be able to list desktop or laptop on profile page

[sandvich64]

you know how you can list your pc specs on the profile page? well it would be cool if there was an option to list it as a desktop or laptop

[TempestCatto]

Kinda irrelevant. You can put in the "Case" section if it's an "Alienware Area 51" or whatever you have as your case.

[sandvich64]

1 minute ago, TempestCatto said:

Kinda irrelevant. You can put in the "Case" section if it's an "Alienware Area 51" or whatever you have as your case.

how is it irrelevant for me to suggest a FEATURE to list whether your setup is a desktop or laptop?

[TempestCatto]

Just now, sandvich64 said:

how is it irrelevant for me to suggest a FEATURE to list whether your setup is a desktop or laptop?

Well as I said, you can already put that in the "case" section. Or another section of your choosing, I see people doing that often. Sometimes even in their BIO.

[sandvich64]

Just now, TempestCatto said:

Well as I said, you can already put that in the "case" section. Or another section of your choosing, I see people doing that often. Sometimes even in their BIO.

no you misunderstand what im  suggesting. im suggesting a button on the "edit profile" page to specify whether your setup is a desktop or laptop. it is in no way irrelevant to feature suggestions because i am indeed suggesting a feature

[TempestCatto]

1 minute ago, sandvich64 said:

no you misunderstand what im  suggesting. im suggesting a button on the "edit profile" page to specify whether your setup is a desktop or laptop. it is in no way irrelevant to feature suggestions because i am indeed suggesting a feature

When you list your case, say as Rosewill Black Hawk Ultra, people are gonna know you have a desktop. As I said before, sometimes people put their notebook (or even prebuilt) model name/number there or somewhere else on their page. I'm not dissing your idea dude, chill. I'm just saying there's already easy ways to tell.

[sandvich64]

5 minutes ago, TempestCatto said:

When you list your case, say as Rosewill Black Hawk Ultra, people are gonna know you have a desktop. As I said before, sometimes people put their notebook (or even prebuilt) model name/number there or somewhere else on their page. I'm not dissing your idea dude, chill. I'm just saying there's already easy ways to tell.

telling me to chill was uncalled for

[Spotty]

I think there's probably a fair few people, on these forums at least, who have both a laptop and a desktop PC.

Could have a second category under System labelled "Laptop" where you list the brand & model number of your laptop. Most people would then be able to either know what laptop it is (ie. Razer Blade Stealth or Macbook Pro) or will be able to google it to find out. A lot of laptops can have slightly different configs, like 8GB vs 16GB, 256GB SSD vs 500GB SSD, etc. Maybe a second field for listing the Configuration of that model.

For example mine would look like (picked a random laptop model cause I cbf going in to the other room to find my laptop to see what model it is... My laptop is not that impressive)

 

 

 

I think that gives everyone the necessary information without adding too much clutter to the side bar on profiles, while allowing people to show both desktop and laptop.
@sandvich64 is this the sort of thing you were thinking about?

[LogicalDrm]

There's also "About me" section to be used. If you really want to list everything you own.

 

I agree that you could have laptop specs detailed same place where desktops are and use case for saying that it's laptop. Just main series number doesn't tell anything since you can customize those.

[sandvich64]

9 hours ago, Spotty said:

I think there's probably a fair few people, on these forums at least, who have both a laptop and a desktop PC.

Could have a second category under System labelled "Laptop" where you list the brand & model number of your laptop. Most people would then be able to either know what laptop it is (ie. Razer Blade Stealth or Macbook Pro) or will be able to google it to find out. A lot of laptops can have slightly different configs, like 8GB vs 16GB, 256GB SSD vs 500GB SSD, etc. Maybe a second field for listing the Configuration of that model.

For example mine would look like (picked a random laptop model cause I cbf going in to the other room to find my laptop to see what model it is... My laptop is not that impressive)

 

 

 

I think that gives everyone the necessary information without adding too much clutter to the side bar on profiles, while allowing people to show both desktop and laptop.
@sandvich64 is this the sort of thing you were thinking about?

yeah exactly

[colonel_mortis]

That makes sense. We don't want to add fields unnecessarily, because then your settings become really cluttered, but I think having a laptop section would be relevant to a decent fraction of the userbase. I will aim to add it at some point in the next few days.

[TempestCatto]

2 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

That makes sense. We don't want to add fields unnecessarily, because then your settings become really cluttered, but I think having a laptop section would be relevant to a decent fraction of the userbase. I will aim to add it at some point in the next few days.

Are you able to set it up so it has specific fields like "GPU" "CPU" RAM" "STORAGE" "PANEL" etc? Or is there a way for it to auto fill those if a certain model number specifies the specs?

[Spotty]

1 hour ago, TempestCatto said:

Are you able to set it up so it has specific fields like "GPU" "CPU" RAM" "STORAGE" "PANEL" etc? Or is there a way for it to auto fill those if a certain model number specifies the specs?

No. That would require a database containing the models and configurations of every laptop to pull from...

If you want to show that information you'd just have to type it in like you do with the desktop specs.

[TempestCatto]

42 minutes ago, Spotty said:

No. That would require a database containing the models and configurations of every laptop to pull from...

If you want to show that information you'd just have to type it in like you do with the desktop specs.

It could like, be something that just looks it up like a psudo Google search?

[TheKDub]

3 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

It could like, be something that just looks it up like a psudo Google search?

Or the user could just do a google search and put it in themself instead of making the website do some hackjob at trying to pull accurate information. There are too many variations of laptop models for this to be a viable option. User based input is the best option by far, since they can make it match their laptop to the T.

[sandvich64]

4 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

It could like, be something that just looks it up like a psudo Google search?

why would it even matter that you save the one-time 5 minutes to put in the specs yourself 

[TempestCatto]

7 hours ago, TheKDub said:

Or the user could just do a google search

5 hours ago, sandvich64 said:

why would it even matter that you save the one-time 5 minutes to put in the specs yourself 

Laziness. That is all.

[TheKDub]

3 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

Laziness. That is all.

 

10 hours ago, TheKDub said:

There are too many variations of laptop models for this to be a viable option. User based input is the best option by far, since they can make it match their laptop to the T.

 

If they're too lazy to go enter a handful of words themselves, then they must not care about having it displayed on their profile.

[colonel_mortis]

17 hours ago, TempestCatto said:

Are you able to set it up so it has specific fields like "GPU" "CPU" RAM" "STORAGE" "PANEL" etc? Or is there a way for it to auto fill those if a certain model number specifies the specs?

That would be very hard to implement, and wouldn't add much.

[ARikozuM]

Laptop: iPad Pro 12.9"