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Listings are up. CPU ships with no cooler, and no coolers yet, but there you go, preorders of CPU and mobo are there. https://www.newegg.com/Product...

Indeed. The storage space argument is absolute nonsense. Technically, 64GB of mobile storage isn't that much nowadays: https://www.newegg.com/Product...

"Apps clocking in at 40+MB" equates to 1600 apps. I did not do an extensive search, but users have rougly 30 to 100 apps installed according to these sources:
- https://www.quora.com/How-many...
- https://thenextweb.com/apps/20...

No, storage space on average mobiles is gobbled up by (UHD) self shot videos and years of videos received with Whatsapp (and the like) stored on the device.

MakeMKV does direct rips (full original quality). It's shareware, but in what seems to be a perpetual beta period. There's a serial code given on the forums by the developer that you can use, and you just have to re-do it occasionally with the a new code (I think it's once a month).

Hardware is just a normal home-built Win 8.1 Pro PC with a BD-RW drive. I don't think the brand matters. I picked the Pioneer I did because it has no branding and all the logos on the front are embossed but not painted, so the drive pretty much disappears into the front of my case.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

just an quick google.

apple will make it so that you can't install your own ram.

oh hai!

Yes?

I have to say, my $2k 2014 home server blows the Mac pro out of the water...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

But, I guess when people want a fashionable computer to fart around with, the Mac Pro fits the bill for approximately 2x the cost.

This MSI laptop matches or betters most of the MacBook Pro 15" specs. The case isn't as nice, though (IMHO), and only 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports, but you also get an SD card and a keyboard that isn't a low-travel piece of crap (IMHO). Oh, and it's upgradeable to 32GB.

I have a previous generation MacBook Pro as my primary laptop. I'm seriously tempted by the alternatives and have almost no interest in the new MacBook Pro. It's overpriced, missing too many of the ports I regularly use, I've always disliked glossy screens, and I don't want a bunch of dongles dangling off it or that I have to drag out to attach almost every device I currently own. I like OS X, but I'm almost as happy with Linux for most things. Apple's got a year or so to listen to the feedback from many people and market a real MacBook Pro rather than an overpriced MacBook Air Plus, or I'm jumping ship.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

starting at about $10 with shipping and they do more then what the apple ones do.

Will it force you to use the correct word?(than)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

starting at about $10 with shipping and they do more then what the apple ones do.

It's OK, 32GB of laptop memory is $160., and 64GB is about $360. Since this is a product targeted at professional users, I'm sure I can open the back and swap out the RAM, if I want to give up a few minutes of battery life for it.

Err.... right?

I strongly suspect that such a product wouldn't go out through the same channels as the product that Samsung is actually proud of; but I have encountered various 'de-branded' hardware items where the item didn't pass muster with its actual vendor for whatever reason(maybe a refurb, maybe a product line that got killed, I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, though I'd be quite interested to) and it ends up having some anonymous packaging and an inferior warranty slapped on it, with a correspondingly lower price tag.

At least in the case of HP, the practice is common enough that the de-brand has its own 'brand': the circle/globe symbol you see on the bottom left of the front panel of this computer(chose the first example I could find, not an affiliate link, no specific endorsement implied).

I wouldn't expect the result of this reworking to be branded as a 'Galaxy Note' anything; quite possibly have all mention of Samsung scrubbed, bootsplash replaced, etc. but the smartphone market is big and price sensitive(especially 'emerging markets') and Samsung is going to be sitting on hundreds of thousands of perfectly good, high end, logic boards and screens. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the deal requires that whoever ends up reselling them make absolutely no mention of Samsung; but a high end touchscreen and top of the line Qualcomm SoC, assembled and ready to go; are worth so much more as the basis for a rework than as scrap that they'd have to be really, really, touchy to just send them to the grinder.

I know everybody says it is easy to set up with Android or iOS, but I miss the old days when a router was able to be set up with the web browser and you have full control over its features.

You can buy One of these, or use the Google models which are just plain ole' routers with the phones/Google OS laptops handling the traffic interruption / handoff themselves, like, you know, they already do. ;)

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It must be difficult to play a FPS while heaving. I hope you feel better soon. (I know, it was a spell check error, but it was funny to see).

I like the MX Master mouse I got for my laptop:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

It works really well, and rarely loses connection. I have never liked wires on my mice, they always seem to get hung up on something when gaming. Previous to this one though, I used a Logitech Trackman trackball. It was nice never having to pick up and move the mouse at the pad edges with that, but they tended to get gummed up more easily as the tracking is done on something that touches your fingers.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitec...

