• CIPWTTKT&GC V43 - WHERE IS MY THINKPAD?
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[QUOTE=Xanadu;52112687]I played Elite Dangerous on it and wanted to puke.[/QUOTE] That's pretty funky, E:D is one of the best games for VR in terms of motion sickness.
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[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;52112554]I've had an Oculus Rift for the better part of a year now, but I don't have the hardware to even get the thing up and running. Would've liked to try it out, may upgrade in not that long, though.[/QUOTE] I got to spend about 20 minutes with the Oculus Rift playing whatever the game where to throw orbs at enemies and such. It was really cool and I want one too. I heard the HTC Vive was the better one.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52113175]I got to spend about 20 minutes with the Oculus Rift playing whatever the game where to throw orbs at enemies and such. It was really cool and I want one too. I heard the HTC Vive was the better one.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I don't know anyone who has one set up, so the most I've really tried of VR is the Gear VR so far for like a minute. Didn't pay anything for the rift, though, so I really can't complain that it isn't a vive - especially when I don't even have the hardware for either one. Been going on the same hardware since '11, so maybe I'll actually convince myself that I can justify an upgrade this summer.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52113175]I got to spend about 20 minutes with the Oculus Rift playing whatever the game where to throw orbs at enemies and such. It was really cool and I want one too. I heard the HTC Vive was the better one.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't call either one necessarily better than the other. It's a large mix of tradeoffs, but honestly, tradeoffs that are likely going to be resolved in the next line of HMDs.•Right now they both have issues but they're things that are going to be improved upon as long as development of these things keeps going.
[QUOTE=wingless;52113202]I wouldn't call either one necessarily better than the other. It's a large mix of tradeoffs, but honestly, tradeoffs that are likely going to be resolved in the next line of HMDs.•Right now they both have issues but they're things that are going to be improved upon as long as development of these things keeps going.[/QUOTE] Then I guess it's safe to give it another few years or five for the next-gen HMDs to come around and wait until then to jump onto it.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52113214]Then I guess it's safe to give it another few years or five for the next-gen HMDs to come around and wait until then to jump onto it.[/QUOTE] Not a bad idea, plus gives you more time for better software to appear. Honestly, the situation isn't that bad right now but the game I find myself coming back to the most on my Rift is E:D. Right now the environment is kinda lacking in really solid, great games to come back to and play often, it's mostly just fun little one-shot games like Accounting, Job Simulator, etc.
[QUOTE=wingless;52113246]Not a bad idea, plus gives you more time for better software to appear. Honestly, the situation isn't that bad right now but the game I find myself coming back to the most on my Rift is E:D. Right now the environment is kinda lacking in really solid, great games to come back to and play often, it's mostly just good, fun little one-shot games.[/QUOTE] I've also heard that text reading can be a bit shoddy on current gen ones, and I'm really only interested in sims for VR. Waiting a gen is my plan.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52113251]I've also heard that text reading can be a bit shoddy on current gen ones, and I'm really only interested in sims for VR. Waiting a gen is my plan.[/QUOTE] Text is hell. It's one issue that's hard to do right for so many reasons. [editline]17th April 2017[/editline] It's also worth waiting for sake of performance. Right now we're still seeing fancy new performance-gaining techniques coming out every few months, there's a lot of low hanging fruit there still to come. Really, I love my Rift but there's still a lot to do and a lot to come.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52113175]I got to spend about 20 minutes with the Oculus Rift playing whatever the game where to throw orbs at enemies and such. It was really cool and I want one too. I heard the HTC Vive was the better one.[/QUOTE] Hey I think I played that game too
[QUOTE=Del91;52113298]Hey I think I played that game too[/QUOTE] It was trippy af to look down at my hands and see something else
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;52112598]I would get one if I could be assured that I could play something like RTCW using it sitting down using a mouse and keyboard and not get motion sick.[/QUOTE] I don't know how it works where you live, but I bought a Vive a couple of months ago, tried it out, decided this gen wasn't for me, and returned it, no questions asked I forgot to include some manual though, it's a nice memento :v:
Man, I really miss the early 2000's XP tablets. Some of the slates were really legit. [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7538.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=pentium;52113822]Man, I really miss the early 2000's XP tablets. Some of the slates were really legit. [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/CGS_7538.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] I was never a big fan of tablet PCs. They were bulky and terrible in a lot of ways. I'm kinda glad proper tablets came along and made them actually portable without jeprodizing performance and battery life much.
