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Dang that sucks. Yeah, I'm a little discouraged since some forum posts I researched were from 2012-2013 and apparently the problem still hasn't been solved. But here's hoping to future development! I guess screen savers it is for now...

Not sure if anyone else has run into this, google searching shows up a few forum posts but no solutions... I have a triple monitor setup and two are connected to my Nvidia 980ti through DisplayPort and one through DVI. I am saving the HDMI output for the HTC Vive that I should be receiving next month. Ever since moving to this configuration, I've noticed that every time I come back to my computer after the monitors go to sleep, the two displayport monitors will swap windows. For instance my messaging programs are always on my right monitor and web browsing always on the left. After the monitors wake up, they are swapped. I've tracked this down to how Windows treats programs displayed on each screen when a DisplayPort monitor powers itself off, Windows thinks that the desktop no longer exists and moves the programs to other monitors. I am on the latest nvidia drivers and I am running Windows 10 and everything appears to be up to date. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? It's just annoying to re-swap programs on different screens to put it back the way I like. All 3 screens are the same model/manufacturer and same resolution (1440p). Thanks!

My PC: 256GB ADATA SP900 SSD (OS/Apps) 3x500GB RAID0 Seagate SATA3 HDD (Gaming) (not sure of the exact spec of these drives, sourced from an older consumer desktop. Just steam games here, so if there's a crash not a huge deal. Important stuff is on Google Drive or there is a backup copy on our home NAS. Wife's PC: 256GB Plextor M6e M.2 Drive (OS/Apps) 4x4TB WD Black (Photography Archive and Workspace) Home NAS: (QNAP TS-869 Pro) 8x2TB RAID6 Seagate Constellation Enterprise Class SATA3 HDD (backups, personal cloud file sharing goes here) Offsite NAS: (Custom Built PC w/ Server grade MB/RAM) 1x500GB HDD (OS) 8x2TB RAID6 Seagate SATA2 HDD (resides at my workplace, rsync server accepts replication from Home NAS)

I have a 256GB SSD and 3x500GB SATA hard drives in RAID 0 for 1.5TB for game storage on my desktop. All of my documents are on Google Drive. All my music is on Google Play. So the only thing left for me to back up is photo and video multimedia. Everything else is cloud based or something I can easily reinstall. The photos and videos I store on a NAS and have an automated backup. I have a set of home security IP cameras that record directly to the NAS as well. I'm in the process of putting together an older Supermicro ATX server motherboard and 8x2TB seagate barracudas as a fileserver that I am going to throw in the server room at my office for off site duplication of the NAS. I do agree that backups are many times overlooked... but for the casual user, cloud storage tends to be sufficient.

How is the screen backlighting? Does it bleed? (by bleed I mean like uneven lighting around the edges like -- not my image, but just a google image result I pulled up) Been looking at the GS60 Ghost Pro. No particular direction towards 1080, 3k or 4k display but just curious what type of panel it has.

I use powerline ethernet for my home security cameras (2 outdoor, 1 indoor) that are spread out around a 2400 square foot house and they work well (cameras are semi HD at 720p) and seem to capture and stream just fine without falling off the network. I wouldn't expect powerline ethernet to dominate in terms of speed/bandwidth unless they are relatively close together w/ very few interfering electrical items plugged in. Remaining areas of the house have cat5e run to wall phone jacks, which I re-wired as RJ45 ports and put a gigabit switch in the garage where it all comes together so my home is now otherwise wired for gigabit (and powerline for hard to reach areas that have power outlets nearby). So overall, if you don't want to run unsightly cables, the powerline does what it does well. Stick with a reputable brand with good reviews from other users.

Apple dropped Aperture and is just going to incorporate it in a standard "Photos" app in Yosemite. I experienced this years ago when I did a lot of amatuer video editing using the stock iVideo app and they dumbed it down, forcing enthusiasts to limp along with the oversimplified software or jump to a pro-suite like Final Cut. I know a lot of people who love Aperture for photography workflow. But fortunately, this debate is already settled as my wife has settled into Lightroom and the Adobe suite of products since the last few years. Because of the processing that she does, the CPU gets hot and for long periods of time which seems to be involved in the deterioration of the previous two Macbook Pro's that she's had since 2009. I believe the 2009 model MBP did have a documented overheating issue and the fans/battery were replaced once. By the next time and the second laptop, she was so heavily into photography that she couldn't send it out for maintenance and be without it for a few weeks. And I do understand that an aging computer will have issues running current-gen software and that a new computer would solve the issue for the current and possibly next generation or two... but that gap seemed to be much smaller for MBP's, even after the i3,i5,i7 processor series of MBP's were released post 2010. So, that's when we figured a gaming laptop would be optimal because it's designed to deal with the graphics processing, thermal stress, and would have adequate cooling. Plus she could actually then use it for gaming (which is a secondary concern, the most gaming she does is WoW but at least now she doesn't have to steal my laptop--and yes I know WoW can run on Macs, but she likes the user experience of WoW on a PC more). I know a lot of the above is subjective, and I'm always learning. So if my assumptions are incorrect, I would certainly like to hear some feedback. Mike

