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Yukari January 17th, 2014 3:45 PM

I can understand the problem portability can be, but I really don't have to go anywhere so that doesn't bother me.

Tsutarja January 17th, 2014 3:51 PM

Same for me, I don't typically go places for long periods of time, so desktops are fine for me.. however if I'm gone for a long while, then I will bring my laptop and just deal with the slowness of it compared to my desktop.

countryemo January 17th, 2014 5:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8044131)
So I got my tablet and I love it a ton. Anyone had luck with the Nexus 7?

The 2012 or 2013 model? I have the '13 model and I love it, its not made my Samsung my wifi works *cough*Nexus10*cough*. I thought I wouldn't like it because of the bezels but you don't notice in while using it.

Not sure whats going besides Laptor or Desktop? I used to prefer desktops, but now I just love my laptop, trackpad and all. I just keep my laptop plugging in for the majority. Mouses are weird to use now.

Legendary Silke January 17th, 2014 11:07 PM

Funny as heck, mobile SoCs are getting more and more powerful these days... while PC CPUs and chipsets are getting more and more efficient.

Alexander Nicholi January 17th, 2014 11:26 PM

I prefer desktops really, but this Lenovo IdeaPad with 64-bit Windows 8 is… sleek. Maybe it's just 8? It makes me reminisce of 16-bit Windows with its blockyness, and I love it :3

Legendary Silke January 18th, 2014 1:30 AM

I'm still waiting for Windows 9 before I decide to chain-upgrade.

Hiatus January 18th, 2014 2:52 AM

I personally found 8's interface to be pretty terrible; hope they make some fresh changes to it in Windows 9. It'd be quite epic if they could make it look something like this. :]

Yukari January 18th, 2014 4:39 AM

Honestly I hate the windows eight interface.

Meganium January 18th, 2014 5:27 AM

Is it going to be called Windows 9? xD

I find 8 to be tolerable. I never tried it yet on an actual tablet or touchscreen, but I heard it works a lot better than in laptops/desktops.

Legendary Silke January 18th, 2014 5:36 AM

I find it interesting that it's getting very hot with regard to the next version of Windows after the post-8.1 update in April will be going to be called Windows 9 and it will mark the return of the Start menu.

180°, anyone? It seems like they know 8 is a disaster.

Tsutarja January 18th, 2014 5:43 AM

I guess I'll wait until April to get a new laptop then.. but then again, it's been quite a long time since I've used my laptop (because of my tablet).

I remember back then I used my laptop more than my desktop simply because my old desktop ran XP until I made it into a server PC, and got my current desktop running Windows 7.

SS01 January 18th, 2014 6:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Axeliira (Post 8045602)
Is it going to be called Windows 9? xD

I find 8 to be tolerable. I never tried it yet on an actual tablet or touchscreen, but I heard it works a lot better than in laptops/desktops.

I'd be surprised if they called it Windows 9.. Have you become that boring, Microsoft? xD
In any case, I typically get my OSes from ..other.. sources, so it's not a big deal which one a PC comes with, since it costs me nothing to replace it.

I like the "under-the-hood" improvements in 8 - performance has gotten quite a bit better, but I still hate the start screen. At the moment I'm using Start8 to disable it, works quite well.
Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8044131)
So I got my tablet and I love it a ton. Anyone had luck with the Nexus 7?

I have a Nexus 7. Ended up replacing it with an iPad after a year. It's not a bad device, I just love iOS.

Legendary Silke January 18th, 2014 6:29 AM

Either way, I suspect this is not a good time to buy a new laptop. Try waiting until later in the year, perhaps after July.

I noticed that I don't miss the AMOLED display of my old phone. Hmm...

I think I'll probably wait until the third-generation Windows Phone 8 phones show up before I use my contract upgrade... if I even bother to do so.

Tsutarja January 18th, 2014 6:25 PM

I guess we'll have to see what Microsoft does for the next generation of the Windows operating system now.. I would at least hope that the trend continues where the next Windows OS would be a better one than its predecessor.

Legendary Silke January 19th, 2014 10:03 AM

They can't exactly have two Mes/Vistas/8.xs in a row, can they? :P

Meganium January 19th, 2014 5:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8045677)
Either way, I suspect this is not a good time to buy a new laptop. Try waiting until later in the year, perhaps after July.

