Dang3r D3bbi3

hmmmmmm As a non-mac user i cant really give much experience to back up my opinon but i would say with the current applications you're doing now and the specs of it https://support.apple.com/kb/sp715?locale=en_US
then you should be good my dude

Smart home you say?  

Well, I used to work at Maplin (A large chain of electronics stores here in the UK) until it went bankrupt a few days ago (What timing right?), and one of the things which we always tried to push was smart home.
You could come into the store, play around with things, and try out all of the smart home stuff we had as it all worked together.
And one of the things we found is how fascinated people were by home automation, and all of the things you could do with it.

Now, yes there are things like smart thermostats, AI's, smart lighting, etc.  But lots of people always asked things like:
"Well, can it turn on my coffee maker?"
To which the answer was... Kinda...
You see, you could have a smart plug on a coffee maker, and turn the smart plug on with an app or an AI, but starting it is as of now impossible.

Other people have asked things like:
"Could I do something like controlling the speed of a fan with this smart home stuff"
This time the answer being, yes, if you are talking about on, and off.
 
Maybe you could be a sort of amateur inventor, and create smart appliances that can be controlled by things like Amazon Alexa, your phone, or even invent something completely new!
 
If anyone thinks this is a good suggestion let me know, and maybe suggest products that you'd like to see.
 
 
I hope this helps.

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Brushed or anodized Aluminum would be my go to. 
 
Don't forget to mention tempered glass  

IPS = Good colour and viewing angles.
TN = Good response time (great for gaming)
VA = Like IPS but slightly different
PLS = Again like IPS but slightly different (generally seen as a slightly better IPS but it depends)
CRT = No... just no.

IPS: Higher latency. best color angles and accuracy but expensive (getting mainstream)
TN: Lower latency, ok color angles and good accuracy but cheaper and most common (is mainstream)
VA: Motion Blur (not as fast), good color angles and accuracy (especially blacks) but cheaper and mainstream (suited for general purpose work)
PLS: Like IPS but developed by a different company, best color angles and accuracy but expensive
CRT: lowest (rivals TN) latency and lag, ok color, but big/heavy and produce flicker and noise
https://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/lcd-panel-types.php
http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1890-panel-comparison-tn-ips-pls-va-crt

yeah..i mean going for the low ball offer is great for you but kinda seems like a dick move to me. I know its a hard world out there but try to go for $300 maybe $275...

3. & 4. yes

1. Dont get 240hz, its unneeded 
2. A 1070 should be fine...but what resolution?
3. Buy G-sync if your EVEN thinking about 240hz
4.  To answer your question..No if you had G-sync or Free Sync because the whole reason for those techs is to sync the gpu and monitor together to eliminate screen tearing

i5..no question

@Dang3r D3bbi3No apology is necessary I want people's honest input!
Plus it's not hurting my feelings, it's my girl's doing lol. I will make sure she tries out the programs immediately upon installation.
 
@nerdslayer1I will certainly take a look at it! Any reviews already on it you'd recommend I'd take a look at?
 
@bob51zhangYes, I am in the US. I personally don't think that gaming laptop is very portable. Sure for the hardware it hauls maybe its considerable. But I know she's not gonna be happy with it in the long run just got this gut feeling. Ugghhh well I figured the card due to it being a laptop wasn't going to be as good as it sounded to her. It is dedicated graphics though nonetheless right? As long as it can run Photoshop/Illustrator flawlessly than it might suit her. Looks like she'll just have to tinker with Premiere Pro on her desktop. Now would upgrading the RAM to let's say 16GB help with using Premiere Pro or do you think just the graphics card alone can't handle it? Yes the battery is something I'm absolutely preparing her for. It's not going to be pretty lol. Thank you for your great input!
 

Personally I would go with the 1070 if you want it now..but if your the least bit interested in Vega I'd wait, plus GPUs get cheaper over time.

Lucky Linus. He doesn't have that problem, since he drops everything and breaks it. If you just make a habit of breaking your old hardware, then you have a great reason to upgrade. 
 
