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Started by Tsutarja August 10th, 2013 5:25 AM
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Legendary Silke

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

Aeroblast

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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?
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Tsutarja

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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

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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

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

Legendary Silke

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Legendary Silke

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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

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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.

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Tsutarja

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

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