I wonder if businesses are more and more switching to laptops over desktops, but with desktop screen hookups.
Cause that laptop is pretty fucking sick.
they do, at least in my industry.. but they're not buying laptops like this. The Lenovo Crapbook is still pretty much an enterprise staple, and you need to know someone in the Illuminati to get a nice computer
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LuvTheMonkeyHigh Sierra SerenadeRegistered Userregular
Yeah standard issue in my entire company are laptops with docking station and 2 monitors. The Dells we issue most people aren't great, I finagled my way into a nice i7 with SSD.
I wonder if businesses are more and more switching to laptops over desktops, but with desktop screen hookups.
Cause that laptop is pretty fucking sick.
I can't remember the last time I even saw a desktop. Everyone gets laptops/docks/monitors and headsets here, but you also are expected to work from home if you can't make it in due to weather.
I wonder if businesses are more and more switching to laptops over desktops, but with desktop screen hookups.
Cause that laptop is pretty fucking sick.
they do, at least in my industry.. but they're not buying laptops like this. The Lenovo Crapbook is still pretty much an enterprise staple, and you need to know someone in the Illuminati to get a nice computer
Did Lenovo overtake Dell as the main enterprise seller?
A lot of places also use those servers as virtual machine deployment, right? I wonder if universities and education will pick up on the surface products more than apple now
Looks like I'm requisitioning a surface book at some point. Not sure if new or old.
A teacher at school got one instead of a standard surface pro 3 the rest of us get by leveraging the fact that he is 7 foot tall and it is an accommodation for size.
It is pretty nice.
Having to hit a button to disconnect the screen is some Star Trek Saucer Separation stuff.
Having old gen GPUs in the Surface Studio thing is a bit of a bummer. That and the face that the 940M or w/e it is in the current Surface Books is re-firmwared as a generic chip meaning that you can't update the drivers on it without hacking the firmware is a super bummer, rather lowers the draw for me. Would be neat if they partnered with Razer or someone to get a slightly more game focussed keyboard base deal in there, 10 series chip and all. Maybe the new 1050 could be a solid replacement for use in the SB2, that would be a start.
Edit: Ahh, no the new SB tops out with the GTX965M. Hopefully it's a generic one that allows driver updates at least.
Not huge, but at least at that price they can make it nice and aspirational while not making too much of a loss on it. It would always be a niche device, so they might as well make it a fancy niche.
4GB of VRAM being reserved for the top tier model is a shame for folks that want to game on it, but I guess that's not the market they're looking for with them.
I wonder how much of my life I would have to sign away to Verizon to get a pixel.
How does the new phone thing work? Would I be better off if I waited for the second gen?
My droid turbo is a pretty sweet phone, I'm very happy with it. It's just about the perfect size to watch YouTube stuff while still fitting into the front pocket of my jeans.
I mean, I cannot wear skinny jeans, but I can wear 514s, which are slim fit.
And I'm 32, so I probably shouldn't wear skinny jeans anyways.
I'ma go to a t-mobile store today and ask about the cost of splinting my account so my mom pays for her and my brother's line out of his money and I just have mine to worry about.
I think it would save me like 70 bucks a month if my math is right about their plans they list on the website. Plus it'd be better to have me just be responsible for my own line and stuff rather than paying for 3.
Though I figure my mom will need to come out with me to actually do the thing if I decide to do it, since she'll have to sign stuff to put lines in her name.
Not huge, but at least at that price they can make it nice and aspirational while not making too much of a loss on it. It would always be a niche device, so they might as well make it a fancy niche.
Yeah, this is meant as a "this is what you CAN do with windows" and MS is positioning themselves as a boutique high-end maker. This both illustrates tech capabilities that allow them to push Windows forward while simultaneously not pissing off OEM's that they're theoretically competing against. If they made non-niche devices they'd have to worry about getting into pissing matches with people that sell the largest volume of their product (Windows).
Hybrid drives are more like an HDD with a large cache. They aren't as fast as an SSD but you can see some small improvement over a regular HDD. If the hybrid drive is no cost or very, very low cost as an upgrade, it's probably worth it if you rent going to spring for an SSD.
You want an SSD that's big enough to hold your OS and primary apps/games with a bit of headroom. Most people suggest no less than 240GB now that SSDs are less costly. I think the Samsung 850 EVO is still the go-to consumer-grade choice?
Don't get a 250gb SSD. I have one (it's pretty old now I guess) but we're now at a stage with game install sizes where 250gb is tiny. I'm constantly fighting for space.
Don't get a 250gb SSD. I have one (it's pretty old now I guess) but we're now at a stage with game install sizes where 250gb is tiny. I'm constantly fighting for space.
Yeah, I don't game much so it's easy for me to get by with a small SSD. 500GB is probably a good baseline.
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SnicketysnickThe Greatest Hype Man inWesterosRegistered Userregular
Well this is a surprise, I know Twitter was making cuts, but I would've thought Vine had a solid/useful userbase?
