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Windows 10 is coming

Discussion in 'Technology Advice' started by walesrob, Jun 1, 2015.

  1. knightstrike
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    knightstrike Well-Known Member

    Windows 7.

    I have AMD, they easily overheat. I don't know if NVidia is better.

    AMD's stock index is down so much by the way.
  2. oss
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    Actually the ThinkPad W500 has ATI discrete graphics, I was wrong saying all my devices are NVidia. just the T61's, and you are right one of the two Lenovo W500's that I have suffered really bad overheating to the point where it fried the GPU so now all it has is the default graphics.

    AMD is a good company they will come back one day, pity that they killed off the ATI brand after they bought it years ago though.

    NVidia graphics have always been good and cutting edge, before the HD3000 and later integrated graphics on Intel chips, you really needed discrete graphics from the likes of NVidia if you were going to use a device for any serious graphics application like CAD.
  3. knightstrike
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    I want a Alienware laptop, but that one costs a pre-owned/second-hand car. :lol:

    My laptop is 8 years old, it's like my child but it's starting to give up now. Battery is not working anymore, and the flip and screws in the LCD are loosened. I'm using duct tape to keep it together.

    AMD from the articles I read, will start focusing more on microchips and other parts instead of GPU.

    I don't really like Lenovo. Something about the look ticks me off.

    I'm playing Investorpedia, to know the ins and outs of the stock market so that when I finally have the money for investments, I won't be gambling stupidly. I invest a lot on tech companies.

    NVidia is up right now. And I think it will keep on increasing because they lost one competitor, AMD.
  4. oss
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    I buy nothing but second laptops, my T61's are in the region of 6 to 7 years old now and run Windows 7 really well, the W500's are about 5 years old and are even better than the T61, my X220 is about 4 years old and immaculate :) and I want a W520 when the price is right on eBay :)

    The sad thing is that all the money I spent on all 6 of them still could not buy me one second hand 15 year old Toyota Corolla in the Philippines :( ;) :D
  5. knightstrike
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    Are you a hoarder? Why so many laptops? And all archaic ones (going by computer age).

    Me, I save money to buy a big one.

    I know now your personality, Jim. :lol:

    Don't tell me you also collect lots and lots of discount coupons for the groceries? :lol::p

    Corolla, old school! Hahahahahahah...
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  6. oss
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    No not at all, I want value for money, I am a professional software engineer and I know what works :)

    Three of them are in the Philippines and would be usable as business machines in an emergency if I found myself in a position where I HAD to be in the Philippines all the time.

    My X220 is my main portable device and one of my W500's is my main server, I need that scenario for development purposes, the other W500 is a spare because I liked it so much that I wanted a spare in case the first one failed :)

    All of these computers were over £1000 new most close to £1900, but laptops are commodities now, the improvements from one generation to the next are not justifiable from a business perspective, that does not mean that I want something that is beat up and knackered, all the machines I bought on eBay were close to mint condition so why pay £1400 for a high spec X220 when you can get one for £300 mint?

    The irony in my point about not being able to buy one Toyota Corolla for the prices of 6 really good laptops here, is that that the Corolla is so common in the Phils and yet they still cost so much second hand :)

    You can get the equivalent of a 15 year old Corolla in the UK, in the same working condition that it would be in the Philippines, for about £100 or so, and say a good 10 year old Honda for less than £500 :D

    I just wish you had a mature second hand market in the Phils but most second hand stuff is over priced compared to here, we sold a refrigerator to a neighbour a couple of years back, they set the price at 3000 peso :eek: ? Seriously I would have paid them to take it away it was so f***** :D I was gobsmacked :D

    And on the car front? ;)

    This was second hand too but only just, still made it 5 grand cheaper than it would have been in 2004 when I got it :)

    I miss this thing so much :( :)

    [​IMG]
  7. knightstrike
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    Damn! It's beautiful! Awe-inspiring! The rims, the chassis, plus the scenery.:lol:

    We have OLX and Ayos Dito for second-hand items online.

    Sometimes you get good deals there, but you really have to skim through.

