I have a ROG Ally Z1 Extreme that I bought from Best buy on June 13 last summer to play D4 on while I had to travel.
Model: RC71L-ALLY.Z1X_512
Since the summer, and maybe 40 hours on it, it's just been gathering dust since I work from home presently and haven't had the need.
It's it excellent...
They are slowly dripping the LE's into stock!
Keep it in your cart and keep refreshing until the button shows up. I just got one all the way through checkout!
I didn't end up buying anything.
However my main consideration with laptops now is thermal management. I'm really annoyed by laptops advertising these new chips but actually their thermal management is too poor to support them.
I have a Ubiquiti ES-16-150W poe switch with ears. https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/es-16-150w
I used this for about a a year before switching to an Omada setup. $75 shipped CONUS
I have two nVidia Shield Pro (2019) units with remotes and power adapters in perfect working condition. They do...
So far my ally has been enjoyable. My gripe is that windows doesn't make the handheld easy.
Steam deck is a custom Linux OS without all the Microsoft bloat. Asus needs something to stop Microsoft from fucking it up.
However, if you're ok with navigating windows to uninstall dumb shit and fix...
I picked one up today, initial setup was clunky and lots of updates. Windows is sorta screwing Asus here a little bit by doing stupid things like forcing a default install of office and onedrive etc. Once you update everything and clean up the garbage it runs well.
I only tried D4 on it so far...
I have the upgrade itch. I'm selling my HTP-1 theater processor.
These are $4000 when you can even find them in stock, and the DLBC multi-subwoofer license is $500 on top of that.
I'm looking for $3400 for the device and license.
I have the factory box, and it's in like new condition. No...
I'm looking for a productivity laptop for a high schooler, it needs to have 7 hours of battery life.
Let me know what you've got. Some flexibility on price but not much higher because I can pickup an adequate Acer swift 3 for 650ish new.
Now it looks like it's Exos' turn
$299 16GB
https://www.simplynas.com/collections/monthly-specials/products/16tb-seagate-exos-x16-enterprise-sata-6gb-s-st16000nm001g?variant=20252707782718
For the last few weeks I've been playing games trying to upgrade the drives in my aging QNAP ts-451+ from 8TB reds to 16TB gold's (they're popular this year :)
After about a month of copying, factory resetting, swapping, rebuilding, sectors scanning, x 4 and then secure wiping the reds I...
It took like 7 years for other mp3 players to have UI as intuitive as the first generation ipod.
What you get with apple is a walled garden and a curated user experience. I am going to switch my dad to a Mac because all he needs is a browser and excel, but those two things are the most common...
So now I've bought three of these 16tb gold units direct from WD.
So far so good, been replacing all my 8TB drives.
After this last one I'll be all gold!
I'm very serious about the UPS. Power supplies tend to be weak links and they can take out other components when they go.
If you have Costco where you live they sell good consumer UPS's for around $200
Bad timing on that xps, they announced the new series today and it's a significant improvement.
I had an xps13 and I loved it but it would thermal throttle often. I'm considering buying the xps17
Putting question here instead of responding to your pm in case the answer is valuable to others.
You mentioned in PM that he's a diablo fan.
Are the parents ok with swag that's "scary mature?"
Like diablo swag has a certain gore/religious/horror theme to it.