• CIPWTTKT&GC v 0x15 (v21): Thinkpads are Forever
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[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;38902706]then honestly, whats the point of having windows 8? [/QUOTE] I bet you haven't even used it once
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;38902706]then honestly, whats the point of having windows 8?[/QUOTE] speed
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;38902900]I bet you haven't even used it once[/QUOTE] I'm using it right now, and I forgot about the speed part. I'll just retract my statement...
Fucking lovely. So I've been using XBMC on my laptop + HDMI to watch shit on my TV. All of a sudden the signal dropped. So I pull the cable out of my laptop to put it back in. When I did that, the head of the fucking HDMI port got ripped off. Brilliant. So I get another cable aaaand it's not working, so I try with my Xbox. Works fine, not the cable or my TV. After some testing with other shit, turns out the last cable took my laptops HDMI port with it. Fucking great.
i had a similar experience you know those holes monitor cable thumbscrews are supposed to go in? yeah i tried to get my VGA cable unplugged once, took one of the thumbscrew holders with it to this day I still have no idea where it went
my 7870 that i bought has two display ports, 1 hdmi and 1 dvi. My monitors are DVI only and i was like well i'll just adapter the HDMI right? Well Asus the fuckers made it so that even the silmest HDMI to DVI adapters interfear with the other DVI going in. So i applied the force of ten suns onto both connectors at the same time to make them both work. Both have slight angles of slanting from them not being in 100% but THEY WORK.
[QUOTE=CubeManv2;38904128]my 7870 that i bought has two display ports, 1 hdmi and 1 dvi. My monitors are DVI only and i was like well i'll just adapter the HDMI right? Well Asus the fuckers made it so that even the silmest HDMI to DVI adapters interfear with the other DVI going in. So i applied the force of ten suns onto both connectors at the same time to make them both work. Both have slight angles of slanting from them not being in 100% but THEY WORK.[/QUOTE] just cut the plastic on the connectors off, you could probably slim the DVI down a bit
DVI ports have like a quarter inch of plastic in every direction so you can definitely cut that down
Reminds me of one of those $80 "SUPER QUALITY ULTRA SHIELDED" DVI cables we once bought There was so much rubber around the cables, it physically couldn't fit into the monitor :v: The cables couldn't bend far enough to get around the stand
[QUOTE=lavacano;38903946]i had a similar experience you know those holes monitor cable thumbscrews are supposed to go in? yeah i tried to get my VGA cable unplugged once, took one of the thumbscrew holders with it to this day I still have no idea where it went[/QUOTE] I have a small box filled with those goddamn things
[QUOTE=latin_geek;38904186]I have a small box filled with those goddamn things[/QUOTE] i wouldn't care so much if it didn't make the VGA output wobble around so damn much when nothing's plugged into it
[QUOTE=lavacano;38904236]i wouldn't care so much if it didn't make the VGA output wobble around so damn much when nothing's plugged into it[/QUOTE] Just find an old modem/serial port card and take one of those thumbscrew holder thingies from there, then put it on your card with a bit of glue so it doesn't slip ever again or something
There is a reason why I should've bought a card which isn't an Asus. Mini fucking HDMI. It came with a flimsy adapter. So fuck that I've switched to DVI. Windows Update what are you doing to my battery lol [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HJrbn.jpg[/IMG]
[URL="http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9.jpg"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9l.jpg[/IMG][/URL] meanwhile at my school i'm crying, we never got any computers at that age
[QUOTE=Ezhik;38904969][URL="http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9.jpg"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9l.jpg[/IMG][/URL] meanwhile at my school i'm crying, we never got any computers at that age[/QUOTE] Expensive hardware which will only get smashed up by the kids in a couple of weeks time.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;38904969][URL="http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9.jpg"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9l.jpg[/IMG][/URL] meanwhile at my school i'm crying, we never got any computers at that age[/QUOTE] *hurk* I died please attend my funeral Are they at least some rugged "education" model or anything?
[QUOTE=latin_geek;38905021]Are they at least some rugged "education" model or anything?[/QUOTE] Doesn't exist.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;38904969][URL="http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9.jpg"][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wEOT9l.jpg[/IMG][/URL] meanwhile at my school i'm crying, we never got any computers at that age[/QUOTE] My old highschool started using macbooks instead of books too, most of them broke within 2 years :v: I'm pretty sure they either want to use ipads or MBA's (no moving parts) now [editline]20th December 2012[/editline] Also are those silver ones in the back actual macbooks pro's, or is it just weird lighting
i think they're pros
I wish I wasn't that stupid enough to buy the x131e with the AMD. Why AMD do you have to be so fucking pedantic with the CPU performance?
ehhh yeah still dead I mean I read about some rugged laptops and figured that the Apple for Education laptops would be somewhat different from normal ones Why don't schools in the US or wherever else use stuff like [URL="http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/dell_latitude_2100_netbook_5.jpg"]those dell ones with rubber covers[/URL], I gotta say I'm quite happy with how hard to break my gov't-issued netbook is, and i'm in a third world country [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FUemIuX-CAc/TqYP50-GQwI/AAAAAAAAADY/jqLts3073Dc/s1600/exomate%2Bx355.jpg[/IMG] The massive rubber handle is actually really useful
Schools should buy chromebooks instead of macbooks
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;38905190]Schools should buy chromebooks instead of macbooks[/QUOTE] Chromebooks are horrible.
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;38905190]Schools should buy chromebooks instead of macbooks[/QUOTE] Isn't chrome OS useful for little else than browsing the web
[QUOTE=latin_geek;38905198]Isn't chrome OS useful for little else than browsing the web[/QUOTE] Isn't a book useful for little else than reading it? All you need is a webbrowser + google docs really, and the fact that macbooks start at $999 (They never told me how much of a discount they were getting from apple at my school, but i believe it was somewhere around $750 they were paying per macbook, excluding all the licenses and mandatory apple tech support), and since they pretty much stopped producing macbooks, you either have a macbook air or a macbook pro. Chromebooks can be purchased with huge discounts for education ($99), and if they break you just buy a new one, since they're dirt cheap and all data is stored in the cloud anyways.
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;38905231]Isn't a book useful for little else than reading it? All you need is a webbrowser + google docs really, and the fact that macbooks start at $999 (They never told me how much of a discount they were getting from apple at my school, but i believe it was somewhere around $750 they were paying per macbook, excluding all the licenses and mandatory apple tech support), and since they pretty much stopped producing macbooks, you either have a macbook air or a macbook pro. Chromebooks can be purchased with huge discounts for education ($99), and if they break you just buy a new one, since they're dirt cheap and all data is stored in the cloud anyways.[/QUOTE] And what happens if the internet goes out? What happens if GDocs goes down? They're tied to the internet and that's not right.
i don't think those kiddos take those laptops home though considering that that classroom was behind a metal door like all the computer rooms in my school are (it's russia lol)
[QUOTE=wingless;38905250]And what happens if the internet goes out? What happens if GDocs goes down? They're tied to the internet and that's not right.[/QUOTE] What happens when the school servers go down? What happens when teachers can't enter grades? Honestly, I doubt it'd make that much of a difference. I'd put my trust in Google services more than I would in a school's systems in terms of reliability :v:
[QUOTE=wingless;38905250]And what happens if the internet goes out? What happens if GDocs goes down? They're tied to the internet and that's not right.[/QUOTE] GDocs and Google drive are both cached on your chromebook, and you can edit them offline
chromebooks aren't even sold in russia so whatever
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