"Nibby" (nibby68)
01/10/2015 at 20:55 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
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Someone buy this. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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JGrabowMSt
> Nibby
01/10/2015 at 20:57 |
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I could buy 5 laptops at $100 each and get by with the slowness or I can buy 1 laptop for $500 and have something far faster.
Hm.
4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> Nibby
01/10/2015 at 21:04 |
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Hey, fun story: I passed on buying an IBM T22 for £20 a couple of months ago. I have no use for one, but I wanted it. Sensibility won out.
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4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> JGrabowMSt
01/10/2015 at 21:05 |
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Or buy an SSD and drive bay adapter for an older machine. Optical drives are so 2012.
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Nibby
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
01/10/2015 at 21:07 |
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xD
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JGrabowMSt
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
01/10/2015 at 21:08 |
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Works great if a computer could easily be re-branded as a Facebook Machine, but not when your computer actually needs to keep up with your work.
SSDs make files open faster, but it doesn't apply affects on animations, video or photo editing with enough extra speed to warrant. I'll take a spinning disk + i7 any day of the week over a Core 2 Duo with an SSD.
For everything else in life, there's my desktop. Dual Xeon + SSD.
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4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> JGrabowMSt
01/10/2015 at 21:16 |
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Oooh octocore?! I happen to agree actually, I was just playing devil's advocate. Although I have just upgraded a 2010 i5 ThinkPad to SSD with an optical bay HDD and it has a new lease of life :)
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JGrabowMSt
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
01/10/2015 at 21:26 |
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I'm currently using a 2011 MacBook Pro 15" with hi-res matte finish display. 2.2Ghz i7, 16gb RAM, and the original 750gb drive (that I need to back up and replace soon). Battery also needs to be replaced soon. I'm by no means married to the Mac OS or Apple in general, I needed it for work, and now I don't anymore. Rather than getting rid of it, I use it as my mobile workstation. An SSD would be nice, but I'm not about to drop the coin on a 512gb SSD right now (too much data on it and I don't feel like removing most of it) and a 240gb wont be big enough. Next laptop in my future is a System76. Provided this doesn't die spectacularly, when I'm ready to buy the System76, this will get a new drive and battery and be for my girlfriend if her Vaio acts up any more. I'm not married to it, but I'm very comfortable with the laptop that got me through college very easily (TV/Digital Media major, so video editing, photo editing and sound design work). I can't really get anything else with the same kind of screen right now, and it has turned into a deal breaker (matte finish, hi-res).
But between this and my desktop (it really is dual six core xeons + hyperthreading, 32gb RAM, 240gb SSD + spinning storage) I'm definitely covered. Not related one little bit to my new job, but I'm sure I can come up with something.