USB-sticks with 8 gb space for $10, that reach a laughable 10 mb/s transfer speed, because anything else would be too good. Artificial limitations to control the market.

Why would anybody at all use a fixed-memory USB stick when these exist?

Twice the capacity?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
or even
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

SD card (200GB) is so much more than twice a CD (700MB) or even a Blu-Ray disk (50GB) as to be laughable.

Twice the capacity?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
or even
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

SD card (200GB) is so much more than twice a CD (700MB) or even a Blu-Ray disk (50GB) as to be laughable.

Twice the capacity?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
or even
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

SD card (200GB) is so much more than twice a CD (700MB) or even a Blu-Ray disk (50GB) as to be laughable.

I think the ASUS Zenbook UX501 should win something.

It's thin, reasonably light, and capable.

"thats pretty extreme on wallet."

Not really. Though you will probably pay more for a motherboard that supports it.

Worth it. Look up the stats on memory errors. With the volume of data commonly being handled (say 10s TB per week, if backing up a 2TB working set every day) the chance of a memory error becomes realistic.

There are M.2 to SATA enclosures available now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

But, you lose a considerable amount of speed because SATA 3.0 isn't anywhere near as fast as a direct PCIe connection used in M.2.

Also, follow slashdotters... if there's a platform out there that accomplishes this that's not a proprietary NAS let me know. I've also investigated several microST motherboards but I don't want to have to deal with a "real" power supply, etc.

Not at a similar price point. A older mini-ITX system would have higher power draw, but would outperform a RPI3 easily. And there are multiple options that use a laptop power supply (E.g. Intel DH61AG). Embedded servers or something running a Bay Trail or Braswell CPU also would be in a similar category paired with a pico power supply if they don't take a laptop supply natively.

The mini computer size has really taken off recently with stuff like this. Apple was once ahead of the game with the Mac Mini, but now there's no reason to get it anymore unless you really need OSX for some reason.

Other laptop manufacturers are catching up on the laptops too......for a long time, Apple construction was clearly superior, but it's not so clear anymore.

The problem with the PI is the ethernet performance. I uaed aTP-LINK with WRT as a bridge for my XBox 360 and it worked just fine. The new FCC rules are going to make life difficult for WRT going forward but Linksys is still still supporting it but they are not cheap.
As I said you could use an Android phone for projects involving GPIO and even and Ethernet. Yes you have to make sure it will work but it can be done.
I just got a PI3 and it is pretty good. I have have a few projects I am plaining on doing with the PI as well.
This board really interests me http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

Yes it is more expensive, bigger, and uses more power than a PI but it is also more powerful, offers SATA and better USB IO than the PI, and a COM port header. It does lack GPIO but you could add a parallel port card for digital IO or use Arduino like boards to expand the IO. No it is not a solution for your project but boy does it make for an interesting idea for a NAS, Router/Firewall, or even a digital audio entertainment system. Too bad it lacks an HDMI but you could add a GPU.

Because nobody can buy a basic gaming box for about $800.

Nope. Just never happens.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/alien...

Never!

Hell, in most cases a pre-existing PC should be perfectly acceptable. Just make sure your PSU is 400W or more and has the necessary connectors.
Then drop $200 on a video card and you're gaming!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

It isn't hard. It's just the bar is set higher than "vegetable-level idiocy".

Now that average consumers are buying wireless routers, we have meaningless speed fixation and corresponding price inflation. Take a look at some of the absolutely horrible advice offered on consumer-grade router reviews, by doing a google search for "wireless router ratings."

Exhibit 1: Forbes: Choosing the best wireless router
The page is one big chart showing theoretical speeds, and recommending getting 802.11ac. 802.11a is the 5Ghz standard that was discarded for dead since it doesn't penetrate through walls. Whoops! That's why for 10 years, hardly any router or NIC supported it. It's kinda useless in most homes. For a while, 5Ghz was billed as a way to do high-speed over short distances. Since people may have multiple network devices in one room or cubicle, you could put a 5Ghz router in each one. The range is so short they won't interfere with each other. But that was too expensive, and the moderate speed boost wasn't worth it.

But it's faster, so "oooooh shiny" now it is back!

Exhibit 2: Wireless routers at Newegg
An observant shopper soon learns that routers are speed rated: N150, N300, AC1750, AC1900, AC2600, AC5300, etc. By this system, a G54 router is ancient. They make it look like buying a 100Mhz CPU in 2.6Ghz era. But if you ask "Why would I need a 5300Mbps router when my internet is 50Mbps?" The only reason to buy a router with such a high rating is that you will probably get a fraction of that actual speed. But even that number doesn't correlate because the number in AC5300 refers to the "A" speed that most devices don't even support. So the number is doubly meaningless.

