My dad won a Lenovo IdeaPad S2110. He wonders if he should keep it or sell it.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;44023925] Also with the Ultrabooks, why pay $2000 for a computer you can't fix? Everything is soldered to the board. It's a throw away PC.[/QUOTE]
Well that's kind of the trade off the designers had to make when designing and building an ultra book. Adding the physical ability to take it apart like a normal laptop would generally make it thicker, require more materials to make and add weight. Their aim is to make a thin and light laptop.
I don't need any fancy upgradability or ability to fix stuff in my ultrabook. Something goes wrong, it's probably the manufacturer's fault. And as long as you don't get a Pentium shitbox with 2GB of RAM, it's easy to live within your means, so to speak. Aside from the shitty hard drive in my ultrabook (drive is serviceable, however) it's given me no problems in terms of performance and battery life.
Sometimes computers are for using instead of nerding the fuck out about every detail.
I really like that laptop technology has gotten to the point that we now have "Ultrabooks" or pretty much just laptops that cover 90% of use cases and also have a work day's worth of battery life. On the other hand a lot of OEM's are putting out bad systems that come out of the box with issues or later in the laptop's life come up and warrant a complete replacement.
I'm not going to rant for 5 minutes, but it is basically why I went with a rmbp. The competition is decent at the moment, but the single board build is costly if anything fails.
My desktop is for my tweaking, fucking around and generally having fun upgrading and obsessing over
My laptop, I just want it to work, have a long battery, and be decently powerful while available in a light, small form factor
Apparently my home computer decided to tell me to fuck off with RDP. It negotiate the connection for a brief second and then the connection is refused. I bet Windows Firewall is being a dick because nmap on my Linux server says that 3389 is "filtered". Which is damn strange because it was working fine last week and I didn't touch a damn thing.
That sucks because I need to put 500 GB of files from that computer onto the Linux server. But I can't do that without RDP. And the computer is 50 miles away. I really don't want to drive 100 miles to tick a fucking option box.
[QUOTE=garychencool;44023677]yeah who needs DVD drives[/QUOTE]
I certainly don't, it's a waste of production cost money, size, and weight.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;44023925]
Also with the Ultrabooks, why pay $2000 for a computer you can't fix? Everything is soldered to the board. It's a throw away PC.[/QUOTE]
If you ask me, an Ultrabook is a luxury computer, much like Macbooks are. Sure, some models [I]migh[/I]t not be fixable like cheaper laptops (Or the Ultrabooks may be a pain in the ass to fix), but they're also built way better so the chance of breaking is lower than on a cheap laptop. Unlike a desktop computer, laptops are much more than just hardware and you can choose to pay the extra money and get something that will both last and be nice to use. Backlit keyboard, nice touchpad, nice screen and good lightweight design; these are things you might not find on a cheap laptop.
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Figured out how to get audio tolerable over RDP. Albeit, about mono FM radio quality and stutters sometimes, but a small price to pay to have access to Google Music and internet radio at work. :v:
[QUOTE=Demache;44026464]Figured out how to get audio tolerable over RDP. Albeit, about mono FM radio quality and stutters sometimes, but a small price to pay to have access to Google Music and internet radio at work. :v:[/QUOTE]
why not just download your music to a flash drive?
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;44026592]why not just download your music to a flash drive?[/QUOTE]
Can't use flash drives at work (USB ports are disabled). And most websites are blocked (except not my house IP address apparently, I suppose that's because I use weird nonstandard ports, and the filter may only block HTTP). And a flash drive wouldn't help my internet radio situation nor could I use All Access and I'm hopelessly addicted to both.
Normally I would listen to music on my phone but I always run into that issue of there being a song that isn't on my phone, but I do have on Google Play, but the cell signal is inadequate in a 100 year old stone building. Also the phone turning into a coffee heater.
[QUOTE=Demache;44026639]
Can't use flash drives at work. And most websites are blocked
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Wow, I could never imagine working in such a place, where they disallow those two things.
