Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread
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I was joking. It was more me poking fun out of my job.
Haha I know, I was taking the piss out of me being stupid enough to run my laptops into the ground!
Biggest thing is monitoring heat; the one I have has adequate heat dissipation, and I've never seen the temperatures redlining even under heavy load, but that's not the case for a lot of them. Had an HP laptop before and it had no side vents, so even on a flat surface it created a wonderful pocket of warm air underneath itself and stifled dissipation more than a tad.
Thanks .
I had read that a modern lap top out performed a Traditional tower , seems I was reading the wrong stuff
Towers will always outperform laptops, because they're far less complex...the big bits (monitor, tower, keyboard) are all discrete components rather than being fashioned into a single unit. And they are far easier to maintain; if I want to clean the inside of my laptop (which is essential to keeping them working well long-term, because dust and gunk really affects performance/heat dissipation), I need to remove roughly 500 panels and do it with a care normally reserved for brain surgery. If you want to clean a tower, you undo four screws and away you go.
Can't say I'm surprised but I'm not sure if it's the right decision. He'd bought all these players, it's his team and they need time to gel. I guess they've got to bring someone new in before it's too late but I think he should be given a few more games. Admittedly the way he handles the players etc isn't great but I don't think he's an awful manager personally.
I've just given away an overclocking ATX ASUS ATI Crossfire motherboard. It was beautifully made and innovative of its time, and although it's probably 6 years old it works absolutely perfectly. It was a real wrench to let it go because of its quality and for some of its features, but it is the oldest thing in the house, and a mate wanted a replacement PC. It runs an AMD Athlon 64 3200 and is perfectly fast enough to watch streaming live video, or edit home made videos, and it does it all quietly and coolly. Yes, it won't play the most complex graphics in bang upto date games, but it's good enough for 90% of people's uses. My mate is highly delighted with it.
Insurance you say.
Love my laptop insurance. Got my money's worth on my previous one.
That, and a combination that the British have never been price savvy. The rest of the world have traditionally clicked their tongues at prices, whereas the British almost think it's an insult to haggle.
Yeah, we do seem to get ripped off. However we do get really cheap budget flights, so swings and roundabouts.
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