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  1. Comment on Favorite Laptop? in ~tech

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    That's what I have! A 10yr-old HP Elitebook 8530w. I bought second-hand on eBay for $200. :) Built like an industrial-strength rock, has a great screen (as in no glare, easy on the eyes) and has a...

    I've always been a fan of HP Elitebooks.

    That's what I have! A 10yr-old HP Elitebook 8530w. I bought second-hand on eBay for $200. :)

    Built like an industrial-strength rock, has a great screen (as in no glare, easy on the eyes) and has a separate GPU for games (within reason). After throwing in an SSD and 8GB RAM, it's fast enough for anything I throw at it, which is usually Visual Studio, Photoshop, Maya and Unity. I even played Skyrim on it. Also very easy to service - de-dusting the fan is literally 2 screws and 10 minutes.

    Some old laptops are still brilliant. I hate wasting money on "new" when re-purposing old stuff is, for all intents and purposes, exactly the same and very cheap.

    ed: If I were to replace it, I don't know... so many "usability" things about this one is perfect, down to the recessed trackpad. I can't stand a lot of the "fads" around in laptop design now, like:

    • trackpads so big they feel inconvenient to use, and so flush you can't feel where the edges are
    • "clickpads" are awful, horrible things, must have physical trackpad buttons, and 3 of them
    • screens not tall enough - good for movies but bad for work
    • anything with decent build quality is very expensive
    • most are hard to open and service, e.g. getting dust out of the fan requires the entire thing to be completely disassembled
    • most still only offer a 256GB SSD as base which is just insulting when the price tag is $2k+.

    So i'd have to be very choosey about a new one.. but probably a second-hand business/corporate level Lenovo or HP, as they're designed to be practical, serviceable and last a long time.

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  2. Comment on Favorite Laptop? in ~tech

    sanguinelemur
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    Exactly why I run with an old HP Elitebook 8530w. Solid, serviceable and just as fast as anything else after extra RAM and an SSD. I can even use Maya and Unity on it quite nicely, since it has a...

    It's pretty old, but that's an advantage.

    Exactly why I run with an old HP Elitebook 8530w. Solid, serviceable and just as fast as anything else after extra RAM and an SSD. I can even use Maya and Unity on it quite nicely, since it has a separate Nvidia GPU. Aluminium case, solid as igneous rock. $200 second hand on eBay. :)

  3. Comment on Rosanne Barr and now Samantha Bee, does the punishment fit the crime? in ~talk

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    Exactly. Making a racist remark is not the same as, in Bee's case, just using an over the top swear word. Personally I don't agree with going too far with swearing when you're trying to make a...

    equivocating

    Exactly. Making a racist remark is not the same as, in Bee's case, just using an over the top swear word.

    Personally I don't agree with going too far with swearing when you're trying to make a point, if only because it turns people off and takes the focus away from the actual point you're making. Then you have to waste time defending yourself, having given your detactors something they can use to undermine your point via character assasination. It's counter-productive.

    As a comedian, it would have been effective to use a funny label, which people can at least repeat and associate with the point she was making. Bee may have done it on purpose to make it front page news, but it's not worth it - how many times can you use that "technique" until it's not effective anymore?

    Also... comedian Jim Jeffreys says c*t on his show from time to time, and nobody really cares. It's part of his act. As an Australian, it's not exactly uncommon here (same in the U.K. I think). So the only reason people are making a fuss about Bee is because it was unexpected from her, not because of the word itself.

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