Well crap. I was just browsing Toshiba laptops right now. xD Trying to see what I want to buy when the time comes. :D Maybe I should wait a little while longer so I can go for a better lappy.

Tsutarja January 19th, 2014 5:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8047816)
They can't exactly have two Mes/Vistas/8.xs in a row, can they? :P

You never know.. Microsoft could throw a curveball at us after all. ;)

Aeroblast January 19th, 2014 6:26 PM

The next windows isn't set to come out until April 2015, though, I heard?

Legendary Silke January 20th, 2014 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 루기아 (Post 8048488)
The next windows isn't set to come out until April 2015, though, I heard?

Probably.

Then again, curveballs.

There are some things that are never set in stone.

Tsutarja January 20th, 2014 6:23 AM

Either way, I really couldn't care less if I had a laptop then missed out on a major software update.. because then hopefully it would be really low-priced for upgrades like they did with Windows 8 Pro for its first three months of being on the market.

All I'm saying though: I need a newer, faster, and more-compact laptop this year.

Legendary Silke January 20th, 2014 6:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8049211)
Either way, I really couldn't care less if I had a laptop then missed out on a major software update.. because then hopefully it would be really low-priced for upgrades like they did with Windows 8 Pro for its first three months of being on the market.

All I'm saying though: I need a newer, faster, and more-compact laptop this year.

So, thinking of a normal laptop, Ultrabook, or a gaming laptop, or some combination of them? ;)

Tsutarja January 20th, 2014 8:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8049222)
So, thinking of a normal laptop, Ultrabook, or a gaming laptop, or some combination of them? ;)

Not really sure at this point in time. I'd have to be committed to getting a laptop before I decide on one. :P

Legendary Silke January 20th, 2014 8:43 AM

I only want that Windows 9 allows for a direct upgrade path from Windows 7.

Even if it doesn't allow that, though, at least I can chain-upgrade from 7 to 8, then 8.1, and then 9, if I need to do exactly that, seeing as I have a proper 8 licence.

Zach, when it comes to laptops, you don't want to get a bottom-barrel laptop. It's a very good idea to give it a lot of thought!

Meganium January 20th, 2014 9:00 AM

Since we're on the topic of Windows, and imo, we could really use a topic to talk about here in this thread (and that's due to me being lazy making a thread about this), but I retweeted this a little while ago on twitter. Probs worth reading. http://t.co/QfWp251IfE

Can you say WAAAAAAKE UP CAAAALL? What does everyone think?

Tsutarja January 20th, 2014 9:41 AM

That doesn't really surprise me at all.. after all, I remember seeing some desktops that were still coming with XP as late as 2009 or so, before the release of Windows 7, when Vista was still the newest stable OS around.

Legendary Silke January 20th, 2014 9:53 AM

I'm still on the fence with regard to Windows 8.x. It's a bit strange to know that I'm still running Windows 7 despite being able to upgrade to Windows 8 and 8.1 at any time I'd like.

Tsutarja January 20th, 2014 10:02 AM

I could easily upgrade my desktop to Windows 8.x as well, but then that would mean I'd have to buy a separate activation code xD

In fact, my desktop is already running a non-stock OS.. it runs Windows 7, when it's only supposed to be running Windows Vista. But it's just as stable on 7 as it would be on Vista. :3

Legendary Silke January 20th, 2014 10:09 AM

I even have an upgrade key!

It's sitting unused.

Morkula January 20th, 2014 4:18 PM

I have a copy of 8 as well that I installed on a test partition just to play around with, but I'm just keeping Win7 on my desktop. I just don't see the point of upgrading, right now at least. Metro is clunky as all hell, and even now that you can boot straight to the desktop in 8.1, you still have to search for everything or create shortcuts.

Aeroblast January 20th, 2014 8:20 PM

What's up with this message when I try to get to Pokecommunity IRC? I'm probably missing something simple but I haven't found a solution yet.

http://i40.*.com/mrpmz4.png

Aeroblast January 20th, 2014 9:10 PM

I just updated it before trying to use it.

This is what shows up when I press "Ignore"

http://i40.*.com/2wmzvqd.png

Meganium January 20th, 2014 10:37 PM

Clearing your cookies/cache usually clears up that error. If all else fails, try reinstalling the java plugin.