Yeah, I don't like my electronics to be anorexic.
[QUOTE=pentium;52113942]Yeah, I don't like my electronics to be anorexic.[/QUOTE] There exists a happy medium between anorexic and the landwhale tablets you are going for.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52113954]There exists a happy medium between anorexic and the landwhale tablets you are going for.[/QUOTE] This thing ain't no Electrovaya Scribbler. That thing was just........ugh. [img]http://winsupersite.com/content/content/127887/showcase/tpc_16.jpg[/img]
Now, I get preferring low price / high performance / high battery life / ... over thinness, but how is thinness in itself a bad thing? Modern tablet PCs are better than old ones in literally every way except price (vs. old/used) and number of ports (and even then, if you're gonna connect to LAN you're probably gonna sit down for a while so an external Ethernet adapter is really not a big deal). t. weirdo whose only portable computers during the past 8 or so years have been 4 tablet PCs
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;52114221]Now, I get preferring low price / high performance / high battery life / ... over thinness, but how is thinness in itself a bad thing? Modern tablet PCs are better than old ones in literally every way except price (vs. old/used) and number of ports (and even then, if you're gonna connect to LAN you're probably gonna sit down for a while so an external Ethernet adapter is really not a big deal). t. weirdo whose only portable computers during the past 8 or so years have been 4 tablet PCs[/QUOTE] Thicker tablets can be more ergonomic. I can comfortably hold a Surface Pro by the side with one hand, because the depth gives a bigger contact surface. Thinner 10" tablets, or even equally-thick ones that narrow to a point at the edge, are two-handed affairs.
I hate mobile products that are "too thin". The ones where to maximize appeal sure they still have a great battery and are fast but to get them there you get other corners cut, so you get a tablet but after a 15 minute video it's uncomfortably hot or when the battery shits the bed it bloats and the back pops out/the screen cracks. Or those Note 7 devices where on paper everything works brilliantly but in the field they suffer from major issues with being just too thin than they needed to be. If a product is going to be [i]that much more[/i] reliable in the long run I don't mind if it isn't able to fit in a yellow envelope.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;52114221]Now, I get preferring low price / high performance / high battery life / ... over thinness, but how is thinness in itself a bad thing? Modern tablet PCs are better than old ones in literally every way except price (vs. old/used) and number of ports (and even then, if you're gonna connect to LAN you're probably gonna sit down for a while so an external Ethernet adapter is really not a big deal). t. weirdo whose only portable computers during the past 8 or so years have been 4 tablet PCs[/QUOTE] After trying to use my x201t as a tablet to view floor plans for a ballroom setup session, I'd prefer a light iPad Air with rugged case instead of the heavy, terrible battery life x201t.
[QUOTE=pentium;52114356]If a product is going to be [i]that much more[/i] reliable in the long run I don't mind if it isn't able to fit in a yellow envelope.[/QUOTE] Me neither (I'd sacrifice appearance for [I]a lot[/I] of things), I'm just saying that in absolute, no portable hardware from the previous decade can hold a candle to modern devices. Though you're right about heat dissipation and such. That said, you actually can make sleek cases decently sturdy. [url=http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/X1-Yoga-1st-Generation/p/22TP2TXX11Y]My current convertible[/url] is 17mm thin and passes MIL-STD-810. My previous convertible had this design: [t]https://www.notebookcheck.com/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/Sony/Computex_2013_Duo_13/VAIO_Duo_13_von_Sony_schwarz_06.jpg[/t] ...bit awkward to use, but it actually cooled pretty well (in laptop mode, and in tablet mode you're probably not gonna be doing too expensive things anyway). [editline]17th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=garychencool;52114578]After trying to use my x201t as a tablet to view floor plans for a ballroom setup session, I'd prefer a light iPad Air with rugged case instead of the heavy, terrible battery life x201t.[/QUOTE] Tablets are an endless list of compromises, unfortunately. [editline]17th April 2017[/editline] While I'm at it, let me rave about another product from the Yoga line, the Yoga Tablet 10: [img]http://static.trustedreviews.com/94/000029b7f/fa24/Lenovo-Yoga-Tablet.jpg[/img] This shitty Android tablet's [I]hinge[/I] is brilliant for so many reasons: - comfortable to hold on to in portrait mode - lets you set it on a table in a ~100° angle - or as pictured above - hides a Li-Ion 9000mAh battery (which coupled with the rather low-end SoC makes for well over 10h of battery life [I]in practice[/I]) - ...which is kept away from the screen and motherboard, so the thing never gets hot despite (apart from the hinge) being 8mm thick - has a bit of an indentation for the headphone jack, so the plug doesn't stick out that much Got it on contract for like 20€, never thought I'd actually [I]use it[/I], but turns out it's great for reading or watching YouTube in bed for hours.