    I value high-end performance, graphics, processing speed and whatnot. But I'm not a programmer hence I only need one. That's our differences, which speaks volumes into our personalities. Very interesting.

    Like a horoscope but using laptops! :D

    I get it now. You're a boy-scout! :lol:
  8. oss
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    And the ThinkPads are wonderful precisely because they are old school, built like tanks and last much longer than other laptops ;)
  9. knightstrike
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    Mate, I wish I become like you when I reach your age.

    I want a car like that. And in the same scenery. :D

    Plus having heaps of laptops!
  10. oss
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    Oh my god no :lol:

    I'm a techie, who used to be rich and who still wants the good things in tech land but has no money to pay for them :lol:

    I used to take that thing round all the remote mountains in the highlands of Scotland at silly speeds along with other members of the club, we had a rule, (because we were all Scots and supposedly hard tough guys) no matter the weather we always drive with the top down :)

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  11. oss
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    Hope you get there one day mate ;) :)
  12. knightstrike
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    Damn Jim, if I was a girl, I'd marry you right now. :lol:

    Imagine how many beautiful lasses I'll be able to get with those cars. And top-down in the snowy mountains? So bad-ass.

    The only thing you're missing is playing metal music and Scottish bagpipes with flames like this guy.



    Something to look forward to. :lol:
  13. oss
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    ROFL :lol:
  14. knightstrike
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    Don't forget the Scottish Claymore!

    Shout,

    'FOR FREEDOM!'

    While driving and waving the sword!

    I'm promising you right now, when I finally travel to the UK and earn money, I'll do that.

    Sticky my comment. :lol:
  15. oss
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    Here are some truly great Pipers





    The Red Hot Chilli Pipers!

    When they do the more traditional pieces they are truly stunning but even they cannot match a full military pipe band.
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  16. oss
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    Oh here's one that will tickle you ;)

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  17. knightstrike
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    Hell yeah.

    I like these sort of things, combination of classical and contemporary music.

    Rock/Metal/Hip-hop meets Classical/Opera/Symphonies/Traditional.
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    Back on topic :D

    Just completed a 4 hour upgrade to Windows 10 on an old ThinkPad T61 :)

    It works and seems reasonably quick but it hasn't finished anti-virus scans and the like yet and CPU usage is still quite high.

    Old very old hardware, took me three goes to install it as I eventually figured out that the laptop was dying from thermal shock on the previous two attempts, had to go into the BIOS and reduce overall performance to let it cool down and also had to shutdown between initial install and the main configuration, but once I figured it out it has worked fine.

    Upgrades, well this is the first one I have done for a decade at least, only did it to take advantage of the free licence as the machine was already legitimately licenced, took about 8GB of space on the boot drive which is pretty good to be honest, having figured out how to make it work on this old hardware I am actually pretty happy.

    So anyone with an old laptop or PC, it might be tricky but yes you can upgrade to Windows 10, I went from Windows 7 to 10 on this particular machine.

    Word of warning, initially it does not look any different after the upgrade ;) :D and during the upgrade it makes snide comments about your crappy hardware like, 'sorry this is taking longer than normal' (you cheap git) :lol: :D
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    Peter Bright, an American journalist who covers Microsoft, programming and software development for Ars Technica has just published an article wherein he demonstrates that Windows 10 insists on talking to Microsoft servers even when instructed not to. He does concede that whilst some of the unauthorised traffic is harmless and poses no privacy threat, other traffic is troubling and some includes telemetry information, machine IDs etc.

    Windows 10 may be technologically the best yet but I think Microsoft's marketing strategy (SAAS) will belie all that.
  20. walesrob
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    To be honest Mark, it doesn't surprise me Microsoft are covertly mining data even if you say NO. The same goes for Google and Apple, at least Google are open about it. The proliferation of mobile devices means they all require accounts with one of these organisations depending on the platform.

    Slightly off-topic, but I'm using Fastmail for email and calendars, and now contacts, so none of the big three can get hold of my data. Fastmail are an independent email provider who share data with no-one.

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