And has been all morning! :/ It's had plenty of ups and downs through the years, but as far back as I can remember it's only been offline for short moments each time. Even with the grand redesign of 2012, I don't think it was down this long. Could this be the longest documented downtime in NG history?! Maybe if I post this it'll be back soon (because, you know, wouldn't that be typical)...
In the meantime, I guess I have some unexpected time on my hands!
UPD: Aaand it's back up! A few more updates since the ones above here.
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I must say its fuck me up. I muss Play!
Yeah, my routines are all out of whack too. :/ No deposits, no early morning P-Bot post, no skimming through the Wi/Ht or latest news, no quick medal game bout when I have a few seconds to spare... life's just not the same without! No doubt.
What a coincidence...S3C is down too.
S3C is always down right? :P
I'm always dtf...down to Fiesta that is. No but on the real tho my pc won't boot. I look forward to this new digital Era but bereave my past f*cked comps music programs and plug-ins that Ill probably won't be able to port over
Yeaaah, I'm always down to Festis! http://www.carlsbergsverige.se/PublishingImages/Festis2014.PNG
Sad to hear about the PC though. Both my current and my older computer eventually started getting boot problems, but it was the PSU in both cases. First one started taking longer and longer to boot, and eventually wouldn't start at all. The current one just died all of a sudden - but they were easy to replace. Hope it's not that HD for you? Files still OK?
The hard drive is seemingly unaffected knock on wood. I tried installing a major update, and what I think happened is it didn't complete leaving my registry f*cked.
Aha. Updates usually create restore points though... right? Hope there's an easy fix. :/
Windows restore used to be the answer to all my computers woes but I believe malware deleted all the restore points and the windows recovery application along with it WTF!
Startup Repair? Or Windows Recovery Disk? If nothing else works, I guess you could replace the HD, install a new OS, and then connect the HD via a docking station to recover your files (unless you have so frequent backups and don't need to)?
Thanks for the tips! Startup repair runs automatically but can't fix the problem. Windows recovery is my last resort as I think it uninstalls all the programs?
Hmm yeah, since System Restore points don't work for you, it seems like that's the only option with that. :/ Don't know if there are any third-party alternatives you could install to a flash drive, to maybe troubleshoot the boot...? If you do take out the HD and dock it btw, better do so in safe-mode (if that malware thing is still a thing).
Well that's the thing, I can't boot Windows at all, not even safeel mode. If I could just do that I would be in a much smaller predicament. Instead I just get a low resolution screen that looks similar to the login of a windows 95 OEM system. It gives me the option to run the aforementioned startup options, command prompt, from which I can load notepad and use the open/save option window as windows explorer for gransfering files but that's about it.Typed the last few messages on my phones...site looks great but typing on a screen is terribly inefficient. And autoxorrect is a pain in the @ss
I'm deciding on a laptop because I'm on the go a lot. Some good models, can't decide if I should fork out around 500$ more for .2 ghz of cpu and gpu speed, ssd, higher max resolution and a thunderbolt USB interface. It seems the general consensus that .2 ghz differences are negligble but this particular Asus model I'm looking at is particularly good for audio production. Compatability of older programs and hardware with this new specs is also a concern
Unfortunately all the new laptops i've seen come packaged with the haphazardly tested windows 10 that Shekelsoft is shoveling out despite the plethora of driver issues the OS is having. PS I'm suing bill Gates 100$ for each minute of company time he so rudely interrupts with forced updates.
Well I meant after a re-install on a fresh HD, when the computer boots again (assuming a re-install fixes the issue), you could boot in safe-mode and THEN dock the old HD to transfer the files easily, or run a virus scan, or both in opposite order if that's what messed it all up in the first place... yeah, phones are a royal pain to type on (wonder why pain is royal)! I'm glad I've got plenty of keyboards with withering keys (A, S, C, N, M and L seem to disappear the fastest). Which makes me wonder some more btw: wonder if you could plug in a regular keyboard straight into a cellphone hmm...