Tsutarja January 21st, 2014 3:01 AM

I've never seen that type of error with Java O_o

Then again, I don't really use java applications anymore.. and even after all the security flaws that were revealed last year about java, I've still left it enabled.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 4:29 AM

I'm stuck with Java because at least four applications that I use on my laptop need it. That includes Minecraft, but there's also a bunch of diagram creation programs that rely on it.

Cordelia January 21st, 2014 6:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 루기아 (Post 8050294)
What's up with this message when I try to get to Pokecommunity IRC? I'm probably missing something simple but I haven't found a solution yet.

http://i40.*.com/mrpmz4.png

Try to use mibbit.com for chat. It's not Java based and works well
We have a link to #tradecorner in trade announcements.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 7:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CC (Post 8050846)
Try to use mibbit.com for chat. It's not Java based and works well
We have a link to #tradecorner in trade announcements.

Nah, just go the whole hog and use a desktop client. Sometimes you just want to have everything you need in an IRC client. Personally, I use HexChat on everything that can run it.

Tsutarja January 21st, 2014 7:45 AM

I'm a total IRC geek lmao

I have my own IRC server, I use mIRC with various scripts, and I use an IRC bouncer allowing me more than one connection with the same nickname

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 7:50 AM

I'm not too into IRC scripting (unless you count TwigBot which is derieved from Dragobot) :P

Cordelia January 21st, 2014 8:55 AM

I run and actually own mIRC and I absolutely love it. Mibbit is a nice tool for on the go. I use xchat2 on my Linux.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 9:17 AM

Windows 9 could reach RTM as early as October as a leaker says...

Looks like 8.x just crossed the Vista threshold.

Meganium January 21st, 2014 9:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8050957)
I'm a total IRC geek lmao

Saaaame, although I'm not much into it now than I was before, when I was a frequenter/half-op/op/admin at several channels xD. Scripting was the most fun part.

Aeroblast January 21st, 2014 10:11 AM

I can't even start my computer on windows 8 now so I have to use safe mode for now. I'm uninstalling it and "upgrading" to windows 7 today.

Windows 8 giving blue screen on startup has been a rarely occurring problem that didn't really bother me, but today it decided to be a jerk and kept giving me blue screen every time I tried to start up for 3 hours this morning. I've had it.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 루기아 (Post 8051131)
I can't even start my computer on windows 8 now so I have to use safe mode for now. I'm uninstalling it and "upgrading" to windows 7 today.

Windows 8 giving blue screen on startup has been a rarely occurring problem that didn't really bother me, but today it decided to be a jerk and kept giving me blue screen every time I tried to start up for 3 hours this morning. I've had it.

Sounds like one of these Windows 8 driver problems. Probably caused by something inside getting corrupted. Are you able to reset the PC?

Aeroblast January 21st, 2014 10:38 AM

That's what I tried to do for hours, only to fail.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 루기아 (Post 8051175)
That's what I tried to do for hours, only to fail.

Well, one thing about Windows 8's Restore and Reset is that they're actually full reinstalls behind the scenes. Sounds more like a hardware problem.

Aeroblast January 21st, 2014 11:23 AM

I believe it was something like DRIVER_IQRL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or something like that, but regardless I'm probably going to back up my data and reinstall windows 7.

Tsutarja January 21st, 2014 11:25 AM

I've heard of cases where drivers can be at fault of things like this in Windows 8 and even 8.1, so hopefully a downgrade to Windows 7 does well.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 11:27 AM

The problem seems to be that since resetting a Windows 8 PC is essentially reinstalling Windows 8 from a blank disk and/or reimaging it with a recovery image, I suspect something deeper is afoot.

Aeroblast January 21st, 2014 11:28 AM

Only thing I'll probably miss is the slightly faster boot time.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 11:56 AM

Speaking of boot times, I would not ever want to think about going with a normal HDD again ever since I've went hybrid...

Cordelia January 21st, 2014 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8051060)
Windows 9 could reach RTM as early as October as a leaker says...

Looks like 8.x just crossed the Vista threshold.

I hope they fix the wifi staying connected issue on 8.1 first! That's ridiculous that it's still there.

