dizmo

$600 isnt much of a budget for a watch and a phone. I'd just stick to Apple. Or, check out OnrPlus; they might be within reach for a 12R plus their watch. 

Definitely wasn't the smartest route to go.

Depends where you live. Pricing varies wildly depending on your location.

8 minutes ago, testcy said:

Only option I have at a reasonable price is Samsung M70B, but wouldn't this be pixelated at 43"?

Yes, 16:19 unless I should also consider something else?

Is 125% the recommended windows scaling?

It'll have better PPI than a 1440p 32".

I wouldn't go below 4k personally, but I'd also look at a 43" monitor for 4k.

You can do it either way, it kind of comes down to what you want to buy and how you want to work it.

I'd just get a case that has controllable fans built in already.

£770 is a drop in the bucket compared to any PR grievances they'd go through if it started to gain exposure. This is less than peanuts to them. I've written off larger amounts at a paint store. 

On 4/3/2024 at 9:17 PM, OhYou_ said:

just copy all those values line by line into ebay.com and then go with the lowest price and add it all up, thats what the value of the raw parts are and you can compare that to the $1800.

in almost all cases, built pcs all get listed for more than the sum of the parts, but in all cases are WORTH less than the sum of their parts due to demand.

eBay is a horrible way to make a valuation of something, as the prices are inflated due to their fees, people bidding because they get caught up in the action, etc.

4 hours ago, Paul Rudd said:

While I heavily agree with you on this, upon further glance, have you by chance looked at the pictures and reviews? I would describe both as surprisingly favorable. And even the top rated third party seller located in California known as GOHARDDRIVE STORE has a 4.5/5 star rating from 100 reviews.

 

And if you buy this same drive on Amazon here you get a 5 year warranty for $8.88. This third party seller also located in California is known as Worldwide Product Importer with a 4.9/5 star rating from 344 reviews.

 

I'm a huge fan of hard drives in general and I remember paying $75 for a 3 TB 7200 RPM HDD 5 years ago and seeing this price now for a 10 TB HDD very similar to mine is a super considerable deal for someone looking to obtain mass storage. I have quite a few HDD's that are still going strong in my personal PC, can't recommend them enough.

Pictures and reviews don't matter to me. I simply wouldn't trust data I find important to a refurbished drive. Period. 

Warranty means nothing if the data is gone. 

A new 8TB drive is only $110. 

Good price, but I don't think I'd ever trust mass storage to a refurb drive.

Budget, location would both be helpful with any kind of suggestion.

I personally find Nvidia cards to be significantly more stable, especially if you're playing older titles. So. That's what I'd go with.

The developer can't give a timeline for how long a game will remain popular. No one has that kind of crystal ball. 

I don't really know what this will do beyond making companies give the ability for people to host the game on their own after they decide to stop support. So congrats to the dozens of people they will play those titles I guess

Xlink Kai was what I remember using. Ahhh the memories. 

Virtually everyone has a phone, I know almost no one with a tablet.

There's just not as much demand sadly. I've often been shocked by how weak the tablet ecosystem is.

New build, but depending on what you play at what resolution you might be able to ride out that 1080 for a while.

5600x. Maybe more RAM, as it's cheap. Then save up for an entire system upgrade.

4 minutes ago, Forbidden Wafer said:

If you mean office, multitasking, sure. If you mean real work, no. They're garbage. They gimped them up by cutting the number of load/store ports and registers, so they're naturally memory bottle necked, even if you use as many channels as you want with very fast memory.

If you're doing "real work", wouldn't you be after a Xeon anyway? 

I don't think it's as much them taking your data as it is bad actors being able to indoctrinate the vulnerable. Like the case of the US serviceman that set himself on fire. 

I'd be glad to see this gone, though to be fair I'd be glad to see most social media gone. Such a waste of most people's time. 

Now I know what old people felt like when tv's were taking off. Welp. 

44 minutes ago, starsmine said:

It is very nasty stuff for the worker who uses it, one usually ends up breathing in the fumes, so its heavily discouraged still. Any factory encouraging the use of it is doing some questionable things, unnecessarily risking the health of its workers for the sake of a product. Those factories should be audited and steered away from if it wasn't just ignorance for that reason.


But yea there is no issue with the workmanship or the product. Corporate greed run a muck, its possible. Just which corporation is being greedy here? 

It's not that bad with proper PPE. If you think lead is bad, just wait until you find out how bad cheese dust is... 

I wouldn't be too worried about it TBH. Most SSDs will go far, far beyond the rated drive endurance.

I believe it's more of a warranty thing. They tested x number of drives, all lasted within that time, so that's the rating they'll give them so that they don't have to file as many warranty claims.

I'd probably look into more storage. 1TB these days goes by pretty quickly.

6 hours ago, venomtail said:

There's a bit of FOMO that the sale price won't be as good but at the same time the genie's out of the box, people will now expect this to be a new sales price, another sort of worry is that Watch 7 Pro will cost the same if not more of the 5 Pro MSRP, that's nearly double what it is now and will I really get double the watch when the 7 Pro comes out? Tough call.

 

Maybe I should sit on this idea for a while at least. Let myself cool down. Maybe save up a bit as well as I've fallen on hard times so I need more in reserve that I usually do.

You pretty much never get a 100% increase in what you get. That kind of hope will just leave you constantly unhappy. If you're worried about that kind of equation you're probably better off getting the 5 Pro. I'd probably get it sooner than later, as they'll ramp down production when they start manufacturing the 7 Pro. 

1TB isn't nearly enough space. I'd probably aim to quadruple it.

7/10. Nice, but you didn't get the LTT colorway, which IMO if you're collecting them as you say, doesn't make much sense

I went with the Megapro driver instead of the LTT one. 90% of the performance, 1/4 of the cost. Standard bits.

I don't think people critiquing it means that they're jealous. Sometimes someone judging your financial choices is simply not in line with what you spend your money on. I, for example, could have easily afforded an LTT screw driver, but spending 4x the money on some differences that wouldn't matter to me is a waste.