$2000 Ridemonkey MachineBossman just asked me to logon to our Dell portal and build a new laptop quote, for myself. I asked what the cost limit is and I quote "< $2000 but a little over is fine". Man this is going to one wicked fast computer for sending emails and RDP'ing to servers with.
there is a fix for that. I'll post it up later.
remind him he's not the only one struggling right now. online school is challenging for *everyone*
Times like this I am glad mine are now grown. It seems like quite the shit show around here as it doesn't appear like any of the kids are schooling, just playing.
You complain too much. Fix your board; get 5 more years. Start saving now.Board. 10 year old furnace.
one downside to that is the social impact of being removed from one group of peers and being placed into another.
Yes. But my nephew in particular could learn from that challenge and is well suited to over come it. Most of his social circle comes from playing sports so he isn't 100% tied to grade level.
your kids are 500 miles away in college, right?Hmmm... not sure. BRB.
3rd kid is still in HS. He's tall and skinny... didn't provide much heat at all.your kids are 500 miles away in college, right?
rest assured, they're already burnin'
Easy peasy. It's putting them back that sucks donkey testicles.
I kinda fixed mine with re-pasting, installation of 3rd party heatsinks on power mosfets, generous undervolting and more agile speedshift profiles in ThrottleStop. And external GPU for games because there's no way to run both CPU and GPU anywhere near their peak levels for longer than 30s thanks to termal throttling of the power supply components.
This is my work laptop so I don't care so much. My personal one is an HP and has much much better cooling. I can prevent it from throttling if I space it allowing more airflow to the bottom vents.
Indeed. The alternative - running the CPU pegged at 800MHz - is no fun. Just evidence that the high-end Dell shit is designed by marketing people, not engineers.
Dude, virtual machines are so yesterday. It's all about Docker nowadays!
And it doesn't require any particular learning.Dude, virtual machines are so yesterday. It's all about Docker nowadays!
Win10 is fine, smoother running than 7 I'd say.
Security vs development....Dude, virtual machines are so yesterday. It's all about Docker nowadays!
Win10 is fine, smoother running than 7 I'd say.
I am kinda curious about the Silicon Macs. The first tests popping up online sound too good to be true with regards to battery, heat and speed. But would be killer for photo/video editing. If only they would have a full keyboard without that stupid touch bar. I need the function keys.
You should check out the latest WSL2 in Win10. With that, you can run Docker linux images pretty much natively, with much less space and processing overhead than VMs. Microsoft did an amazing job with supporting Linux core.
I have one on a direct order from the manufacturer, a an Air M1 with 16GB/.5TB for work. It does NOT have the touch bar, unlike the M1 PowerBook. It should be arriving sometime this year. My first Mac...
Yeah, Air does not have the touch bar but I need more power for bioinformatics stuff. Waiting for the 16" and iMac and want to see if all those Linux programs I need still can be run on them. BTW: never buy a first generation product ever, especially from Apple.I have one on a direct order from the manufacturer, a an Air M1 with 16GB/.5TB for work. It does NOT have the touch bar, unlike the M1 PowerBook. It should be arriving sometime this year. My first Mac...
this would make a good new custom title for @canadmos
I know but I need a dev machine now, and don't want to spend $$$ for any of the older Intel models. The "entry level" ones are all M1s now. I hope that Apple knows that they cannot afford a fuck up with the new M1 platform.
Yay for us?
In the way of Ridemonkey this build deserves its own thread.Bossman just asked me to logon to our Dell portal and build a new laptop quote, for myself. I asked what the cost limit is and I quote "< $2000 but a little over is fine". Man this is going to one wicked fast computer for sending emails and RDP'ing to servers with.
You dork - all IT will do is clone your drive, plaster that shit on the new drive, and you'll be off to the races! Except way faster now...
Nope....they just provide the stock corporate image with Office and a few ERP/corporate programs. Everything else is on our own... multiple CAD packages, 3D printer software, dozens of metrology/equipment software, vision system software, etc etc.