500$ MORE?! Man, how expensive ARE computers over there?! Just 500$ should be enough for anything awesome short of Apple. How much $$$ was the initial price you'd be adding to? Mmm old programs working on strange hardware, that's always a problem. My transition from Win XP to 7 (and entirely different hardware) went surprisingly well though, the only program I recall wouldn't run was DAEMON Tools, which at the time didn't support more than 32-bit. I found Virtual CloneDrive instead though, and that's been working perfectly ever since. I'm pretty sure there were at least a couple games too, though oddly enough I got them working again with my gaming computer a few years later... maybe you'd be allowed to test programs via a USB stick if it's a local shop?
lol yeah, most recently there was this thing about a professional streamer in a rage (live) over a Counter Strike session interrupted by them endless upgrades. If you still have a Win 7 CD, you could always downgrade though! And then try this: https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
Though I'm happy to hear automatic Windows 10 upgrades might be over soon. Hope their saying that isn't just one more attempt at luring in a few more weary souls...
Oic. If my registry is fresh installed tho i dont think the installed software would port over correctly.
An Asus zenbook, The one I'm looking at, is 1500$, and yes I know you could build a beast PC for that price. I wouldn't want to attempt to build a laptop from scratch tho. The Asus rog has about the same specs and cost 1000$. I guess what I'm paying for is the lighter weight, touchscreen and higher resolution. A similar MacBook pro would be 2300$.
Well yeah, you'd have to install most programs again if they're not portable. I usually see fresh installs as a nice chance to start from scratch when it comes to software - just re-install the essentials. You gather so many unnecessary programs with time. Them files be the real irreplaceable treasure, IMHO. I guess you might be more conservative with what stuff you install though? Or is legacy software that might be hard to find again the problem?
Ah, they do look nice, but that's a heavy price to pay for such a slim device. :O High resolution monitors aren't that expensive for stationary computers. No room for upgrades with a laptop either... but if you do have $$$ to spare, then why not! Touchscreen sounds like a useful feature on a laptop, the regular pads always make it pretty hard to use those things efficiently.
As for Apple, I did start out with their computers, but now that I pay for them myself wouldn't consider their products unless I'm buying them second hand. It's just too big a gap in product/price.
Btw, both Zenbook and ROG are apparently long lines of products - is it the newest one of each you're looking at?
The files aren't always entirely reusable with a clean re-install though, the presets aren't preserved, samples, project settings, etc. you can port it over but it's a pain in the @ss
So I bought the Zenbook...here is the particular model btw:
http://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-Pro-UX501VW/
and here is the ROG i was referring to:
http://store.asus.com/us/item/201510AM170008066/A18486
so i'm trying to price out the parts. I think the monitor is what drives up the cost the most, a 27" 4K IPS monitor runs around 200-300$, add touchscreen capabilities and drive the price up another Benjamin. granted, my laptop is 15.7" screen though so the manufacturing cost is probably ~50$ less?
the i7-6700 processor model costs 378$
i cant find an exact price on my GPU, though a similar (if not the same) one runs for 175$ on Newegg, which also includes the fan cooling system. Not sure if this would be implemented into the laptop design, or the laptop fans are used to cool the computer as a whole, not just dedicated to processing units.
my 512 GB SSD HD runs for 316.93$ on NewEgg
HD web cameras are as low as 30$! much less expensive than I thought
cant forget the RAM(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/eb/5d/90/eb5d9004f4610b65f4ba227cc96192d9.jpg )...16GB DDR4 costs about 60$
then there's the in-built speakers, which are decent for a laptop (my past laptops speakers where utter garbage...not far from a gameboy lol) but I cant find the price
I'm assuming a standard keyboard with a trackpad is around 20$
then there's all the specific I/O ports...three USB (one that is 3.0 & Thunderbolt), an S/D card reader, an HDMI port. who knows how to accurately price these. The laptop also has a sturdy aluminum shell. I think my previous laptop was 30% plastic lol
moving onto the software...Windows 10 professional...I think I have a stripped down version. prices vary from 80$-100$.
Then of course there is the manufacturing & assembly technology costs.
In the end, if you add all those parts up- an incomplete and rough pricing, it comes out to be approximately 1300$.
more on this later
Ah. Troublesome.
Trying to price out parts AFTER you bought it? XD Hmm, seems like they might base their pricing off of what the individual parts actually cost? Good call on their part, if that is how they do it. And interesting research.
It's bound to be much cheaper for them to buy in components than it is for a customer though. Usually the manufacturing price is but fraction of retail, but not that it makes a difference since we'd still get the products at customer price however we buy them. Just saying: they could probably drop the price if they wanted to.
I did a side-by-side comparison of the two btw, to see which one had something the other didn't. There seem to be multiple alternations even for the same model though, so maybe this isn't all accurate, but for the particular ones I compared, here goes...