This stupid system is so prevalent that people sometimes think that AC1750 is the model number. They get confused and buy the wrong router, or can't figure out why there are 5 routers all called the BrandName AC1750.

Exhibit 3: PC magazine recommends the most expensive consumer routers ever
PC Magazine's recommended routers: $300, $250, $174, and $17. Wow, that's quite a price difference. Unless you have lots and lots of people using the wireless network, and some kind of crazy university-sized internet pipe, and devices that support the 5Ghz band, that $17 router will do just as well as the $300 router.

What these review sites need to do is actually measure wireless performance at various ranges and in different rooms. Unless they do that, the speed ratings are meaningless.

Really? Do you have any idea of what you are talking about? 802.11a and 802.11ac are two different standards. 802.11ac is the latest WiFi standard and supports 2.4ghz and 5ghz operations. The AC#### can be a bit misleading though as it combines the maximum link speeds of all the streams on 2.4ghz and 5ghz channels (AC1300 can be 400mbit on 2.4ghz and 867mbit on 5ghz or it can be 1,300mbit on the 5ghz band only). 802.11ac routers support beam forming - using multiple antenna to create a strong signal in a single axis to improve range and signal integrity.
My ASUS 802.11ac router is advertised as a AC1900, it supports up to 600mbit on 2.4ghz (ac or n) and 1,300mbit on 5ghz (ac only). I get a weak 5ghz signal at my carport (~25m from the router) but it has to pass through 3 exterior brick walls and a shed (really bad angle, I could move the router to reduce that to 1 exterior wall but I don't care enough for that) and I get a 2.4ghz ac connection at my daughter's playgroup hall which is about 100m away through a shared exterior wall and a brick exterior wall.
The 802.11n router that my ISP gave me doesn't give enough of a signal on even the 2.4ghz band to make the router detectable at my carport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ac

Now that average consumers are buying wireless routers, we have meaningless speed fixation and corresponding price inflation. Take a look at some of the absolutely horrible advice offered on consumer-grade router reviews, by doing a google search for "wireless router ratings."

Exhibit 1: Forbes: Choosing the best wireless router
The page is one big chart showing theoretical speeds, and recommending getting 802.11ac. 802.11a is the 5Ghz standard that was discarded for dead since it doesn't penetrate through walls. Whoops! That's why for 10 years, hardly any router or NIC supported it. It's kinda useless in most homes. For a while, 5Ghz was billed as a way to do high-speed over short distances. Since people may have multiple network devices in one room or cubicle, you could put a 5Ghz router in each one. The range is so short they won't interfere with each other. But that was too expensive, and the moderate speed boost wasn't worth it.

But it's faster, so "oooooh shiny" now it is back!

Exhibit 2: Wireless routers at Newegg
An observant shopper soon learns that routers are speed rated: N150, N300, AC1750, AC1900, AC2600, AC5300, etc. By this system, a G54 router is ancient. They make it look like buying a 100Mhz CPU in 2.6Ghz era. But if you ask "Why would I need a 5300Mbps router when my internet is 50Mbps?" The only reason to buy a router with such a high rating is that you will probably get a fraction of that actual speed. But even that number doesn't correlate because the number in AC5300 refers to the "A" speed that most devices don't even support. So the number is doubly meaningless.

This stupid system is so prevalent that people sometimes think that AC1750 is the model number. They get confused and buy the wrong router, or can't figure out why there are 5 routers all called the BrandName AC1750.

Exhibit 3: PC magazine recommends the most expensive consumer routers ever
PC Magazine's recommended routers: $300, $250, $174, and $17. Wow, that's quite a price difference. Unless you have lots and lots of people using the wireless network, and some kind of crazy university-sized internet pipe, and devices that support the 5Ghz band, that $17 router will do just as well as the $300 router.

What these review sites need to do is actually measure wireless performance at various ranges and in different rooms. Unless they do that, the speed ratings are meaningless.

Wrong. It's a few ounces lighter than the MacBook Pro Retina and 1mm thinner, actually. I use my MBP to write this because my Windows machine lives in my office, where I do actual work; because I use it to do actual work. This is actually the 2nd time I've taken the MBP out since I moved. The first was yesterday, after I finally got my office set up fully and started leaving my Windows laptop there.

