/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3518549
And woops, that ought to be a hash instead of a bang. Also lost my trip password. Might be able to salvage the hard drive.

>>paying $2000 bucks for a computing device
>>2011

Fuck man, even the bullshit overpriced iphones are less than that.

Decent PC will cost you $700.

HDMI out is the only thing your laptop needs, as everything thats worth having uses it, or displayport, and an adapter that has no loss in quality costs about a dollar.

>>3518586
PC sure. Laptop not so sure. Guess I'll see. Just saying what I'm willing to spend. Haven't done this kind of shopping in many years. Haven't done this kind of shopping with basically no price limit ever.

1) >>>/g/
2) Stop being a faggot and build yourself a nice desktop.

>>3518549
So, I do want a dual boot. I'm even wondering if I care enough to get win7. I probably do. Even though I don't use it to game anymore, there's still a couple pieces of software that I'd want to use.

Hell - it's time to do research on which linux / unix distro I want too. That can wait though.

Which win7 do I want? What are the differences between home and the various delux flavors?

>2011
>not building your own
laughingcirno.tif

>ExHentai

>>3518613
One does not build their own laptops.

At least, they didn't back in the day. I've been out of the loop for years. Do you build your own laptops nowadays?

>>3518620
Actually they did back in the day. It's now that they don't.

>>3518616
Indeed. It's so funny on /a/ when people ask for source and someone says "sad panda". They ask "what's that?".

It's the best when we actually tell them /exactly what they need to do/ to get access to the hentai, but they're still too stupid to figure it out.

>>3518620

Be cool if they made laptops modular though. It took a while for PCs, might happen in the future.

Well, let's go see what /g/ says. I almost never go there. This should be amusing.

>>3518620
Most people don't but its not exactly difficult.

/sci/ gave me more replies (/g/ 0), and /sci/ commented on sad panda. Thus /sci/ is obviously the better board. All hail /sci/!

>>3518623
>It's the best when we actually tell them /exactly what they need to do/ to get access to the hentai,

you have to do something? ive never done anything, or do you need to be logged into E-hentai before going to Exhentai? im not going to test that now.

>>3518677
Yeah. Just be logged into e-hentai. If you get the sad panda picture, clear cookies and try again.

Newfags cant defeat the Sad Panda

>>3518610
win7 Ultimate FTW (actually, the retail disc has all the versions on it, it's a matter of choice of how much cripple you want when you custom install)
Nnewegg says -
DELL Alienware M18x (AM18X-6731BAA) Intel Core i7 2630QM(2.00GHz) 18.4" 8GB Memory 1TB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI Notebook DELL Alienware M18x (AM18X-6731BAA) Intel Core i7 2630QM(2.00GHz) 18.4" 8GB Memory 1TB SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI Notebook
* Intel Core i7-2630QM 2.0...
* 8GB Memory & ->1TB SSD<-
* NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M ...
$2099.00
w00t!

ASUS

Anyone have an opinion on the AMD vs intel pissing contest, or ATI vs nVidia?

>>3518694

>Alienware

>>3518723
AMD > Intel in price/performance
Intel > AMD if you have a lot of money

ATI > Nvidia in price/performance
Nvidia > ATI if you have A LOT of money

I'm speaking from a desktop standpoint so...

Well, slowly narrowing shit down on newegg. Any other sites you would suggest I use? I also want this asap. Using my work laptop now.

>>3518738
To continue, how do people buy these things anyway? Hell if I'm going to mail this thing. Do they have pickup locations?

Oh, so apparently I'm getting an icore i5 or icore i7? I see a /lot/ of options on newegg, but those appear to be the intel non-shits.

>>3518745
I believe Newegg is mail only. Also, why a laptop? Why not desktop + netbook? Last I browsed /g/ whenever you asked for a gaming-grade laptop you were laughed off your own thread.

>>3518751
Perhaps that why I got no replies. The answer is I have the money, I'm not obsessed with the best performance, and even without a social life I still manage to find a laptop's mobility to be incredibly useful.

>>3518735
But ATi has no drivers.

>>3518751
Who would send 2000~ in perfectly resellable hardware in the mail? That's retarded.

>>3518756
And it doesn't work with linux.

>>3518753

If you're not obsessed with performance then you don't need a quad core and 4gigs of ram.

>>3518759
I still care enough about it. Having a concurrent compile take 1 minute or 5 minutes is a huge difference.

>>3518760
see >>3518758
You'll have to go through a lot of ass pain to make linux work on your notebook if it has an ATi vidya card.

>>3518756
>>3518758
lolwut

I've never had problems with Ati on windows, linux or other OS's.

>>3518768
And literarily all my acquaintances with ATi vidya cards had to go through a lot of trouble when installing linux to the extent that they couldn't pull it off without my help. Seriously, it's a huge pain in the ass with most ATi graphic cards. Some of them have less driver problems, though, but they are few.

