Recent content by somebrains

To be fair, 2015 retinas did get a free screen replacement bc of peeling coatings and white spots appearing on their own. I had one, I know there was a model before that and after with panel issues. We can count the years of bad keyboards 2016-2019. 2019 intel 16” with very specific options seem...

I saw crazy CoD framerate in hardware Unboxed uploads. That in of itself is something. Sad but if you cherry picked a few titles to optimize then you have a winner.

You can install smartmontools if the health check doesn’t satisfy you. OS behavior will affect your drive more than different NAND. Historically the first and I think second gens of Air would famously be seen used with dead drives due to MacOS and 4gb ram base models. Hardware isn't that...

Manually select boot drive If that fails swap the cable on the known good drive and retry manual boot selection I’m confused why grub isn’t listed last known boot drive options

Those work. I live in a city where 3 buses, a cable car, street car, subway is normal in the course of a day to avoid rideshare traffic. Messenger bags and backpacks are easier if you’re packed in with 1000s of people each leg of your short hop errands 7 days a week.

If I still was into playing COD I’d seriously look at switching. 300fps at 1440p is a hell yes Otherwise no, unless Blackout comes back or the next Treyarc title isn’t a MW reskin I don’t need a gpus right now.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=incase+backpack&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=15 I see these all over San Francisco as the default issued bag. They’re nice, I’ve had to set enough forgotten bags aside. I don’t use them bc I grew up here. Little else makes you instantly a good...

I just can’t deal with only a laptop display all day. I’m on a 24” Ultrafine in clamshell most of the time using a Mac at home. I could grab one of the 5k Ultrafine from the office but the overhead on a limited Air is annoying if I’m using Adobe or ML tooling. My partner Dev uses a 14” M1 Pro...

I can edit video with 970 and 980 pros in external enclosures The cam, lenses, skill are all going to radically cost more to exceed their capability editing.

That was also the era of the pc gaming mags and sites advising people to turn off Aero features. DRM was a topic back when people used disc drives to consume content and you bought boxed games. I recall HD drive was the MS thing. I can’t remember if I was running 2x2gb of ram back then or...

Then you are in the right spot to hit the Q1 releases. Spending should tank right when CES 2023 kicks off. A lot of the 20 and 30 something gamers in my area are getting a free $350 from the State that’s sucking up used 3070 or 5800x3d.

I’ve been playing with more creative applications, that’s a normal step for post lockdown wfh. People don’t want to sit in meetings and have me narrate PowerPoint slide live. I respect audio engineers much more bc trying to dial in your own voice sucks. Adobe has been adding support for rtx...

Frame pacing was something the 5800x3d had the advantage. You’re giving up that advantage playing at 3440x1440 and lowering quality settings at that canvas size won’t be as noticeable if you were playing at 1080p or 1440p I’d just wait it out until gpu power next year or the year after hits...

Overhead was the problem with vista, I didn’t see much of a reason back then to buy ram if I was just playing games. I believe that’s why 98 and win7 stuck around so long, you weren’t spending $ to get back performance you already had.

Nvidia features are key. Rtx voice, nvenc, being able to play with the emerging GPT based code, it’s all something AMD needs to catch up for their pricing to make sense to me.