[LkMax]

 LkMax, on 21 July 2014 - 05:55 PM, said:

Playing Daikatana for the first time, and you know what? It's no really that bad.

Changed my mind completely after meeting my first sidekick. Damn babysitting stupid-ass AIs... >___<

[Inspector Lagomorf]

I can't finish this post without my buddy Supa Fly.

[Jeff]

I decided to replace my old alarm clock with my old iPod Touch that I don't use anymore.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Is it worth visiting Los Angeles for a weekend? Or is the city truly an irredeemable hellhole?

[Jeff]

Unfortunately, no one can be told whether Los Angeles is a irredeemable hellhole, you have to see it (and judge) for yourself.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[High Treason]

Starting to think I'm just not meant to have a laptop.

I just got an HP 8440p I ordered a couple of days back, listed as featuring an nVidia NVS 3000M series GPU. It doesn't,. it has Intel GMA shit instead and the AC adapter doesn't work. Interestingly however, Polymer now functions on Intel chips but good god does it lag.

[Hendricks266]

 High Treason, on 23 July 2014 - 10:32 PM, said:

HP

There's your problem.

[High Treason]

Really? So what are you suggesting?

The seller says he will refund me if I send it back anyway, so it should be OK. I'll just grab another one once I've got my refund, hopefully with the correct GPU this time. As it is my XPS Super-recalled-set-fire-edition (With optional duct tape) can outrun it.

For shits and giggles if anyone has PassMark here's a benchmark;  My Baseline (2014- 7-24).zip (6.48K)
Number of downloads: 167

[Forge]

i won't touch an HP for another decade until they get their shit together.

i bought one back around 2000 and it was a nice little rig, so around 2007 I got another one for the wife - colossal piece of shit which didn't last a year.
The in-laws also bought one around that time (different model) - also a colossal piece of shit that didn't last but a couple years.
My wife has a G6 notebook pc - nothing but problems and issues - crappy screen, crappy wifi card, etc.

[High Treason]

Yeah, their consumer gear is absolute crap - just like every other brand. Luckily I don't buy consumer crap.

[Fox]

 Forge, on 24 July 2014 - 06:24 AM, said:

didn't last a year

That's intentional.

http://youtu.be/eZ_145fguf4?t=13m21s

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This one goes for Blue Lightning:

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X

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[Inspector Lagomorf]

 Fox, on 24 July 2014 - 08:14 AM, said:

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X

*cough* Netanyahu

[Jeff]

I just go to a local store, tell them what I want in it, and they build/test it for me. Kind of like a local version of Newegg in a way. Unlike HP, I can upgrade it any way I want, without using HP's silly proprietary stuff. Anything from a high-end CPU cooler to a modular power supply with plenty of power to boot. None of this "well this HP computer only comes with a 500 watts PSU, so what you see is what you get". No upgrading.

[High Treason]

Unfortunately with laptops this isn't an option. The only alternatives are Dell, which are awful, ASUS which are worse and cheap-ass brands like Acer that I have some degree of tolerance for but they lack the capabilities.

[Hendricks266]

Lenovo.

[Forge]

MSI
Origin

[High Treason]

Isn't that IBM? Thought they left the market earlier this year. Won't touch IBM with a ten foot pole for several reasons but to be fair I have never had a major problem with any Lenovo/IBM portable that I have borrowed, even when I heavily abused them - though their manufacturing quality sucks and the last two I used had horrible HDDs that died early on. Unfortunately prohibitively expensive with the required feature set where I am, businesses in this area seem to use HP and as I'm buying their old gear and it's most abundant it is cheaper.

Sorry, but I ain't switching. Years and years of throwing Compaq (Later HP) business machines around and finding that they still work afterwards means they work for me. Looks as though I'll be going for the 8540W now, the main winning thing with these for me is the fact I can throw out the CD-ROM drive and replace it with a second HDD, the laptop is capable of running a RAID 0 array and as I work heavily with uncompressed videos in real-time an SSD is not an option, plus the USB 3.0 (Surprised some brand new notebooks still don't have this) means I can then use it to capture video as well as work on it which would finally allow me to move some of my lesser used machines to a different location as they wouldn't have to be within reach of the workstation where VGA signals enter the capture setup.


At least it won't set fire to it's battery (top recall) or have a heatpipe that doesn't touch the GPU (Search XPS M1210 copper shim) like the one I have now... The one I have now also is known for having a flawed PSU, starting with random power-offs before finally there's a flash inside and the PSU blows an SMD component off itself, I keep putting it back on mine but the traces are disappearing. I don't actually have the shim issue because I have the crappy GMA version, I had the GeForce board but it was dead when it was given to me due to that problem. Can't be too harsh, this thing was free at least.


Edit: MSI? The Dell I have was made by MSI as far as I know, it certainly appears in their 2006 catalog and has very similar part numbers. Origin do not exist in my part of the world as far as I know anyway, never seen one, never heard of one - seen bags with the name on though but that could have been the logo of EA's bloat/spyware.