Tsutarja January 21st, 2014 2:21 PM

So as soon as I booted up my laptop this evening, I saw this little gem pop up...

http://i.imgur.com/vrrcbAu.png

Aeroblast January 21st, 2014 2:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8051434)
Is that the bug where it's constantly identifying and never actually connecting, to the point you need to disable and reenable the wireless card to fix it?

루기아: If you're able to boot into safe mode, try this: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-system/windows-8-crash-driverirqlnotlessorequal/4d7dc696-2daf-4f88-8f83-3d13437a7f2b

You might be able to pinpoint what is conflicting with your computer and uninstall it, and perhaps be able to boot properly. That way, you may be able to either
a. Keep all your files and Win 8
b. Have proper access to Win 8 to back up all your files before you downgrade

Meh. Just downgraded to win7. Too many issues with win8 for me.

Legendary Silke January 21st, 2014 7:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8051466)
So as soon as I booted up my laptop this evening, I saw this little gem pop up...

http://i.imgur.com/vrrcbAu.png

Run powercfg /energy in an elevated command prompt (right-click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator) on a freshly rebooted laptop in idle, let it do its own thing, copy the report to the desktop, and open it. Check the battery capacities.

It's one of these nice things added in Windows 7. When a battery has worn out severely, the battery warning appears. Looks like you are going to have to plan for a laptop soon.

Tsutarja January 22nd, 2014 2:43 AM

One thing I definitely plan on doing when I get back from school this afternoon is just reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop. However, since I have a Windows 7 install disk, I'm not sure if I should install it back to manufacturer's state, or install it from scratch with the Windows 7 install disk. If I install from scratch, I'd at least not have to worry about bloatware, but then I have to worry about reinstalling drivers. I'll probably take a system image as well before I reinstall.

Legendary Silke January 22nd, 2014 4:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8052363)
One thing I definitely plan on doing when I get back from school this afternoon is just reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop. However, since I have a Windows 7 install disk, I'm not sure if I should install it back to manufacturer's state, or install it from scratch with the Windows 7 install disk. If I install from scratch, I'd at least not have to worry about bloatware, but then I have to worry about reinstalling drivers. I'll probably take a system image as well before I reinstall.

Does your laptop manufacturer has the courtesy to provide separate drivers on their recovery media and/or within the default installation? My Toshiba laptop has all the app and driver setup programs dumped in a folder should I need to reinstall or repair any software gone wrong.

Either way, both couldn't hurt - I think I'm more of a fan of restoring from a factory image, then uninstalling anything you won't miss.

Tsutarja January 22nd, 2014 1:29 PM

Crap, now I wonder if my laptop's hard drive is starting to show its age. I'm currently reinstalling Windows right now, but it's going at a slow pace. I wish there was a way in the BiOS to check if it's got any issues like on my desktop.

donavannj January 22nd, 2014 1:53 PM

There probably is, and the almighty oracle Google can show you how to do it.

Tsutarja January 23rd, 2014 7:03 AM

Right now I'm running a CHKDSK scan on my laptop to scan for bad sectors and whatnot. And now I'm curious to see how the results are going to look.

Legendary Silke January 23rd, 2014 7:16 AM

Speaking of laptops and formatting them, I'm still waiting for my laptop to recover. Eugh. Turns out trying to install from a setup disc is not a good idea.

4 DVDs for a recovery image restoration feels... like when games had to come in multiple CDs :)

Legendary Silke January 23rd, 2014 8:32 AM

I can't write write-once DVDs twice, can I? They stay the same as long as they aren't too scratched up.

One errant format is all it takes for an external HDD to lose everything (without data recovery).

At least I didn't write them as CDs. That's like asking for the floppy days!

Legendary Silke January 23rd, 2014 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8054795)
Unless they're -RW, I don't think you can rewrite them.

I believe that's exactly the point ;)

IE9 holds up surprisingly well on today's web sites. Hmm...

Tsutarja January 23rd, 2014 6:14 PM

That reminds me, I really like how efficient IE 11 is when it comes to playing flash content. In Chrome and Firefox on my machine, playing any sort of flash content causes quite a bit of CPU to be used, while in IE, hardly an CPU is used when I watch flash content.

Tsutarja January 23rd, 2014 7:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8055671)
I-- should try that. YouTube gets my CPU up in temperature all the time.

