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Were not doing to be doing any simulations or anything, it is purely just for the design aspect, anything that requires serious power can be sent to the college computers. The only thing we'll be doing on the laptop is just drawing and manipulating bodies. Sorry, I should have specified that in the original post. For example my GA502 does all of that stuff perfectly well, but if I wanted to anything more I would send it to my workstation.

Hey guys i'm looking for a laptop for my friend who is studying engineering with me. She doesn't game or anything so this laptop is specifically for college and running Solidworks. I myself enjoy the occasional minecraft session so on recommendation from others on the forum I picked up the Asus ROG Zephyrus GA502 which I'm really pleased with so I was hoping I could get some more recommendations here. Her budget is €750 and I don't think there is much leeway with that unfortunately. I suppose the main thing she's looking for is something that isn't too bulky (doesn't have to be super thin, the GA502 is a nice size), has a decent size battery (at least 8 hours just surfing the web, taking notes etc. (She doesn't want to lug around the charger with her)) and most importantly can run Solidworks. So 16GB of RAM would be ideal and an SSD would be a requirement. I don't really know a huge amount about it but all the workstations I've used that are built for Solidworks generally don't have dedicated graphics so I assume the same applies here. Other than that please hit me up with some suggestions, I really don't know much about the laptop market! Thank you guys in advance for your help!

Too far out of my price range im afraid, I literally cannot allocate more than €1000 to this, otherwise i'll be going hungry for few months ahahahah

To be honest 4 hours should be grand, too much wishful thinking with 6 ahahaha. 60Hz is perfect and the thickness doesn't matter. Thanks for your suggestions so far my guys

For delivery to Ireland, I also need to use this laptop for college so 6 hrs battery life minimum when not gaming would be nice. The Acer Nitro 5 looks like a pretty good deal, I may be mistaken though. Share some of your knowledge with me! Thank youu

I see. What about unique identifiers (Other than MAC)? For example would it be possible to get hold of a serial number or something and reverse search it? Thanks for your help btw

I tried using the internal one, but the laptop is old and it wasn't performing very well. You said in an earlier post that 'there is a lot more than the mac id be worried about', i'm very curious now, could you elaborate?

I'm trying to hide my real identity. I already have the burner laptop with everything stripped etc. and tails on it. I just need an alfa usb network card that cannot be linked to me.

Forgive me, but I didn't really clarify what I meant by "traced". I don't mean physically tracked down, we have tor and tails for that. I mean if some nasty hacker or government managed to obtain some sort of information derived from either physical or remote access to the device, would they be able to deduce that it was ordered from amazon etc. under my credit card (or someone who I know). Essentially, what sort of information could be exploited from the device? The plan so far is to spoof the MAC, is there any other information that the device might give up that means it could be traced back to me?

I'm looking to purchase for myself a lovely Alfa wireless adapter, however I would like it so that it cannot be traced back to me. Unfortunately there is no-one within reach who sells Alfa networking gear so that I could just buy it for cash. This means the only place I could potentially buy it is online, on amazon or something of the likes. However (and I'm still very new to this privacy game), I would have thought that would come with inherent privacy risks, that someone could somehow figure who purchased the card, (maybe even without having physical access to the card). Questions: 1. Maybe I am just delusional. Could the adapter be traced and if so, how? 2. Is there any steps I could take to mitigate this risk? Thanking you in advance.

Just a side note why are the 2000W speaker sets cheaper than the 800W ones? what am I missing here?

Yea I just looked at a vidjeo review and it has all this extra shite. Ill look for something a little simpler. Are they powerful enough tho? like the subwoofer etc? I want to shake the walls hahahah

Yea i've been doing a bit more research and all the ones seem veerrrryyy expensive, this is wayy over budget but I guess if I save a bit more, would this fit the bill? https://www.gear4music.ie/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Behringer-EPS500-MP3-Portable-PA-System/PP8

Right so i'm looking for a(some) big speaker(s) that I can bring with me to house parties. One that you hafta plug in, really loud, tons of bass and possible to hook up to a phone/computer with an aux around €250. I live in ireland so uk/irish websites are preferred. This isnt a requirement but portability and durability would be nice too (don't want them broken when someone spills their drink on it for example). I just wanna blast out my psy trance, thanks in advance I don't really know much about speakers so I figured what better place to ask?

