Recent content by drethon

For use at both home and college, so portability is pretty important. A thinkpad T570 is in pretty strong running at the moment.

Budget is part of what I'm trying to figure out. Mostly looking at where the fastest machines are without pushing the price/performance curve too much. Initially I'm thinking it is probably in the $2,000-$2,500 range but wondering if anything fits at lower prices.

I'm looking for a new developer/basic gaming laptop to replace my current laptop. I bought a thinkpad i7 laptop in 2013 that I was pretty happy with. I bought an i5 thinkpad flex in 2015 for something I could use as a tablet alternate while still having a development. I thought a newer i5...

I've said for years that all these computing devices other than a mobile device (cell phone) and high power device (desktop/server) are just display devices that happen to have a CPU. Use some wireless method so you don't need wires and now when you walk into a computer cafe with your phone...

Right, always fix important items. I'm willing to run up to 1k in price but I'd rather avoid paying the new technology tax. So I'm kind of shooting for a good balance between price and performance with an edge toward performance. Multi threading yes but a quad core should cover my needs. I...

Had a lightning strike take out a desktop though my cable lines (it fried my wireless router on the cable input and on the connection this PC was using as well as knocking out the MOBO. Have since added surge protection and hoping for best luck next time but now need a new MOBO which means I...

The surface does look like excellent hardware but the difficulty to upgrade makes me a little leery. In every laptop I've owned I've upgraded the memory and/or the hard drive. Also how does that detachable keyboard work when used as an actual laptop?

I'm kind of looking for a laptop to do it all. I want a reasonably powerful development laptop with a good graphics card. Also I want a 360 flip laptop so I can use for low profile notes reference while teaching. Last for fun I wanted one with a pen digitizer. The Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 15...

I like the surface but it will not replace my development PCs due to upgradeability (yes it can be disassembled but I'm not but on regluing the screen). In each laptop I've owned I've upgraded both hard drive and memory (hard drive mostly due to HDD crashes but also due to needing more space).

Well 8 was an improvement over Vista but I'm not sure Vista was any better than ME...

I wouldn't think it would be so much about FPS but about turn times while processing the AI moves.

So leave the audio compressed and use a little sub program that goes, "Slow computer? Decompress audio files."

Heck, make metro applications scaleable and put the Win 8 start screen as a background behind everything else I'm working on and I may just use it. Right now I have to run Win 8 like Win 7 as everything that makes it Win 8 prevents me from using more than one application at a time. Just...

Just don't connect the XP computer to the internet and all is good...

The cloud is one more backup like any other. None are 100% dependable so to be safe you should have data in more than once place.