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My laptop is fine with Windows 8.1 on it.. I've considered putting Windows 7 on it, but then it'd be useless because my laptop didn't come with restore media, and there's no product key sticker on the laptop, either.
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Windows 8 has been a really great experience for me on my IdeaPad, and I put 8.1 onto my old eMachine, and albeit the screen is really fuzzy (it always has been), I've had little complaints with it and the machine, which has 2GB of DDR2 RAM at 800MHz and a single-core AMD Sempron processor @ 2.9GHz. Old and cheap, but still no issues with it and 8.1 so far. :3
I'm probably going to keep 8.0 on my laptop for the time being, so as to keep the mass amounts of tweaks and changes I've made to the inner workings of the OS (not to mention all of my file associations). Is there even a worthwhile reason to get 8.1 at this point? |
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I honestly feel bad for not taking full advantage of Metro apps. The most I've done with Metro apps so far is just watch Netflix and maybe use the weather app once or twice, and nothing more. I dislike the Skype app and prefer it to the desktop app as well.
Also, I thought there was an app for Internet Explorer as well in a fullscreen metro UI, alongside the traditional desktop UI in Windows 8. Did they get rid of the metro IE version? The one in the start menu opens up the desktop version now. |
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I recently got back into PC gaming and wanted to build a great PC for music production/recording as well. I was using a Macbook for DJing and Production but needed to upgrade obviously. I will spare you the parts for now, unless your interested but it was over $1200. Bought at TigerDirect store on a whim instead of waiting for NewEgg to ship.
I bought Windows 8 for it and was really positive going forward. Yet I did little to no research on the feedback, just the data on how it stack up against 7 number wise. It was a horrible decision and money poorly spent. Cons: I had to boot to app screen for months until 8.1 was released and it felt like a computer not a xbox or tablet. I had blue screens related to my motherboard, ASUS Sabertooth, due to driver issues. Completely updated and no resolution was ever found. I had to use workaround for many programs running in Admin or Windows 7 compatibility mode just for them to run. If they would even work. The Pro: Slightly faster booting and file transfers. Well I'll stop ranting now. |
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Hmm, my desktop did a CHKDSK on its own moments ago, and it found some corrupt and misplaced things apparently. Hopefully it smooths the little chokes I've been having recently.
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Hard disk errors? Boy those were fun. Last time I had one of those was when I broke my 1.5TB WD MyBook and my old 320GB MyBook. Good times.
Also, I did some calculations and discovered 64-bit operating systems can handle around 2,822PB of immediate memory. Not that that's ever going to be feasible in the near future, but hey. We won't have to make 128-bit operating systems for a good while. :P |
*is setting up a Windows 98 Second Edition virtual machine now that he finally got access to the CD itself in his old home*
*is stuck with a VMware virtual machine with no networking or audio* (Hey, at least it's enhanced and sorta seamless.) (Turns out you just have to install the missing drivers (Windows Driver Model, to boot) for the audio devices and explicitly set up a working Internet connection using the provided wizard.) |
I had Windows 2000 and Windows XP set up on two virtual machines. 2000 was my work PC and XP was my play PC. Things were simpler back then, what with the seamless ISO loading and ready availability of floppy input. I loved to keep all my documents in WordPad RTFs, since I have a weird nostalgia for working without office on Windows Classic PCs, ever since I read a Windows 98 manual in "Living Color" that I got from a recycling center. Ah, the nostalgia. :P
In fact, I remember writing up fake letters to Bill Gates on the production progress of a new Windows operating system that never got finished. I also wrote flyers for company picnics. What a remembrance, hah! My 10-year-old self in hindsight. So cute :3 |
It's kind of a shame that Windows Update stopped functioning on Windows 98, though. I had to rely on a site dedicated to providing older versions of software to reinstall... things that might come in handy. (Think DirectX 9.0c versions that still fully support Windows 98, IE6 and Opera 10, KeePass 2.x (score one for something that still supports Windows 98 natively), .NET Framework 2.0... my gosh.)
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So tell me, is there a reason you're installing 98 on a VM?
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Windows 98, you're not supposed to work on the modern web! Go back to 1998! |
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Ah, Windows 98. That was my favorite operating system growing up, no joke. I liked all of the sounds it came with for one, and it was the operating system I remember first using when I first touched a computer, before Windows XP came out.
