Chit-Chat Daily Chit-Chat: What even is this? Page 10

Started by Tsutarja June 5th, 2016 8:51 PM
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Legendary Silke

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A part of me wants to buy a new 2-in-1 laptop/tablet and be done with it. Another part of me wants me to wait for a bit more just in case any new announcements happen.

The thing is, these 2-in-1s seem perfect as it is... I'm hard-pressed to see anything Kaby Lake could provide significantly better than what is already on Skylake CPUs.

It's nice to be able to want things... sometimes I think the 2-in-1 models need a refresh badly. It's like for some reason it's lagging.

Tsutarja

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Phew, after two hours of working on my site, I have my fingers crossed that I optimized the psyduck out of it, and hope that it doesn't crash.

A part of me wants to buy a new 2-in-1 laptop/tablet and be done with it. Another part of me wants me to wait for a bit more just in case any new announcements happen.

The thing is, these 2-in-1s seem perfect as it is... I'm hard-pressed to see anything Kaby Lake could provide significantly better than what is already on Skylake CPUs.

It's nice to be able to want things... sometimes I think the 2-in-1 models need a refresh badly. It's like for some reason it's lagging.
Is there task in particular you think you could accomplish with a 2-in-1 that you wouldn't be able to with a normal laptop?

Legendary Silke

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Phew, after two hours of working on my site, I have my fingers crossed that I optimized the **** out of it, and hope that it doesn't crash.

Is there task in particular you think you could accomplish with a 2-in-1 that you wouldn't be able to with a normal laptop?
Downsizing the amount of mobile things I have?

The first-generation Surface RT is slow as molasses when visiting many web sites now.

The gaming laptop I have, I rarely use it ever since I've gotten this desktop, and I don't really bring it out as much as I could due to its size and weight.

Since I'm no longer having graphics power as a priority, a 2-in-1 running a Core m3 or i5 seems like the best fit now. It'd be smaller and lighter than a "normal" laptop, and I also can get rid of my tablet which is rapidly becoming dead weight due to lack of performance. Moving from tablet guts to laptop guts should also make it a lot less likely to be obsoleted, given that people can still do fine with a decade-old system today.

In fact, if I could, I'd have already bought the Acer Switch Alpha 12. Think Surface Pro 3's everything, make it cheap, make it include the keyboard and stylus in the first place, and make it fan-less (despite running a 15W processor). I don't mind having a slightly less sharp (though still very high-resolution, given that it's still 2160x1440) display, or having 5 hours of battery life to 7, compared to the current-gen Surface Pro 4.

The thing is, neither Acer nor Microsoft have gotten around to refreshing their Surface (clones) with Kaby Lake CPUs yet. Would be nice if I got myself a few hundred extra hertz and video chip.

Tsutarja

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It's pretty hard trying to resist the urge of upgrading your desktop given all the hot new products that are just now coming out...
Mine is only two months old and I already want to upgrade the GPU...

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Lemme guess, the 1080 Ti is turning out to be irresistible...
You know it is!

Tsutarja

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I just wanted to remind anybody who may not be on Discord yet that we do have a channel on PC's Discord Server, known as #techtalk! So feel free to come chat with us if you want to. :)

https://discord.gg/ynhx2TU

Tsutarja

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So effective for April, my monthly high-speed data allotment goes up from 3 GB to 6 GB!

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/r/windows10 this year's april fools: http://imgur.com/GOniKgU
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Tsutarja

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/r/windows10 this year's april fools: http://imgur.com/GOniKgU
Maybe S&T will have a thread as well for you guys on AFD. Stay tuned! ;)

Legendary Silke

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Being tempted to upgrading to new computer hardware is definitely a thing... been thinking of getting my CPU swapped out for an i7-4790K, or even just change the motherboard and RAM to support either a 7700K or the R7 1700. Hmm...

Tsutarja

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Being tempted to upgrading to new computer hardware is definitely a thing... been thinking of getting my CPU swapped out for an i7-4790K, or even just change the motherboard and RAM to support either a 7700K or the R7 1700. Hmm...
Any updates on if you want to upgrade or not?

I really need a new Android device. It seems my Nexus 7 is getting slow these days, and my Moto G barely has enough storage.

Legendary Silke

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Any updates on if you want to upgrade or not?

I really need a new Android device. It seems my Nexus 7 is getting slow these days, and my Moto G barely has enough storage.
I think I probably won't really need updating in any form for the time being.

Perhaps one day I'll find an actual reason, but that day is not now.

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My Honor 7 Lite just updated today from EMUI 4.1.2 to 5.0. Holy hell, I have had everything from a Sony Ericsson to Sony, an LG and a Samsung, and I think this is the first time an android device has ran faster for me jumping up a generation in android versions on a previous year model, this is seriously impressive. Loving the pop up windows coming from the bottom, the rounded notification bubbles, and I also think the app drawer is pointless. The iOS style homescreen has grown on me, 4 simple folders and nothing else, its just so simple and minimalistic. Only thing annoying me is the recent app drawer, I want the carousel back, the stock cards are boring.

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I own an LG G4 and at first LG didn't even want to bring Nougat to this device.
They changed their mind after a "riot" on the XDA forums and honestly I don't blame them, how can you not bring Nougat on a device that's just 2 years old and that goes pretty strong still to this day?

The problem is that now that LG has been forced to make this update I'm afraid that they will come up with something rushed and not well optimized, I hope not.
Don't trust people too much, they might let you down.

Tsutarja

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So for those that have web servers utilizing PHP and MySQL/MariaDB, I really recommend installing phpMyAdmin if y'all don't have it yet. It's a great and easy way to maintain databases and database tables on your server that way you don't have to go through all that command line muk.

Tsutarja

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so uh...*peeks in*

hi!
hey, how are ya? :D

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Also doing a complete U-Turn here but man getting lost in YouTube watching science experiments is so goddamn cool........
Haha lol I can relate to that xD I don't even know when time just pass while I watch NASA Live feed of Earth from space :p We should watch it together sometime xD

Tsutarja

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Also doing a complete U-Turn here but man getting lost in YouTube watching science experiments is so goddamn cool........
I've done that before and it's pretty fun especially if you're bored and don't have anything to do.

Which experiments have you seen?

Tsutarja

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I always seem to end up at this:

That's a great one! And tbh, probably one of the easiest and most common ones to do.

Tsutarja

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So how do you guys feel about us starting up an Experiment of the Week topic?

Leviathan

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So how do you guys feel about us starting up an Experiment of the Week topic?
Sounds like fun!