[QUOTE=kaukassus;51346270]And I thought I had it bad when I ordered my 3000$ MacBook Pro.[/QUOTE]
Back in high school, I thought I'd spend at most $1000 on a laptop. I never actually got my own laptop until just a year and 2 months ago. In the college years, I tried to find something really good and as expected, it was $2000. But no, it wasn't good enough. I wanted something with a docking station and everything. Now in present day after graduating college, I have a laptop that is $3000 (Canadian dollars). It's a lot of money and I still feel bad..
Oh well, at least it has a pretty useful and convenient docking station. I was tired of un/plugging a million things each time.
Maybe if we wait a little bit though we might see more laptops with Kaby Lake processors and the price of them might decrease too. I will probably wait a few months before I make a decision, but until then I will have to deal with the shitty battery this Surface Pro 3 has by bringing the AC adapter with me every time.
Has anyone gone ultrawide yet? I'm kinda tempted to get one, currently I'm looking at the LG 34UC88-B.
Get an ultrawide and have it sideways for that sweet 9:21 programming/web browsing goodness
[QUOTE=A Noobcake;51346538]Get an ultrawide and have it sideways for that sweet 9:21 programming/web browsing goodness[/QUOTE]
Like this?
[t]http://i.imgur.com/MMPiPvv.jpg[/t]
[I]Perfect[/I]
[QUOTE=A Noobcake;51346538]Get an ultrawide and have it sideways for that sweet 9:21 programming/web browsing goodness[/QUOTE]
This is why my girlfriend has an Ultrawide. I hate the thing in landscape but damn it's nice for tallscreen.
[QUOTE=wingless;51346692]This is why my girlfriend has an Ultrawide. I hate the thing in landscape but damn it's nice for tallscreen.[/QUOTE]
:disgust:
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I use 24" 16:9 screens in portrait and they're already getting to be uncomfortably tall.
[QUOTE=wingless;51346692]This is why my girlfriend has an Ultrawide. I hate the thing in landscape but damn it's nice for tallscreen.[/QUOTE]
ur moms an ultrawide
[QUOTE=Brt5470;51347070]ur moms an ultrawide[/QUOTE]
damnsonugotroasted.mkv
I'd get a 24" for my desk to use in portrait, but it physically wouldn't fit. :V
Gotta drop down to like, a 20" or something. And even then it'll be close.
[editline]10th November 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;51345332][QUOTE=chipsnapper2;51344592]hmmm...
GBA, SP or Micro? :v:[/QUOTE]
Gameboy [I][B]MACRO[/B][/I]
[t]https://s.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/1ded29f173c7196bfbb01a09c0659f26/203276417/game-boy-macro.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
For real tho, best setup imo is that Macro [I]thing[/I], a good R4 card kinda thing, and [URL="http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-in-1-Expansion-Pack-EZFLASH-V-EZ5-Card-Cartridge-Support-GBA-Browser-Rumble-/252615274801?hash=item3ad10b3131:g:4SkAAOSwaB5XqAba"]this thing.[/URL] I managed to find a [I]cheap[/I] one, but those seem to be gone now.
[QUOTE=Drag#!;51346510]Has anyone gone ultrawide yet? I'm kinda tempted to get one, currently I'm looking at the LG 34UC88-B.[/QUOTE]
Don't do it. My 27" Qnix died and now I'm on my 2560x1080 24/7 and it's not great. You're much better off IMO getting a 32" 4k high quality IPS with whatever adaptive sync goes with your card instead of that 3440x1440 21:9. Games are meh for the most part, plenty of fullscreen applications are shit. Streaming movies is infuriating. Only time I think 21:9 is superior to a 16:9 or 16:10 screen with better resolution is Linux, because I can have a 16:9 window up at the same time as a decent sized terminal.
I like the SP, I just wish I didn't have to use a decade old screen with it and I don't think a replacement screen would be possible.
[QUOTE=Drag#!;51346510]Has anyone gone ultrawide yet? I'm kinda tempted to get one, currently I'm looking at the LG 34UC88-B.[/QUOTE]
We had 4 at my old job, and the animators/artists loved them. You can get a 16:9 window open with reference material on the side and it's guaranteed to be the same color depth. Also superb for anything involving timeline editing, like audio mixing or After Effects, etc. I borrowed one for games at one point and thought it was pretty great, though obviously it depends on the game, but the extra peripheral vision is lovely.