It sucks now though with Chrome because Youtube forces the HTML5 player in Chrome, and I found that out because the flash player shows up on videos if I spoof my user agent string in Chrome to either Firefox or IE.

Have you tried watching Youtube in IE yet? Is it much faster/less consuming on your CPU?

Cordelia January 23rd, 2014 7:18 PM

I haven't noticed any CPU issues with YouTube and Chrome... of course I have a Core i7... maybe that has something to do with it?

Tsutarja January 23rd, 2014 7:25 PM

Yeah, probably :P

All I have on my desktop is a Pentium dual core, but the desktop is also from 2008, which was before Intel came out with the i3/i5/i7 processors.

Legendary Silke January 23rd, 2014 8:56 PM

Have you guys also checked whether YouTube is in HTML5 mode in IE9+, too? If done properly, both HTML5 and Flash content should be efficient enough for it to not matter.

Legendary Silke January 23rd, 2014 11:27 PM

The beauty of GPU acceleration. Most of the time, it's faster to just use your otherwise idling GPU to do stuff that used to be done on the CPU. How times have changed :)

I like how IE9 was a wake-up call for browser makers to start thinking seriously about GPU acceleration and frame times on the Windows desktop browser market.

Tsutarja January 24th, 2014 3:36 AM

Hmm, so do Chrome and Firefox use GPU acceleration or CPU acceleration then? I'd assume the latter, because I do have an external GPU after all, but I'm just not too sure -_-

But yes, HTML5 in IE is also smooth, and I'll continue to watch Youtube videos in IE until Chrome allows for less CPU usage with flash content.

Legendary Silke January 24th, 2014 6:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8056387)
Hmm, so do Chrome and Firefox use GPU acceleration or CPU acceleration then? I'd assume the latter, because I do have an external GPU after all, but I'm just not too sure -_-

But yes, HTML5 in IE is also smooth, and I'll continue to watch Youtube videos in IE until Chrome allows for less CPU usage with flash content.

Both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox also use varying amounts of GPU acceleration, depending on the operating system, graphics hardware, and graphics hardware driver. Most GPUs, be it integrated or external, should be able to handle GPU acceleration with aplomb. Heck, your smartphone is probably doing it provided that it's using a semi-recent mobile browser. As long as the GPU isn't way too ancient (think before DirectX 9 and doesn't have a bad driver), it'll automatically accelerate web content as long as you didn't disable it yourself.

Google Chrome doesn't accelerate much on Windows PCs, though, when it comes to general web content (2D Canvas and WebGL are another thing). Firefox should do it the same way as IE does on Windows Vista and newer, utilizing Direct2D on supported hardware, and hopefully can achieve parity with regard to performance.

The fun thing about GPU acceleration is that browsers do have to have a CPU fall-back just in case the GPU is unusable. GPU accelerated browsing can be finicky since GPUs aren't exactly designed to display web content - they usually operate on complex 3D scenes. Chrome and Firefox fall back to GDI+-based rendering (not accelerated at all since Vista; although it's accelerated in XP, it's going to be slower than Direct3D or Direct2D), while IE uses WARP (a software DirectX 10+ rasterizer, effectively providing a "GPU" without a compatible GPU).

You probably won't notice GPU acceleration unless you have a relatively slow CPU. That's when the benefits of GPU acceleration work its magic - even slow, out-of-date single core smartphones can handle desktop sites just fine as long as it's not running out of video and/or system memory.

Google Chrome uses its own Flash player; sometimes, this Flash player can get buggy.

Crunch Punch January 24th, 2014 11:49 AM

Has anyone here done or know someone who have done a Computer Science degree, preferably in the UK? I'm heavily considering taking that path and would love to know any first hand experience on the stuff taught in the course and any other related things. Cheers!

Legendary Silke January 24th, 2014 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scyke'd (Post 8056901)
Has anyone here done or know someone who have done a Computer Science degree, preferably in the UK? I'm heavily considering taking that path and would love to know any first hand experience on the stuff taught in the course and any other related things. Cheers!

Does part-way through count?

Crunch Punch January 24th, 2014 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8056907)
Does part-way through count?

Not sure what that means, if you mean stopped half-way for any reason then yeah, any info is appreciated.

