It seems like all of the new wave of Chinese Mobile|Hardware companies suffer from this though. Take a run through AliExpress - almost every portable device has 4+ versions. Maybe it makes more sense if you can natively speak the language.
I'm replacing a HP heh. Damnable POS wont let the OS use more than 8GB of 16GB of RAM.
The HP - encased in plastic everywhere, runs hot with just Firefox, Opera and editors running. The Lenovo temps are about the same as my desktop for normal usage. The big test will see how the Lenovo handles "Dead Island" which caused the HP to overheat and shut down.
Now you’ll want to enter the default Windows 10 Pro product key as mentioned by Charles From Microsoft:
From your Windows 10 Home running Version 1511, enter the Windows 10 Pro Default key under change product key. VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T This default key will not activate the system, just take you to Pro so you can activate using a valid Pro key that you will provide.
Windows 10 is the first time I can honestly say, what Microsoft has done, looks and performs like what a modern version of Win2K should be. The default theme, even is dark. There's a few quirks with ejecting USB that Windows 8 doesn't seem to have. Other than that, best OS from Microsoft in 16 years.
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).
Dammit, ignore the activation code google link. Thats from trying to upgrade from OEM Windows Home "N" to Pro, without first putting in the "VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T" key to initiate the upgrade to Pro. Since even though I used a Windows 10 PRO "disc" - due to their being a Lenovo Volume Licensing Windows HOME key burned in the BIOS, the installer puts Windows Home onto your SSD|HD. Then you need to upgrade to Pro. Reboot. Enter Valid Pro key. Register.
On both my HP Laptop with Win 8 Home. And my Lenovo Laptop with Win 10 Home. The Media Creation Tool downloads the ISO to "somewhere". Then promptly fails to actually create the media (USB) with the aforementioned error.
Addenum: Windows 10 Pro licenses for $29.99.. Granted, I was skeptical, but the licenses are valid, and they (Bonanza) have guaranteed refunds along with payment via Paypal or Amazon Pay.
NTLite + (Windows10 ISO | Insider Preview ISO) + slipstreamed Lenovo Drivers + create ISO.
Rufus to USB Stick (GPT Partition Scheme, FAT32).
Clean Install Windows 10. Change License key to: VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T
Change License key to purchased Windows 10 Pro key. Register.
Don't even bother trying to use the recommendedMedia Creation Tool. When you have a OEM Windows machine it appears to ALWAYS fail to actually create the media (usb stick).
About the only tweaks and drivers, settings, and tunings that I have needed to do in the last 2-3 years was:
1:
Right Click on "My Computer"; Properties
Click on "Advanced System Settings", Performance [Settings...], Data Execution Prevention Tab, and add the games.exe to the exception list.
2:
A few AHK controller adjustments, along with some JoyToKey profiles.
So what was "wrong" with telling the world what a racist, immoral piece of shit that Hulk Hogan is?
And boo hoo, he can't pretend to be a wrestler anymore as he's not much of a role model now is he?
So because, David Geithner, the married Conde Nast exec wasn't an Actor nor Politician, Gawker shouldn't be allowed to report that he hired a male escort?
You'd be foolish to even bother with the XBox at this point. Yet everytime I say the consoles are little beyond a glorified weak-ass PC I get shouted down by the console-brigade, telling me that consoles run "closer to the metal" are more "optimized" blah blah blah blah. Bullshit. All the consoles, including recent Nintendo NX reports, all point towards ALL the consoles being an AMD processor and AMD GPU. Vulkan is taking over from OpenGL. There is no advantage to a console today, if you don't care about the handful of forced exclusives.
Most reviews are fit for about one thing, Expressing said person's opinion - and they don't even (usually) do that very well. Thus about the only thing you can get from a review "rating" is to find one or more people whom express opinions in a manner that matches your experience.
If IMDB would allow any degree of control (filter|sort) it would be an improvement over what it is now - an Amazon owned database for Xray, and ad-platform for Amazon Video
No apparently what some people don't understand, is that just like with Opera-of-old, enabling the "feature" to block-some-bad-site-for-some-reason will send ALL of your browsing history to Mozilla|Opera|Chrome.
Unlocked Xiaomi phones (@aliexpress) are pretty interesting for their price points ~$400 Xiaomi's compare favorably to major manufacturers $600-$700 flagship devices, and ~$200 matches up to the majors $350-$400 offerings.
In remaking Stelco into U.S. Steel Canada Inc., the Pittsburgh parent committed to a number of binding undertakings, 31 in all. Chief among them were production levels (an increase in annual steel production to at least 4.3 million tons a year) and employment (no fewer than 3,950 full-time employees).
