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No idea why such a simple case would be $35 :( Mine was $22 or so and it's a brick.
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No idea why the cost of the Trident case is $80 over here.
If only Amazon shipped that case to my place. Too bad they don't. |
So this is interesting, but the portal for one of my online classes doesn't support Google Chrome or Safari.. wonder how different things would be if I spoofed the user agent string :p
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Not supporting chrome or safari is quite odd in this day and age...
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My student portal also doesn't explicitly support Google Chrome or Safari.
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Student portals? My college is a dope. It only supports IE and sometimes Chrome. I can't use it on Firefox. It'll look sooo distorted.
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I find it interesting that my student portal works really well in Firefox, then followed by IE11.
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When I was in school we had student portals but I don't remember much about it ;;
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On another tech-related topic, I find myself enjoying the fact that I have a sizable amount of external storage in my phone. Having almost 16 GB of storage entirely to media and backups, in addition to the fact that I can always upgrade in the future, liberates me from application micro-management.
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My phone has 2,5 of GB. It isn't much space for my apps, Tumblr pictures & stuff, so i think i want to upgrade to a Galaxy S3 Mini/S2 (or other good phone with a plenty of storage) soon.
Now, tell me, how too many internal space has on your phone? |
My phone comes with 5GB of internal space, but it's expandable up to 64GB of space.
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For me, it's 8 GB. It may not be that much, but I'm still pretty satisfied with it. :] Never really store anything in my phone itself, though; I always use micro-SD cards.
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I'm perfectly fine with 8 GB of space. I don't use my iPhone for games or anything like that :D
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My phone has about 180 MB of internal storage and 16 GB of external storage, and I often fill it with musics and videos.
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I never had a pghone, but I've had several iPod Touch(es) before. all of them were 8 GB. I used them for mostly music but al a good amount of apps. And the ones with a camera, i also took pictures. I honestly wished I had more space like a 32 or 64GB one. I could never get all the music I like on there. Whenever I get a phone, I'm gonna get one with a lot more space/RAM. 16-32GB would be good if possible.
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I finally got a case that also doubles as a flip cover for my Nokia Lumia 525. It doesn't get in the way with regard to buttons, too.
Looks like my new phone is now well protected and should be able to handle everything but a direct hit from some kind of hard object. :) |
I have 16gb of internal storage total, but about 7 or 8 is taken up by the ROM itself. I have a 32GB microSD card in it though, too. :3
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2.6 GB of my phone's internal storage is taken up by Windows Phone 8 system files.
"These files make your phone work. You don't want to delete them. Trust us." Best advice ever from an OS? |
So I tried to install the aosp browser on my phone and failed miserably. Just gonna stick with the Samsung browser. It's pretty close to aosp anyway...
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It's unfortunate that I wasn't able to install the AOSP browser at all on my tablet when I upgraded to KitKat. :/ I really enjoyed using the AOSP browser more than Chrome because it had more customization to it and zooming was much smoother, and of course to add the cherry on top: it had Flash player capability as well.
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I'm not too bit on flash player... I rarely find myself using it at all even on my home pc. I am on 4.3 jelly bean right now and I couldn't get aosp right. Hnnggg.
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Adobe Flash Player and Flash media can certainly run well enough on mobile devices these days. It's a shame it's unsupported on every single mobile platform these days except for Windows RT.
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There are some services that I use/watch though that still only have Flash content available, and I certainly do wish I could be able to watch them on-the-go with my tablet.
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I've heard of Microsoft's blacklist of flash content for Windows RT.. but I've never really understood the need for one either.
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On my phone and tablet, I always use Opera Mini. It's lightweight, runs pretty smoothly, has a simplistic interface, and doesn't consume much data at all. Sometimes, I also use Chrome. Never tried AOSP, though (haven't even heard of it until now, haha). Is it any good?