ROG:
- Display port
- Bigger screen
- Better resolution
- Ethernet port
- DVD
- 2.1 audio (compared to stereo)
- 1 more slot for RAM
- Higher maximum RAM (32GB, compared to 24)
ZENBOOK:
- Thunderbolt
- 2 more USB3 ports (instead of USB2)
- 0,3kg lighter
- 2 hours longer battery time
Seems like... the cheaper one does have slightly better specs? The Zenbook in comparison a bit sleeker and lighter, conclusively: more modern.
well of course, otherwise ASUS wouldn't be able to make profit and continue their computer manufacturing business. Kinda strange...Intel has recommended customer prices on some of their processors, yet they aren't available to the market.
oh, nice. did you do that manually or is there some website you used that does a side by side comparison. Slightly better specs, and a little more hardware addons too. I would assume the CPU and fans make more noise (the Zenbook is barely audible. My friend has a ROG and he took out the DVD drive to give the system better ventilation. Aside from the touchscreen monitor, the price difference may be due to a prestige factor- like is the case with its source of influence: the MacBook Pro model (still 500$ less than a comparable Apple laptop though).
in my very limited use, I've actually really liked Windows 10 thus far. The OS is compact, looks to have toned down the bloatware, runs very smoothly, and looks amazing. The interface is clearly trying to emulate a mobile environment. My impressions are likely to fade with time, but I haven't had any driver issues just yet. I wish there was more direct control of Windows Explorer and the file system, but those features have been increasingly restrictive since Vista's release a decade ago.
The laptop boots in a matter of seconds O_O wtf. My previous laptop took about 5 minutes to boot, and by the end of its life 50% of the time I was met with a blue screen. The battery life is great, sessions of casual video watching, coding, and surfing the web can last 6+ hours without needing to charge. My previous rig, maybe 2-3 hours with a new battery (had two die on me -_-). Seriously, this machine has more efficient batteries than my smartphone, which is designed to preserve battery life over performance, not to mention is degrees smaller leading to less power dissipation.
The 4K resolution is beautiful, overwhelming even. It's now the best screen in my house. I normally have an affinity for bright text on dark backgrounds, but with this laptop, white backgrounds look especially good! It's almost as if I'm reading from a brand new textbook.
Unfortunately, some apps that weren't designed for 4K monitors have borderline unreadable text. I'm not sure if Windows 10 is to blame for not incorporating a proper scaling algorithm, or the problem is just due to the nature of higher resolution. Switching the resolution fixes the problem, but creates some fuzziness, and can be a minor inconvenience if I want to toggle back to the optimal resolutions.
Supposedly this machine is supposed to have an ideal interface for audio, and I haven't given it a thorough run through yet. That aside, the sound rendered through the laptop is a little disappointing. The speakers sound great, the sound is crisp, but the laptops inherently are not to be relied on if you want the full stereo and bass sound. What I can say is, the sound is LOUD. My own made music, which I found to be on the soft side (never really had an ear for the punchy, compressed sound that is customary for most modern music) is now turned down 20% at the preferences of my ear drums. A flash game I was playing the other day, had to be turned down 70%. While the sound quality is nice and crisp, it doesn't seem that the system is producing a flat response (and I don't have any custom EQ settings on)- which is a hindrance for mixing levels when making music. The treble seems to be boosted, and the overall sound lacks depth. Reverb effects are not as discernible. White noise from acoustic recordings are more easily audible, and lower-fidelity sounds stand out more as the lower quality sounds that they are.
The keyboard is comfortable; the size of the arrow keys is halved and the home/end/pg down/pg up down buttons are positioned differently from what I'm normally used too. There also is a superfluous number pad- I would have preferred to use this space to widen out the the arrow and vertically adjacent keys more and put the home/end/pg down/keys cascading down on the outside. On the other hand, the numpad may turn out to be useful for typing in the character codes for special Nordic characters...
The one area where my previous system has this laptop beat is the touchpad. I'm using the touchscreen as my mouse more often than I anticipated because the touchpad isn't all that intuitive. First off, the left and right click buttons take an unnecessarily high amount of pressure to press. There is no scroll wheel- scrolling is done by a certain finger motion, which is all too similar to the same motion for zooming in/zooming out. So often I'm changing the size of text when I'm intending to scroll through the page.Due to my difficulties with the touchpad, I'm going to have to put my FL Studio work on hold until I can locate my optical mouse. Although I've hardly used that program this year! Seems ASUS didn't put much effort into this utility as if they want to gradually phase out touchpads in favor for the tablet touchscreen operations.