OK so I have a MSI Z170-A Pro Motherboard, and yes its going into my pink port. Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that its going from XLR - the aux mic thing in one cable without any significant looking adapter? Thanks so much for your help btw very much appreciated. Also windows seems to be detecting it properly aswell:

Is "Mic In" the XLR thing? I don't have one of them on my PC, its just a normal motherboard. Basically the mic was supplied with a cable that has aux at one end and XLR at the other. Do I need a sound card with XLR then? @Tabs

Hey hey hey whats cracking, OK so basically I needed a new mic because the ones on my headphones broke so I bought this Neewer one of amazon along with a box (I don't know what the box is called but it seems to give extra power to the mic or something. It doesn't have buttons on it just an input output and a power cable). The box was supposed to amp up the mic so it was nice and loud because the aux on my computer couldn't give it sufficient power. But its still too quiet and when I turn up the volume on my computer for the mic Its loader but there's lots of white noise. I talked to a very smart man about this and he rambled on about how I was going from balanced to unbalanced and I need something to balance it and amp it up before it goes into my computer. Now you know the backstory how do I fix this? Do I need a little sound mixer thing? Do I need a sound card? Is aux just pure sh*t? As i'm sure you can tell I know nothing about audio other then the fact that it cannot be polarized and travels parallel to its source. Thanking you in advance.

Soo as you may or may not know the league of legends worlds are comin up soon and me and the boys are plannin to have a wee lan party (and some cans) before it starts. (I live in Ireland so its on at like 3 am). Anyway im a little worried about my internet being to handle 5 computers running league. Heres what you need to know: 1. All the 5 computers will be hardwired with an ethernet switch. 2. There will be nothing else connected to the router at that time. (Im disabling the wifi) 3. I have 100mbps down and 12mbps up Will this be enough to play a bitta league? Thankssss

You know I never thought i'd say this but i'm actually missing good old fashioned Combat Arms. I know the developers are absolute *****, I know the weapon balancing is more like weapon unbalancing, I know it's a Pay-To-Win and they make you give up you're entire bank account for a couple of super OP guns but I just miss it, and it seems like today we've lost that kind of game that Combat Arms was. I mean mention a game with as many diverse maps and weapons as Combat Arms and i'll be impressed, and yes I've played the new Line Of Sight Game but its not the same and it'll never be the same. Game Developers in the past few years have been rushing to give us titles that are either a hundred years ahead or a hundred years behind and I don't like it. Can we please just have a nice 2017 based fps with lots of diverse maps and weapons? Oh and another thing I miss about CA is running around wearing all sorts of weird ****, so side-note for the developers deviate from this strict military uniform thing you've got going on like in A.V.A. and Black Squad. And I wanna have to grind my butt off for the top level as well. You know as I was writing this I'm actually getting a little worried, is there a game like that out there that i'm not seeing?? One that's not totally dead? What do you guys think? Do you like these first person shooters from 3017?

oh its unlimited

ah, yes that is an issue, erm 12Mbps, but i'm the only one using it which I guess helps a little. I've never played World of Warcraft but this pc struggles to get 10-15fps in league of legends on minimum settings

So basically i'm sitting here now at my grannies staying the night (woo) so naturally I wasn't allowed to lug my main gaming rig with me so I've got the very much terrible family laptop with me with an Intel Celeron Dual Core T3500 @ 2.1GHz, 3 GB of RAM and oh, you guessed it the ALMIGHTY Intel 4-Series family display adapter. So my question to you today is, is there any good mmo like games to entertain me for the night? I like mmos like dead frontier yknow with a bit of action and shooting, but I also like games like torn city just to pass the time, however i'm not really into games that are all anime, magic, fantasy or set in the middle ages which is most of them. Buttt im hoping you guys will have some fantastic suggestions!! Thank youuu

Haha I dunno I just wanted to be sure cus ive never done anything like this

So I was repurposing an old laptop power brick as an ac to dc converter for a hot wire cutter and when I cut off the connection at the end the wires are divided in layers. I dont really know how to describe it but on the first layer and second layer there was two thick layers of wire which i'm guessing due to there thickness in proportion to the third cable are the positive and negative terminals. However there is a final wire going through the centre of the cable which is much smaller than the other two which i'm guessing is the earth wire considering I am using a UK plug which comes with an earth pin but I'm not 100% sure considering i'm not an electrician. Is this the earth wire? Thanks in advance.

Yea definitely gonna be more careful after that nearly shit myself