Experiences with non-techies

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

He does mention at the start of the video that got the idea from 'Cooking while drunk' videos. 

He got the board from no boot, no fan spin, to booting, fan spinning, booting an OS. Good shit. 

Is this really related to the subject of this thread? 

[enigmakahn]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Is this really related to the subject of this thread? 

Well he was talking about people at the genius bar....So yes?

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Is this really related to the subject of this thread? 

After 1138 pages, it's been really off topic for a long time

[Bananasplit_00]

12 hours ago, N1ghtshade said:

I suppose you could play GMod

no. no you cant. GMOD will fucking wreck almost any laptop. fuck it even wrecks my PC when i start doing shit thats around 500 props. there is no fucking viable way you are doing anything remotely fun in GMOD at 1080p or 720p with a MBP or other low-mid spec laptop. that game destroys CPU power and craves it like its the essence of life. please pick your exampels better next time because GMOD is not going to be a plesent experience at the slightest.

 

also for this laptop conversation:

i hate basically all of them. screw laptops. if i have to get one i would get one thats 13">. i really hate, Apple, Dell and HP(not as much as Toilet Paper link, EVGAs coolers or ASUS "customer support" tho) had a friend break the screen of his HP laptop and it got sent off for repairs, its been fixed for a month now but they refuse to send him the bill ýet so now he has been without his laptop for 4 months . Lenovo is decent in my opinion, solid laptops. and also, i will never go out and buy a NEW lapotp seeing as they are expensive as all hell and i know a place that sells used ones for cheap AF  

[Droidbot]

3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

no. no you cant. GMOD will fucking wreck almost any laptop. fuck it even wrecks my PC when i start doing shit thats around 500 props. there is no fucking viable way you are doing anything remotely fun in GMOD at 1080p or 720p with a MBP or other low-mid spec laptop. that game destroys CPU power and craves it like its the essence of life. please pick your exampels better next time because GMOD is not going to be a plesent experience at the slightest.

 

also for this laptop conversation:

i hate basically all of them. screw laptops. if i have to get one i would get one thats 13">. i really hate, Apple, Dell and HP(not as much as Toilet Paper link, EVGAs coolers or ASUS "customer support" tho) had a friend break the screen of his HP laptop and it got sent off for repairs, its been fixed for a month now but they refuse to send him the bill ýet so now he has been without his laptop for 4 months . Lenovo is decent in my opinion, solid laptops. and also, i will never go out and buy a NEW lapotp seeing as they are expensive as all hell and i know a place that sells used ones for cheap AF  

HP EliteBooks (the older ones, anyway) are cheap as hell in AU and you can't beat the performance/$ ratio

And they're solidly built, I throw it around without any issues, and it's tool-less to open the machine up and everything is exposed when open - CPU, RAM, HDD, DVD, WIFI, etc

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

And they're solidly built, I throw it around without any issues, 

I once threw my iPad. 

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

HP EliteBooks (the older ones, anyway) are cheap as hell in AU and you can't beat the performance/$ ratio

And they're solidly built, I throw it around without any issues, and it's tool-less to open the machine up and everything is exposed when open - CPU, RAM, HDD, DVD, WIFI, etc

sure they are OK but the current stuff from HP is garbage, the Zbook i have is a pice of trash. i litteraly carry a TKL keyboard with me everywhere to avoid the keyboard, build is shit, no way to uppgrade, cant remove the barrery and a pretty crappy screen.  i am really not a fan

[enigmakahn]

3 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

HP EliteBooks (the older ones, anyway) are cheap as hell in AU and you can't beat the performance/$ ratio

And they're solidly built, I throw it around without any issues, and it's tool-less to open the machine up and everything is exposed when open - CPU, RAM, HDD, DVD, WIFI, etc

I dunno, I don't think you can really beat IBM for repairing, since I've started at my new company, almost everything we service is IBM for laptops and God damn are those things a pleasure to work on, and older IBMs are a dime a dozen, I personally picked up a last gen core i3 and slapped a SSD in it and I love it, maybe not for games, but you never know what you might find on the used market.

[Droidbot]

4 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I once threw my iPad. 

Once. 

4 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

sure they are OK but the current stuff from HP is garbage, the Zbook i have is a pice of trash. i litteraly carry a TKL keyboard with me everywhere to avoid the keyboard, build is shit, no way to uppgrade, cant remove the barrery and a pretty crappy screen.  i am really not a fan

Which ZBook? 15 I've heard is solid, wouldn't buy 14 if you paid me to. quad-core master race

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

Once. 

It was yesterday, 2 days after I bought it. I screamed "SHIT!!!". 

[Droidbot]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

It was yesterday, 2 days after I bought it. I screamed "SHIT!!!". 

Solid job. I dropped my Nexus 5X 5ft out of the pocket of my shitty trackpants (I jumped and ran across a sloped wall because a friend told me too) and no screen crack. 

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Droidbot said:

Solid job. I dropped my Nexus 5X 5ft out of the pocket of my shitty trackpants (I jumped and ran across a sloped wall because a friend told me too) and no screen crack. 

When I picked up the iPad, I noticed a chip above the power button, and I'm not sure if it was there before (it's a used 2nd gen). 

[themctipers]

18 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

no. no you cant. GMOD will fucking wreck almost any laptop. fuck it even wrecks my PC when i start doing shit thats around 500 props. there is no fucking viable way you are doing anything remotely fun in GMOD at 1080p or 720p with a MBP or other low-mid spec laptop. that game destroys CPU power and craves it like its the essence of life. please pick your exampels better next time because GMOD is not going to be a plesent experience at the slightest.