Moving from a 2 core processor to a 4 core seemingly makes a huge difference. It's not a problem to have several windows open, 10+ tabs in Firefox. Much more resources. I actually watched a 1 long HD video on Youtube the other day with no audio crackling or lag. Haven't tried any CPU/GPU intensive games yet, just a few flash. I can run them on high settings now. They still move a little slow on the max settings, which I'll presume is more of a developer problem? Perhaps the Flash environment being pushed to its limits?? Overall, the internet experience as a whole is quicker and smoother.
There definitely is a $1000 difference from my previous f*cked up comp, which despite its many shortcomings got the job done in general. With that in mind, there are 500$ machines that I've used that are almost as good. If you're on a budget, the extra 1K is not worth it. The boundaries of this laptop are yet to be discovered, and hopefully the hardware components have a much longer life than my previous setup. Now I can actually play games that have been developed this decade (who knows how long this will last at a satisfactory level), pursue video editing, and code more efficiently in the more sophisticated IDEs.
Leftover recommended prices, for old products? Or are they not even out yet? Read about their new processor btw. Seems like a monster. :O With a price to match though.
There's a site I use (it's in Swedish though): http://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?j=3576402,3369768
Ah, alright, the sound level isn't one of the listed properties (the CPU seems to be the same, but I guess the case is a big factor there), nor the touchscreen, forgot about that part. Yupp, does seem like a prestiged price.
Mmm I've had some opportunity to try Windows 10 via work, and I just can't get used to the blocky interface and flat button design. Feels very square and unresponsive to me, though I do admit it works like a charm. Stable and speedy.
That's pretty fast! :O My computer boots in about 2 minutes currently. No SSD though. How long have you been using laptops btw? Have you ever had a stationary? Sounds good.
Good to know about 4k. You need to try some games with that too! :) My main reason for an upgrade would be that. Seeing the GTA V world in 4K for a K, that'd be pretty nice.
Thoughts on external speakers/studio monitors?
Hehe, would've been easier with a Nordic-style keyboard for those! ;)
Shame about the touchpad, though I've always had trouble with those no matter how good they are. Optical mice are just on a whole other level IMO. Much more space to maneuver in particular. No FL Studio this year?? What've you been making all your weekly tracks with thus far?
Yeah, some Flash games lag no matter how great a computer you have. The Bullet BIll game in particular is supposedly notorious for this. It's indeed a developer flaw, often when there are items on the canvas even outside your field of view, so the game is just generating way more overhead than it needs to. Donut Story 2 was another game I played recently that lagged so much for me I decided to let it rest. No quality toggle either, which is an even bigger developer flaw IMO. I get they like to modify the right-click menu, but I don't get why they'd ever choose to remove that particular option, unless they incorporate the same feature into their game some other way.
Glad to hear you're enjoying the new world. :) I've been upgrading computers every once in 7 years or so, never really jumping that far head, but staying somewhat up-to-date, but the one thing I haven't changed in over 15 years now is the screen. I'm starting to notice a growing gap between detail levels on the one I use and newer ones, text for example is just not as sharp and easy to read, even if you never notice any distinct fuzz. On the other hand, the colors are comfortably warm, and most modern screens don't seem to be tiltable, rotatable, sinkable and most of all: stable. At least not the cheap ones...
I don't think it was old discontinued products I was looking at, but Intel's embedded and mobile chips. Perhaps they are just not intended for sale to everyday consumer. Which one?? Was it from the Xeon line??
oh cool!! learned some Swedish too
using laptops on a consistent basis for about...9 years?? I got my previous one right before going to college and that was 2007 so...YEah I have had plenty of desktops. Never built one from scratch though yet (the right and cheaper way). Maybe in 8-10 years. I presume a smartphone-tablet hybrid will dominate laptops by then. Or if I get a job sooner that demands for a dual monitor interface.
GTA V is the first game I'm thinking about trying! It already looks amazing on the XBOX 360, from what I've seen. I'm hoping it'll run at atleast that level on this machine. Heard good things about OverWatch too.
Almost essential, equally if more important than headphones. Either way, headphones or speakers will give you the full range of sound that laptop speakers generally cannot offer. Headphones can give you a better spatial experience of the sound, while speakers more adequately deliver the physical feel of the bass end.