Again thanks for the follow-up, folks. I'll look into the new MBP's and also at custom-ordered laptops from the above mentioned manufacturers. She isn't unhappy with the performance of the Gigabyte laptop although she would like to have 32GB RAM if possible on a laptop. The main thing she was unhappy about was the quality of the backlight (evenly distributing the light behind the LCD). I believe the Gigabyte is a standard HD (1080) screen. Ultra high res isn't a necessity right now. She works mostly in fine art photography and digital compositing for magazine spreads, not really portraits/weddings/etc... although she is currently hired by a local university for sports photography (mostly football, basketball, and volleyball). So, other than the sports photography where it's just high volume of images, she mainly works with huge TIFF files, large panos, and many layers. Eats up 16GB RAM like candy. Photoshop usually eats up most of the 32GB RAM on the desktop and whirrs away at the M.2 as a scratch disk more times than not. So mainly, I am curious if anyone off the top of their head knows of a manufacturer (other than Apple) that can produce an evenly lit, clean looking screen for a laptop. Rather than one where the edges of the screen are brighter than the middle, etc. Thanks! Mike edit: We have the Gigabyte laptop version that has the standard screen, though they do have a similar spec'd version with an IPS screen, but not sure if that has anything to do with the backlight.

Awesome suggestions! I'm out and about right now but will follow up later today. She has had some bad experiences over battery life, overheating, and performance over two mbp's since 2009. I'll elaborate later. But will definitely discuss it with her. We have creative cloud through my business so cross platform isn't much of an issue. Mike

Dear LinusTechTips Forum, Long time reader, first time poster here... Hopefully this is in the correct forum. Just wanted to get some advice regarding purchasing a powerful laptop for my photographer wife. I'm not so concerned with budget, but if I had to spit out a number of where I would feel comfortable spending it would be in the $1500-2000 range. She does a lot of high end photo editing with large files and lots of layers, some rendering, and also some computer gaming but mostly photo editing while she is on the go. Earlier this year, I built her a desktop with these specs: i7 4790K @ 4.5GHz (cooled by Corsair Hydro H80i) ASRock Z97 OC Formula Motherboard 32GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400MHz DDR3 RAM Plextor 256GB M.2 Drive for OS/Apps 4TB SATA3 HDD (RAID1 Mirroring of 2 WD Black 4TB drives) EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked, 3GB VRAM (may eventually upgrade this to a Firepro or Quadro graphics card, but she isn't interested in 10-bit color gamut photography at the moment) Corsair HX750i PSU in a nice clean Corsair Carbide 300R windowed case Dell Ultrasharp U2713H monitor So needless to say, she is spoiled on its performance and wants a laptop that can get close to that while still staying in a certain form factor and portability. She currently has a Gigabyte laptop (model # P35Wv2-CF5) which has a 15.6" screen, i7-4710HQ processor, 16GB RAM, and a GTX 870M and 1TB hard drive (not SSD). She is happy with the performance, though maxing out the RAM usage in Photoshop with her large multilayered files. The most important thing in photography work is the monitor... she is unhappy with the quality of the LCD screen which has very uneven backlighting (brighter/lower contrast along the edges, darker higher contrast towards the center of the screen). We have a X-Rite i1 for color calibration. From my experience, I haven't been able to find much information on the capable color gamut of laptop screens (Adobe1998 RGB would be preferred) but the i1 has been sufficient in calibrating the colors for matching the accuracy of colors from on-screen to printer. Is there such a laptop out there with similar specs for photography and video gaming with a similar form factor (15.6" laptop, thin as possible for portability) with a high quality screen and backlighting that would be optimal for photography work? A lot of the photo blogs out there recommend more mainstream manufacturers like Macbook Pro, Dell XPS 15, and ASUS laptops which she doesn't like to compromise on the performance. She used to be a 100% Mac user, but has since crossed over to 100% PC/Android. And my ulterior motive is that if I can replace her laptop, her Gigabyte laptop will become mine to replace my aging laptop I would certainly love to hear from anyone who has experience in photography (whether pro or amatuer) and what their computing hardware is for their photo editing rig while traveling. Thanks everyone! Mike