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PenPoint

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Hundred Acre Wood, next to Pooh's house
  • Interests
    Music(Modern & Old Pop, House(especially Progressive), Astronomical Observations

System

  • CPU
    Intel Core i3-4170
  • Motherboard
    ASRock B85M Pro4
  • RAM
    Samsung PC3-10600 2GB * 2
  • GPU
    Intel HD Graphics 4400
  • Storage
    Samsung 850 PRO 128GB
  • PSU
    A decent 500W without 80 Plus certificate
  • Display(s)
    Single & small 1600*900
  • Cooling
    Intel Genuine Stock Cooler
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro x64

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  1. Well, thank you for the information! I might be able to apply it if I keep have to use my old keyboard, but for now I'm tired of moving my keyboard all the time between my Mac mini and my laptop
  2. I once considered the apple one, but it seemed quite expensive and the pantograph thingy made me hesitate. Personally I don't think it is reasonable to buy a pantograph keyboard with the price tag of $135 USD...
  3. Well it's a bit off the topic, but I fairly love it. My main usage is producing music through Logic Pro, but I think it'll satisfy most of the users except the ones who love gaming.
  4. Hi there! I recently purchased a Mac mini (M1) and it's now in my room, connected to a numerous number of peripheral devices. This is my first experience with an apple computer, so all of my mice and keyboards are Windows-compatible, or at least windows-friendly - which means the keyboard I was using with my Windows laptop still works, but the keys are, well, feeling quite awkward. So I tried to look up some Mac-friendly (wireless; since the desk is not big enough to endure all the cables) keyboard / or if possible, keyboard-mouse combo; and the only reasonable product I could find was: - Logitech MK850 Performance (combo) And my friends told me "If I were you, I'd buy some decent mechanical keyboard in that price range", and their recommendations are: - Leopold FC900R series (keyboard only) What would be the best choice? Of course if there is a better choice, please let me know! Thank you for sharing your knowledge * Summarization: (1) Doesn't really matter whether it is a combo or keyboard-only (2) Mac-compatible/friendly (3) Wireless (hopefully) (4) Reasonable price (5) Non-pantograph, Membrane-welcomed, Mechanical-welcomed (6) Includes numeric keypad (hopefully)
  5. I recently purchased an 'Archer C9' wireless router from TP-Link, and from the installation guide I figured out that I can install an router-friendly operating system called DD-WRT. But the guide warned that 'you may lost your warranty if you install it', so that's basically what I'm worried about. Is there a way that I can reinstall the originally included router OS in case of the customer service? And furthermore, I searched through the DD-WRT database and found out that the 'beta(v3.0)' version only supports my router. I'm also worried that the lack of performance of my router since it has 1.0GHz dual-core processor, 128MB of RAM, and only 16MB of ROM. What would be the best idea?
  6. 1. Usually it is not the clock speed but is the voltage that decides whether the system is stable or not. You may search for the adequate voltage on Google. 2. Looks like it can endure vast majority of modern & flagship GPUs. 3. It's just the matter of voltage. Adequate voltage is needed to run the system stable, however if it's too low or high the system won't be stabilized.
  7. I'm worried about the consumption of electricity...
  8. Not really, basically my usage of it will be a simple file storage and viewing file over the net.
  9. I'm currently looking for a moderately-priced(same or less than $200 USD) NAS for home usage. I found these manufacturers(brands): * Asustor * Thecus * Synology * Qnap * Buffalo * WD (My Cloud) * Netgear * Seagate Any good suggestions?
  10. Thank you for the detailed reply!
  11. Well, it seems like their battery capacity are nearly identical. Would you explain why i7 dual-core is worse than an i5 quad-core CPU? Do you think the overall advantage from the multi-core environment is way better than the smaller cores, higher frequency system?
  12. 7th i5: i5-7200U 7th i7: i7-7500U 8th i5: i5-8250U 8th i7: i7-8550U This is the accurate numbers!
  13. So I'm going to purchase a laptop in a few hours, and what I will buy is the 'gram' from LG. LG released the 7th generation model - which, I mean, has 7th gen Intel processor in it - about a year ago, and after a simple research, I found out that they recently released the new version of the laptop including brand-new 8th gen cores. As many of you already know, 7th gen CPUs all have 2 physical cores and 4 logical cores, and 8th gen CPUs have 4 physical cores and 8 logical ones, although its base clock is far lower than the previous generation SKUs. So what I'm thinking of is the single core performance; although multi-core performance is getting more and more important, I think what I need is a better single core performance since my usage will be quite simple; productivity applications such as Microsoft Word, and programming tools like Visual Studio, and no or little & light games. What do you guys think? Still looking for the newer generation will be a good choice? Just for the reference, below is the price list between discrete models: 1) Core i5 7th gen - approx. 1020 USD 2) Core i7 7th gen - approx. 1250 USD 3) Core i5 8th gen - approx. 1130 USD 4) Core i7 8th gen - approx. 1420 USD
  14. G1850 will be enough: it depends on the circumstances but usually dual-core celeron does its job well.
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