So my apartment was robbed yesterday. Perpetrator stole my tv, headphones, xbox, and one blu ray. I got the Arlo pro camera on the recommendation of my co-workers. But feel it may not be enough.
IDK, I live in a small apartment, but the area isn't that safe. I was considering getting another camera or installing some sensors. Anything you guys recommend?
edit: pretty happy with the arlo camera, may get another one. Just wanting to know if there's anything else you guys recommend?
They're really not THAT expensive when you consider everything they come with. A fairly good screen, a keyboard, mouse-type device, weak UPS (battery), wifi card, fairly robust cooling (if you get a good machine, as I explained earlier) etc. If you know what you're getting, you're usually only spending ~300-400 more than getting the same (or equivalent) parts in a desktop, which honestly isn't a terrible cost sink for the portability in my opinion. This isn't to say I would tell EVERYONE to get a gaming laptop, mind you. I do agree it's a more niche market, but a lot of desktop-only users completely misunderstand the market.
With laptops, you don't get diminishing returns until you buy the extreme i7 CPU and you never get it with GPUs; whereas in desktops, after you hit entry-level high end, the diminishing returns appear. The more you spend in a laptop is the closer it becomes to desktop hardware in cost. The reason is because the laptops have much more hardware in it, which needs to be of a certain quality usually, like the screen/keyboard/cooling/etc I mentioned above. At low cost prices, the rest of the parts in the machine suffer more. So the higher you get, the better the returns.
It depends on how much your card throttles itself currently. Mine didn't throttle much but I got a lot of artifacting due to 120Hz. Your card is likely a 771 MHz runner, so that's a 79MHz core increase just using the vBIOS, so you may see a bit of an improvement. If your card ran at the 823MHz boost constant, it'll be less of an improvement, but those cards' stock vBIOS is odd and may or may not work too right. So no way of knowing unless you monitor your sensors all the time. I will say that for the 780M, the vBIOS is definitely something of a necessity.
I also suggest you introduce yourself over at http://forum.notebookreview.com and get yourself familiar with care of your laptop and such. The people over there (usually) know what they're talking about, especially if you hang around the Alienware and Clevo forums a bit. The guys in the ASUS forum will help ya out with your computer I think.
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