Posts by blackdog

Yeah that P35 looks pretty minimal, I quite like it! (I don't understand why manufacturers keep positioning the touchpad to the left instead of the middle.)

Anyway, I haven't seen mentioning Alienware or the Asus ROG (Republic Of Gamers) series: any opinion?

When i first looked at these machines, Alienware even had an HDMI input... which would very interesting for me: if possible I'd love to be able to use the computer as a screen for the X360 (atm I have to keep it in the staff shared sitting room and so I'm able to use less often than I'd like). Anyone knows if it works?

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An alternative to go big with a 17" for me would be go portability, choose a 14" and also buy a 24-27" display for my room, and just do what I can when at my gf. But other than the screen estate, I am more keen on a 17" cos they usually pack the top tier hw, being wider they should be able to dissipate a bit better the heat...

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https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusV-15/

Have any direct experience with these?

We got to The Walking Dead S4E14. E15 was corrupted

I've seen only season 1 watched the first ep after a year and I felt I needed to go through the first again first… so I never caught up.

Now I might convince my gf to see it and watch it together from the start…

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Try watching that on a 65" 4k TV, it looks absolutely stunning!

You inviting us over? We can bring our own beer

Ad far as I know there are/were some sure configs for putting together a hackintosh PC, but laptops I dunno. Also dunno if there are new problems with the newer OSes.

PS: dunno now, but at the time the first ultrabooks like zenbook and Adamo came out, they were as expensive as an Air. Frankly at 999 dineros I think an Air is good value for what it offers. Are laptop PCs starting to be competitive on the battery side of things? Cos my MacBook with removable battery at 2-3 years old was still getting 6 hrs of work done with no wifi and low screen brightness (I never keep it more than halfway anyway)

Congratulations Chris, which you all the best. Have fun across the pond!

I say wow to the impressive scale of location. Do like the level of detail in the environment, especially the rocks.

Even more I like the dynamic blend from platform to combat and vice versa; also environment seems made up of nice sandboxy areas to experiment around.

Wish they'd do a remaster of the previous games, so I could think of getting a PS4 for something… I was always going to get a PS3 just for this serie and a couple of other titles, then they announced the streaming service for the back catalog.

Doesn't seem very readable!

Weapons/attacks look alright, but 4v4 MP is ridiculously limited.

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Also you can't close the shiny screen of your Mac while watching a Movie when plugged to your TV:

BS?Apple TV costs 79£/99$ or something like that… and you could always get a ChromeCast.

But anyway when you reduce luminosity to the minimum, MacBook's screens do turn off. Or simply press CTRL+SHIFT+Eject. Also MacBooks can operate from a closed lid when hooked up to external display: you need to have a keyboard plugged in and not sure if you need to be plugged to power socket as well.

When you work in multi screen you can drag screens in the settings to position the external left/right/above and also drag the menubar to the second screen if that's gonna be the primary.

Seriously tho, as far as laptops go, MacBooks are the best. Imo. (And also according to loads of magazines.)

Also you already have an iPhone.

I think it's ideal for web development, as you can easily dual boot and emulate Windows for your cross browsing tests.

OSX UI is so much better, like Thrik said, denying that can only be bias or not knowing it… it's the system with the most shortcuts(?) and the Trackpad, goddamn, even if you were stuck with my 2008 MacBook that only has two-fingers scrolling you couldn't go back.

MBP or Air… depends how much you're gonna be on the road, and coding on a 13" is a pain.

Also: Airs are not yet Retina, so I'd wait for that if that was your final choice.

Personally I want to move to an Air, but only because I envision a setup where I have a workstation as well, using the Air only for personal stuff or light productivity (like web dev) but hooked to a large screen. In your situation a MBP seems more suitable.

Contrary to widespread opinion, I would like to say that PS on Windows is better. I've been using PS from version 4 to CS5 and on the Mac it was never as optimised; I've read that they put remedy to that in CS6 and CC, but still productivity… there is no ALT+letterkey to open drop down menus (across all OSX), so you spend a lot more seconds per every action when you need to drill down.

Anyway PS is not really a design tool so… skip it as much as possible.

Unfortunately I'm not up to date with the latest OS versions so dunno about formatting etc, but you can connect USB drives and easily boot from an external drive as well.

As for removing software, you just delete apps by default. Bigger suites and sw like PS come with uninstallers. I use AppCleaner for all the rest, cos it will remove extra data files (registry like).

I'm pretty sure you can delete iLife/iWork sw like anything else.

Go Mac

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Come on, Star Wars holds that trophy by a country mile.This trailer is shit though, as is the word "Genisys". I think I'll just stay home and watch Manborg.

Sorry, it was suggested by YT, thought it was new material :$

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...explain yourself man.Can't say much. Maybe I just watched it at the wrong time, but basically I had to watch it in three sessions cos I was falling asleep. Then it was too much different from what I was expecting, I had too many expectations and so I was disappointed I guess.I'm not the only one, I know a couple of people that were of the same opinion.

I'm planning to watch it again, I haven't rushed it cos I don't want to force myself to watch it, otherwise there's no chance I can change my mind.

Edit: thanks to timehop I found out that it was exactly 4 years ago I reviewed it 7/10. And like for Interstellar I had watched only the first trailer.

The ending explained

Watched a few more episodes of Suits. I like the show a lot, it's witty... but I think that they jump and skip at times and not making clear what happens between certain episodes; especially at the point I'm at now in mid season 2, feels like they are underplaying the overarching story.

Goodby Twitch?

http://steamcommunity.com/updates/broadcasting

Yes! Xmg/schenker were the computers I was looking into months ago! Think schenker were a bit cheaper but review said build quality left something to desire, while xmg noisy/hot.

Yeah that was funny… Putin's arm of fear extends outside Russia or simply Eastern Europeans have a complex?

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The Walking Dead:

[...] and 4th almost made me quit the show. [...]

WADDAHELL??

It's the one I'm on and it's very dense of events (till e11).

I like your wife Season 2 was the one that convinced me: "drama drama drama" I was thinking in most episodes (while S1 was really disappointing for me - I went in with wrong expectations -- thanks commercials with guy entering a frigging tank).

Can't wait for S5; it's not gonna be long now, since my gf really got into it as well

Only Batmobile teaser

Thanks, cos last time when I was almost decided and then stopped myself from buying, I started to look also at MSI