As for one hour battery life, I was appalled when my MBP ran down to 7% in just an hour and a half this morning; surely that's uncommon but it's quite worrisome if it continues. Admittedly, the first time that's happened, and I hope it does not continue. On the other hand, I commonly get half of a day out of that Windows machine. And yes, it runs Windows; I went back to that platform in November, after 5 years as a dedicated Mac user, because OS X has become bloated, unstable, unreliable and, frankly useless for any real work; a useful tool is reliable and, well, I just said it... OS X isn't anymore. Windows is a feature and has been since Lion.

Nice try, though.

For reference.

Just because you are too poor to buy the real deal does not mean others are not.

and considering that Planar is commercial quality, it's actually not bad for the price. you are just used to low grade crap at low grade crap prices. Here at the office we have a 9 panel planar video wall made up of these... just for security and networking operations.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

quite affordable for a 24/7 commercial display, You want to buy a $499 display rated for maybe 3 hours a day use.

Nvidia will probably soon put out a new GPU that fits in the 750ti price and thermal range, and it will probably be the fastest card that does not require an external power connector. (Much like the 750ti is now)

It's already out. Better revisions of the GTX 950 have been able to get the power down to 75w. For that you get 40% higher performance than the GTX 750 Ti, and for just a five dollar premium over other GTX 950 cards!

The Asus card review

The Newegg page.

The pictures on the Newegg site still show a power connector, but on the Asus product page it's clearly removed:

https://www.asus.com/us/Graphi...

And a recet review also confirms no power connector!

So yeah, Nvidia pushed this out unofficially because they will be waiting a few months for GP107, and thye wanted to stop making GTX 750 Ti silicon.

I couldn't wait another 4-9 months, for AMD's Polaris to wind its way through channels, so I got this: Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 (80NY0007US) AMD A10-8700P (1.80 GHz) 8 GB Memory 1 TB HDD AMD Radeon R9 M380 4 GB GDDR5 15.6" 1920x10180, when it was $787 (17% off), with a free Lenovo (8 button) Mouse.
I'm pretty happy with it overall. The build quality (chassis, ports, hinges, etc) is phenomenal. It's one of the better "compressed-width full keyboards" that I've seen or used. c.f. FN + Arrow Keys = Brightness and Volume.
Negative: The LCD has some bleed at the top corners, which is mostly unnoticeable, except during boot with the bright white "Lenovo" in the middle of the screen, and the rest of the pixels are no color (off).

A gtx 970 is less than $400. Also it's very much overkill for "console parity". So your example is pretty flawed.

Next is most people need a computer/laptop, and gaming machines can easily be both so now you're looking at a $650 laptop Vs. a ps4+chromebook (Example $600 laptop)

Next is game cost and backwards compatibility, for $100 you can get 10 amazing games on steam (not newest releases obviously). What can you get with $100 on the ps4?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

$328

And I can guarantee you, the IOPS and transfer speeds of SSD exceeds your RAID, by a long shot. But if you are pinching pennies, I can see why you'll wait till your Hard Drives start to fail (and probably will). 8 Year old hard drives shouldn't be counted on as reliable. Please tell me you have recent backups.

This is poor trolling, I know.

I'm not even sure I'd be able to find 4GB or even 8GB drives in stores anymore.

Newegg has plenty of 4GB USB sticks — if you don't mind waiting two weeks for it to arrive from China. Today's special is a three-pack of 8GB USB sticks for $10.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4AJ1H87282&ignorebbr=1

So it's one of these: http://www.newegg.com/USB-Disp... plus bullshit?

There's this. Or you could always jailbreak an Amazon Fire.

I bought an unlocked dual SIM GSM phone for $29. I use it with a T-Mobile account that costs $10 per year (after paying $100 the first year). It works well for answering phone calls when my FreedomPop Samsung Galaxy phone (no monthly charge) is away from Sprint coverage.

Now it it possible to get an unlocked Blu phone for $20. Or, if you think that is too expensive, $18.

An advantage of the less-capable phones: More than thirty days of stand-by time. ($74)

One of the nice advantages of being heavily involved with technology is that you can feel comfortable saying no to technology. I've met people who felt they had to have the latest iPhone because other people bought the latest.

I am not, of course, saying anyone else on Slashdot would make the same choices.

And there's also the question if they got better, would we really need it and use them for more? For example you can now get 64GB DDR4 (4x16GB) for mainstream desktops for $239, but is there any normal use case? Even with all the bells and whistles I'm struggling to hit 10GB (of 16 total), so it's like sure I could but why. I think it might be more that, the smartphone you have already have "enough" to do what most people want so even if you could make a smartphone with desktop-class performance it wouldn't really have much more it could do.