Legendary Silke January 24th, 2014 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scyke'd (Post 8056913)
Not sure what that means, if you mean stopped half-way for any reason then yeah, any info is appreciated.

In this case, I mean as a person that is still doing it right now.

Tsutarja January 24th, 2014 7:40 PM

I'm also undergoing a computer science degree. Just be prepared for lots of math courses and science courses all throughout your track towards getting one.

Legendary Silke January 24th, 2014 10:02 PM

Intel's Next Unit of Computing has me interested. That's a lot of power in a tiny box! If only I could get a Celeron kit where I live, then I'd only need to find laptop RAM, stick my laptop's old disk drive, and have a Linux box.

Tsutarja January 25th, 2014 7:19 AM

Earlier this morning I installed Windows Vista into a VirtualBox VM for the hell of it, and I got Aero running on it with 1GB of RAM to the virtual machine. Doesn't run too badly at all.

Legendary Silke January 25th, 2014 7:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8058301)
Earlier this morning I installed Windows Vista into a VirtualBox VM for the hell of it, and I got Aero running on it with 1GB of RAM to the virtual machine. Doesn't run too badly at all.

I believe how well Vista runs depends on a lot of factors. But, yeah, 1 GB of RAM should be usable for Windows Vista and a few applications running at the same time.

Sometimes I feel spoiled by 8 GB of RAM on my laptop.

Tsutarja January 25th, 2014 8:53 AM

I wish I had an 8GB machine :P but then again, my main goal this year for a gadget is to get a new laptop, one that is more portable and more powerful. I know I've said in the past I'd like to have a larger resolution, but I don't really care at this point. I just need a new laptop period.

Legendary Silke January 25th, 2014 9:42 AM

A high resolution display on a Windows laptop means nothing if the apps aren't designed to take advantage of it. This is especially important if you see yourself spending a lot of time in non-Microsoft and non-Windows Presentation Foundation/Direct2D/Direct3D apps on the Windows desktop. This pretty much means anything that comes with Windows, most modern Microsoft apps, games, Firefox, and... well, not much else.

I'd be more concerned on how the display looks. Is it bright enough? (Most should be able to go neon indoors with showroom at the very least.) Does it look mottled? (Thankfully, only Acer can produce screens this atrocious.) Colour calibration issues can be fixed easily after purchase using either Windows or the graphics driver's colour (management) settings.

The funny part is that DPI scaling has been there in Windows since forever. It was on Windows XP; heck, it might have been in as far back as Windows 9-freaking-8, though DPI scaling as we know it was introduced in Windows Vista. (It looks like Vista was just too far ahead of its time in terms of hardware.)

If I were to rank what's most important in terms of a system's performance these days, I'd advise that you put more weight on the storage. Most non-bottom-feeder laptops should have both "fast enough" CPU and "roomy enough" RAM; you should check out on what features the laptops offer, the connectivity options, the display, and, most importantly, the storage medium the laptop uses. Try to go hybrid at the very least - you'll be thankful that they exist, even if they are caching-based. I don't miss traditional HDDs after moving to a 8GB/1TB hybrid.

I'm glad that I got the Surface RT instead of the Acer Iconia something. The latter's display is a horrorshow!

Legendary Silke January 25th, 2014 10:47 AM

The fun part is probably the Surface RT was priced to sell. Semi-fire sale, anyone?

Aeroblast January 25th, 2014 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8057589)
I'm also undergoing a computer science degree. Just be prepared for lots of math courses and science courses all throughout your track towards getting one.

Next semester for me will be hell. 5 projects take 30 hours minimum each, and that's just one class.

Tsutarja January 25th, 2014 12:51 PM

Maybe it's just me, but I've never bothered to take notice with DPI scaling :P

One thing that I find weird though is how TV screens have good upscale on monitors. I remember back in high school one of my teachers' classroom had a spare TV set, and they used it as their computer monitor. The resolution was still at 1024x768 and it was a 32" LCD TV, and the scaling was done just fine. Most computer monitors make things blurry when they upscale lower resolutions.

Legendary Silke January 25th, 2014 9:35 PM

TVs usually have extensive processing chips and circuitry inside that can upscale pretty much everything. Heck, they can insert frames!

The only price? Input lag. You may or may not notice it, though - some TVs are pretty fast even with these processing going on.