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Messing around with Opera 10 just made me realize that even a Windows 98 PC could do something today... as long as you're prepared for it being Swiss cheese in terms of security.
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Anybody here have experience with changing the Windows shell to something different? I'm interested in trying it but I'd like to know which ones are best and if it even works well/is worth it.
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Specifically customization. I don't really care about the functionality of a shell as long as it works.
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I've never really bothered to even change the Windows shell at all. I've seen people that do it successfully, but what would the purpose really be other than to allow for extra customization?
Also, bonus points to who can guess what my user title is. |
That's specifically the reason I want to change it. :3
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You could try Cairo shell. It might not be in development anymore, but you should still be able to download and install. LiteStep's pretty good, too. This one's got tons of themes available for you to choose; just head over to deviantART, and pick a favorite. :] Don't really know how they work, though, because personally, I've used neither of them.
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Cairo shell looks pretty interesting, actually. Though I'm really in no mood to change my Windows shell even if I wanted to, because I like explorer as is. :p
One thing I wish Microsoft would just fix though is the taskbar glitch in Windows 7/Windows 8 where sometimes when you hover over an icon, it stays highlighted. It's annoying enough having to either restart explorer.exe to fix it, or to hold down shift and right click to fix it. |
I do remember running into this glitch before, but it wasn't very common, though; I'd encounter it only once in a blue moon. xD" Personally, I haven't found it to be that troublesome. It was sort of annoying, but I would simply ignore it and keep doing my own thing.
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Speaking of shells and glitches, I personally find the Ubuntu shell to be less reliable than either the Windows or OSX shells. (Ah, strange behaviour...)
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It sounds like you should get rid of it if something like that is going to crash your computer.
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Sometimes, I do suspect that what works best with a given computer is what the computer came with ;)
I noticed that restricting background data usage with Data Sense in a Windows Phone 8 phone pretty much makes the phone use mobile data connections only when necessary (e.g. web browsing). Any activity involving background data usage, like push email, are stopped; location services do it the slow, non-assisted way that also doesn't use any data. |
Hmm, I wonder what's draining my tablet battery down so quickly, even if I'm not using it.. it went down to 83% at 10am this morning after being unplugged since 6am but it's had no use on it whatsoever.
Would slipping it into airplane mode only until I need to use it help? |
Maybe background tasks? You're probably on top of that but leaving apps open in the background might drain it. Airplane mode would probably help because it turns off certain features (mainly wireless etc).
If you're going to do anything you may as well just turn it off when you're not using it unless you have a reason to keep it on. But 17% for 4 hours of idle doesn't sound too crazy, might just be a few small things like it loading notifications while it's not being used (twitter, emails etc). |
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Airplane mode helps, as does closing apps before idling, though the latter shouldn't do too much if the apps are well-behaved. (Also, if you are running some sort of task killer/optimizer/anti-malware solution and aren't sideloading from untrustworthy sources, feel free to uninstall them all. You shouldn't need any of them on a modern Android tablet.) |
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Here's what I found about my tablet's battery usage, and fully charged. Apparently it is normal for the battery to drain down like that, with only a 16-hour battery life.
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Unless the OS is being vague about what it handles, a restart didn't change the values. I'll attach more screenshots below.
Also, my tablet had an uptime of 647 hours, which is roughly 27 days. I've reset that though :P |
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I do expect anything that was hogging up resources to be cleared away when the system is shut down, though. |
Weird, then. Because there is no official "reboot" on my tablet, it's either start up or shut down. How long should I keep the tablet off then for it to clear away the resources?
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I'd personally recommend closer to a minute, but that's based on what I have to do with desktops, not tablets.
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I'm thinking what kind of laptop I should get this August, seeing as it's my birthday. I'm also wondering whether I should get rod of the Surface if I get a touchscreen ultraportable laptop. Hmm...
I suspect that by then the next generation of Intel processors would be out. The new Intel processors and a 8xx series mobile GeForce GPU would make things real peachy. |
Well I done did messed up.. I'm starting to theme windows, made a windows 8 like desktop, then download a windows 8 theme, all was good. Decided to do a mac theme next, it was a installer, had a feeling it was bad idea. Well I stopped it, unistalled it, and now my taskbar is gone, windows button dosent work, and desktop icons are gone, widgets and wallpaper are still there, but its not even right-clickable. URGENT. I could restart it, and see if that works. but it was in middle of a scan, sigh.
