GeoffLucas

I don't but I tried the hack and it worked. Ordering a new battery.
 
Thanks for the help.

Sounds like your batteries died. Do you have a multimeter you can check them with?
 
If you unplug the batteries, does the UPS turn on as a big, complicated, inefficient surge protector?

Watching the Gamer's Nexus video and reading the article over and over, I really can't stop laughing and cringing at how ridiculous the article is. Pretty much the entirety of it is ridiculous but I'll leave my favorites;
So, a GPU that we barely know anything of aside from one or two gameplay videos and marketing charts is worth buying. How do we know this exactly?
 
A GTX 1080 Ti already does gaming at 3840x2160 pretty respectably. Plus, $526 is a really good deal for a GPU that performs admirably well in modern titles at high settings at resolutions beyond 1920x1080. Ray-tracing gone mainstream is about 2-3 years away when pretty much everyone has done it and by that time, NVIDIA's next architecture would've already been out and will undoubtedly perform better than Turing at DLSS and real-time ray tracing.
 
No, just stop. This really feels like something a salesperson would say but you and I know that as great as Battlefield V looks, there's still some graphical oddities like fires burning at lower framerates, the relatively low resolution of the flames itself alongside the reflection in the cars. Plus, when you're playing a first person shooter, you're not going to be staring at reflections or looking to see how great the soldiers' eyes look. You're going to be pointing at an enemy player and firing at them hoping you get the kill.
 
Plus, it's common for many FPS players to turn down graphics settings not just for more FPS but also a tactical advantage. Remember Battlefield 3's grass? Turning them down to their lowest actually makes them so flat, you can see prone players trying to hide, of which it seems like they're hidden on the grass's maximum settings.
 
Uh, how long exactly until we get a large library of games which support full-on real-time ray tracing? Probably until the next architecture?
 
Um, my life is already ray-traced, thank you very much. Like having ray-tracing in my games is nice but it's not something I would have on my list of life accomplishments.
 
Yeah........no. I got my 25" 1080p 144Hz monitor for $250 about 8 months ago. Not too long ago, even a TN version of a 1080p 144Hz panel would be much more expensive. But it doesn't make it any less enjoyable.
 
If anything, that RoG Swift monitor that costs an arm-and-a-leg will probably be mainstream with a lower price after some time, and by that time, more people will be able to enjoy it. I get it, being an early adopter is great but I'm more interested in seeing how the tech matures enough to the point of going mainstream.
 
Or I could just be playing TF2 on my GTX 1060, which still performs really well anyhow so..... *shrugs*
 
Yeah, I'm pretty sure by that point, Mr. Forrest would probably sit very far away from this guy if they happened to meet each other in a coffee store.
 
It doesn't matter if it's an opinion or what. He is free to express his views and such and hell, if he thinks that NVIDIA's new RTX GPUs are worth buying, then he's well within his rights to go out and throw all the dosh on them. But as the editor-in-chief of a major publication that has built up a reputation with computer enthusiasts (a lot of it thanks to their generally awesome forums), he should know that the reputation of the publication also rests in what he writes.
 
You don't just diss off a colleague just because he thinks the RTX GPUs aren't worth it just yet. And you also don't just tell people to spend a load of money on something that we barely know about and one where detailed benchmarks have not been released yet. The sheer irony is that he's basically dissing the entire publication by essentially saying that whatever benchmarks that will come (even from them) are essentially useless as the cards will already perform great.

Meh.  It's AT&T.  There's a reason they've consistently been rated as the lowest scoring customer satisfaction of any major company.  They basically lie, take advantage of customers, and provide piss-poor service.

So you're saying that no one can do a Google search to find this information if they're looking to build a new computer???  There a reason that LTT's explanation of i3, i5, i7 has 9.7M views.  People that aren't as familiar with hardware go to these websites to get information when making purchases and while you're tech-savvy enough to know BS when you see it, not everyone is and they are the people that articles like this prey on.

So you're saying that no one can do a Google search to find this information if they're looking to build a new computer???  There a reason that LTT's explanation of i3, i5, i7 has 9.7M views.  People that aren't as familiar with hardware go to these websites to get information when making purchases and while you're tech-savvy enough to know BS when you see it, not everyone is and they are the people that articles like this prey on.

They sent me a box of shotgun ammo by mistake once.  Kind of a pain in the butt to get rid of it.

