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colours June 8th, 2019 11:31 AM

I'm no artist but I got this laptop mainly for taking notes in school. It costs a pretty penny but unfortunately I felt like it was the only one around that could fit my expectations of what I wanted in a note-taking laptop at the time. I refused to type up my notes and would rather use a tablet pen to write them myself, so I had to settle for this. I don't regret it though.

Tsutarja June 10th, 2019 5:50 AM

I want a Surface laptop so badly just so I can actually use it to write perfectly.

Taemin June 10th, 2019 8:12 AM

I've been craving an iPad just for art reasons tbh.

I have a tablet for my PC, but it old.

Tsutarja June 11th, 2019 4:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Green (Post 10030862)
I've been craving an iPad just for art reasons tbh.

I have a tablet for my PC, but it old.

I guess newer art tablets these days have higher precision and faster performance? I'm not an artist so I wouldn't know :p

Taemin June 11th, 2019 6:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10031237)
I guess newer art tablets these days have higher precision and faster performance? I'm not an artist so I wouldn't know :p

Well the newer verisons have a screen on them, with mine you draw on the tablet but it shows up on the comp screen, so you have to learn to draw while not watching your hand. LOL

But it also starts wearing out, like the tablet and/or pen won't register properly and you have to toggle it for 30 minutes until you either give up, or can draw afterwords.

Also, sometimes the pen sensitivity dies.

colours June 11th, 2019 7:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10030827)
I want a Surface laptop so badly just so I can actually use it to write perfectly.

A Surface Laptop or a Surface Pro? I don't know if you can write well on the Surface Laptop since the screen can't bend very far. As far as their Surface Pro line goes, hopefully their next iteration would include USB-C because for whatever reason in this day and age Microsoft hasn't included that yet. ._.

Tsutarja June 11th, 2019 7:54 AM

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Originally Posted by colours (Post 10031310)
A Surface Laptop or a Surface Pro? I don't know if you can write well on the Surface Laptop since the screen can't bend very far. As far as their Surface Pro line goes, hopefully their next iteration would include USB-C because for whatever reason in this day and age Microsoft hasn't included that yet. ._.

I would honestly love to have a Surface Book if I had the money.

colours June 11th, 2019 7:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10031314)
I would honestly love to have a Surface Book if I had the money.

The Surface Book 2 is amazing and if this was like... 2018 I'd be recommending it to everyone and their neighbour if they could spare the cash. But in mid-2019, it's probably smarter to wait until the Surface Book 3, whenever it becomes a thing.

But I cannot express enough how much I appreciate the screen detaching function, haha.

Flowerchild June 11th, 2019 9:50 AM

i can't stand surfaces. the keyboards are just about the worst things ever

colours June 11th, 2019 9:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainbow (Post 10031356)
i can't stand surfaces. the keyboards are just about the worst things ever

excuse me?? idk about the keyboards on the pros/laptop but the surface book keyboards are hella comfortable. don't knock it until you try it; a comfortable typing experience is partially why I even got this thing.

Flowerchild June 11th, 2019 9:56 AM

i've tried it, a whole bunch. not a fan at all.
to each their own tho

colours June 11th, 2019 10:00 AM

fair enough. I can get not being on the surface pro train and typing on that but I wouldn't group the surface book line in that at all. even reputable tech reviewers (even though it's their own opinion on the matter, but I do take laptop reviews seriously) agree that the surface book typing experience is pretty good and comfortable

essentially, you get what you pay for in a surface product

Sami June 13th, 2019 1:00 AM

all i need is my old laptop which screen is completely messed up

but then again I dont need a laptop anymore

Tsutarja June 14th, 2019 5:03 AM

I have a laptop that does the job for the most part but I really wish it could game :<

Sami June 14th, 2019 5:34 AM

That's the downside with laptops, to be able to do that decently you need to shell out way more cash than with a desktop unfortunately.