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Run Explorer from there. It should bring the desktop back. (I suspect the installer killed the Explorer process without restarting it.) (Let's hope nothing changed with regard to running applications from Task Manager in Windows 8.) |
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Yeah I unistalled everything, I think, I'll go through again later and a power clean (maybe, that messed me up a bit last time).
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And twiggy, isn't Surface pretty much a laptop anyways? (if you got the pro version). |
The Surface Pro does run Windows 8 instead of Windows RT, but I guess it's just his preference :P In other words, the Surface Pro is pretty much a tablet that runs Windows 8 that can be converted into a laptop with the extra keyboard accessory.
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Just remember to not run Explorer from an elevated Task Manager, or everything launched by the newly-instated Explorer will run elevated. ;)
The RT Surface variants are more tablets than laptops, even when you account for the keyboard covers. Still, one can get quite a lot done in the desktop with just Microsoft Office, OneNote (I'm now counting it as a separate app), and Internet Explorer, as well as various Windows apps that come with any Windows installation. Things should be quite better in Windows 8.1 Update 1, too, seeing as Modern UI... er, Windows Store apps will gain some usability enhancements while using a PC like a desktop or laptop. |
I will say, I noticed that Microsoft ditched the UAC requirement to run Windows apps from the start menu. Back when Windows 8.1 first went into a release preview I downloaded it, installed it to a spare computer, and disabled UAC only to find that the apps (such as the weather app) wouldn't work without UAC enabled. But now that I have an actual Windows 8.1 laptop, I disabled UAC and the weather app still works.
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Need some advice, I'm planning on buying a new Laptop and I'm quite set on getting an Apple Mac. I know the price tag for these things are very steep but I assume that's for the sole reason is because the performance is outstanding, does anybody own a Mac Book that would recommend buying one? My prioritized use would be for gaming, and there is another reasonably similar priced Laptop that is more tailored to gaming specifically which is this one. Any recommendations from personal experience with either Laptops? I wouldn't be too bothered but with such a high price tag I wanna make sure I'm getting the most out of my money. ;3
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Stick with Windows laptops - you'll save a lot in terms of both hardware and OS prices. (Games are still Windows territory.) Many laptop manufacturers make gaming laptops and/or high-performance multimedia laptops. (Take Toshiba, for example - a Satellite P-series (high-performance standard multimedia) or a Qosmio (gaming) would do for them. Most other manufacturers have similar line-ups.) What settings do you intend to target (in terms of quality and resolution)? What will you be playing? I would strongly suggest that you look at laptops from at least three brands. Do you want to factor in portability? Keep in mind of this: price, graphics performance, portability. Pick two. |
Hardware-wise, the Lenovo IdeaPad you're looking at is dramatically better than the MacBook Pro, just looking at raw specs. Even with BootCamp, the IdeaPad is probably going to be dramatically more cost-effective for gaming power. You get 8GB right out of the box with the IdeaPad you're looking at for $1200 USD, while you have to pay $1500 to get up to that amount with a dramatically smaller display and still only have 1/4 the storage space of the Lenovo (granted, the cheapest MBP with 8GB of RAM is using an SSD). It's also worth nothing that a Windows install itself takes up between 20 GB and 40 GB of hard drive space, so you won't have much space for anything at all on the cheapest MBP option if you have both OSes installed.
Here's the US Lenovo page for a comparison of the options for each potential option of the Y510P out of the box: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/y-series/y510p/ Here's the US Apple page for the MBP for the comparison of each specs available: http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/ Some other questions that may influence my recommendation: Are you a Mac user or a Windows user? Would you be comfortable learning Windows 8 on the fly? Do you mind a 13 inch display? Is a 15 inch too big of a display (most laptops of the past decade have used 15 inch displays, for reference)? Displays are measured by the diagonal distance between opposite corners if you need some means of getting perspective on how big the displays will be. Also, like Twiggy said, look at more than just Lenovo and Apple if this is going to be your primary gaming rig. |
Also, I think it would be wise to remind that almost every Intel CPU (aside from CPUs based on Bay Trail, but I'm sure you're not looking at below Core i5 series, right?) out there is fast enough for anything but Company of Heroes 2 (ULV processors cry at that). (If you're looking for gaming laptops, make that fast enough for anything, period.)