 

also for this laptop conversation:

i hate basically all of them. screw laptops. if i have to get one i would get one thats 13">. i really hate, Apple, Dell and HP(not as much as Toilet Paper link, EVGAs coolers or ASUS "customer support" tho) had a friend break the screen of his HP laptop and it got sent off for repairs, its been fixed for a month now but they refuse to send him the bill ýet so now he has been without his laptop for 4 months . Lenovo is decent in my opinion, solid laptops. and also, i will never go out and buy a NEW lapotp seeing as they are expensive as all hell and i know a place that sells used ones for cheap AF  

It destroys my PC. 

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, themctipers said:

It destroys my PC. 

Do you think it would work on mine? I get 5FPS in Minecraft (an old version, 1FPS on the latest). 

[Bananasplit_00]

7 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Once. 

Which ZBook? 15 I've heard is solid, wouldn't buy 14 if you paid me to. quad-core master race

15.6". total pice of shit.

 

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

It destroys my PC. 

you havent gotten around to building your new one right? lol. the 3770K would also melt seeing as the source engine likes single core and wont use more then 4 threads  

[themctipers]

7 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Do you think it would work on mine? I get 5FPS in Minecraft (an old version, 1FPS on the latest). 

That's worse than a pentium D. That's worse than a atom laptop at 2ghz ..

6 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

15.6". total pice of shit.

 

you havent gotten around to building your new one right? lol. the 3770K would also melt seeing as the source engine likes single core and wont use more then 4 threads  

No, I've decided to wait for Zen+ (actually don't have enough money and I want that 32gb of ram too, $300..  )

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, themctipers said:

That's worse than a pentium D. That's worse than a atom laptop at 2ghz ..

No, I've decided to wait for Zen+ (actually don't have enough money and I want that 32gb of ram too, $300..  )

why do you want 32GB? that seems stupid. i have 100+ tabs open in chrome and thats only about 8GB of usage lol. do you feel a desparete need for a RAM scratch disk or something?

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

That's worse than a pentium D. That's worse than a atom laptop at 2ghz ..

It's actually a Core i3. 

[AntonChigurh]

35 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

no. no you cant. GMOD will fucking wreck almost any laptop. fuck it even wrecks my PC when i start doing shit thats around 500 props. there is no fucking viable way you are doing anything remotely fun in GMOD at 1080p or 720p with a MBP or other low-mid spec laptop. that game destroys CPU power and craves it like its the essence of life. please pick your exampels better next time because GMOD is not going to be a plesent experience at the slightest.

 

also for this laptop conversation:

i hate basically all of them. screw laptops. if i have to get one i would get one thats 13">. i really hate, Apple, Dell and HP(not as much as Toilet Paper link, EVGAs coolers or ASUS "customer support" tho) had a friend break the screen of his HP laptop and it got sent off for repairs, its been fixed for a month now but they refuse to send him the bill ýet so now he has been without his laptop for 4 months . Lenovo is decent in my opinion, solid laptops. and also, i will never go out and buy a NEW lapotp seeing as they are expensive as all hell and i know a place that sells used ones for cheap AF  

You can, but it'll be shit. Pretty much the only thing you can play is Prophunt or vanilla TTT. And true, GMod would be a shitty example, but what I meant was the super undemanding gamemodes that don't require much power like Murder or Prophunt. Not some shit like RP or Build Servers with Wiremod

 

 

And yeah, most of them suck. Especially Apple. Lenovo is pretty decent like you said, but that's it.

[Droidbot]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

15.6". total pice of shit.

 

you havent gotten around to building your new one right? lol. the 3770K would also melt seeing as the source engine likes single core and wont use more then 4 threads  

15, what generation? 

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, Droidbot said:

15, what generation? 

2016s 15.6" AFAIK. I5 6200 and some strange Radeon Pro GPU thats about the preformance of a 350M seeing as thats what the AMD drivers say it is lol. still its pretty bad.

[Droidbot]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

2016s 15.6" AFAIK. I5 6200 and some strange Radeon Pro GPU thats about the preformance of a 350M seeing as thats what the AMD drivers say it is lol. still its pretty bad.

Oh god, oh god, oh god

 

15s g3

 

ew ew ew ew ew 

 

try a proper HP, like the Zbook 15 G1 original, it's a fucking solid machine. 

they knew how to build a good laptop back then

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

On 2/14/2013 at 2:55 AM, Nugget said:

This guy right here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5cEik2ABY

it's a joke?

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, Droidbot said:

Oh god, oh god, oh god

 

15s g3

 

ew ew ew ew ew 

 

try a proper HP, like the Zbook 15 G1 original, it's a fucking solid machine. 

they knew how to build a good laptop back then

they might have, idk but the Pavilion G6 i had was pretty ehh aswell tbh. it worked way better then this thing though and is way nicer to deal with, solid build, keyboard and screen. has an AMD APU with 8GB of RAM that played basically everything i threw at it at 1080p medium, which is way more then this laptop will do...(wont even play CS:GO at low 1080p 60fps ) the problems with that laptop was that the battery died pretty quick and it got hot, like so hot you didnt want to touch it at all. probably 60C around the keyboard

[Droidbot]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

they might have, idk but the Pavilion G6 i had was pretty ehh aswell tbh. it worked way better then this thing though and is way nicer to deal with, solid build, keyboard and screen. has an AMD APU with 8GB of RAM that played basically everything i threw at it at 1080p medium, which is way more then this laptop will do...(wont even play CS:GO at low 1080p 60fps ) the problems with that laptop was that the battery died pretty quick and it got hot, like so hot you didnt want to touch it at all. probably 60C around the keyboard

Zbook 15 G1 had:

- Up-gradable CPU

- Matte screen for most models out of the box, up-gradable down the track

- 32GB RAM

- Essentially 750M GPU on MXM, so you can put in a new GPU if you can get your hands on one

- etc