Experiences with non-techies

[DocSwag]

2 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Does Microsoft count as a non-techie ???

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3150013/windows/microsoft-rushes-out-windows-10-patch-to-fix-broken-internet-connections.html

Apparently it does.

[themctipers]

During school the teachers explained what he fuck was happening during the shit trip to Quebec 

 

and.. Apparently the hotel has wifi and we brought that up

 

so the principal said that the wifi will cause a virus on your phone so don't use it

[Donut417]

3 hours ago, themctipers said:

During school the teachers explained what he fuck was happening during the shit trip to Quebec 

 

and.. Apparently the hotel has wifi and we brought that up

 

so the principal said that the wifi will cause a virus on your phone so don't use it

Well public WiFi can be iffy. Which is why you dont go to important websites like banks and stuff when on Public WiFi. 

[themctipers]

2 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Well public WiFi can be iffy. Which is why you dont go to important websites like banks and stuff when on Public WiFi. 

No..

I mean, a hotel wifi.

With password.

[Donut417]

5 hours ago, themctipers said:

No..

I mean, a hotel wifi.

With password.

Even then, how good is their security? Plus every one has the password needed. I would assume that if you know how to decrypt the data that you can read what people are doing on the network. With my schools network Im required to give them my log on ID, so a different password for every one. 

[themctipers]

48 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Even then, how good is their security? Plus every one has the password needed. I would assume that if you know how to decrypt the data that you can read what people are doing on the network. With my schools network Im required to give them my log on ID, so a different password for every one. 

Security =/= virus. 

They're talking about getting a FUCKING VIRUS and not how it's insecure. 

[Mooshi]

On 12/13/2016 at 7:57 PM, Space Reptile said:

its a dual core , its the LOWEST END DESKTOP SANDY BRIDGE CPU 

and 4gb ram is not alot if you work in PS/coreldraw and you have something "simple" wich has over 700 elements in it ,

i have autosave on 5 minutes as i lost plenty of progress to the "out of memory" popup

That sounds lighting fast compared to these systems that have core 2 duo era chips with a small amount of ram. 

[Space Reptile]

34 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

That sounds lighting fast compared to these systems that have core 2 duo era chips with a small amount of ram. 

not really 

also , using IGPU only ,....

my sempron 2650 has a better igpu , and that thing is 15$ new 

[Emberstone]

On 12/14/2016 at 9:58 AM, DocSwag said:

Oh. But if you look at those ones you no longer get quad cores, and the points I made about the spectre and envy apply.

Take a look at the MSI GS63VR. I own one. They're as thin as last-gen MacBook Pros and weigh 3.9 pounds. I got mine for $1550.

 

Specs:

 

i7-6700HQ

GTX 1060 6GB

16 GB RAM at 2400 MHz

128GB M.2 SSD (upgradeable)

1 TB HDD (upgradeable)

 

Ports:

 

3 USB 3.0

1 USB 2.0

1 Thunderbolt 3

SD card reader

Gigabit ethernet

Separate headphone/mic jacks.

 

Given all that's on this machine for its form factor and price, I couldn't justify any of the MacBook lineup at all unless I absolutely needed MacOS.

 

I'll admit though, Apple definitely puts better displays in their laptop than what's in mine. I got the Best Buy model, so it has a TN panel rather than IPS to shave the price down $50-100 from the other GS63VR models.

[Mooshi]

10 hours ago, Space Reptile said:

not really 

also , using IGPU only ,....

my sempron 2650 has a better igpu , and that thing is 15$ new 

BUT DO THOSE COMPUTERS SOMETIMES TAKE AN EXCESS OF 11 MINUTES TO EVEN BOOT

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

BUT DO THOSE COMPUTERS SOMETIMES TAKE AN EXCESS OF 11 MINUTES TO EVEN BOOT

I have a Pentium D machine that boots in 2 mins with an old IDE HDD, 4gbs of ram and windows 7...

 

I can't make it run any newer OS as the Pentium D is missing some instruction sets that the newer OSes use.

[Space Reptile]

3 hours ago, Mooshi said:

BUT DO THOSE COMPUTERS SOMETIMES TAKE AN EXCESS OF 11 MINUTES TO EVEN BOOT

my DELL (look at my sig) takes 45ish seconds off and IDE 

[NumLock21]

After Intel Kaby Lake officially launches, I can see a future argument between 2 friends during lunch.

