Meowster

I recently got an Asus ZenBook Duo 14 and its been great so far. But a few days ago, I plugged in my laptop to my monitor (Samsung M5 smart monitor 27'') and went to change the resolution settings, the HDR option was not available because "the display doesn't have a HDR certificate" or something along those lines. Does anyone know what this is? I also tried the laptop with my TV (Samsung QN85A 55'') and it said the same thing. I know definitely that both displays are compatible with HDR becuase I use them with a PS5 and a gaming PC and both allow HDR.

could try selling them on ebay, maybe make some $

I think you can use them as a single board computer but you need to find a documentation for them.
If you can you can put android 12 or something

Not much, honestly. It's proprietary, and it's designed for a specific purpose. You'll spend more time trying to shoehorn it into something else than you will designing a new board from the ground up.

If you know the model of the thing it came out of you can find the model of the panel. 

This response is kinda late but thank you. In the end I purchased a Sony branded card which was supposed to go in some Vaio notebook but it ended up working just fine, had some troubles as the drivers from the manufacturer (which were actually on some german FTP) were all in Chinese but eventually got there.

Hold up. You're not going to be using an AGP X800 in anything even close to modern, so that's a bust.
 
Also why would you trap your "friend" with a card so old that any IGP could literally run circles around it with both legs tied behind it's head?

I have seen countless examples of perfectly good vintage machines being thrown away, and it's always sad to see it happen. The G5 Quad wasn't a big seller since it was launched so close to the Intel transition, and less than a year before the first Mac Pro was launched. Older, lower end models are easier to find, but the Quad is tough. 
 
Good luck selling it!

Thanks for that, it really helped me out a bit to decide on a price. Mine is in almost perfect condition, it stands straight and the feet don't seem bent anywhere. I'd say there might be a shortage of these in the UK at this moment, since coming across any vintage Macs or in general any old computers can seem quite difficult here, most the stuff I buy for my collection is either imported from other countries, most coming from the US but some are from Sweden, Australia etc. I think I might set up an eBay auction on it since these machines, like I said are quite uncommon in the UK since the sad truth is, many companies and individuals throw away or dump their old computers/tech. It makes me sad how these poor old machines are being thrown away more commonly
 
 

That's not too bad at all for a G5. If the exterior of the case is in good shape (especially the bottom feet - they're super easy to destroy if they're dropped, see the video below for a good example of one destroyed in shipping) then you shouldn't have any issues getting a decent price for it. I can't give an exact estimate as I'm not in the UK and don't know how the vintage Mac market is doing over there right now, but if I was selling that machine here in the US I'd ask $250 minimum. 
 
And it's actually not too uncommon to see weird RAM configurations in those machines. I picked up a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 earlier this year, and it has 9GB of RAM. I have no clue why the original owner didn't pull the stock 1GB out, but they didn't. 
That's still not a bad machine. 8 core Xeon W, 8GB Vega 56, 5K display, 32GB of RAM, etc. I'd love to get my hands on one of those in about a decade to see how well they hold up. 
That's a sweet machine. I've always wanted to get my hands on a Quad, but every time I find one for sale locally it's either immediately gone, it has major functional issues, or it has major cosmetic issues. I managed to get a single 1.8GHz G5 system for free a few months ago, and it's in mint condition. I think the actual highlight of that deal was the free 23" Cinema HD Display that came along with it. 
 
Here's the video of the G5 that was destroyed in shipping. It's a sad fate for many of these cheese grater G5s and Mac Pros. 
 

Indeed the joblot was a great find! If I can remember correctly, my machine is equipped with 2 250GB hard drives, a GeForce 6600, 4.5GB of RAM (weird configuration I know) and I've given the whole chassis an inside to out clean by stripping nearly everything down. 
If you're curious about the iMac Pro specifications, I think it was the base model 2017 one, with no additional changes to the hardware.
EDIT: Oops, forgot the CPU. Its the dual CPU 2.5GHz variant, resulting in a total of 4 usable cores

I have opened up the LCS one time, and to my surprise there was no leaks or crystals forming yet. Its quiet too so that aspect of the Mac is fine in my opinion

In mid 2020, I managed to purchase a HUGE Apple device joblot, which contained many older model MacBooks, iBooks, PowerMacs and a few iMacs (One iMac Pro!) and a couple of iPads. This was an excellent purchase, especially for £250, I'm not joking. The owner was nice and all and agreed to take down the price to £200. This was the best deal of the year for me.
Anyways, in the joblot was a PowerMac G5. Now, I'm no expert on PowerMacs but I had a suspicion that this may have been the liquid cooled variant due to the odd power connector shape. Turns out, I was right and it turned out to be the PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5GHz. 
I've had quite a bit of fun with it throughout the 2 years, and even took it to a local retro tech nerdy meetup thing. But now, my time with it has ended and I'd like to let someone else mess around with this cool machine. Can anyone suggest a price for this lovely beast? I did extensive eBay searching and sadly didn't find a single one on the UK eBay page. 

That is something I did consider, and I definitely will try that out at some point, but I'll first enjoy the ChromeOS experience without google play for now. I can seem to live without it now that I customised it to my liking some more 

I have the same chromebook.
It serves 95% of my daily need. Listen to media (online or off -from a 1T HDD), MS doc, emails, GMeet ...
I can even install my VPN (thru extension) on it.
The best, costwise.
I will buy a Chromebook again if this one dies, which it seems that it can go on forever.
 

Calling 1440p "2K"

He told me he used them in SLI, I can confirm as I went to collect them in person. I doubt he was a miner as he had a full RGB rig with I think it was a i7 7th gen something. He looked like just a gamer, however I don't know if he ever actually cleaned the GPUs and/or his system

Yes, mining is always bad

That SAMSUNG Spinpoint hard drive is not even screwed to the case,it's hanging in there.

PayPal? Since at that point you're asking for a random number to get paid... Just set up a link and have them decide how much to send you?

Hey thanks! I'm actually moving soon so I'll explore all my options when we get into the new place and have a look at what openers are in there. It's possible they will have the older style again and I can just go back to simple relays without any kajiggering. 

This thread has convinced me. I need to do something extra nice for my grandma.

Does anyone want to donate a 5950X and a 3090?

I want for her to be done checking her emails before she realizes she was checking her emails.

This is just confusing, what's the point of this post?

My old Wii with accompanying nunchuck and wiimote (or whatever it's called, the stick one, not the conventional controller one)

My PS2, DS and GBA.
any of my HDD or SSD
My old windows 7 machine (I5 2400,10GB ram 1TB HDD) it has about 10 years of memories.