Odd question, but I remember years ago, my school had iMacs running Boot Camp with an odd boot selection screen. It had the Leopard default wallpaper with screenshots of each OS, and you picked from there. Anybody know what that was, out of curiosity?
just bought my first (shitty) multimeter
i can't stop probing literally everything
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;51348626]just bought my first (shitty) multimeter
i can't stop probing literally everything[/QUOTE]
I'd be careful what you probe, wouldn't want to measure mains voltage with a shitty meter.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;51348626]just bought my first (shitty) multimeter
i can't stop probing literally everything[/QUOTE]
Even yourself? :qsex101:
[QUOTE=Leestons;51348647]I'd be careful what you probe, wouldn't want to measure mains voltage with a shitty meter.[/QUOTE]
yeah nah no way in hell, i already know how dangerous mains stuff is, not touching anything connected directly with a plug
[QUOTE=Leestons;51348647]I'd be careful what you probe, wouldn't want to measure mains voltage with a shitty meter.[/QUOTE]
I wanted to measure the voltage coming out of the generator in my RV yesterday so I jabbed the probes on my teeny tiny $10 multimeter into the blades of the socket and it went bang and the generator hiccuped and the acrid smoke burned my eyes.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51348903]:dogwow:
Calm down there.[/QUOTE]
[I]Is that a low resistance in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?[/I]
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;51348947]I wanted to measure the voltage coming out of the generator in my RV yesterday so I jabbed the probes on my teeny tiny $10 multimeter into the blades of the socket and it went bang and the generator hiccuped and the acrid smoke burned my eyes.[/QUOTE]
You can get cheap multimeters that aren't shit, but you'll have to do some research.
Those 10$ (or equivalent) ones are shitty and often have horrible voltage & current tolerances regarding what's 'measured' and what it really is, not to mention unsafe as fuck for mains voltages.
One I had measured 0,5 volt more on a stable 12 volt line, I even confirmed that with a borrowed & calibrated multimeter.
I have a 1440p 34 inch ultrawide. I really like it, and very few games DON'T support it (or do it absurdly badly like overwatch.) Even playing games at a lower resolution and having room on the side for chat and what not. i went from 3 27 monitors to one ultrawide and one 27 inch and I'm a lot happier for it.
EDIT: Granted, if i had to suggest people if it's 'worth it' that's definitely up to you. I like having a slightly cleaner looking space on my desk and everythings on mounts, which i'm happy about. I also disagree about the previous points about movies. That's only of my favorite things about it. Using simple browser extensions basically you can stream or play in VLC a movie that occupies the entire screen instead of letterboxing. Which I think obviously isn't that big of a deal but i think it looks really cool.
For some reason, anything HDMI audio related isn't detected on Windows. It was working literally 2 days ago but it decided to shit the bed. I've tried reinstalling the audio drivers, plugging the HDMI into the actual laptop itself instead of the dock, but nope. Windows 10 refuses to detect it and I can't even push audio through it. Like what the fuck Windows. Or whatever the hell is causing it. Rebooting doesn't do anything, cold rebooting doesn't do anything. Like what the shit.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/4hOctaU.png[/t]
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51350150]Re-install your GPU drivers.
9/10 your audio through HDMI is coming from the GPU.[/QUOTE]
I was just about to do that. For some reason, Premiere Pro 2017 UI wasn't showing up on the HDMI monitor. But on my laptop screen, it works.. WTF. 2015.3 works tho.
edit: reinstalling them doesn't do anything, I tried installing an older version, a newer version, still doesn't work. I tried using someone else's laptop and they were able to push audio through HDMI just fine. Ugh.
Well my $400 Koreashit monitor got in. It's literally the next stage of my qnix. Same stand, same case, etc. It's got some pretty bad bleed but I can tell it's from case pinches so I'll just fix that when it take it apart to mount it on my stand. Gave it a pretty thorough once over and don't see any dead pixels yet.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;51347070]ur moms an ultrawide[/QUOTE]
I was pretty proud of this one
Measuring mains voltage isn't exactly that dangerous if you know how to hold the probes. Shitty chinameters are usually just lumps of plastic with a tiny board and SoC so the isolation towards the user is actually pretty good.
Then again, some more 'reputable' usually depends on where you buy from) chinameters like Uni-T are cheap as fuck anyway, and when you get a german storebrand you get a chinameter manufactured to spec so I don't know why you'd ever get a real shitty one.
[editline]11th November 2016[/editline]
Just don't put amps in them unless you like plastic in your skin.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51350150]Re-install your GPU drivers.
9/10 your audio through HDMI is coming from the GPU.[/QUOTE]
It's still broken after reinstalling the GPU drivers, installing the older ones, etc. Ughh.
[QUOTE=brandonsh;51348427]Odd question, but I remember years ago, my school had iMacs running Boot Camp with an odd boot selection screen. It had the Leopard default wallpaper with screenshots of each OS, and you picked from there. Anybody know what that was, out of curiosity?[/QUOTE]
Well there's the default one, but I don't know if you're thinking about rEFIt
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