• Both thinks they know about computers more than the other.
• Both Intel and AMD have a cpu call 7600K.
• Both won't believe the other platform has the same model, and think only theirs has it
• Both will think their competitor is trying to copy from them, cause it's better.

 

[Space Reptile]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Both will think their competitor is trying to copy from them, cause it's better.

well amd did a 7600 first , so INTEL IS TOTALLY COPYING AMD`S MEDIOCRE APUS 

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Space Reptile said:

well amd did it first , so INTEL IS TOTALLY COPYING AMD`S MEDIOCRE APUS 

Yes, but the Intel dude don't know it and won't accept the fact AMD did it first.

 

[Space Reptile]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Yes, but the Intel dude don't know it and won't accept the fact AMD did it first.

 

aaaaaaaacctually Nvidia released a 7600 first 

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Space Reptile said:

aaaaaaaacctually Nvidia released a 7600 first 

But no K. It's only 7600GT and 7600GS

[Space Reptile]

6 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

But no K. It's only 7600GT and 7600GS

a 7600 nontheless  

 

numbers are doomed to repeat , i mean you can only add so many numbers like look at radeon 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

 

JUST SCROLL 

 

[Techstorm970]

On 1/16/2013 at 2:47 PM, rainbrodash666 said:

so this one time I was hanging out with my friend who is the manager at a tech shop by where I live and a girl comes in and buys a 2tb hard drive. we let her know that we install hard drives for $1 (the cost of the sata cable we use) and she says "just because I am a woman does not mean I cant work on computers" and leaves in a huff. two days later she comes back in saying that the HDD is not working so we take the computer in to look at it, we open it and the HDD is nowhere to be seen, so we ask her where it is. and it turns out that she scanned it and put the scanned image on her desktop to install the drive. and to top that off she threw away the drive she paid almost $200 for and she wanted us to give her a new one.

 

 

 

EDIT: feel free to quote this comment, I like seeing peoples reactions even though the comment is 2+ years old.

You've got to be kidding me...  

[Techstorm970]

On 1/16/2013 at 7:32 PM, TetraSky said:

The latest for me, is my mother calling me to ask why her computer mouse doesn't work (while shouting that it's a piece of crap and what not), when I get there, I find she managed to plug the USB mouse in the Ethernet port of her laptop.. Couldn't help facepalming in front of her.

HOW???  

[DocSwag]

2 hours ago, Emberstone said:

Take a look at the MSI GS63VR. I own one. They're as thin as last-gen MacBook Pros and weigh 3.9 pounds. I got mine for $1550.

 

Specs:

 

i7-6700HQ

GTX 1060 6GB

16 GB RAM at 2400 MHz

128GB M.2 SSD (upgradeable)

1 TB HDD (upgradeable)

 

Ports:

 

3 USB 3.0

1 USB 2.0

1 Thunderbolt 3

SD card reader

Gigabit ethernet

Separate headphone/mic jacks.

 

Given all that's on this machine for its form factor and price, I couldn't justify any of the MacBook lineup at all unless I absolutely needed MacOS.

 

I'll admit though, Apple definitely puts better displays in their laptop than what's in mine. I got the Best Buy model, so it has a TN panel rather than IPS to shave the price down $50-100 from the other GS63VR models.

Wow... that's a pretty good deal.

 

Now I'll say, it is bigger and a little heavier, and most likely the battery life will be shorter too (the MBP has a bigger battery but has less power hungry components), but still, I gotta say that's one good laptop.

 

I still think the MBP would be a better buy for someone just doing normal work stuff such as web browsing, doc typing, and perhaps some video editing and such (in final cut), but that's one good laptop, I gotta say.

[Scitesh]

18 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

After Intel Kaby Lake officially launches, I can see a future argument between 2 friends during lunch.

• Both thinks they know about computers more than the other.
• Both Intel and AMD have a cpu call 7600K.
• Both won't believe the other platform has the same model, and think only theirs has it
• Both will think their competitor is trying to copy from them, cause it's better.

 

Already happened with 6300 (comp class )

[NumLock21]

9 minutes ago, Scitesh said:

Already happened with 6300 (comp class )

i can now see 2 students and a teacher arguing. 

[Space Reptile]

18 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

i can now see 2 students and a teacher arguing. 

throw my "dvd´s are HD" teacher in there and we have a movie 

[themctipers]

20 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

throw my "dvd´s are HD" teacher in there and we have a movie 

A hd movie. 

 

Via dvd

 

 

throw in my principal with her wifi gives viruses