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If I were you, I'd set up Nginx with HTTPS forced on a non-standard port, with a Streaming service like [url]http://mediagoblin.org/[/url]
[QUOTE=kaukassus;44026685]Wow, I could never imagine working in such a place, where they disallow those two things.[/QUOTE]
Flash drives were blocked due to a virus outbreak from someone's flash drive (gg). Websites for similar reasons. Though the sites they block are bizarre. Facebook is unblocked, Google is fairly unblocked (but a little broken due to it blocking certain domains Google uses for their apps to work). Also you must explicitly type URL's (ie [url]www.google.com[/url] works but google.com is blocked). Also local news station sites are randomly broken (usually their weather page).
Also they block our IT contractor's remote assistance site. I mean I don't even.
[QUOTE=Demache;44026723]Flash drives were blocked due to a virus outbreak from someone's flash drive (gg). Websites for similar reasons. Though the sites they block are bizarre. Facebook is unblocked, Google is fairly unblocked (but a little broken due to it blocking certain domains Google uses for their apps to work). Also you must explicitly type URL's (ie [url]www.google.com[/url] works but google.com is blocked). Also local news station sites are randomly broken (usually their weather page).
Also they block our IT contractor's remote assistance site. I mean I don't even.[/QUOTE]
Good thing, I never really had to deal with a virus outbreak, nor do we really have a Disaster Recovery Plan, if shit goes down.
Needless to say, blocking USB Sticks is fucking dumb, unless you work in a High-Security place.
Edit:
If you are running Windows XP, then your IT should just block the AutoExec of USB Sticks.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;44026759]Good thing, I never really had to deal with a virus outbreak, nor do we really have a Disaster Recovery Plan, if shit goes down.
Needless to say, blocking USB Sticks is fucking dumb, unless you work in a High-Security place.[/QUOTE]
It might be for PCI compliance (my best guess honestly) since we deal with CC info a lot. Even if it isn't, I guess they would rather not deal with it.
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All the machines at my workplace are Windows 7.
Blocking USB ports is something we had to look at as part of our PCI compliance.
It's not dumb, It's sensible. I don't want or need employees randomly plugging in USB sticks, they've got a perfectly good network drive to use.
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[QUOTE=Tezzanator92;44026799]Blocking USB ports is something we had to look at as part of our PCI compliance.
It's not dumb, It's sensible. I don't want or need employees randomly plugging in USB sticks, they've got a perfectly good network drive to use.[/QUOTE]
Exactly, I don't mind it since I don't have a reason to use flash drives. RDP was one of the better solutions, since it keeps that traffic off the network.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;44024542]I don't need any fancy upgradability or ability to fix stuff in my ultrabook. Something goes wrong, it's probably the manufacturer's fault. And as long as you don't get a Pentium shitbox with 2GB of RAM, it's easy to live within your means, so to speak. Aside from the shitty hard drive in my ultrabook (drive is serviceable, however) it's given me no problems in terms of performance and battery life.
Sometimes computers are for using instead of nerding the fuck out about every detail.[/QUOTE]I'm not saying I should be able to muck about with it for recreational purposes, more that I should be able to exchanges parts in the machine such as the battery when it goes. If there is one thing I hate, it's having to mail the thing back and wait a month so some clown can take the thing apart and unglue and reglue the battery in.
The problem for me is that less and less laptops will have part which can be exchanged as a result of the ultrabook market. But the attitude here seems to be; "stop whining and take it up the..." .
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;44026900]I'm not saying I should be able to muck about with it for recreational purposes, more that I should be able to exchanges parts in the machine such as the battery when it goes. If there is one thing I hate, it's having to mail the thing back and wait a month so some clown can take the thing apart and unglue and reglue the battery in.
The problem for me is that less and less laptops will have part which can be exchanged as a result of the ultrabook market.[/QUOTE]
If its like my case, usually by the time the battery has outlived its useful life, the warranty has expired anyway. You might as well fix it yourself, provided they haven't done something asinine like attach it to the motherboard as well.
