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Hi All,
 
It's been a while since I've bought a new laptop so I'm hoping someone can point my in the direction of something decent.  I'm mainly going to be using it for gaming so a good graphics card and screen is a must, but also development (windows and Android Apps), watching movies, some light transcoding and video editing and the general stuff you'd expect to do on a laptop.
 
Location: UK
Budget: 2,500 GBP Including VAT (I could add a little bit more for the perfect unit)
Weight: 3.5kg max (again I'm a little flexable for the right unit)
Battery Life: 3hrs min (non-gaming), the more the better (I won't be flying with this laptop, so battery limitations there do not apply).  A big plus if I can get additional batteries and something to charge them outside of the laptop (price of which does not need to be included in budget).
 
Needs to have:
120Hz+ 1080p screen, at least 15inch with g-sync (or freesync depending on video card, if they do that for laptops) At least one USB 3.1 Gen 1 (or 2) Type C (the more the merrier) 2x M.2 NVME Slots (only one needs to be populated at purchase)  
Nice to have:
1440p (do they do those in laptops?) or 4k screen at 120Hz+ Thunderbolt 3 Free RAM slots Free 2.5 inch HDD bay  
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
UG.

every GPU has a max temp and a best temp when in use. They should be in the product specifications. Generally this image can be used as a rule of thumb but some cards can run hotter or should not go as high as pictured here.

"Hey, you're into computers..." usually followed by one or more question more suited to a manufacturer or other support line, but they'd probably have to pay for that.

"Hey, you're into computers..." usually followed by one or more question more suited to a manufacturer or other support line, but they'd probably have to pay for that.

"Hey, you're into computers..." usually followed by one or more question more suited to a manufacturer or other support line, but they'd probably have to pay for that.

"Hey, you're into computers..." usually followed by one or more question more suited to a manufacturer or other support line, but they'd probably have to pay for that.

Looking at the specs of the TV it does support HEVC (though not which HEVC profiles) and a slew of audio codecs
It doesn't say what containers it supports though.  So I'd make sure the videos you have are in the Main profile (most likely to be supported), that the audio is in one of the supported formats and then try various contained (mkv and/or mp4 is probably your best bet) until you find something that works.
 
Edit: There's a review here that goes through tests of a number of combinations of codecs, color depths, frame and bit rates and containers.  That might be useful for you.

"Hey, you're into computers..." usually followed by one or more question more suited to a manufacturer or other support line, but they'd probably have to pay for that.

Don't.
 
Your choice of HDD connection is USB or... we'll that's it and the Pi only has USB2.  And, it only has 10/100 networking which isn't really a problem given the bandwidth from any disks, but it uses a USB to ethernet adapter internally which means your data gets copied from the HDD, through the PI and out to ethernet on the same USB connection (the SOC has a single USB connection and then there's a USB hub chip) effectively halving throughput.
 
Don't get me wrong, the Pi's are great devices when used for the right tasks, but this isn't one of the right tasks.

Under linux (and IIRC, it's been a while) USB drives generally show up as /dev/sd(x) devices.  I would guess that adding the hard drive has changed the location of your boot USB from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb (the screen is certainly showing something on sdb) and the boot sequence can't find the next thing it needs because it's looking for it on the HDD.
 
Check your BIOS with both the HDD and USB drive plugged in, see if there's anything that will allow you to change the boot order and/or drive order (different BIOS's call it different things). 

I've noticed more and more ads in the middle of videos.  And I'm not talking ads done by the video producer but the video I'm watching suddenly cut off, and ad played and then the video restarting a few seconds before the point it cut off.  I don't mind adverts at the start (as long as they aren't 90 second or more unskippables), but this is really annoying.
 
And yes, I have seen it happen in LTT videos.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing some variety in the adverts too, I'm sick of the same thing over and over and over again.  A note to advertisers: If I see an ad once or twice I might be interested, if I see the same damn thing 500 times I'm going to avoid your brand like the plague.

Yes, pretty much any (current) SATA drives will work with that (Maybe not the 10TB Helium ones), but do be aware that it doesn't come with any operating system.  Yes, there are free NAS OS's out there (freenas, openmediavault etc) but you won't get the same level of support from HP that you would from QNAP.
 
Also, I have an older version of that unit and could not get wake on lan to work at all, I had to buy a £60 addin card to get offline monitoring to be able to turn it on remotely.  Just an FYI if WoL is important to you.

That's one reason why i see this more as PR and Publicity rather than actually trying to genuinely help people.

As if I couldn't just donate directly to the red cross if I wanted to... all apple is doing here is providing a popup that does the same in itunes. Big whoop. Why don't they donate part of their ludicrous profit margins instead if they really care and are not just in it for the sake of marketing?

NOT manually.
 
pagefile.sys is your pagefile, if you run out of memory (and more often even if you don't these days) stuff gets swapped out to it.  You can change your pagefile settings in the control panel (Assuming Windows 10: System > Advanced System Settings > Settings (In the performance box) > Advanced Tab > Change)
 
 hiber.sys (or correctly hyberfil.sys) is used if you hibernate your machine.  If you have a desktop you might not do that, with a laptop you probably do.  Again, you can change your hibernation settings (Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what the power buttons do) and you might have to edit your power plan too, but once you've turned off hibernation everywhere (I think) the hyberfil.sys gets deleted.

Whoever connects to the open port on your router gets forwarded by the router to the destination in your network that you select, they can't just access anything so you are pretty safe there.  However if whatever is listening on the destination port has a bug, it might be possible (in theory) to exploit that bug to gain access to the hosting machine and use that as a jumping off point to access anything on your network.
 
My suggestion is, if your router supports it, to create a VLAN with just the minecraft server and your router on it (Your router has to support VLAN's so you can still route your normal network traffic).  That way if someone does get onto the host machine, that's asfar as they'll get.
 
But I'm just paranoid like that

Whoever connects to the open port on your router gets forwarded by the router to the destination in your network that you select, they can't just access anything so you are pretty safe there.  However if whatever is listening on the destination port has a bug, it might be possible (in theory) to exploit that bug to gain access to the hosting machine and use that as a jumping off point to access anything on your network.
 
My suggestion is, if your router supports it, to create a VLAN with just the minecraft server and your router on it (Your router has to support VLAN's so you can still route your normal network traffic).  That way if someone does get onto the host machine, that's asfar as they'll get.
 
But I'm just paranoid like that

Whoever connects to the open port on your router gets forwarded by the router to the destination in your network that you select, they can't just access anything so you are pretty safe there.  However if whatever is listening on the destination port has a bug, it might be possible (in theory) to exploit that bug to gain access to the hosting machine and use that as a jumping off point to access anything on your network.
 
My suggestion is, if your router supports it, to create a VLAN with just the minecraft server and your router on it (Your router has to support VLAN's so you can still route your normal network traffic).  That way if someone does get onto the host machine, that's asfar as they'll get.
 
But I'm just paranoid like that

I prefer myself and Kaspersky.

Do the same to the C&C series.