I could also modify the registry to make my keyboard function like a Nordic keyboard.
The music was recorded in Cool Edit Pro for the most part. If it's just guitars, there's no need to use FL.
the same monitor for 15 years wtf!! is it even flat screen?? well I guess I shouldn't talk...the main TV in my house is 20 years old...
May be it is so. Yupp, Broadwell-E: 22 cores, 3.6 GHz boost, multi-threading (up to 40), 55 MB L3 cache, etcetc... don't really know what all that implies, but it sounds powerful! Much more than the old. AMD only seem to be competing in terms of price with this one.
Cool. :) It's the site I use for pretty much everything when it comes to parts and prices, though sometimes have to check New Egg for missing specs, they don't have everything here.
Long time with laptops! I don't feel like I could work as quickly if I did everything via laptop, but I guess it's all a matter of a habit. Just like playing video games via TV now just feels weird. Yeah, tablets seem to be getting popular with good reason, though having keyboard and everything already plugged in is pretty practical if you don't want to spend time setting things up each time you use it, if you need to type, and stuff. The computer industry has seemed to be going for handheld devices so long, and they keep proclaiming that desktops won't last much longer, and yet the day never seems to come. I think they're underestimating the benefits of each different type, just like Windows are underestimating the value of control now that they're forcing people onto Win 10. They're going to get a real backlash with new users in the future, I believe, trying to force a change in the market like that. Well, anyway, laptops, tablets and desktops all have their own place and purpose IMO. A job from home with dual monitors? Were you studying right now?
Yeah, it still seems like one of the most visually appealing games out there! Might not be the most high-resolution anymore, but the game world is so detailed. Combination of detail + huge world is hard to beat. It runs pretty well even with lower specs too, loads surprisingly fast. I think I had a harder time running Max Payne 3 even though that one's a lot older. After the mistakes they made with the PC port of GTA IV it seems like they really put in work with this one, it plays great.
I agree. Though my speakers are far from studio quality, they sounds good enough. Thinking about buying some externals then? Or maybe you already have some good ones from the old laptop?
Then you could paint some extra characters on the keys for reference! :D
Good to know.
Haha yeah, it's a long time. :) It is a flat screen indeed, though pretty heavy compared to newer ones. Not that I mind ,I don't need to move it around, it's just the resolution/clarity that's starting to feel a bit out-of-date. Specs and stuff here: http://cyberd.org/my.html
So it was a Xeon model. similar specs as mine, just 18 less cores lol. It's used for servers though, not for desktop use. So obviously good for multithreading (running multiple tasks simultaneously) but not inherently good for running games. Arguably, the architecture is the most important. The GHz is the amount of instructions (think lines of code) that the processor can compute per second. Architecture refers to the type of code to execute data, as well as the size of the transistor, and arrangement of the all parts, I think. It's rather complicated. I know that the Broadwell architecture has state of the art 14 nm transistor processes. I think AMD's smallest transistors are 22 nm. Smaller transistors entails being able to pack more transistors per silicon within the integrated circuit, so the computer can perform more robustly and efficiently (smaller size entails less room for error and less power dissipation). Of course Intel is a multi-billion dollar company that's also utilized by Apple so they have the funds to master such technology, while AMD isn't as lucrative, and will always be a step behind Intel.
10 nm nodes are projected to be released next year.
the desktop-less day are yet to come, but we're getting closer lol. For example, I'm in class now with 20 people, I was the last person in the class (before I got my laptop) to be using the school's desktop to use the activities in class. Of course desktops are still useful for multiple monitor displays, and that they are overall more powerful than laptops for intensive tasks like gaming. But now laptops have quick extensions for HDMI feeds, and mobile chips are closely becoming more comparable with the top of line processors intended for desktops- there even are laptops now that are equipped with thermal cooling systems to adequately adjust the temperature for heated CPU demands.
Intel has lost billions of potential revenue and released their last CEO due to the decision not to focus on mobile processors.
Of course desktop will never go away completely. There will always be a use for stationary. Building PCs from scratch is the most cost effective option, and not exactly difficult. Within the next 5-10 years, I expect desktops at places of business to be replaced with laptop-tablet like computers that are embedded within tables. Just press a button and the screen flips out. The table can sport a touch interface that mimics a modern keyboard, and can even be customized to the users preference.
In conclusion, the future calls for smaller things, less hardware, and less power usage. That's why I expect desktop usage and related production to plummet by the end of this decade.