EDIT: And I do have the same problem. I really want to get an iPhone 7 Plus because of the water resistance, better camera, etc. But my iPhone 6 Plus works just fine and supports most of the features of iOS 11 and such, so there's not really a need to replace it, especially since an iPhone 7 Plus is around $900. 

Does anyone else have this problem?  I see people talking about upgrades all the time even just single generational leaps among Intel CPUs but being ready to throw the last generation into the dumpster ASAP.  I'm in a different boat, I feel like the stuff I have just won't reach uselessness.
 
My laptop is from 2012, old right?  But it has an i7 2630QM in it and 16GB of RAM, that's a Quad Core 2.0ghz (2.9ghz Turbo) Sandy Bridge  The resolution mind you is only 1366x768 which is the biggest downside but for a laptop that I mostly just use to browse around on the couch while watching TV, it's beyond 'good enough' and I can't justify the cost of replacing it.  Even when the keyboard had failed it was easier to just spend 20 on eBay to buy a new keyboard and replace it.  This also let me ditch the Canadian Bilingual keyboard for the standard US English keyboard. D:

My desktop?  i7 Extreme 4930k that 's over clocked to 4.6ghz.  It'll be four years old come Christmas but it's still going strong.  Oh sure, I put a new GPU in it every 2 years but performance wise, that machine so it's hard to justify replacing the entire system without making a very big leap in performance.  Like, 8 core Intel or 10 core AMD, minimum.  Most other 'upgrades' would cost more money than they're worth.  I'll probably upgrade it's R9 390X to Vega in the fall but that's really the biggest upgrading I've done in sometime, keeping GPUs up to date every couple of years.
 
Even my other machines, I have a livingroom HTPC that runs an i7 3770K that runs at 4.2ghz and has an HD 7950 in it and it'll get the GPU hand-me-downs from the above mentioned i7 Extreme system.  It's hard to hate the 3770K, that's a rock solid CPU and for video decoding and casual TV gaming it's great.  When the workstation gets Vega, this machine gets the workstation's 390X which'll nearly, but not quite, match the Xbox One X in performance and AMD even backwards ported HDR support into it.
 
In the bedroom is another HTPC, the lightest used, it honestly does YouTube for all of the two hours a day it gets used.  It's i5 4590 could probably handle THAT job for the next ten years.  It's also technicaly capable of gaming with an HD 6950 (It gets the hand-me-downs from the above HTPC, so it'll get the HD 7950 in the fall.)
 
Basically, asside from GPUs... I can't justify upgrades to my computers.  I really just can't, with how CPU's have plateaued lately and most games do great on basically 'Any Intel Quad Core' if it's paired with a capable GPU it's just so hard to justify upgrades.

Im sry but Im just going to give to you straight...Dont buy a "gaming" laptop. 

But if your trying to help your GF then id ask her to try out the programs and see how they run. But considering its a mobile i5 and I personally have a desktop i5 and those same programs...and they run "OK" for me, they probably wont

scorpio should blow xbox one s out of the water. 
 

Wait for Scorpio launch regardless, if nothing else the Xbox One and PS4P will get cheaper.

Could there be a VLOG made about the new people at LinusMediaGroup? Just curious about who and what they do.

At that point I'd get an XPS 15.

Can I run AAA titles at ultra with this build at 60fps on a 34" 1440p ultrawide? (3440x1440)
 
Heres my build:
 
i7 7700k @ 4.8ghz
asus ix hero
16gb ddr4 2666mhz
nzxt kraken x62
gtx 1070 aorus xtreme edition 1.95 ghz 
650 watt power supply
phanteks ethoo evolve tempered glass

Look at this first...in was in your same exact shoes like last week, this completely changed my mind
 

1. rooting is gaining admin privileges/rights to a system and allowing you to do ANYTHING you want (ex: install any app, etc
2. The kernel is the bottom layer of the OS and what is runs on (the bedrock layer if you will)
3.  Greenify, http://www.androidauthority.com/best-root-apps-android-269022/
4. SU Remover most likely means Super User Remover and probably allows you to remove anything whether bloatware or system apps