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Paraselene

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    Paraselene got a reaction from Dusty Chalk in Any news on ASUS Vivobook Pro Oled?   
    It's avaliable in china for about a week or two by now. Priced at 9500RMB or about <$1500 after tax.
    https://item.jd.com/100026267964.html
    I'd assume it'll be avaliable in the US soon
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    Paraselene got a reaction from exousia7 in [rant] I'll never ever buy anything from Logitech again.   
    I appreciate the story, I used to be a huge fan for their mice, since my first purchased g300 for my laptop, basically every mouse amd gamepad I have is from them. The problem is not (mainly) about my basically $10 mouse. It's about their customer support's inability of providing accurate info, failure to notify customer when there's issue that might delay the shipment, multiple times of not making their supposed delivery date, and generally failed communication with customer. It's more of afraid that this kind of support service will become the new norm, that's what makes me wanna stay away from their further product(s). 
    Courtesy of @exousia7, I dig through a few local forums, and realized that It's not just me who have their Logitech product stuck in the RMA flow, but basically everyone who have their product sent through the process since mid to late July.
    Even they know there's a problem nation wide, they still refuse to actively contact their customer, just a call or text saying "because xxx, you might expect delay, and a delivery date" would makes this situation so much better. But no, they choose to be silent, and obfuscated the truth from the customer, until they couldn't wait and call them directly. This kind of passive attitude makes the experience so much worse than what it could've been. What if today it's not my dad's mouse that broke, but my daily driver g502? g700s? That would guarantee I have to buy another one. This is what makes me so furious now thinking about all this.
    But to be fair, I have to admit that the micro-switch that Logitech refuse to change for literally years is the main culprit here. Every time I need to have my mice fixed, it's because the f--king micro-switch. They would rather cheap-out on a $1 micro-switch, and to have me fix my mice and went through this basically hell process. ALL of my Logitech mice have died at least once in their warranty lifespan. Before this incident, I still bought their product because of their strong RMA support, if this doesn't exist anymore, I don't know if I could justify buying their products anymore. Probably not.
     
    Anyway, what I'm saying is, this is not just a $10 mouse breakdown. I know that Logitech makes great product, but if their customer support will be like this from now on, I just won't buy it anymore. 
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    Paraselene got a reaction from Sir Asvald in Story of getting a big bargain on buying PC ( 4 PCs for $33.5)   
    TL;DR    Our university is having a garage-sale sorta thing, and since the officers know nothing about computers and such, I ended up getting a very good deal.

    Here's my story (sorry, not much pictures)

    My university is having it's 90th anniversary this month, and for that the officers decided to have a "charity" sale
    Since there's quite some old computers that has already been replaced by newer ones, and they don't actually wanted to stash them away in some random storage in campus
    They decided to sell them away literally dirt cheap, and only students and faculty could purchase them in limited quantites.
    And since there's so many of them, they didn't bother testing all the stuff and just sell them as "not confirmed working" condition
     
    Simple pricing :
    For every monitor, ~$3.32 (exchange rate and stuff), limited 2 per person
    For every tower PC, ~$13.25 if already tested working (boots into XP), $3.32 if not. 1 per person

    Since you couldn't check what's inside the case, or whether it's working or not, it sorta became a gamble, with little bet and large possible payouts
    So I had 3 of my friends over to get in line, and get numbered tickets for me of which you need to checkout.
    After I went in, I decided the monitors are bad deal since they're all 19~21" 4:3 TN panels, it is cheap, but it's both hard to use, and even harder to sell
    So I focused on Tower PCs. I soon found out that I had a real advantage, hardware knowledge.
    Being in CS major, I kinda get used to all those naming and timing of the hardware (like lots of people here)
    So I walk-through all the PCs (40 in total), less than a quarter of them are custom build machines.
    A characteristics of OEM machines, they all have those "Powered by intel" "Core 2 Duo" "Core 2 Quad" stickers on them
    And also, since they didn't bother to tear the barcode on the machine off, a quick scan and google search came up with the model number, thus the chipset

    I filtered out those C2D and Pentium 3/4 machines, which narraow down to about 20ish
    Also during the process I found a Lenovo machine that barcode literally has "i7950" in it, and I took it instantly without blinking (that's seems to be the only one newer than 775 chipset)
    After that I took 2 machines with Core 2 Quad on the front, and has a graphics card by looking at the PCI-E expansion slot (both from ASUS)
    All looks pretty great at the moment, then I saw this strangely looking custom tower PC that caught my eye
    A pretty decent after-market case with a celeron sticker, and Powered By ASUS sticker on it.
     
    So I thought, a celeron? Who still uses a celeron. And also this PC looks like nothing from ASUS
    While saying that I found out the front panel looks strange, and opened it
    This is what I saw then

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    I was stocked, I didn't even check if there's drives in it, and took it to the checkout
    My hunch tells me if there's a hot-swap drive bay, there must be a RAID card
     
    After taking all 4 PCs back to my seat, I started to check the for-mentioned PC
    This is what it looks like after poping every bay out
     
     
    Jackpot, the drive bay was fully-loaded

    Albeit a bit old, but 4 x 640G WD drive is still decent
     
    And with hope I pop off the side panel

    Voila, definitely a Raid card in there, some e-sata extender on the very bottom,and a very old ATI graphics card from ASUS
    And a very decent ASUS P5K PRO motherboard 
    PCIE from left to right : Graphics, GbE NIC, RAID controller, e-sata connector

    Booting into the bios, confirmed it's a Celeron E1200.
    ========No more pics===============
     
    So I take apart the i7 PC, and no surprise, 8G of DDR3, and 2x 1TB drive, nothing special
    Then the third, C2Quad, turns out to be Q9500, 4g DDR2, 2x 1TB drive, and an 8800GT
    Last, Q6600, 4G DDR2, and 1x 500GB drive

    Final total : $33.5

    Sum up: If your nearby college / high-school / etc... is selling this kind of stuff dirt cheap, why not take a look?
    You might find someting that really surprise you (Disclaimer : YMMV)

    P.S. I finally salvaged everything from the Q6600 PC, and just install them all onto the celeron PC, exchanged the CPU, and install a fresh Linux on it
    That's when I realized it also comes with a 30G OCZ core v2 SSD as the boot disk with win server 2003 on it. That's plenty for Linux.
    So technically speaking I only have 3 PCs now, but whatever LOL.
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