[Gambini]

[Forge]

 High Treason, on 25 July 2014 - 03:22 PM, said:

Edit: MSI?

example: MSI GS70 Stealth (GS70 2OD-002US)

[Lunick]

http://store.steampo...com/app/301970/ Screencheat

[Micky C]

 LkMax, on 21 July 2014 - 05:55 PM, said:

Playing Daikatana for the first time, and you know what? It's no really that bad.

Idk, I also started playing Daikatana for the first time (with an open mind). And after the first few minutes I got a pretty big "this is crap" feeling.

[Gambini]

 Lunick, on 26 July 2014 - 12:58 AM, said:

http://store.steampo...com/app/301970/ Screencheat

Clever concept

[LkMax]

 LkMax, on 22 July 2014 - 04:45 PM, said:

Changed my mind completely after meeting my first sidekick. Damn babysitting stupid-ass AIs... >___<

GREAT! Now I have to take care of TWO sidekicks at the same time... when I finally manage to guide one to the end of the level, the other gets stuck, aaargghhh!!!!!
Who the fuck would think this is a good idea? Did they even beta tested they game?

* Uninstalls
* Hide "Die-katana" in library

 Micky C, on 26 July 2014 - 06:25 AM, said:

And after the first few minutes I got a pretty big "this is crap" feeling.

Because this really is crap, disregard my first impression.

 Comrade Major, on 22 July 2014 - 06:39 PM, said:

I can't finish this post without my buddy Supa Fly.

lol
Now I can't finish this sentence without Superfly AND Mikiko

[Person of Color]

 Forge, on 24 July 2014 - 06:24 AM, said:

i won't touch an HP for another decade until they get their shit together.

i bought one back around 2000 and it was a nice little rig, so around 2007 I got another one for the wife - colossal piece of shit which didn't last a year.
The in-laws also bought one around that time (different model) - also a colossal piece of shit that didn't last but a couple years.
My wife has a G6 notebook pc - nothing but problems and issues - crappy screen, crappy wifi card, etc.

^ This.

I've seen too many issues with HP products...and I've done my share of laptop repairs. I'm trying to sell a Presario v6000 right now, which was part of the dreaded Nvidia chipset recall.

It wasn't Nvidia's fault. The northbridge had a gap between it and the cooler, so HP put a really thick thermal pad on it. Like, really thick. Guess what? Combined with the absolutely TERRIBLE thermal interface for the CPU (Thermal gel behind tinfoil, are you shitting me?!) they burned up like crazy. But all you need to do is replace the tinfoil shit with Arctic Siler Ceramique 2, install a 1mm thick copper shim instead of a thermal pad, and coat both sides in thermal gel.

BOOM! Coldest running dual core AMD laptop from that period. The entire machine is an ergonomic dream, and a joy to use. The only machine from late 2006/2007 with better ergonomics is a Thinkpad. The Compaq even has effortless multitouch scrolling! You just have to update the drivers. It's also one of the best looking laptops I've ever seen. It still looks slick and futuristic all these years later.

They spent all this time developing a world beater then in an effort to save ten cents they lost millions of dollars. I threw a brand new motherboard in that thing and combined with other new parts I wouldn't be surprised if it lasted another five years.

 High Treason, on 24 July 2014 - 07:54 AM, said:

Yeah, their consumer gear is absolute crap - just like every other brand. Luckily I don't buy consumer crap.

High end consumer isn't crap if you play your cards right.

 Forge, on 25 July 2014 - 07:18 PM, said:

example: MSI GS70 Stealth (GS70 2OD-002US)

No way, get the 15.6" GE60 Apache. It's got a GTX 860M, a.k.a. the greatest thing to happen to laptops, ever. That's a desktop 750 Ti that uses even less power. It's not much thicker than a regular laptop, it's only 5lbs., and it's nearly as fast as last years 770M. It's a real, bona-fide gaming laptop and it's T-I-N-Y.

It also sports a SteelSeries keyboard, DUAL mSATA slots for SSD RAID, and a bunch of other shit I forget. If you want to save even more money MSI can hook you up with a white box barebones that's a more conservative silver color. Add your own CPU, RAM, and HDD, and go! You'll save a couple hundred bucks.

[Person of Color]

 LkMax, on 21 July 2014 - 05:55 PM, said:

Playing Daikatana for the first time, and you know what? It's no really that bad.

It's inconsistent. It's got some nice things here and there, but the AI control is intolerable and some of the levels suck. Imagine playing Gears of War or Mass Effect, and your squadmates literally have Down Syndrome. Now imagine having to manually override them CONSTANTLY, and not in a good way. You aren't micromanaging a fragile biotic tank to clear out a room and survive, you're micromanaging a giant black faggot by the name of Superfly Johnson. The task? Climb a fucking set of stairs.

I will admit that Will Loconto did a kick ass job with the soundtrack.

[Forge]

 Protected by Viper, on 26 July 2014 - 09:45 AM, said:

No way, get the 15.6" GE60 Apache.

i'm sure there are several good options available for MSI laptop/notebooks. I merely listed one example because someone didn't understand that MSI makes laptops with good parts and not just end parts for generic bullcrap slapped together by companies such as dell or gateway.

[Hendricks266]

[Fox]

[♥Coraline♥]

[Person of Color]

I bet he uses Linux.