I think id have to waste twice as much cash to get the same performance my desktop delivers

blue June 15th, 2019 12:53 PM

i've had windows laptops in the past but they've gone faulty or broken within a couple of years which always put me off. my desktop i've had since 2012 and it honestly runs just as smoothly as it did years ago. i've always preferred the reliability of desktops over laptops. the most reliable laptop i've purchased (and still currently have) is my macbook air which i got back in 2014 and that still works well 5 years on.

colours June 15th, 2019 1:01 PM

I should... actually try a Macbook and see what those are like. .__. I've always been on Windows laptops and they've been fine for me for the most part. Never really had a whole lot of issue with them.

But I'm willing to try something new when it comes to tech so I hope to experience what a Macbook is like in the future. :o

Sami June 15th, 2019 2:51 PM

I had a classmate who had a macbook and he could do so little with it in the course we had it was hilarious how many workarounds he had to use to do common things for said course.

blue June 15th, 2019 3:02 PM

yeah, there are a lot of things that you can't do with a mac that you can do with a windows laptop (i found out the hard way lmao). going from windows to mac takes a while to adjust though. even now i still sometimes get confused by the differences, but i have found it to easily be the most reliable laptop.

Megan June 24th, 2019 4:24 AM

My impression on Macs tends to be "shell out a lot of money for hardware and then shell out even more for the software". I've heard the majority of people who use one of those are either businessmen or artists, people who also spend a lot of money on expensive software.

I'll take any machine that is able to run Linux. If it has WIndows (which it probably has) then it gets replaced with my own setup. I'm currently on somewhat of a minimalist setup where I've gotten rid of a lot of software in favor of command line and shell scripts (most of which are assigned to some sort of keyboard shortcut).

That's something that bugs me about Windows in particular: most keyboard shortcuts are already in use and cannot be reassigned without major effort.

Tsutarja June 24th, 2019 5:45 AM

Minimalism is great if you know what you are doing. Unfortunately, a majority of end-users would be lost when it comes to solely using a command-line interface.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, I set up a FreePBX server and a SIP phone! I acquired a used Cisco 7941 IP phone that was sitting in the lab where I work, and learned a lot in the past three days about how SIP phones and IP phones in general work. It has paging and hold music.

Cid June 24th, 2019 5:57 AM

I wish I was technologically savvy enough to understand your second paragraph. :<

But yeah, re: minimalism, I appreciate the training I had to go through for my major, requiring familiarity with command line to more efficiently access Fortran modelling programs. Thanks to said training, when things are a bit minimalist, I wouldn't be too lost. Although I do prefer it when software developers make things easier for the end-user. It takes a lot of love to try to make things digestible by people like me.

Tsutarja June 24th, 2019 6:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Cid (Post 10036224)
I wish I was technologically savvy enough to understand your second paragraph. :<

It can be difficult to describe in Layman's terms, so I'll let this webpage do the talking on SIP phones:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/sip-phones/

And then PBXs:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/pbx-phone-system/

Pretty much any office or business that's not a small business would have a PBX system installed.

Sami June 24th, 2019 7:51 AM

So, a provider here in the Netherlands is having issues and even the national alarm number is affected by it and is offline at the moment.

Some 4G issue it appears to be

Circuit July 15th, 2019 3:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10036251)
It can be difficult to describe in Layman's terms, so I'll let this webpage do the talking on SIP phones:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/sip-phones/

And then PBXs:
https://www.3cx.com/pbx/pbx-phone-system/

Pretty much any office or business that's not a small business would have a PBX system installed.

My company (a hotel) is a good example of PBXs in use. Well both that and SIPs actually, but the main way to show them in use is that we have a bunch of phones each accessible over our Internet network, yet still also reachable from outside networks, being very personalised for the needs of the user of said phone network. Main an example of PBXs there but still something I'd very much like to set up amongst my roommates should they have need and/or use for a fixed telephone system which is unlikely. More it's something I'd love to try out but it's just not really feasible which is a shame.


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