tbh if you can't slice a hair in half lengthwise with your electronics why even bother
[QUOTE=pentium;52114356]I hate mobile products that are "too thin". The ones where to maximize appeal sure they still have a great battery and are fast but to get them there you get other corners cut, so you get a tablet but after a 15 minute video it's uncomfortably hot or when the battery shits the bed it bloats and the back pops out/the screen cracks. Or those Note 7 devices where on paper everything works brilliantly but in the field they suffer from major issues with being just too thin than they needed to be. If a product is going to be [I]that much more[/I] reliable in the long run I don't mind if it isn't able to fit in a yellow envelope.[/QUOTE] everytime i pick a thin device like a recent smartphone i feel like it will drop from my hands at any moment also sometimes it's too thin it's painful to hold
[quote] I'm just saying that in absolute, no portable hardware from the previous decade can hold a candle to modern devices.[/quote] Oh, don't get me wrong, this thing is painful to use for anything online. I'm just saying the size and weight justifies just how built out it was. I don't have like, one USB port. I get a PCMCIA slot, a SmartCard slot, VGA out, two USB ports, IrDA, SD/MS card reader, Firewire, ethernet and 56K modem, headphone and microphone ports (plus internal speaker and microphone), application programmable hotkeys, plus at least two windows programmable hotkeys, IR ports for a wireless keyboard and mouse, Wacom digitizer and a port replicator connection for more USB ports, an optical drive an active cooled cradle and passthrough for the modem and ethernet. Considering it's still a slate that's a little bigger than a sheet of legal size paper and 3/4" thick that's not bad. It's just old and slow.
Ah, Easter. One of those holidays where you're obliged to visit family. And you know what that means - the computer-illiterate aunt brought a busted laptop for the computer nerd to take a look at. This time, it was Chrome, throwing a "weak certificate" error when going to Facebook. That's when I remembered my brother is in college, majoring in "cybersecurity", and I foisted it off on him. When I left, he was planning to run MBAM, see if that fixed it, and if not, nuke Windows and reinstall. Should be a decent learning experience for him - or so I justify it to myself.
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;52114758]my zenfone 2 is just thicc enough. i held a friend's s7 edge and it was awful. it really feels like it's going to slip away at any second. i'm no pentium, but i feel like there's a perfect balance. also the moto x 2 was *the* perfect thickness, objective fact[/QUOTE] I wish I hadn't slam dunked mine into hardwood ;_;
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52114791]That's when I remembered my brother is in college, majoring in "cybersecurity", and I foisted it off on him. When I left, he was planning to run MBAM, see if that fixed it, and if not, nuke Windows and reinstall. Should be a decent learning experience for him - or so I justify it to myself.[/QUOTE] You are an evil person.
Had a teacher deduct my points on an SQL assignment because I didn't submit a screenshot of me attaching a database, even though he never asked for one. emailed him about it and he said he didn't believe I knew how I guess I somehow wrote SQL code to query my own database and exported the results without attaching it :downs:
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;52114818]You are an evil person.[/QUOTE] To be fair, it was less a "foisted it off" as it was "we were both poking at it, he had more ideas to try than I did so I just let him at it". But that doesn't make for as entertaining a story.
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