I wonder if businesses are more and more switching to laptops over desktops, but with desktop screen hookups.
Cause that laptop is pretty fucking sick.
Just to chime in on this, I would say (in the UK) every major it company is moving to this model to give it's employees flexibility and for business continuity in the event of major transport disruption
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Also I'll keep it in mind about the ssd vs hybrid HD. I'll do some more research
"Hybrid" HDDs are just regular platter HDDs with an extra cache built in, usually not very large. They work okay if the software you are using is constantly loading things into and out of RAM, but the data in the solid state part of the drive still has to get loaded in there off the platter part of the drive.
Samsung SSDs are pretty much the best, but there are plenty of other companies making good fast reliable SSDs if you can't afford to spend big dollars. This would make a fantastic primary drive for all your programs and a bunch of games, and you just keep media and other cruft on a nice cheap platter drive. This is a cheaper option that is still a great drive for less than the Sammy.
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Cause that laptop is pretty fucking sick.
they do, at least in my industry.. but they're not buying laptops like this. The Lenovo Crapbook is still pretty much an enterprise staple, and you need to know someone in the Illuminati to get a nice computer
I can't remember the last time I even saw a desktop. Everyone gets laptops/docks/monitors and headsets here, but you also are expected to work from home if you can't make it in due to weather.
Did Lenovo overtake Dell as the main enterprise seller?
whereas Lenovo is really popular with info worker type setups (hence, thinkpads)
The middle specced model with an i7 and 16GB RAM is $3500.
The full-fat i7, 2TB SSD, 32GB RAM, 4GB VRAM model is $4200.
That's what we're rolling with now. Anybody working from home full-time has that setup, as do most of the people in the actual offices.
This is what our entire company does (all HP laptops, with a couple exceptions)
Complete with laptop dock
A teacher at school got one instead of a standard surface pro 3 the rest of us get by leveraging the fact that he is 7 foot tall and it is an accommodation for size.
It is pretty nice.
Having to hit a button to disconnect the screen is some Star Trek Saucer Separation stuff.
Edit: Ahh, no the new SB tops out with the GTX965M. Hopefully it's a generic one that allows driver updates at least.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
How does the new phone thing work? Would I be better off if I waited for the second gen?
My droid turbo is a pretty sweet phone, I'm very happy with it. It's just about the perfect size to watch YouTube stuff while still fitting into the front pocket of my jeans.
I mean, I cannot wear skinny jeans, but I can wear 514s, which are slim fit.
And I'm 32, so I probably shouldn't wear skinny jeans anyways.
I bought a nexus 5x to tide me over until then.
I actually recommend the Nexus 5x if you can go Sim only.
I think it would save me like 70 bucks a month if my math is right about their plans they list on the website. Plus it'd be better to have me just be responsible for my own line and stuff rather than paying for 3.
Though I figure my mom will need to come out with me to actually do the thing if I decide to do it, since she'll have to sign stuff to put lines in her name.
Yeah, this is meant as a "this is what you CAN do with windows" and MS is positioning themselves as a boutique high-end maker. This both illustrates tech capabilities that allow them to push Windows forward while simultaneously not pissing off OEM's that they're theoretically competing against. If they made non-niche devices they'd have to worry about getting into pissing matches with people that sell the largest volume of their product (Windows).
32 inch all in one
I5-6600k
32GB of ram
GTX1060 6GB
1TB hard drive.
I need to do some research but anyone know of any pitfalls of all in one's?
I'm not interested in it being modular (for upgrades) but do these things get super hot/noisey etc?
The lack of an SSD in there is frankly criminal considering the rest of the parts. If it doesn't have the room to put one in I wouldn't buy it.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
Oooh I can put one in but then that pushes the cost closer to the tower/monitor combo.
The ease of moving an all in one though does make it more attractive.
What's a good SSD to pair with a 1TB hard drive?
You want an SSD that's big enough to hold your OS and primary apps/games with a bit of headroom. Most people suggest no less than 240GB now that SSDs are less costly. I think the Samsung 850 EVO is still the go-to consumer-grade choice?
Yeah, I don't game much so it's easy for me to get by with a small SSD. 500GB is probably a good baseline.
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Vine has been like, super popular...?
Just to chime in on this, I would say (in the UK) every major it company is moving to this model to give it's employees flexibility and for business continuity in the event of major transport disruption
"Hybrid" HDDs are just regular platter HDDs with an extra cache built in, usually not very large. They work okay if the software you are using is constantly loading things into and out of RAM, but the data in the solid state part of the drive still has to get loaded in there off the platter part of the drive.
Samsung SSDs are pretty much the best, but there are plenty of other companies making good fast reliable SSDs if you can't afford to spend big dollars. This would make a fantastic primary drive for all your programs and a bunch of games, and you just keep media and other cruft on a nice cheap platter drive. This is a cheaper option that is still a great drive for less than the Sammy.