Well, Microsoft has to focus on maintaining Vista (I think updates for this system will stop soon?), 7, 8, CE, not too long ago XP, and the 32-bit, 64-bit, Home & Professional variants for each. Microsoft's intentions were that if they can streamline most to all users to use a single version they can better solve issues and provide a better computer experience for all. Like I said though, they pushed Windows 10 on users too soon.
I have been studying all my life -_-
A degree in biology is largely pre-professional, a decent start to becoming a doctor, dentist, or other medical practitioner. At the undergraduate level there isn't much available in terms of job prospects. You either further your education and teach/research. Not that I would be against that, but I'm trying my hand in CS now. Hopefully I can combine both traits, find a job in bioengineering, informatics, or the like, although that field is still in "sci-fi stages" and the job prospects are currently limited. If not, there is more availability in the CS market even if I'm up against a myriad of more experienced computer gurus looking to break into the field.
As long as I have a full-time job by 30 lol (2.5 years remains
) or at the very least graduate path to getting a career. It's kinda embarrassing at this point. I mean, there's plenty of people my age an older going to school- but they all have previous/current careers, are returning from the military, have kids and are looking to find more lucrative job offers that requires further education, etc.
well compared to GTASA, GTAV is leagues better in the graphics department. Still, I've heard that Rockstar games still have poor graphics compared to competitors. Even in GTASA, I was impressed by the overall level of detail of the environments, even if some of the structures weren't sharp or polished and the characters had a comical "blob" skeleton. well, fingers crossed that GTAV runs well on this rig. You think it would for 1.5K, but after all this isn't a dedicated gaming laptop and I'm not gonna get my hopes up. now to purchase an optical CD drive...
no plans on getting external speakers. which is kinda blasphemous for music production tbh.
Haha, minor differences. XD Mmm the article I read advocated its use for gaming in particular, maybe I'm mixing together similar models here.
Interesting. I always thought GHz refereed to the 'power' of it all, which... turns out is true as well (a unit of measurement for alternating current (AC) or electromagnetic (EM) wave frequencies equal to 1,000,000,000 Hz), though your definition applies to the clock speed of the CPU in particular. Yeah, AMD always seem to be a step behind, and as long as they're cheaper, I guess they always will be. Cheaper products = less funds, though I'd still opt for their product over Intel's just for that reason. Unless my finances weren't limited. Wouldn't mind a Broadwell-E then. :P
Nice.
So there IS a computer for everyone, yet everyone uses their own computer?? Strange days... well, they hand out free laptops to students in schools here in Sweden now (pre-University level) so I guess that's how it is everywhere... I'm pretty envious of my nephew. So far he's gotten a free iPad, and a free Chromebook, and some free software that'd cost a fortune for any normal law-abiding citizen...
As mobile devices keep getting smaller, so do desktops, though. The large cases seem to be left for those who feel like size = power, and of course also because parts are currently not all that small. Smaller parts are also more expensive, so it seems like similar to how mechanical drives live on for mass-storage, due to lower price, so do desktops. Also since they have room for optical devices, more connections, better cooling etcetc. The hardware is not so different though. As laptops become more energy-efficient, so do desktops.
I think work places where you are not confined to a specific area will become more common, and tablets/laptops more common as a result, yet the 'cheaper' work places will keep using regular workstations just like they do today.
The big benefits of portable devices are their portability, but for all other concerns, desktops offers much more control, with keyboards and mice that can be moved depending on the workplace, and with a monitor you can place at a comfortable distance, regardless of other connected devices. You just don't have the same ergonomics with a portable device. And one benefit that's growing with time: they're not so coveted by thieves any longer. ;)
Yeah, they probably realized that an OS as good as XP was dangerous, since so many users just refused to move onto newer products. I liked the ideal with 10, but the way they've dealt with the move it's like they believe they own your computer. But no, they don't, they just own the OS. A lot of users might not have a problem with letting Microsoft take care of all the maintenance, automatic upgrades, always up-to-date and safe, peace of mind, but there's a large portion of people out there who like to at least believe they're the ones in charge. IMO they pushed Window 10 onto users the wrong way. :/ Well, personally there's still the interface, which I just don't want to use, with all the previously mentioned stuff, excessive ribbons and what-not, but I guess there may be classic-ish themes to take care of that.