"What The Tech" is also the name of a real podcast by Paul Thurott ;)

Tsutarja January 25th, 2014 9:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8059616)

I...totally forgot about that podcast XD I knew he did a tech podcast other than the Windows Weekly podcast, but the name escaped me.

Legendary Silke January 25th, 2014 10:10 PM

How I got into Paul Thurott's SuperSite for Windows is a mystery to me at this point.

Crunch Punch January 26th, 2014 7:47 AM

Sorry for pulling the subject back to Comp Science but I was very busy yesterday so I couldn't get on PC at all, and seeming as some of you guys are doing Comp Science right now I'd really love some insight.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8056928)
In this case, I mean as a person that is still doing it right now.

Sure, as long as your still doing it it's fine, I'll take any info. How much maths is involved? How much programming knowledge do you think I'll need beforehand? What are the lectures like, and how much coursework is there?

Aeroblast January 26th, 2014 10:43 AM

It depends on how complex your program will be.

Tsutarja January 26th, 2014 5:01 PM

I put Adobe's version of Flash Player 12 (not the built in version) onto my Chrome install today and so far I've noticed barely any lag in it when watching Youtube, except until I begin to do background tasks. However, I really wish that Youtube didn't force the HTML5 player to Chrome users, because that's still rather laggy.

Legendary Silke January 27th, 2014 7:14 AM

It looks like SkyDrive is going to get its name changed very soon... and there seems to be something new in store..

Can't wait. As a SkyDrive user since, well, forever, I look forward to new things to play with.

Tsutarja January 27th, 2014 7:22 AM

Skydrive getting a name change sounds pretty interesting.. wonder why they're making that decision.

Legendary Silke January 27th, 2014 7:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach (Post 8062212)
Skydrive getting a name change sounds pretty interesting.. wonder why they're making that decision.

They are legally required to after losing a lawsuit with BSkyB.

Tsutarja January 27th, 2014 7:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 8062236)

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that! I remembered that Microsoft was in a lawsuit with some UK company, but I guess that since it's been so long since the incident, it kinda went forgotten about to many.

Aeroblast January 27th, 2014 4:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8061436)
I'm curious to know - what do you prefer programming in? What are you currently learning?

I'm mainly a Java programmer, though I do have some experience in Python.

I'll learn more programming language(s) this semester as my class requires me to, though it's one of the more obscure ones. To be honest I forgot what it's even called.

Aeroblast January 27th, 2014 6:00 PM

I believe I'm going to learn C in fall '14 as part of assembly language course as well, but C and C# is different. (Though I heard prior knowledge of C helps to learn C#)

Aeroblast January 27th, 2014 9:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 8063305)
I don't have any knowledge of C, and I'm finding C# rather easy. As someone put it, he said that "C# is Java done right".

I heard that C# and Java is not all that different, though I don't know if I'll learn C# in the near future. I believe Java is derived from C as well, but I'll learn about programming languages more this semester.

Mark Kamill January 28th, 2014 6:47 AM

Finally got a smartphone!




But because I only had 50 Euros to spend, I bought a used Xperia Mini from way back in 2011. Its basic, Adreno 205 and only 512mb ram, but its good enough till I save up cash for something more.Small screen rocks btw, even though I prefer the 4-4.5 inch range.

Legendary Silke January 28th, 2014 6:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evil Stud Muffin (Post 8064128)
Finally got a smartphone!

But because I only had 50 Euros to spend, I bought a used Xperia Mini from way back in 2011. Its basic, Adreno 205 and only 512mb ram, but its good enough till I save up cash for something more.Small screen rocks btw, even though I prefer the 4-4.5 inch range.

I find 4" displays to be something very nice, to be honest. Not too small, not too large.

I'm actually writing C code now. Funny how I got from C++ to C, but we had to because we're now going... uh, lower.

Mark Kamill January 28th, 2014 7:07 AM

Yeah I love em too, that's what I'm saying. But because I only had 50 bucks, I bought that which has a 3 inch screen, where the problem is. Otherwise the 5MP camera is great, good radio, and it can run temple run 2 pretty well.

Tsutarja January 28th, 2014 7:40 AM

Hey, a smartphone is a smartphone, so remember that.. :)

Of course though my first smartphone is something less then a year old.


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