.
It is no powerhouse but for local stuff it is well capable of work stuff (visual studio, office) and using as a remote terminal.
Dell's business line is much better than their commercial stuff. It has still gotten pretty shitty though. I still have one laptop from a decade ago that runs (slowly) but everything works. The one from like 5 years ago died just after it was out of warranty.
Every time I've bought the warranty thing it was so cheap it paid for itself very quickly.
I had a beautiful time on Sunday lifeboat was just a bit unfortunate
I liked cthulu and the company
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
WTB Marriage Counsel. PST
here is sekrit relationship advice
game of marriage moar important than game at hand
game of marriage is being pop tested when Resistance goes down
I almost dumped Beast for killing me in Coup
watch ur back
i really wanna play life boat with you guys. We'll all regret it and hate everything. It'll be awesome.
I'm pretty sure Deebs is trying to get all of us to murder each other
I'll play Lifeboat.
I'll win
the only way to win is to not even play
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
I mean the surface pro 3 is a great device! I recommend it to people all the time.
That commercial would have been just as good if they put some snappy music in the background and walked through all the neat stuff it does.
As it stands if I glanced at a muted TV running that ad, I would see the apple laptop on screen for more of the commercial.
Remember the original surface commercials? The ones with the dancing?
Yeah, don't think they worked well so they are going to a different tactic.
Actually I don't think it is a bad tactic because it is focusing on professionals/business folks which is Microsoft's bread and butter anyway. Show how the surface can be better at being productive than a mac is a legitimate marketing strategy.
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
MY CHEESECAKE
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
I had a beautiful time on Sunday lifeboat was just a bit unfortunate
I liked cthulu and the company
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
WTB Marriage Counsel. PST
here is sekrit relationship advice
game of marriage moar important than game at hand
game of marriage is being pop tested when Resistance goes down
I almost dumped Beast for killing me in Coup
watch ur back
i really wanna play life boat with you guys. We'll all regret it and hate everything. It'll be awesome.
I'm pretty sure Deebs is trying to get all of us to murder each other
I'll play Lifeboat.
I'll win
BC you are basically admitting to committing first degree murder.
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TehSlothHit Or MissI Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered Userregular
I had a beautiful time on Sunday lifeboat was just a bit unfortunate
I liked cthulu and the company
I dont know why I like games that are rage fests, but I do.
Throwing chum when everyone gets tossed overboard. my god.
Deebs, are you getting a divorce now after your first game of lifeboat?
no. we did play resistence on saturday though. Raz gave me the secret under-the-table "pick me. Im not a spy" foot tap. I did not pick her, because she was totally a fucking spy. She was mad I didn't trust her. It apparently doesn't matter as much that she was lying!
WTB Marriage Counsel. PST
here is sekrit relationship advice
game of marriage moar important than game at hand
game of marriage is being pop tested when Resistance goes down
I almost dumped Beast for killing me in Coup
watch ur back
i really wanna play life boat with you guys. We'll all regret it and hate everything. It'll be awesome.
I'm pretty sure Deebs is trying to get all of us to murder each other
I'll play Lifeboat.
I'll win
BC you are basically admitting to committing first degree murder.
she's spool's daughter, you can't actually be surprised by this...
I mean the surface pro 3 is a great device! I recommend it to people all the time.
That commercial would have been just as good if they put some snappy music in the background and walked through all the neat stuff it does.
As it stands if I glanced at a muted TV running that ad, I would see the apple laptop on screen for more of the commercial.
I'm a fan of any photoshop based advertising. I'm looking for a graphic design laptop and I guess that just means I need to grab something that is on the "gaming" side of the spectrum? It's generally confusing. I don't want some bleeding edge hyper machine, just something that can run illustrator.
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Typing "/." into the URL bar no longer takes you to slashdot.
I havent even thought of that website in at least 3-4 years.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I just love that people still go there.
I've forgotten my login, sadly, but I was spool32 there as well, lo these many years ago.
They have been that way for a while.
My latops have gone:
Sony, Sony, Asus.
One Sony lasted till my dad killed it after 7 years. The other is still going and is on year 6 or so. I also gave it to my dad.
My Asus is two years old. But they had to replace the hd because the ssd just died which sucked. But free fix.
The second Sony had bad hds when I got it. They paid all the shipping and fixed and gave it back to me in less than one week.
New work laptop is an HP. I am not extremely happy, HPs kind of implode.
But it is a reinforced enterprise one for dod work. Might be better.
It is no powerhouse but for local stuff it is well capable of work stuff (visual studio, office) and using as a remote terminal.
Yeah do this
Not often, but sometimes
Also their redesign really improved matters by putting the comments several clicks away
when pretty much every other consumer tech company makes a commercial, they spend time either talking about how they are better than apple, or how bad apple is, or how you shouldn't be like the masses who use apple.
Defensive advertising always seems desperate. And yes, I felt the same way when Long and Hodgeman were doing it, even if their versions were a bit cuter in execution.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Two years? About time for it to suddenly collapse into its own core.
Not sure.
The consumer workstations I used at the office weren't awful. But they were old refurbished comps not new stuff.
love this shit, thanks.
it's a strategy
if everyone wants to be the competition there is money in saying you don't
meh, even if it does that just means work gets me a new one. Though I might not need a replacement now that work hooked me up with a surface pro 3.
huehuheuhuehue
That commercial would have been just as good if they put some snappy music in the background and walked through all the neat stuff it does.
As it stands if I glanced at a muted TV running that ad, I would see the apple laptop on screen for more of the commercial.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I'll play Lifeboat.
I'll win
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
We are having load issues
What's interesting is that the system monitor shows you the statistics for the physical box, not the VM
So when it's impossible to get anything done I can sit and watch 32 individual processor load graphs all pegged to 100%
Never had a problem with my Alienware laptops.
Dell's business line is much better than their commercial stuff. It has still gotten pretty shitty though. I still have one laptop from a decade ago that runs (slowly) but everything works. The one from like 5 years ago died just after it was out of warranty.
Every time I've bought the warranty thing it was so cheap it paid for itself very quickly.
Not really a recommendation, that.
the only way to win is to not even play
I know this feel
Remember the original surface commercials? The ones with the dancing?
Yeah, don't think they worked well so they are going to a different tactic.
Actually I don't think it is a bad tactic because it is focusing on professionals/business folks which is Microsoft's bread and butter anyway. Show how the surface can be better at being productive than a mac is a legitimate marketing strategy.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
in the high end computer space it is absolutely true.
People spending north of a thousand bucks on a computer have something north of 80% of all sales towards Apple.
And this is the space the surface is competing in.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
BC you are basically admitting to committing first degree murder.
From his perspective this is the seventh time in a row!
twitch.tv/tehsloth
edit: 4 256gb ssds in raid 0 hahahaha
Which is interesting, considering how tech news heavy my media consumption is
she's spool's daughter, you can't actually be surprised by this...
Why is her plate not on the table?
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
I'm a fan of any photoshop based advertising. I'm looking for a graphic design laptop and I guess that just means I need to grab something that is on the "gaming" side of the spectrum? It's generally confusing. I don't want some bleeding edge hyper machine, just something that can run illustrator.