CS as in: Computer Science? Well good luck! I know how it is. I do have a job right now, but haven't really been furthering a career the past too-many years. A lot of studying without definite purpose. Took a bit too long to realize that - or at least to take a step away from it. My intention was to get a job as soon as I graduated, since I was bored of school already, yet I declined the first job offer I received right after graduation (at a call center - hourly wage, not provision-based, it would've probably been a good first step), and somehow ended up back in school again... but better not dwell in could-have's, so far it's all gone OK!
Yupp, it's on an insane level of looking good! GTA SA still has such a well-designed world IMO, not as difficult to navigate as the newer ones, though looking back the graphics are eh... a bit chunky. Hah, blob skeleton huh, I guess it did look that way. It did have it's advantages though. It was easy to see 'progress', when you started getting muscle tone, or growing fat, etc. More realism doesn't always make it better. Yeah, it better! :)
External CD drive I guess? I have one for floppies, wonder if I'll ever have any use for that...
Mmm seems they'd be useful, though I guess you'll be going with headphones instead?
Oh yeah, you're right! Eek's definitely supposed to be the one that looks like http://cyberd.org/img/4/Eek.png
How did that happen... will look into it in a moment.
Aaaand all in order I think! :)
I'm sure it's decent (at a minimum) for gaming, but does it have a dedicated GPU?? what does it clock at?? 22 is kinda overkill for a desktop...
cheaper products doesn't always correlate with less funds. McDonalds generates more revenue than fancy burger restaraunts, Walmart tops most if not at all retail chains, Ford is worth multi-billions more than Ferrari, etc. Intel has been around longer, and has made more connections with popular computer manufacture brand. I would hazard a guess that most computers in a workplace environment whether they be Apple or Microsoft based systems run on an Intel chip.
Intel has some cheap (less than 100$), reasonably powerful processors- the x7 line. I think their latest model in this series is a quad-core and utilizes the 14 nm technology. They were used in phones. Not as efficient as the Samsung/Qualcomm/iPhones nonetheless. The phones were semi-popular back in the Punjab, for a little while IIRC, although I think Intel has put some of their focus on smartphones on hold. The chips are also used in some lower-end laptops. Capturing the developing-world market with inexpensive laptops & smartphones is likely to be a wise decision for Intel in the long run. Thus Intel can merchandise their product to all economic classes. While Apple exclusively peddles to the upper class.
Other classes use them. The computers here have security measures which inhibits the ability to install hardware drivers necessary for this class...if you think that's bad immigrants get free Macbrook Pro, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTV, etc. while native Swedes just get a free t-shirt and a bicycle...that's multicultural enrichment for you lol
well you can always use a 2:1 laptop, so you can disconnect the keyboard with the monitor, and experience the same ergonomic benefits.
WTF! floppy disks stopped being used in the 90s...hmm I think I have Castle Wolfenstein lying around some where on one...
headphones are the only realistic choice in an environment that toggles between two extremes (noise and silence(sleep)).
Mmm seems like I might've been looking at the wrong model after all: http://www.pcgamer.com/broadwell-e-i7-6950x-performance-preview/
Confusing with all them reviews mentioning only product line names when models apparently differ so much. :/ Wouldn't additional cores simply increase performance though? Or is that only useful whilst running multiple tasks?
That's true, good point. All the computers at my work place do run Intel, and as far as I can recall all computers I've ever used at school did as well. They really have a bit of a monopoly going there.
Mmm with Apple's pricing there's still a pretty lucrative gray area between exclusive and budget too. I read that they dropped their Atom processors recently, which seemed to imply they'd focus less on mobile, but I guess they're just streamlining their operation there.
They get all that in the US?! They used to get some of that here (maybe just the iPad? Can't remember), but no longer! Good for them hmm...
You can't really position the screen the same way though, can you? Raise, tilt, etc.
Oh, that sounds like a rarity! Collectors item! I have Maniac Mansion on a series of floppies. Apart from that, just some old printer software, Windows 95, and old files. I ported most of my important stuff to regular drives a bunch of years ago though, and threw away a lot of surplus discs, just kept the official ones, and a few more for nostalgia. Would've liked to save 'em all, but ya know, living space is a luxury in limited surplus.