I'll believe it once the reviewers can confirm this kind of performance. If it had this kind of performance wouldn't they have said at least anything about it in the presentation? All we got to see was 'gigarays/s' which doesn't tell us anything about non-rtx performance.
We also don't know what the Y-axis means so it could be anything.
 
Still, would be very nice if it was true.

Oh my bad.  I did a search but didn't see it.

This here quite well summarizes what I see in your post: you are delusional and have completely out-of-proportion expectations.

They sent me a box of shotgun ammo by mistake once.  Kind of a pain in the butt to get rid of it.

They sent me a box of shotgun ammo by mistake once.  Kind of a pain in the butt to get rid of it.

I disagree - it depends on the particular process and programs are getting better all the time.  There are benchmarks to demonstrate it.  https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-Multi-Core-Performance-698/  These benchmarks show that many processes benefit from multi-threaded CPUs.  Not all, but even in photo editing, it depends on the OP's actual use cases.
 
For AVX2, true enough, AMD is weaker.  Though here it should be noted that much of the gain in Adobe products are due to optimizations specifically for Intel systems for processing AVX2.  If you're not using Adobe products, the performance gains are much less pronounced.  Additionally, these optimizations actually improved the multi-threading capability of their software.
 
True enough.  This is off-topic and we don't yet know the performance of the new cards.

Here's a decent deal on a Dell Vostro Laptop:  https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/vostro-14-5000/spd/vostro-14-5471-laptop/cav145w10p1c204
 
Specs:
- i7-8550U processor
- 8 GB Ram
- 128 SSD + 1 TB HDD
- AMD 530 Graphics card w/ 4 GB Memory
- 14" screen 
- Aluminum casing
- 2x USB3.1, 1x USB C, HDMI
- 0.69" thick and 3.71 lbs.
 
It has a professional graphics card, which you said isn't really needed, but a nice extra.  I would think this will help with the Goggle Maps bit though.  The main detractor seems to be that the battery is only 42 WHr, so it's not going to last too long.  Truthfully, though, you're going to be hard pressed to find a smaller laptop with a big battery.

Sell it to Linus for the next scrapyard wars.

Probably too late but that is a Stepper machine. Predecessor to the now scanners in the Semiconductor Industry. It was used to process Semiconductor wafers. It would put a repeating image on a wafer using a reticle that had a design on it. Basically it is a very expensive camera.
There would normally be an enclosure around it protecting it from dust and vibrations. I worked on this as an operator back in the 80's.

Thank you for your input Lucas. Yes, I am aware all 2018 models come with 6 cores.
You are right to say some people need to be shown the i9 isn't a good option for the average or heavy consumer. The only way I could say anything further is if we go into "Controlling the media" and enforcing responsibilities of reviewers on a "free" platform. I do not think this is possible in our situation without major corporate intervention, and even then the problem gets more philosophical.
 
Avoid the keyboard problem by getting a 2018 model, or an older one pre butterfly key(board) design (a friend of mine has happily owned his for many years)
 
All around I think you have a very solid point.
Corporations have their responsibilities, and the consumers have theirs.

I would check out the Dell Inspiron 15 5000.  https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-Touchscreen-Flagship-Computer/dp/B07FLSSYVR/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1532445619&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=laptop&refinements=p_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A7817224011&psc=1
 
You can get a base model w/ 8 Gb Ram for about $650 and it has space for an extra hard drive - you can pop in your old SSD upgrade and get some more use out of it.
 
OR for about $180 more, this Asus has a more powerful CPU and comes with a 1050:
 
https://www.amazon.com/FX503VD-Powerful-i7-7700HQ-Quad-Core-Processor/dp/B076H2J8ZV/ref=sr_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1532445619&sr=1-9&keywords=laptop&refinements=p_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A7817224011

Probably not, but watch out for those pesky "warranty void if removed" stickers. Even tough they hold no legal ground in court it would still take a lot of effort to get your laptop serviced if they find out you broke one of those stickers.

Are you going to say the principle maintainer of Linux isn't "newsworthy"? Do you even computer?

I generally agree with Jurrunio with the caveat that a few instances would take advantage of higher-end ram.  These mostly fall into the power-user category where there is a lot of information transfer happening.  For general use or productivity, though, focus on an ssd, a screen if you're not getting a standalone monitor, and a gpu if you want to do any gaming.