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Just treated myself to a new daily machine. Its an Asus ZenBook Duo 14. This thing is awesome! Managed to get a special deal for it because it was Christmas, payed the same price of a lower configuration. I managed to get the high end, i7-1195G7 version with a 1TB SSD, but no dedicated GPU sadly, but the Iris Xe graphics are surprisingly good and powerful, which was a pleasant surprise. My only complaint is that there is no palmrest, this isn't annoying when using the device on desk, but is quite annoying when using it on your lap as my hands are so used to a palmrest that they just automatically try and rest on the keyboard. Overall, this is an excellent device which I am glad to finally own and hope it serves me for many years.
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1 hour ago, Meowster said:
Just treated myself to a new daily machine. Its an Asus ZenBook Duo 14. This thing is awesome! Managed to get a special deal for it because it was Christmas, payed the same price of a lower configuration. I managed to get the high end, i7-1195G7 version with a 1TB SSD, but no dedicated GPU sadly, but the Iris Xe graphics are surprisingly good and powerful, which was a pleasant surprise. My only complaint is that there is no palmrest, this isn't annoying when using the device on desk, but is quite annoying when using it on your lap as my hands are so used to a palmrest that they just automatically try and rest on the keyboard. Overall, this is an excellent device which I am glad to finally own and hope it serves me for many years.
Apparently Xe is a pretty decent 720p gamer and if there’s any kind of super resolution that works you can push it to 1080p. I don’t know if there is though.
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Update on my "retreived" Galaxy S8. So, I got in contact with the eBay seller and asked him a few questions about how he got the device. His response was the following "I purchased a job lot of devices on ebay in around march 2018 and this was inside of it. The original description of the job lot was in chinese because this lot came from china, however it was quite poorly written but the description about this phone was that it apparently worked but had accounts linked to it." I further asked him if he tried to do anything with the device and the seller said he was going to swap the motherboard in the phone but he didn't because the frame and display was in such bad condition. I suppose the seller didn't know about the IMEI blacklist but I assume he tried to set it up but couldn't because of the google lock. I did tell him that this device actually belonged to me and was stolen from me and he had no idea and was sorry. So, my phone was on quite a journey around the world, UK to China, and back from China to the UK. Apparently this is a very common trick that locked mobile phones find their way to China where they can be reused. I'm still curious to find out if my phone had any more owners in its journey. But I guess that information is long gone.
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This might sound a bit like a story so sorry for that. In 2017 I preordered the Galaxy S8 from Carphone Warehouse (if you don't know what that is its basically a store that sells phones and contracts from other network providers.) I loved my S8 for a few months. Very unfortunately it had been stolen from me near christmas time 2017, only a few months after the phone's release. Looks like someone needed that phone more than me. Anyways, I reported it the next day as stolen to the carrier and they locked it. I was very sad, especially since I didn't even setup google backup on the phone yet (I don't know why I didn't set it up from the beginning) and the thief could access all my info so I had to wipe it remotely through google. This is a lesson to ALWAYS check your bags, purses, pockets or whatever before you leave and come back from a public place. But the best part is now. Nearly 5 years later I saw my phone on eBay for sale for £20. It appears it has been severely cracked on the front, back and the sides look like they have been melted? Anyways, the listing picture was quite blurry and I had very little hope for the phone working. Turns out I was wrong, I plugged it into the charger and very surprisingly the damn thing started charging after 15 minutes or so! What was really curious is that the thief didn't even try to do anything with the phone, it was still on the Samsung welcome screen as if the phone was reset, which it was. And now I have my S8 back with me and I am proud to own a rarer device, still on Android 7 with Samsung Experience 8.1 (and bootloader version U1!!) . There is absolutely no way this device will ever be "un-blacklisted" by the carrier, so its quite useless but might be worth something given that its still on Android 7. I suppose I could use it as a mobile router in a different country if I go travelling abroad, since apparently the blacklist only applies to the UK
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Welp, this was a weird adventure
Was just copying files from a flash drive to my computer, and suddenly it said that "The source drive could not be found" or something like that, I didn't think much of it so I clicked cancel and a few seconds later another message showed up which was also saying "The destination drive could not be found". That kinda worried me since the "destination drive" is my main system boot SSD. All of a sudden both my HDDs and 1 SSD (which aren't the boot drives) disappeared from This PC. I couldn't even find them in device manager.
I noticed that there was an exclamation mark near the AMD SMBus. I clicked on it and it gave me an error 49 (can't remember it, you will find out shortly why I can't remember it). Then, the system locked up and I couldn't get any input into the PC, and the USB drive light turned off, indicating no power was being provided.
Sadly, that must have been the end of my system as now I can't even turn it on. Its bricked now. None of the USB ports work, heck I can't even enter the BIOS as all USB ports (and the SATA ports too) have somehow become dead.
It will get up to the Asus logo and just hang there. Even tried a USB volt meter, absolutely nothing shows up, zero volts
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Just found my first ever CD-ROM drive today. Got this for my birthday some time in the early to mid 2000s (can't remember exactly) This drive was installed into a custom built 486 DX2 machine which later got upgraded to some sort of 100MHz Pentium. Weird thing about this drive is that it only read store bought CDs and music CDs, it simply refused to read home burned CDs