The more important part is the GPU - you want as much GPU as possible, but don't neglect the existence of an integrated Intel GPU, too - you want to have Optimus, if only to prevent the battery from behaving more like a glorified UPS that can't protect against unstable AC power supply. If you intend to game, it'd be also wise to have at least one HDD in the laptop you're going to buy. Games take up a lot of space, and some tiny SSDs might leave you up and cold if you factor in Windows, system files, and common applications. (If I were you, I'd set things up so that any discrete SSD that's less than 120 GB large is configured as a cache. You won't have to shuffle items if need be.) There are also certain things that you can't check by looking at the specifications - display brightness, display colour temperature (not as important, as it's easily fixed in software), display colour gamut, keyboard feel, touchpad feel, speaker quality, and noise. I would suggest that you demo a laptop if you're able to. |
I didn't demo my laptop when I got it, but luckily for the price I got it for, it has good speakers and a decent built-in microphone, unlike my previous laptop, which had a confirmed hardware flaw with its built-in microphone, and it was acknowledged by HP as well.
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As far as laptops go, MacBooks may not have the raw specs of some other companies but the build, battery life and portability is why they're definitely some of the best going around even if they're slightly overpriced. I've got one of the new MacBook Pros as a support device for my PC and I couldn't be happier with it. Windows Laptops generally have better specs, but in my experience they aren't as finetuned as Apple's portable devices are, but great nonetheless. But if you're going to look at any, make sure to check out ASUS, Dell and Acer as well. Is there a reason you want a laptop? In all honesty if you're going to use it primarily for gaming, I would just go straight for a custom PC build and easily save yourself anywhere between 500-1000 dollars. Where if you're hell bent on a Laptop, like others have said it's best you get a hands on feel with something first, pictures online can be deceiving. |
If he's going to be gaming, though, the cheapest MacBook's SSD simply will not cut it in terms of disk capacity, like I said before. Heck, you'd be cutting it close on space with anything less than 500 GB of space. I remember basically filling up 160 GB of data with games and game mods even back in 2007, and that was on a Windows XP build!
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Depends a lot on what games and how many games. My PC hasn't even been filled with 500GB of files, it is a lot of space. But if he is buying a lot of next gen games over a few he will be playing a lot (such as strategy or mmo's etc) then 500GB might get filled up. And a good MacBook will set you back a lot if you go the SSD route.
But at the same time I would definitely go for a PC build over a laptop for gaming unless a laptop is for some reason a necessity. |
I'll just say that having an SSD and nothing else is asking for trouble if you're a gamer ;)
One thing about gaming laptops - they might be expensive, but they're also significantly more mobile than a desktop that's tethered to an AC power outlet. |
I don't understand how. SSDs are much faster and generally more durable then a HDD, but a bit more expensive too haha.
Laptops do have the advantage of being mobile, but this comes at the cost of performance and functionality. If you're fine with gaming on a laptop props to you, but I honestly think you cannot get much of an experience out of one unless you aim for something high end. But at that stage you may as well invest in a PC. As great as my laptop is, I will almost never play any regular games on it, maybe some indies but not much more. But that's just me, I simply believe the performance you get for your money is much better put into a PC. |
I have to agree with Brane. If you want a gaming station, a custom built PC is the best option by far. If you really want a laptop, then buy a Windows laptop. Macbooks aren't very game friendly. They are great in many aspects and niches, but gaming is definitely not one of them.
I have a custom built PC and couldn't be happier with it. |
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Yes I know, but you guys get my drift anyway :P. That's where it depends on what games he is playing. Even though games can run up to 50GB, it depends on whether they will even be playing those games. I have still yet to download a game over 10GB honestly.
Well it all has to fit within the budget. You don't need to spend 4k on the latest ultimate gaming rig, just as much as you currently see fit. For 1.5k you can easily build a PC that will run modern games very well. But as I was saying before if they're buying it solely for gaming the same amount you would spend on a laptop will get you much lower performance than a PC. But yeah it all just comes down to budget and what you need. |
My recently-purchased Toshiba laptop isn't really meant for gaming (Intel i5 with 8GB DDR3 and mostly shared video memory), but with some lowered settings inside the games themselves, the games run flawless.
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Well it's really up to preference I guess, if you don't mind gaming on a laptop then all the better haha.
