The Self Referential Thread

[General Zod]

Hi mils Glad you are well I am well

My laptop is acting really bad today, not sure how long I will be on. Looks like I may be offline till I can get a new one. 🙁

Sorry to hear your laptop is bad my friend. 🙁

 

[kurchatovium]

Sorry to hear your laptop is bad my friend. 🙁

Thanks The screen keeps going black. 🙁 So I wont be on long. I need to turn it off while I can still see stuff. LOL

 

[General Zod]

Thanks The screen keeps going black. 🙁 So I wont be on long. I need to turn it off while I can still see stuff. LOL

You are most welcome my friend. 🙂

 

[kurchatovium]

You are most welcome my friend. 🙂

Trying to find a laptop as we speak. At least if it conks out on me I will know what I want to order.

 

[General Zod]

Trying to find a laptop as we speak. At least if it conks out on me I will know what I want to order.

There ya go. Hopefully you can find a good deal on a great laptop. 🙂

 

[kurchatovium]

There ya go. Hopefully you can find a good deal on a great laptop. 🙂

LOL I dont really have time for deals. As my screen keeps going black. I just need to find a laptop I can use for an ok price and go from there.

 

[sophilos]

Good evening, all!

Are you on Newegg, Kurch?

 

[General Zod]

Where are you looking for one? 🙂

 

[sophilos]

In fact, just dig out an old monitor and hook it up. That will buy you all the time you need.

 

[kurchatovium]

Good evening, all!

Are you on Newegg, Kurch?

Nope. Newegg is in CA so I have to pay the whopping 10% sales tax. I am on Velocity Micro.

Where are you looking for one? 🙂

Velocity Micro.

 

[General Zod]

Good evening, all!

Are you on Newegg, Kurch?

Howdy Sophilos. 😀

 

[kurchatovium]

In fact, just dig out an old monitor and hook it up. That will buy you all the time you need.

Its an old laptop. I dont think it has a video output.

 

[sophilos]

You have very nice taste in hardware.

 

[sophilos]

It won't have HDMI, but it should have VGA. Look for a d-shaped shell and three rows of tiny pins closely spaced.

 

[kurchatovium]

You have very nice taste in hardware.

Thanks. I have used them before. Its a pretty good company.

It won't have HDMI, but it should have VGA. Look for a d-shaped shell and three rows of tiny pins closely spaced.

By the time I find an old monitor in the garage and a cable and drag them out. I will be able to apply for retirement. I already got a Velocity Proposal mailed to me 😀

 

[sophilos]

What's your choice of arms? I'm something of a hardware voyeur.

 

[General Zod]

Gents.

I gotta run for the night. Not sure when I will be on again. Take care. Peace and wuv.
😀

 

[kurchatovium]

What's your choice of arms? I'm something of a hardware voyeur.

Intel i7-4700Mq
15.6" Full HD
8Gb DDR3-1600
Integrated Intel HD graphics 4600
Onboard 7.1 channel Audio
Integrated Speakers
1 TB 7200 Rpm mobile Hard drive
8x DVD+/-RW/CD-RW with DVD burning software
Integrated 10/100/1000 + Bluetooth + 802.11 B/G/N
Windows 7 Pro with OEM disk
2 Mp Webcam
3 year Warranty

$1668

 

[kurchatovium]

Gents.

I gotta run for the night. Not sure when I will be on again. Take care. Peace and wuv.
😀

Good Night General Zod. Take care my good friend. Peace and wuv 😀 😀

 

[sophilos]

Not sure when I will be on again.

I hope he's only trying to scare me.

Good night, Zod. A peaceful Sunday to you.

Intel i7-4700Mq
15.6" Full HD
8Gb DDR3-1600
Integrated Intel HD graphics 4600
Onboard 7.1 channel Audio
Integrated Speakers
1 TB 7200 Rpm mobile Hard drive
8x DVD+/-RW/CD-RW with DVD burning software
Integrated 10/100/1000 + Bluetooth + 802.11 B/G/N
Windows 7 Pro with OEM disk
2 Mp Webcam
3 year Warranty

Impressive. I am surprised, though, that you don't run a larger screen for your graphics work.

Mine's a Lenovo that I picked at Fry's as last of stock. Chinese or whatever, it's been a good machine.

 

[kurchatovium]

I hope he's only trying to scare me.

Good night, Zod. A peaceful Sunday to you.



Impressive. I am surprised, though, that you don't run a larger screen for your graphics work.

Mine's a Lenovo that I picked at Fry's as last of stock. Chinese or whatever, it's been a good machine.

Well this might be only used to connect to the net and do some post processing work. I was debating whether just to get a 500-600 dollar laptop from Amazon. Either an Acer or Toshiba.

 

[sophilos]

I have had decent luck with Toshiba, no opinion of Acer.

I am glad to learn that there is a serious-business builder engineering, assembling and selling laptops in America. Yours sounds like a giant-killer of a machine.

Does this all mean that you do your graphics on a dedicated workstation?

 

[kurchatovium]

I have had decent luck with Toshiba, no opinion of Acer.

I am glad to learn that there is a serious-business builder engineering, assembling and selling laptops in America. Yours sounds like a giant-killer of a machine.

Does this all mean that you do your graphics on a dedicated workstation?

Its a phasing in sort of thing. I have Three Alienware stations and a Velocity Micro station. Two of the ALienwares have died. The last is still working. Since Dell bought out Alienware and it now ships out most of it tech service from Costa Rica I no longer buy from them.

 

[sophilos]

That's some good geek porn. The most machine I have ever built was based on an Asus board running an AMD server chip and a pair of video cards. I later added a second monitor and ran for years until I lost one of the video cards.

Still, I keep all of these carcasses lying around. A couple of weeks ago, one of them saved me the price of a new power supply. This is the upside of being lazy and cheap.

 

[kurchatovium]

That's some good geek porn. The most machine I have ever built was based on an Asus board running an AMD server chip and a pair of video cards. I later added a second monitor and ran for years until I lost one of the video cards.

Still, I keep all of these carcasses lying around. A couple of weeks ago, one of them saved me the price of a new power supply. This is the upside of being lazy and cheap.

I got a ton of carcasses. 😀 Even an old Falcon Northwest one. 😛