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I'm not sure if this is still true or not, but now my mother is considering buying me an iPad Air. Surely I already have a Nexus 7, but it'd be interesting to see me with two tablets.
My brother has two tablets though: an iPad Air, and an HP Touchpad, which he rooted to have Android on it instead of WebOS. He got his when HP put the tablet up for sale at $99 USD and everyone was out to buy one, when HP pulled the plug on their support of the device. |
Hehe, the HP TouchPad fire sale. Makes you wonder how big of a loss it was.
(I just realized my phone knows what I'm going to type when I hit the "T" key right after I complete the word "HP".) It might be a good idea to ask if the money spent towards the iPad Air could go somewhere else :) |
Why does she want to get you an iPad Air? Lol, talk about wasting her money. :P
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The price that goes to an iPad Air could go towards a nice Windows laptop if you trade in an old laptop if you wish to do exactly that. ;)
Apple gadgets are expensive for the most part. |
Why not go for a $400 laptop, Zach? It'd be weird to have two tablets when you already have a Nexus 7.
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Noo I'm just sayin'. He shouldn't have to go for an iPad. xD But as Mac mentioned above, the Surface Pro 2 is also a great alternative.
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Zach, about the laptop, why don't you look at a Google Chromebook? I've considered buying one in the past, but I got an HP laptop instead :3. See what you think about it.
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I'll turn down her offer about the iPad, because I've already bought most of my books.
Also, no way am I going to get a Chromebook at all.. those things just browse the web and do nothing more, really. I have my tablet for that. :P |
It's probably smarter to save up the cash going towards an iPad Air for now seeing as you have a perfectly capable and usable smartphone-tablet-laptop combination right now. :)
Speaking of such combinations, I have a Nokia Lumia 525, a Microsoft Surface, and a Toshiba Satellite P840 right now. :) You can kind of see how I like my model names simple. |
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Although at first I was thinking of getting one once I save some money from my first few paychecks for a laptop, but I realize that I need my photoshop and my Microsoft Word when I travel. So nooope :P |
Hey, at least we've found something worse than Apple products, am I right?
Cuz dem iPhones are turning into iCrap. Like Twiggy said, the Nokia Lumia 525 is better. (I compared features and judged them professionally, though the LG G2 sounds decent too.) |
Da hate, lol. Chromebooks are pretty useful for what they do, and perform well for the price. And tbh I think the who web-only, minimal os like that is going to take off, heck Chromebooks have actually been doing really well. Better then Microsofts tablets. ;)
and Apple products arn't bad. Maybe thats just me that I love everything that comes out, unless its Firefox OS, J. Fish OS, or crap stuff like that. EDIT: I do have a question, I'm trying to replace a file, .dll to be exact. But everytime I drag it out of a .rar file (and even if I save it, or extract it) it says its no longer there in the temp files. What gives? I even tried different downloads, same result. |
I've tried one of my friends' Chromebook last year, and really liked it. I know that it's made up of a web browser entirely, but it can do almost anything that Mac and Windows can. d:
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I'd really have to try a Chromebook for a while to see if I would like it or not, to be honest. But my opinion with Chromebooks is that they should not be getting priced at the same prices for Windows laptops. They don't have hard drives at all, so what would be the point in buying one for the prices they go for when you can buy a laptop with much more to it at a similar price?
If Chromebooks were less expensive, then that would be another story. |
I've seen Chromebooks for cheap and thought about picking one up just to try it out (the tech geek in me wants to), but then I ask myself...why? They're barebones and can't run any programs, and basically you're just running Gmail apps.
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Sometimes I do wonder why the heck high-end Chromebooks exist in the first place. They... make no sense.
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Forgive me for changing the topic a bit, but I'm in the market for a GPU upgrade. Currently I run a 7750, but I'm looking to start playing things like Crysis and Skyrim, and I just doubt it's going to hold up. Going for the 150-250 range, my best option seems to be the R9 270 - anyone have any better ideas, or just comments in general? I don't mind going with an older model card if it means a better price to performance ratio.