Actually, that hasn't been the case for a long time.

It is the case when you factor in costs. A basic gaming PC is ~$1000. A current gen console is ~$300.

1) Just because you keep repeating it doesn't make it true. In *your* words - "A basic gaming PC" is $469.

2) I already have a computer. It already has games that still work, from 1994 to 2016. To play newer-than-2014 games I merely need to add in a $200 video card (which I did). The difference in cost means that the PC-gaming works out much cheaper than console-gaming.

3) The biggest reason to game on PC rather than on console is, in fact, cost - it's a great deal cheaper to acquire (as we already have to have the computer anyway), the games are frequently cheaper if you're willing to wait, *AND* I can still play my entire library that I purchased.

games don't have no tunables whatsoever

When the hardware is identical, you don't need to tune. Like, just in case you happen to want worse graphics? To save power?

Well, if I decided to spend $100 less on my video card upgrade I can still play the game (tunable!). Whereas, if you decided you want to spend $100 less on your console, you have to go without the console (not tunable). The PC is tunable to my specific financial situation, which is why it's so damn cheap to game on a PC.

I do, in fact, have the consoles - but they're gathering dust as my son and I tend to game on the PCs. We spent the last 6 months playing Diablo II multiplayer on a pair of old desktops I was going to throw away - roughly 300 hours of gaming, and it cost me next to nothing AND he's still getting entertainment out of it. When he gets tired of this we'll do Starcraft I-BW

Well, general random logic is at 22nm, and memory class devices are usually a half-node ahead, so 16-18nm would be the size.

CPUs are at 14nm already.

They exist, just not very common. It's easier/cheaper to just make them 2.5" since physical space isn't normally required and just use an adapter when a 3.5" drive is needed then have 2 different product line sizes.

Come on, you know all they really need is this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

It isn't like they go out that often anyways.

Why not work on real pci-e ext cables / buses that does not need bios or bridge chips and is not capped at pci-e 3.0 X4 (at best)

[sarcasm]

Yes, why wouldn't AMD work on a technology that isn't well supported by many players? I mean it's not that AMD hasn't tried to develop interfaces on their own before and failed (XGH). Also I'm sure that Intel has not done any work with this fancy Thunderbolt interface and that TB devices are rare. Never mind that technology never evolves at all. I feel like a schmuck for going with USB over serial. Here I am stuck at USB 1.1 because the technology has never advanced.

True enough, they also sell an overpriced entry model. But I'm sure it's "build quality" makes it worth twice the price of something comparable.

Do you not realize how cheap hard drives are these days? $50 for a 1.5TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

if we were to assume that this data is never misused, it seems like an enormous amount of marketing analytics. ...perhaps enough to offset the cost of windows 10?

http://www.amazon.com/Microsof...

Home is 119
Pro is 199

About the same as 7 and 8. You can get an OEM copy a bit cheaper.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...

About the same as 7 and 8.

Windows 10 isn't free.

They ARE offering (or aggressively pushing) a limited time free upgrade to existing licensed users of 7 and 8 get adoption rates up on the theories that they'll make some money back on the in-app advertising on the app store stuff, and the (mostly correct) assumption that almost nobody pays to upgrade windows anyway, so giving away the upgrade REALLY doesn't cost them much.

But if you bought a new PC with Windows 10 on it, that copy was paid for.

Further, "telemetry" isn't *supposed* to be used for marketing. It's "supposed" to be used for product improvement. Using it for marketing IS misusing it as far as I'd be concerned.

http://blog.newegg.com/hoverbo...

Per newegg:

More importantly, the latest boards are UL certified. “Underwriters Laboratories” is an independent electronic safety certification so getting that UL stamp is a solid start for hovering confidence. Additionally, board makers have also been advertising their batteries as originating from Samsung or LG. So that’s something.

And here's one of the UL certified boards on their site:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
From the specs, it says, "Battery and Charger are UL & CE Certified"

It doesn't say the board is certified, but does that matter if the batter and charger *are* certified?

http://blog.newegg.com/hoverbo...

Per newegg:

More importantly, the latest boards are UL certified. “Underwriters Laboratories” is an independent electronic safety certification so getting that UL stamp is a solid start for hovering confidence. Additionally, board makers have also been advertising their batteries as originating from Samsung or LG. So that’s something.

And here's one of the UL certified boards on their site:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
From the specs, it says, "Battery and Charger are UL & CE Certified"

It doesn't say the board is certified, but does that matter if the batter and charger *are* certified?