Right.
well, I'm just sitting on my @ss, being a pain in the @ss, by talking out of my @ss, but all the same...
in theory, yes, more processors means greater performance, if the software is optimized for multithreading purposes. Imagine you are trying to perform a sorting algorithm (which is a common method used in some benchmarking tests) through a database with billions of records that are poorly ordered. You have 1 core which sorts through the entire list. When it sees a record that starts with A, it passes it to the second core for sorting records starting with A, when it reads a record starting with B, it passes it to the third core for sorting, and so forth. So you have a dedicated core per letter or some divided alphanumeric range that runs simultaneously. A single core (assuming the specs of each individual core on the multi-core processor is equal to the single core) on the other hand would parse the the entire database putting records into separate partitions, and then have to sort each partition sequentially.
So google has thousands of servers that index very specific patterns and are able to generate search results unbelievably fast. Of course there hardware is highly specialized, and the hardware alone is just one essential component behind an immensely complex and proprietary digital process, but you get the idea. And seemingly, the realm of distributed computing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing) has been breached and the topic at hand is no longer about desktop computers. Do we want to use 22 single cored CPUs, or a single 22 cored CPU?
So, if in theory, more cores means more performance, why the f*ck don't we just plug 100 cores into our desktops??
-More hardware = more potential electrical problems & energy usage
-It's much harder to program. You have to adapt the base architecture language, and probably plan to parallelize broad sets of tasks. GPUs, can be considered to have hundreds of "pseudo-cores" but they work in conjunction for highly specialized tasks. In a CPU you can have an IM client, internet browser, audio player, word document, antivirus (misnomer) running in the background smoothly via multiple threads, a graphics card is dedicated to calculating vector operations to quickly render 3D visuals. And supposedly directly coding for the GPU is considerably more difficult than a CPU.
-The code is less portable. Many devices just use and perhaps only need a single core, many operations do not need to utilize more than a single core. If programs are aimed for a single core, they are overall more universally compatible. And therefore more profitable.
-Latency. There will be some delay when communicating between cores (or different threads for that matter). It's not uncommon to experience a higher frame rate for a game when it's using less threads to execute the engine opposed to more threads.
Let's not forget that a single core can execute billions of instructions per second, so while a non-multithreaded single core system cannot perform two tasks at once, it sure as hell seems like it does if there is only a nanosecond delay between!!
Back to my original point, which may be null now, but nonetheless- a server doesn't necessarily have to worry about multi-dimensional complex physics & AI computations to update the next frame. The tasks may be relatively simple (or perhaps more appropriately more narrow in scope) and therefore it's easier to program a concurrent flow.
Games (and software in general) is headed in a multicore direction though. Have a core that handles the background music and audio not related to the player, a core that handles textures, a core that handles the game engine, a core that handles other peripherals (chatting, webcam, microphone, VR, etc.)
Atom is the mobile processor I meant, the x7, x5, etc. are a line of the Atom processors and atm it indeed seems like the development of these chips is on hold. Yeah, ditching Intel for their own System-On-a-Chip processor like in their Iphones iirc
lol no, I'm surprise you didn't get that joke, it was a jab at EU governments giving an unproportionate amount of welfare to immigrants vs natives...forgot iWatch & iVR goggles btw...
you're right you can't. But you can just store your whole computer on a chip, and upload it to your semi-transparent OLED glasses, which is controlled by finger motions. No desktop box, monitor, keyboard or other peripherals needed...
If only the @s's over here worked as @s's do over at NG!
Interesting. As for comparability, wouldn't it be possible to code so a program can use both one or more cores, depending on the hardware on which it's run? Was going to say a lot of programs come in multiple versions, but that's x84 and x64... wonder if the difference between single and multiple core is comparable with the difference between those two... well, for the case of gaming, Latency seems like the big issue. Good knowing. I use a more normal computer for everyday tasks with electricity use in mind, but it seems a lot of people don't bother so much, it seems to be a resource we have in surplus... though we don't really. Not as it's farmed right now.
True that. They're amazing machines.
Sounds pretty simple in theory! Nice.
Aha.
lol yeah, read that the wrong way apparently! Relief. Or not, I mean it's crazy what we're wasting, but they do seem to be cutting down on that stuff now! :D iBetterwatch the news.
Definitely seems like the new trend. Not sure how healthy it really is having your screen right in front of your eyes though. Seems a lot like headphones vs speakers, where it's easy to impair your hearing since you don't notice the 'loudness' the same way when it's so close, and some are just badly built, with unbalanced frequencies etc. Then again, maybe it's better for your eyes if the screen is not a contained area, so you can exercise eye muscles even with idle use, and move your eyes as you would if you were outside.