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If it's the former, there's no need to upgrade unless you're seriously planning to play in 4K and high settings. The 7750 is perfectly fine. If it's the latter, just splurge on the R9 270. Your games will thank you for it. |
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Once the setup is complete, the idea is to be playing stuff at 4K on one of those 27" IPSes. I seriously doubt the 7750 will be able to handle this, it already struggles at BF4 with my crappy 21" LCD. The R9 270 will be sufficient? |
You have to have an 80 inch screen to tell the difference between 1080p and 4K. So what's the point?
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Personally, I'm not a fan of Chromebooks. I ended up being gifted one a few months ago (I ended up re-gifting it to my brother who happened to want one at the time), and honestly it was definitely not for me. As far as I'm concerned, it wasn't terribly useful, as I wasn't able to easily do many of the computing tasks I need to do regularly. I'm a programmer, and not being able to easily install IDEs or compilers on a computer is largely inconvienient. I'm not a fan of "online only" computing, I spend the majority of my day at my university where the wifi is poor, at best. For my money, I figure that I could buy a cheep netbook that can do almost (if not actually) everything the chromebook can do (it's mostly free, web-based software offered by Google and third parties), plus more, with identical performance, and similar price. I really don't see the point, or the appeal in owning a chromebook personally, (and once again, this is just from my perspective, your mileage may vary if you have different needs and/or expectations) other than the trendiness of it, but that's just me. If you're more experienced with chromebooks and think they have some fantastic qualities, feel free to share them with me, I'm open to all opinions, and I try to keep an open mind. I'm not trying to knock the Chromebook, if it works for you, and you think it's the cat's meow, cool, I'm quite happy for you, but it's definitely not for me.
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I remember how excited I was for Chrome OS to be coming out back when it was first announced, but never did I think that Chromebooks were going to be sold at the "high" prices that they're being sold for now.
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And in other words, seems like my fingers have quite adjusted to using my tablet's keyboard. I am able to type faster now with it and I am also making less mistakes too :) |
I still struggle a bit with my tablet's keyboard xD I guess my hands are just BIG.
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I cheat by using a split keyboard on my Surface.
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The on screen keyboard I do just fine on, it's the bluetooth one that I suck at xD
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I'm glad that I use a desktop computer... I hate using a laptop keyboard...
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I hate using cheap desktop keyboards. Modern scissor-switch laptop keyboards are very nice - quiet, and yet if you made them well, quite bouncy, and easily backlit. Bonus points for obvious key separation, too.
Cheap desktop keyboards feel mushy, and mechanical keyboards are noisy. |
My laptop keyboard is decent I have a really good Microsoft split keyboard. I've had it for like seven years or so lol. Made to last.
My left mouse key on my laptop is going bad. :/ I had to switch the keys. |
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I'm not a fan of noisy keyboards, and I still wonder how silent these "silent" mechanical keyboards are.
And I'm using a laptop, so it'll be a long time before I ever get to own one. |
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But I HATE those cheap keyboards, the keys feel sticky and its a real pain to type under those circumstances. |
I'm actually kind of glad how I have a laptop instead of a desktop, to be honest. The keyboard feels really nice, compared to every non-mechanical desktop keyboard I've used before.
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We do have a desktop in our house, but you'd never see us using it though; it's old and extremely slow. It was bought back in 2002, if I remember correctly. We would've gotten ourselves a new one, but none of us like desktops.
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I'm all about desktops, believe it or not.. it's been a while since I've last used my laptop, now especially considering that I have my tablet now for portability.
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I prefer a "fast enough" laptop since, well, it's significantly portable.
Since my laptop also tips the scales at just under 2 kg, I can also carry it around one-handed even though it's probably not a good idea to do that. |
My laptop is glossy and heavy to carry. I noticed yesterday in one of my classes at how everyone that had laptops out, theirs were so quiet and not making noise at all. Mine surely wouldn't be like that at this day & age haha, but it's also older than the laptops I saw out.
