NewHopeTech

My roommate has the GMMK Pro and... just make sure it's really what you want. Try to find regular and maybe even bad shots of them. Anything looks good when posed up for r/mk or glamour shots in a youtube video but something about the board in person comes off as unimpressive to me. I think it's how much of just a box it is. If you do go with it though make sure to have a file because I've heard it can be hard to get the durock v2s to fit with the brass plate. Lastly, I'd advise considering a polycarb plate instead as the bit of extra give would probably compliment the linear switches nicely.

I've got a series 5 Apple Watch that I've only ever used for tracking hikes and casual use. It doesn't do an amazing job of getting accurate distance + altitude gain for hikes with a lot of elevation gain but I like it for the heart rate sensor and an idea of calories burned. I've heard it tracks running and non-hiking activities well though, and I certainly don't regret getting it since it was $100 off. I wouldn't pay full price though.

Banned for judging memes by their age

My main computer is a laptop so most nights I just put it to sleep but once or twice a week I shut it down. I use my desktop as a server for various things so I keep that on 24/7.

I'm still a bit bummed about never getting my event founder badge for giving around ~35M points in folding month 2018 but oh well, the past is the past. On to more folding!

I'd probably just use it as a Plex and OwnCloud server.

Lmao okay you might want to be careful with PLA, I've heard that jet fuel stuff can melt steel beams.

Looks fantastic! Great work!

Not that I don't believe you, but a liquid rocket is no small task. Launching a rocket from a weather balloon is also no small task. I'd love to hear more details about your project and I might be able to help you if you have questions. Source for this stuff being hard: I'm on rocket teams developing liquid rockets (not kerosene though, we use liquid methane) and rockets launched from high altitude balloons.

The drives been dead for years.

So my friends got a 2007 24" iMac with a dead hard drive. After I open it up and put a new drive in there and swap over the thermal probe, how do I get some version of MacOS on it? Can I download an iso on a different mac, then put it on a flash drive just like a windows or linux iso? Did Apple make it harder than that just cause?

Quite the caveat

Well, I got the "don't use liquid metal" part right. 1/3 ain't bad.

That's a t h i c c laptop

Lenovo usually uses really high quality thermal paste so the temperature difference may be within margin of error. Bob of All Trades on YouTube made a good video about a Lenovo laptop's thermal paste and performance, and I'd assume they probably use the same paste on all their laptops. Do NOT use liquid metal. If you're careful its fine for benchmarking, but please do not use it on a regular every day machine. You'd have to replace it every so often (probably twice a year or so but don't quote me) and thats assuming it doesn't leak out over time an kill your laptop completely. Also, welcome to the forum!

Thanks! I ended up improving my cinebench R20 score by 20% and my unigine superposition score by 14%.

Do you recommend using XTU?

That's a really good deal especially since $200 CAD is like $4 USD.

So I have a Galaxy S8 which is still performing pretty well, but the battery is about 85% of what is used to be, according to AccuBattery. This isn't horrible, but for $30 I can get a brand new battery which will help with keeping the S8 for longer (I'm planning on keeping it until the Oneplus 8 or the S11), so why not make it like-new? Have any of you gotten replacement batteries from the iFixit store, and are they pretty good quality? The ones on Amazon have very spotty reviews, and I'd like to think iFixit isn't selling awful batteries. Thanks!

I've heard good experience online of people undervolting the same laptop I have (Spectre X360 with i7 8550U) and having great results, so I'm going to try and see how I faired in the silicon lottery soon. I might repaste (not liquid metal) but I've heard that will only decrease temps by 3-4 degrees, but with undervolting that could be a significant delta from what I get now. For those of you with undervolting experience, how much did your temperatures drop and was there a noticeable effect in performance? Would undervolting the CPU at all benefit the iGPU performance? Maybe let it boost for longer because of lower temps? Thanks for any advice or experiences you can share!

Make sure to get a dbrand skin for your Razer blade 15 to subtly flex on other students. Aesthetics are proven to provide up to 10% more performance according to some random aliexpress product page probably.

I use an HP Spectre X360 with no dedicated graphics and an i7 8550U for my engineering schoolwork and it works fine. Unless you're made of cash, I'd highly recommend either a laptop with an 8th/9th gen i5 and at least an MX150, preferably a 1050 or better though, or a Ryzen 5/7 laptop. I'd avoid an i7 because it'll just run hotter, and the gpu will make more of a difference than the jump from i5 to i7 (both are 4c/8threads anyways). If the laptop is pretty thin, I might avoid ryzen 7 too, unless the reviews mention it has good cooling. I think it was Austin Evans who found that a specific Ryzen 5 laptop beat a specific Ryzen 7 one because the 7 thermal throttled so hard.

A laptop with integrated intel graphics will not smoothly run even Apex legends on minimum res and settings (I've tried and its a solid ~20ish fps). $400 is a difficult budget to work with but cheaper laptops almost always have upgradeable storage and RAM, so you can buy a low spec tier and upgrade it later, which is nice. Like @Insorior said, try looking for something used, you might be able to find something with a mobile gtx 900 series gpu in it with an i5 for that budget. If you want new and can stretch your budget an extra $60, THIS laptop from Best Buy has a ryzen 5 which will let you play most if not all games as long as you turn settings down. It will beat the ever-living crap out of the Lenovo and Acer laptop you linked when it comes to performance. It won't be close.

Not sure if you're talking about an HP laptop or the Lenovo one in the pic but here are my two cents. If you're budget constrained and/or a student, a ryzen laptop is probably a good idea but if you're a professional/prosumer and i5/i7 with a Nvidia card will perform noticeably better. An i5 with an MX150 will be around the same price as a ryzen laptop and probably outperform it. As to whether you want the HP or Lenovo - I've had an excellent experience with HP support on my spectre but the key switches are pretty heavy, which I like but a lot of people don't. I'd imagine the Lenovo laptop will stand better against time though.

Like everyone has said, both are overkill, but my recommendations to get neither. Find a dell latitude or a lenovo or an LG gram which has upgradeable ram. I remember a couple of days ago seeing some 8th gen i5 with an mx150 for like $850 or $750. Not amazing performance but it is plenty for high school and honestly college. Remember that mobile i5s have the same core count as mobile i7s (U-series of course - unless its from Apple) and they'll run cooler since the laptop chassis is designed to handle the highest spec they offer. I have an HP Spectre X360 with an i7-8550U (or something like that) and I wish I either got an i5 with an MX150/1050 or an R5 or R7 laptop. Having a GPU will probably benefit you more than the difference between a mobile i5 and i7. For school though, battery life is incredibly important, so don't go for anything that claims less than 9 hours. The beauty of buying a laptop now versus a few years ago (especially one with upgradeable RAM) is that 8th gen intel finally brought 4 cores 8 threads which means you can probably get a lot of use out of them before they become too slow to bother with. If you're willing to spend ~$750+ and you aren't a freshman in high school, there's no reason the laptop you get now won't last you through college. Good luck with your laptop searches! P.S - I'd advise against a MacBook because if you're planning on going into a STEM major you'll need to put windows on it anyways.