>>3518766
Orly? So nvidia the way to go if I want it to work in some -unix distro? Thanks. I'm going to consult with my brother and friends tomorrow, who are a lot more knowledgeable.

I know I'm being silly getting a laptop over a desktop in some regards, but it's just too useful. Having it over at a friend's house, or at work, watching porn in bed, doing work on the table, etc., etc.

Throw on the ridiculous 4 core 4 gb+ ram because I can afford it and damnit it's irritating waiting for compiles to finish and lockups from misbehaving programs. Also, might be nice to get starcraft 2 running decently. (My brother bought it for me. Not sure I would have braved Blizzard's current anti-piracy practices myself.)

>>3518753
I REALLY would recommend that you go for a desktop/netbook option, however if you insist...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220957

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157869

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220997

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230027

>>3518774
>So nvidia the way to go if I want it to work in some -unix distro?
Exactly. ATi's official drivers for linux are new and unpolished to the degree that they rarely work and are unusable. Unofficial drivers are hardly any better.

>>3518773
I guess I'll consider myself lucky then.

>>3518775
If these are legit choices, I take bad most of the bad things I've said about you.

>>3518779
It's okay, I never took any insults to heart.

How awesome are the SSD with regular combo drives? Just read a review saying they're awesome.

>>3518775
>HP
>35% failure rate

>>3518788
Never got one as my computer is on 24/7 most of the time so I don't really have to bother about loading times. You can try it, though.

>>3518793
I've heard largely good things about their Envy line.

>>3518797
Oh, it is 25%, my bad. Anyway, they're the worst in terms of malfunction rates.

Oh wait... shit... I think I just got my laptop to start up. Maybe the motherboard isn't fried. Just the display. Maybe even a loose cord... hmmm.... I just heard the windows start up sound.

I don't have a monitor lying around, nor a VGA hookup. So annoying.

>>3518856
Usually when the laptop screen goes, it's just the inverter for the lights.

In some cases, you can test this by shining a bright light at the screen to try and see if the lcd still works.

In case it is the inverter, here's an example how to exchange it on an IBM laptop:

http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2007/01/31/replace-screen-inverter-fix-backlight/

>>3518861
So I've read. I just shoved one of my fluorescent lamps at it, and I don't see anything. I don't know what a bad inverter would look like, but it doesn't seem like it's just missing the backlight.

To be fair, just before I turned it off last time, I was noticing visual artifacts on my screen. Just one - the cursor had an artifact that was following it around, and only when it was the "text cursor" as opposed to the standard mouse pointer. First time that happened. I didn't know what to make of it, first time anything like that happened, and I did my default reflex reaction is to do a reset to fix problems, so I did, and the monitor hasn't turned on since.

>>3518874
>-In some cases you might hear a buzzing noise coming from the area where the inverter board is located, it’s on the bottom part of the display assembly.
I do hear some hissing though. Uggg, let me try whipping a light near it again and looking closer.

>>3518879
Just ripping what I can from what folders I have shared. If I could do a full hard drive rip, that would save me problems later probably, but I don't have it all shared. Let's see... I could take it in to work where I have a spare monitor with VGA hookup. Lols.

>>3518874
If there were artifacts, then it was more probably the vidya card. And if that's integrated, then the laptop's pretty much fucked. Always assuming you didn't have any remote control software installed on it?

>>3518888
You can get a usb adapter for hard drives for around $10, maybe 15 if it's got hook-ups for SATA and 2.5 and 3.5 PATA. Easiest way to get at all those juicy morsels of files.

>>3518907
>If there were artifacts, then it was more probably the vidya card. And if that's integrated, then the laptop's pretty much fucked.

Which means that my VGA plan to external monitor is probably boned too.

>Always assuming you didn't have any remote control software installed on it?

This is a problem that will resolved for my next computer.

>>3518907
>And if that's integrated, then the laptop's pretty much fucked.
Inspiron E1505.
I assume it's not replaceable short of replacing the whole motherboard, at which point the laptop might as well be dead, though I don't know offhand.

>>3518911
Probably, yeah. But I'd try it first anyway, just to confirm.

A few bucks for a new inverter usually sounds more fun than installing all new software on a new laptop.

>>3518915
Well, I managed to save the 3.5 DnD books. That's good. Would be a pain to get all of those again.

>>3518919
Note to self - more backups.

Of course, if you have a multimeter handy, you can test the inverter:
http://www.fonerbooks.com/test.htm

Sorry I'm giving this advice in such piecemeal fashion, I'm really tired and I'm posting it as soon as I remember.

>>3518926
No prob. Adventure! I was thinking of buying a new one anyway, admittingly just to play Starcraft 2, but meh. I noticed that my compiles vs my work laptop and desktop were quite slow.

>>3518930
Glad if I can help.

nice tripcode

>>3518980
>>3518997
Ok. Bed time.