My laptop dates back to 2009. |
Sounds like a good Ultrabook is all you need! Who knows, maybe the money that would be spent towards a 16 GB iPad Air makes it already a good way to a great Windows Ultrabook.
Thinking of trading in the old laptop and/or any old gadgets you won't miss, too? |
I have a desktop, which is what I'm using right now. I do kinda miss the portability of a laptop, where I can go anywhere in the house or at school and get online whenever I want. I hate having to use the computer where I can't move lmao.
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If only a gaming laptop that looks like a normal laptop and isn't an Ultrabook exists. :3
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I can't even have a desktop because I'd have too little desk space. Sometimes, you just gotta stay compact. I blame my multifunction printer.
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Fortunately for me, I have a lot of desk space, so it would be a waste for me to have a big desk without a desktop :3
And because of the fact that I don't really use my laptop anymore, a large portion of my desk usually appears empty |
I just like how everything is in a single piece for laptops. It's... neat.
The fact that they can run unplugged for hours is nice, too. |
So I just had to reboot my tablet.. it suddenly disconnected itself from WiFi and every time I tried to reconnect, it wasn't connecting, but just saying that the network was saved. A reboot solved the problem, but now I hope it doesn't happen more often.
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A reboot is actually the fastest way to solve transient hardware problems that are related to some internal program getting stuck on an internal device. :)
Failing that, turning off the device and leaving it off for a while should make everything fresh on the next boot. I sometimes just reboot even if nothing seems to be wrong because I like my devices "fresh". |
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I don't actually have any kind of portable device. No laptop, no Iphone, No tablet, just a desktop.
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I have a desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. I use them all at different times for different things xD Laptop is where I am most of the time since I'm on the couch. Desktop is my media server. Tablet I browse the internet in bed and/or read on it. Smartphone... goes everywhere.
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Phone for easy access tech, laptop for everything else.
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Alongside desktop, I also have a tablet, a laptop, and a pair of phones. I use my tablet for reading and watching movies/TV shows; phones for calling, texting, IMing, and sometimes browsing; and laptop for just about everything else. d:
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Ever since I've gotten my tablet keyboard, I've pretty much had no use in using my laptop. The small screen doesn't really bother me at all, and it's actually boosted the speed at which I'm able to type.
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Seeing as I have no desktop, I find a tablet to be insufficient for my needs outside. Sometimes you have to appreciate the ability to run any Windows app out there.
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Hmm, I guess that could be true for some sorts, because I'd never know when I would need office :P
But in the long run, there's no way I'd be able to get around with my current laptop at all. It's too noisy, and it would take forever to boot up. I probably need to eventually switch to Windows 8 sooner or later. |
Out of curiosity, what did your laptop came with, Zach? (In terms of both hardware and software.)
I suspect you might want to wait until Windows 9 is out. |
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I suspect that if your next laptop was a really nice one, you'd wish that you had got rid of the desktop. Maybe some good planning and demoing of the laptops is a good thing to do if you ever want to get a new laptop to supplement your tablet and/or replace your desktop.
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Personally I'd prefer a good desktop PC to any laptop. Unless it was an alienware and then I would still like to use my desktop pc more then the alienware
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I prefer a powerful enough laptop if it means I can stay mostly wireless and unencumbered. I kind of like how I can bring my laptop anywhere even without the AC adapter and use it.
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I totally understand that. Desktop PCs aren't portable after all. But really I'm used to a desktop pc.
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I have this ambitious plan to use my laptop for general use and my tablet (with a bult in keyboard) for note taking during lectures when I go to university in September. I wonder how that would work out. |
What drives me away from desktops is their portability; you just can't move them from place to place like you can with laptops. Some laptop computers may not be able to perform as good as desktops, but that doesn't bother me.
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