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I didn't exactly present this information as if it were some grand revelation. Just that next to it, the laptops are refreshingly cheap. The video you posted went on at some length about the pricing, as do many other reviews.

e: At a point where it's still well within my budget to pick one up sometime this year even on top of slapping replacement MB/CPU/RAM in my PC tower. Separating gaming from my work devices is an attractive prospect for me.

e2: Spent awhile fiddling around with one on display at Best Buy today. Responsive, clean. Smooth operating for Final Cut. Best trackpad I've used so far. Good keyboard. Garbage acoustics in the store, so I didn't bother listening, but I'll trust the feedback I've read. The biggest detraction for me is the lack of a built-in numberpad, but given an option I would still take the speakers.

Am jelly.

Places here have it.

I believe South Korea was first to market with a general rollout of 5G.

China (and South Korea) are ahead bc their governments prioritized the technology and rollout. Innovation is often not driven by market forces, unfortunate as it may be to some worldviews.

Intel, IBM, Apple, Bell Labs, STC, Corning have largely been commercially funded. That covers most tech and telecoms development.
Invention of the IC did not come from the space program.

You can assume pretty well anything which comes out of China is govt controlled.

Nation-scale rollouts will usually be govt funded obviously. Cell-phone networks typically weren't though in many countries.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2020-02-22 04:35:06)

Erm no.

my windows desktop is 11 years old. they can do their worst. it'll be like shooting an old farm-dog out of mercy at this point.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

A new Windows 10 update is bricking computers. Apparently it is screwing up some motherboard drivers. Good stuff.

Gut feeling about this sort of thing for awhile now. I already had to reinstall Windows 10 over December due to driver issues. Some of the USB ports are still offline.

I do wish that Windows was a little more flexible on drivers intended for Vista 7 and 8 considering all the hardware people have that is well past manufacturer-designated end of life for driver development. I suspect that to fully restore my (relatively young compared to a lot of other PCs in my circle of friends/family) old computer to a 100% state, I'd have to install Windows 7, get all the drivers up to date for that OS, then graduate it to 10 and hope another update doesn't cascade it into blue screen limbo.

And this is a desktop. You'd have to pay me to use another Windows laptop and add those driver issues on top of things. MacBook Pro, if I go portable.

Can't you set up a firewall to keep the XP box from getting on the internet but still use wifi to talk to the Win 10 machine?

Get a $15 SSD and install Linux

I thought SMB 1 was pretty good packed with Duck Hunt and all, but people seem to look back most fondly on SMB 3.

The whole dual card for gaming was earlier pushed as "buy one now, then buy a second later when they're cheap." Thing is, they never really got cheap, and it was better to just move to the next generation. I don't think most of the gaming market would really miss SLI/Crossfire. You'd hope that means they could drop future video card prices because of a feature drop, but that's probably a pipe dream.

"OK, so I'll buy a 5x0 now, and then a second 5x0 a couple years later when they're cheap." A couple years later, it's still not cheap. Exasperatingly, some cards got even more expensive with age. Anyway, replaced it with a 7x0.

My PSU could cover for SLI, but it's never had to. It's the sort that would need adapters to fit the pinout though.