"Slant6" (slant-6)
01/09/2018 at 21:12 • Filed to: None
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"Slant6" (slant-6)
01/09/2018 at 21:12 • Filed to: None | 0
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Well, I don’t think it was anything I did, I mean how do you enduce motherboard failure? The bright side is that the me of 3 years ago bought a 3 year warranty that is coming in handy now. My school is a Dell campus so our tech support center has certified techs, should be back to me by the end of the week, no cost to me.
In the meantime I have my Surface Book, which is great at almost everything I do besides solar car work. I can barley run stress analysis in Solid works and Flow analysis is unbearably slow.
We’re running out of time to be doing this stuff. We have good enough computers in the lab we use, but things are getting down to the wire. I’ll be going an hour away to Morganton on Monday to consult with an aerospace composites company and start making the molds for the car, and later building it in 3 sections out of carbon fiber over the next few months.
What a time to be alive.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Slant6
01/09/2018 at 21:37 |
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Dell has been very, very good to me.
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Slant6
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
01/09/2018 at 21:47 |
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In three years this has been the only problem. I had a stick of RAM fail a while back but that’s basically a maintenance item for a workstation.
It think I might look into buying a newer Dell once this one breaks out of warranty. I’m tempted to just go in for the 15 inch surface book, consolidate my two laptops, but a decent Dell mobile workstation is cheaper and upgrade able.
boxrocket
> Slant6
01/10/2018 at 00:50 |
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I’d never bought a new laptop (always inherited them or my customers had me keep their old ones as collateral/trade-in on new rigs) before last year, and I bought a Dell Inspiron 15" with a full keyboard (number pads are critical) for my wife, who was raised as a machead. She loved it, and I was pretty envious of how much she liked it and the massive improvements over my rapidly-aging hand-me-downs, so I got a similar -darker and more powerful, named it K-2SO - 15" Inspiron full-keyboard, and it’s been flawless. Both are touchscreen, have more RAM than we usually need, and they’re easily the most modern-feeling computers in the house, including the Surface Pro 3 I got rid of shortly after acquiring mine (it was pointless since I actually use my laptop on my lap).
random001
> Slant6
01/10/2018 at 06:40 |
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Surface book master race! I love mine.
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Slant6
> random001
01/10/2018 at 09:24 |
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Mine is pretty good, I just wish they had workstation graphics, really makes a difference in modelling and simulation.
I also have the base one with the base nividia.
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Slant6
> boxrocket
01/10/2018 at 09:25 |
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They really do make a good computer. My m4800, currently deceased, could keep up with our purpose built workstations despite being 5 years old now.