Surfaces are impossible to service so if they break you're better off getting a brand new one. Don't buy a Surface unless you can afford two.
So today I learned that my local Goodwill actually has a good computer guy running their electronics department.
there’s actually that AppleCare like thing that does $50 replacements
Working in retail myself, if your Surface borks and is under warranty, I can attest to the fact that MS will actually just send you a new unit and not repair the borked one.
So there's that.
Even mine is like that
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Microsoft_Surface_Pro
Amazing, they improved from last year! Hats off to microsoft for innovation
Surface Laptop is different from Surface Book
The fuck!? They welded it shut?
Man you really have to try to be less repairable than Apple but by golly they pulled it off
I'm ordering a Latitude with a Ryzen APU this week, pretty excited to finally get it in after a lot of back and forth about specs with Dell.
let me know how much they suck
Since when are Dells not considered shit anymore? My knowledge is from around 2008 to 10 consindering Dell though
Latitudes have never really sucked to be fair, they've always been pretty decent business laptops.
But uh, as of 2013 when the original owner bought a large part of the company shares back I think is when they started getting better again.
Is changing process priority on Cinebench considered cheating?
I'm getting 87 more score with real-time vs normal at my current 3.9GHz clock, but it'll literally just freeze the whole machine for the duration of the run, so that smells like bullshit to me.
On the other hand, a bench score should be about the performance of the CPU, not about how shit Windows is.
Officially released:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-threadripper
Goddamn I want that 16 core one, 4.4GHz boost clock will be nice to overclock with!
They make a few shitty PCs still, my old work laptop was a Dell M3800 and I had to have the screen replaced 4 times and the unit replaced once entirely in 2 years.
They finally upgraded me to a Precision 5520 which is basically an XPS 15, and these are pretty fuckin' nice machines. Definitely considering getting one (although a cheaper used ThinkPad is probably still higher on that list).
Dell's been good for awhile. Their QC and Support is where things are lacking I think.
What? Their support is fucking incredible, at least on the business side. Far above where Lenovo or HP have been recently. Prosupport is second to none for workstations from what I've experienced, and Prosupport with Mission Critical is fantastic on servers and storage arrays.
Cross posting from the PC building thread:
Probably a pricing error, but if you've got the sprae $150 and need/want a new monitor, this is apparently a thing...
Viewsonic XG2560 24.5 WLED LCD Monitor 169 1 ms by Office Depot ..
Speaking of deals, you can get an EVGA X299 Micro for just $99 after the instant rebate and coupon code HWC_MB.
I now have all the parts on the way for my "buy everything used on eBay" server.
Xeon x3470
SuperMicro X8SIL-F
8gb ECC DDR3
4x 500GB Refurb Seagate Enterprise Drives
2u P-Link Case
EVGA 400W Power Supply
Total came in at just under $300. Should be way better than my old $50 optiplex with a core 2 duo.
I want to turn my old setup in a server, but the motherboard is ATX and I haven't found a nice small cheap case for it.
Should probably have another look one day.
I just ended up buying a used precision as a server. It was $700 2 years ago but it has 8c/16t 2.4ghz processor and 64gb RAM so it was a pretty good deal. They're even cheaper now too
Threadripper 2950X looks nice.
How does that even happen? Any Inspiron trashbook here has the WiFi chip on the expansion bay and is easily user replaceable, with them not voiding your warranty for changing that.
Now that's some premium bullshit right there, jfc Dell
this right here is what scares me. Literally the first thing people say about the XPS 15 is to replace the Killer wifi chip with an Intel one and repaste, which also immediately kills the warranty.
That is an important thing to say about Dell, the XPS series has had the same problems for several generations now. Not even incremental upgrades to fix some of it. It does make me question their longevity.
At least my work laptop didn't come out of my pocket v:v:v
Fuck chrome sucks.
Every time I opened chrome it would open two sets of my startup pages, so I would have 8 tabs instead of the 4 I was supposed to have open, I couldn't figure out why it kept doing that even after reconfirming the startup settings to only open one of each page, it would even keep doing it after pc restarts.
After a hunch, I closed out each tab individually, eventually closing chrome too after the last tab, and reopened chrome.
That fucking fixed it, fuck you google this is dumb.
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