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Shining Raichu

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I'm just sitting here wondering why on Earth people pay out the ass for iPhones when I have a $120 Samsung Galaxy Reverb that's done everything I need it to for two and a half years
For the same reason I didn't spend $2500 on a MacBook to call it a laptop.
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Alexander Nicholi

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For the same reason I didn't spend $2500 on a MacBook to call it a laptop.
Huh? o_O


I do need a phone, that's for sure. A long time ago I vowed to myself that I'd never voluntarily purchase or use an Apple product for my own sake. God help me when I have to fix other people's iCraps.

José came over yesterday to tell me about the orders he has for me, and thinking about the different professions of ours (his friends car mechanics, him house technician, me computer repairman), I started to notice a lot of stark similarities between PCs and cars.

If I were dealing in cars I'd be a mechanic without a lot of money, saving back for a sports car, then. I'd have a field day with the man from Mars lol
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I'm contempt with my Nokia Lumia 520...although I wish I had a smartphone sooner than 2013 at times.

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Apple sucks. Samsung's a bit of a de facto. Other brands are negligible. That's my take on it


With computers I like Toshiba and Lenovo for laptops since you can't really build them, and desktops are all custom with a plethora of brand preferences with the parts.
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Apple sucks. Samsung's a bit of a de facto. Other brands are negligible. That's my take on it


With computers I like Toshiba and Lenovo for laptops since you can't really build them, and desktops are all custom with a plethora of brand preferences with the parts.
Do you have any recommendations for gaming laptops that can run Steam very well?
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Ringabel, you could always look into Alienware lol

At my job we sell this Alienware Alpha that's nearly $600, more pricey than the Xbox One, PS4 & Wii U. My local Walmart sells this Alienware Laptop for over $1,000 haha.
Nice! Could it be used for college antics as well? Or is it more known for its gaming characteristics?

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I honestly don't know much about the Alienware gaming laptop, but I would think it's more for gaming than college antics. I would just get a simple chromebook/notebook laptop for that. Heck, my laptop would be prefect since it can handle Steam and do your schoolwork on it. I have the HP Pavilion 17-e119wm Notebook PC with the AMD A10 Quadcore Processor with 8GB RAM system memory and 1 TB hard drive. If you want to look that up lol. It cost me $600 in USA currency but it's well worth it for someone like me! <3

Alexander Nicholi

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Do you have any recommendations for gaming laptops that can run Steam very well?
Eh... I only really know about workstation laptops and the like... sorry but I don't really frequent laptop shopping enough to give you an answer for that. A lot of folks on LTT will tell you Alienware is a rip-off, and looking into it they're kind of right.


By the way, big newsflash here: Don't ever buy from Wal-Mart if you're not getting something disposable. This is especially apparent with electronics – Wal-Mart contracts with manufacturers to buy more cheaply-made products with shorter warranties so they can make more in markup. They're literally buying lower-quality products and selling them under the same names as what you'd buy elsewhere. Do not buy!
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Alienware, ugh, I think they are ugly 8)

I love my ASUS whatever the model was called again... Some kind of Republic of Gamers one. G550JK? I think.
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This laptop of mine is certified crap. This ASUS D550M can (thankfully) handle Minecraft at lowest settings and give me between 10 and 20 FPS.

Fixing PCs for cash will hopefully let me shore up enough money to put together a build. I have my case sitting right here, it's gorgeous. Cougar makes lovely cases :3
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What's a mechanical keyboard?
A typewriter

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Alexander Nicholi

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I've always found "gaming" targeted merchandise to be superfluous to a degree. I want performance-oriented, please - I don't just game. Unfortunately those very peformance-oriented things have been labelled as "gaming" products like they're the only PC user markets in existence and there aren't plethoras of developers and other users who would like the most out of their PC and not some shoddy Chinese flim-flam

When you're gaming, programming, web browsing, and running background apps all together you're going to want some nice hardware.
I'm actually both gaming and working with code right now. It's not source code, but it's definitely not a Word document, either. I'd appreciate a nice PC for that.
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What's a mechanical keyboard?
I would give you a video, but I'm on my phone :(

Basically, it's a gaming keyboard where the keys out less impact on your fingers and make a nice clicking sound when pressed. They're super nice, but some find them annoying. I love the sound, though.

I've always found "gaming" targeted merchandise to be superfluous to a degree. I want performance-oriented, please - I don't just game. Unfortunately those very peformance-oriented things have been labelled as "gaming" products like they're the only PC user markets in existence and there aren't plethoras of developers and other users who would like the most out of their PC and not some shoddy Chinese flim-flam

When you're gaming, programming, web browsing, and running background apps all together you're going to want some nice hardware.
Except the main difference between a gaming computer and regular one is pretty much just a great graphics card along with a few other things. Just because it's labeled a "gaming" computer, doesn't mean. It won't run a web browser or Microsoft Word just as well as any other, lol.

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Except the main difference between a gaming computer and regular one is pretty much just a great graphics card along with a few other things. Just because it's labeled a "gaming" computer, doesn't mean. It won't run a web browser or Microsoft Word just as well as any other, lol.
for those of us who are serious enough about PCs to build them custom (it's not hard, really like Legos with an antistatic wriststrap), prebuilt PCs aren't a concern. I'm referring to the keyboards, mice, monitors, cases, coolers, all of that stuff.

As for what you're talking about, so often a pre-built gaming PC has a joke of a GPU, too. Like, GT series Nvidia cards, and AMD HD 7000-series. You'd be ages wiser to take a few extra hours to build it lol


EDIT: Here, watch this. Linus explains it all for you, with all the major pros and cons of each route you can take.
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Alexander Nicholi

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I mean, as a coder, do you need six buttons on the side of your mouse? Seems that's catered to gamers specifically.
Most definitely. You can map keyboard macros to those to streamline repetitive edit operations that'd be too complex for a Find and Replace operation or when you don't have F&R available to use
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I was unaware we were even talking about building PCs :P

I have buttons on the side of my mouse, one of which is a back button, and another is F5. Haven't bothered customizing it beyond that, other than "undo" in a couple editing programs, and random controls in games.

Alexander Nicholi

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I was unaware we were even talking about building PCs :P
My presumption stemmed from the thought that it plays a significant part in PC usage, especially in the higher rungs such as with gaming or rendering. I thought it'd be a given as a consideration d:
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Ice

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Most definitely. You can map keyboard macros to those to streamline repetitive edit operations that'd be too complex for a Find and Replace operation or when you don't have F&R available to use
Yeah, but marketing it that way would just be stupid, as gamers are a way bigger audience than coders. Marketing-wise it's way smarter to cater to gamers.