[QUOTE=Demache;44026917]If its like my case, usually by the time the battery has outlived its useful life, the warranty has expired anyway. You might as well fix it yourself, provided they haven't done something asinine like attach it to the motherboard as well.[/QUOTE]Well yeah. You should be able to get more life out of the thing without paying someone else to do it.
Don't know about other Ultrabooks, but mine is pretty fixable if it's just the battery/ram/drive that needs replacing. You just take the bottom cover off and it's all there, battery connected with a small connector and standard SATA for the drive.
I'm pretty sure I'd be fucked if the keyboard or screen broke though...
I wish apple had made a retina MBP in the classic case so that I could get retina display and a terabyte of cheap storage and upgradable ram.
Fuck you tigerdirect. Why would you email me an offer for a $350 750gb Samsung evo ssd the week my rent is due.
I'n not saying "only idiots buy ultrabooks" but I wish they didn't have such an effect on the laptop market as a whole in terms of repairability.
[QUOTE=Warship;44027113]Don't know about other Ultrabooks, but mine is pretty fixable if it's just the battery/ram/drive that needs replacing. You just take the bottom cover off and it's all there, battery connected with a small connector and standard SATA for the drive.
I'm pretty sure I'd be fucked if the keyboard or screen broke though...[/QUOTE]Well yeah, but an ultrabook doesn't have that ability, you can't get to RAM or the Hard drive or the battery. Which is a shame because upgrading RAM from 4GB to 8GB, or 8 to 16GB can't be done and some manufacturers charge more than a RAM stick for the upgraded model when the only difference is RAM and SSD size. I mean take the Surface Pro, it's about $1200 for the 4GB/128GB and $1500 for the 8GB/256GB model. If you could buy the 4GB/128GB and upgrade it later on, that would be much better, you could even give it 16GB RAM.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;44027135]I wish apple had made a retina MBP in the classic case so that I could get retina display and a terabyte of cheap storage and upgradable ram.[/QUOTE]Yeah thats the problem, even though Macbooks pros are laptops and not ultrabooks Apple wants you to pay more for the upper model so you can't upgrade it and the battery is a bitch to take out of those things.
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Look at this:
[video=youtube;XGxPpteQbdI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxPpteQbdI[/video]
This is even worse:
[video=youtube;ST2LyvYLvp8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2LyvYLvp8[/video]
[QUOTE=Protocol7;44024542]I don't need any fancy upgradability or ability to fix stuff in my ultrabook. Something goes wrong, it's probably the manufacturer's fault. And as long as you don't get a Pentium shitbox with 2GB of RAM, it's easy to live within your means, so to speak. Aside from the shitty hard drive in my ultrabook (drive is serviceable, however) it's given me no problems in terms of performance and battery life.
Sometimes computers are for using instead of nerding the fuck out about every detail.[/QUOTE]
Hey, don't h8 on pentium shitboxes with 2GB of RAM.
I have a ultraportable gaming laptop myself, but seeing how much of my hardware dies when running in -20C weather across campus I'd rather slowly kill off $100 computers instead of $2000 computers.
I love my Ultrabook. I personally do not really care about repairability, since I do not fancy doing this myself.
What I love about it the most, is that it's lightweight as hell, and it's so tiny. Perfect for school and stuff.
Can't you buy business laptops anyway if you're looking for repairability?
All I buy nowadays is former business laptops with SSD conversions because they're very mechanically well-designed, dependable, cheap to find replacement / backup parts and polished.
I personally buy what fits me. For this purpose, I check a range of manufracturers, and their models, and see, which notebook is the best fitting for me.
When I found one, that looks good, I check out some reviews, to see if it's not shit.
All of this laptop fixing chat reminded me that i should get a laptop that isn't really fixable so my friends don't casually take it apart. No battery is common, no ram is just sad, no hard drive is just hilarious. Any combination is just entertaining.
:v:
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