Does anyone have any wireless hard drives? I'm looking into getting one that is kind of like a cheap server I can use as a work hub. I've only really heard of the SeaGate and Apple Airport but the Apple won't be interchangeable with my Windows desktop. |
Games work in neither of my laptops, unfortunately. Regardless of what settings I have on them, they always seem to lag. Well, I guess some do work, actually, but not the ones I'd possibly be interested in. :(
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Wireless hard disk drives?
Do you mean network-attached storage? They can be accessed over the network. (I prefer directly-connected external HDDs, if only because they're very speedy, and can be accessed with standard backup utilities.) |
My high school utilized NAT for the non-default student accounts and staff accounts inside their domain. Teachers had to be wired up to the network to access and sync their files between computers, and same with individual student logins as well.
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NAS = network-attached storage, which I've just described.. Synching files between computers can be achieved using various methods, and may involve none of the above ;) |
Whoops, I fumbled on the terminology there XD
All I can remember is that one time, one of my teachers from high school logged into the presentation computer in the classroom (the one that's hooked up to the projector), and it wasn't connected to the network (because you had to run a wire across the floor). The teacher tried accessing their My Documents folder, but couldn't, so that's how I figured out that the teacher accounts used network attached storage. |
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Not having to use usb and drag and drop all my projects from laptop to drive, drive to pc, pc to drive etc etc is my main reason. But I don't think there are many on the market at the moment. But using an NAS would mean it's not as portable as I'd like (I have to travel a lot). Welp, you can't win them all. |
Did I ever tell y'all about my old laptop's battery going bad? Well I had to boot it up yesterday to retrieve a file off of it, and I watched it go from 12% to 100% lmao
I just hope that my new laptop's battery doesn't wind up like that soon |
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Sometimes I wish my phone had a notification for when it goes into battery saver mode, that way I'd at least know to charge it.
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Oh, it does then? I've had it die on me without a notification in the past, but maybe because I just had it on vibrate only at the same time. Other than that, I think I saw it sitting at 20% last night when I caught it in Battery Saver mode. I don't charge it every night just to exercise the battery.
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Thing is, you probably shouldn't worry about exercising the battery during normal use for a modern lithium-ion battery. Just use it without worrying too much about its state. Your battery and your sanity will thank you for it.
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Speaking of phone batteries, sometimes, mine would just randomly overheat itself and lose charge completely. Used to think that Skype was the cause of it, but I no longer have it installed on my phone, though, and the issue keeps popping up again every once in a while. :( Should probably consider getting this battery replaced.
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That reminds me, but somehow my mother's PS4's battery also seems to have expanded past its contraption and doesn't fit into the console anymore :p she's looking to replace it sometime in the future though.
Onto another topic, though: does anyone have any LCD devices with dead pixels? My mother's Nintendo DS (that I am currently borrowing for the GBA part of it) has several dead pixels. |
If I recall correctly, my GBA SP have around 3 black pixels in the screen, but I haven't used it as much nowadays.
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None of the devices I currently on have any dead pixels.
I think I probably should get the laptop serviced anyway once I get back. The rubber sealing around the screen bezel edge and the top lid edge managed to come off. |
Ugh, found out this morning that my iHome no longer wishes to charge either of my iPods -.- it will still time-sync between the devices and play music off of them, just not charge them
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Tried rebooting all involved devices? |
For one, it's happening on all of my iPods, and my parents' iPhone 4s (not 4Ss) as well, so I doubt it's the devices. It has to be the dock jack, I'm sure.
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Malwarebytes V2 has officially been released sporting a new UI, and a few other features. In-app update will be released next week, or you can download the installer and install it on top of your current installtion(it's new path gets rid of the ' from the previous folder, and it will move all the settings over to the new folder, and remove the old folder).
Something else to note; it's now a subscription module, but previous users who have the lifetime license will get to keep their lifetime. |
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I like how my Samsung Galaxy Reverb (SPH-M950) is oddly resilient with those sorts of things. My father, being an overall lunatic, stomped on it with his boot and it almost stopped holding a charge (not to mention a huge crack in the screen), but it's been fine as of recent. And the screen's not got one of those cutting cracks, so it's safe to roll over with your finger. ;) |
Apple makes durable laptops. I once accidentally sat on a classmate's MacBook Air while sitting on a chair because everyone forgot about the laptop in a group outing.
Phones, not so much. :3 |
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