Seven years later, in September, 2014, the Canadian operation was granted protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, which is still winding its way through the courts. So that pretty much tells you that events did not unfold as planned.
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Wrote a script that takes a string as input and outputs a 32 character string like: ”“ÕE__ÙsR.“âÅÜv¼__(#Jçwç,*eÔ2È__1Ì
Double-underscores are upper ANSI characters that Slashdot still wont render.
The input string was: "Wrote a script that takes a string as input"
It seems like all of the new wave of Chinese Mobile|Hardware companies suffer from this though. Take a run through AliExpress - almost every portable device has 4+ versions. Maybe it makes more sense if you can natively speak the language.
I'm replacing a HP heh. Damnable POS wont let the OS use more than 8GB of 16GB of RAM.
The HP - encased in plastic everywhere, runs hot with just Firefox, Opera and editors running. The Lenovo temps are about the same as my desktop for normal usage. The big test will see how the Lenovo handles "Dead Island" which caused the HP to overheat and shut down.
Now you’ll want to enter the default Windows 10 Pro product key as mentioned by Charles From Microsoft:
Windows 10 is the first time I can honestly say, what Microsoft has done, looks and performs like what a modern version of Win2K should be. The default theme, even is dark. There's a few quirks with ejecting USB that Windows 8 doesn't seem to have. Other than that, best OS from Microsoft in 16 years.
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).
Dammit, ignore the activation code google link. Thats from trying to upgrade from OEM Windows Home "N" to Pro, without first putting in the "VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T" key to initiate the upgrade to Pro. Since even though I used a Windows 10 PRO "disc" - due to their being a Lenovo Volume Licensing Windows HOME key burned in the BIOS, the installer puts Windows Home onto your SSD|HD. Then you need to upgrade to Pro. Reboot. Enter Valid Pro key. Register.
windows activation error code 0xc004f014:
Error Code 0x80070456 - 0xA0019 - Windows 10 Media Creation Tool - USB - Microsoft Community
On both my HP Laptop with Win 8 Home. And my Lenovo Laptop with Win 10 Home. The Media Creation Tool downloads the ISO to "somewhere". Then promptly fails to actually create the media (USB) with the aforementioned error.
<NOTE>: You will need to turn off "secure boot" in the UEFI (BIOS) to install a non-signed ISO.
Addenum:
Windows 10 Pro licenses for $29.99.. Granted, I was skeptical, but the licenses are valid, and they (Bonanza) have guaranteed refunds along with payment via Paypal or Amazon Pay.
NTLite + (Windows10 ISO | Insider Preview ISO) + slipstreamed Lenovo Drivers + create ISO.
Rufus to USB Stick (GPT Partition Scheme, FAT32).
Clean Install Windows 10. Change License key to: VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T
Change License key to purchased Windows 10 Pro key. Register.
Don't even bother trying to use the recommended Media Creation Tool. When you have a OEM Windows machine it appears to ALWAYS fail to actually create the media (usb stick).
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OPTIONAL Windows Updates:
Although I have previously installed|run UltimateOutsider's GWX Control Panel.
1:
2:
Not exactly a hassle.
I don't buy games from UBISOFT, so no I have not been required to use Origin.
So what was "wrong" with telling the world what a racist, immoral piece of shit that Hulk Hogan is?
And boo hoo, he can't pretend to be a wrestler anymore as he's not much of a role model now is he?
So because, David Geithner, the married Conde Nast exec wasn't an Actor nor Politician, Gawker shouldn't be allowed to report that he hired a male escort?
You'd be foolish to even bother with the XBox at this point. Yet everytime I say the consoles are little beyond a glorified weak-ass PC I get shouted down by the console-brigade, telling me that consoles run "closer to the metal" are more "optimized" blah blah blah blah. Bullshit. All the consoles, including recent Nintendo NX reports, all point towards ALL the consoles being an AMD processor and AMD GPU. Vulkan is taking over from OpenGL. There is no advantage to a console today, if you don't care about the handful of forced exclusives.
Most reviews are fit for about one thing, Expressing said person's opinion - and they don't even (usually) do that very well. Thus about the only thing you can get from a review "rating" is to find one or more people whom express opinions in a manner that matches your experience.
If IMDB would allow any degree of control (filter|sort) it would be an improvement over what it is now - an Amazon owned database for Xray, and ad-platform for Amazon Video
This just is not true. Food (groceries) have increased significantly, by nearly a third in the last 4-5 years. Although Meat has mostly been unaffected. How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis | Foreign Policy
Looks like you need one of these Mediasonic 4 Bay 3.5" SATA HDD Enclosure (USB 3.,eSATA).
No apparently what some people don't understand, is that just like with Opera-of-old, enabling the "feature" to block-some-bad-site-for-some-reason will send ALL of your browsing history to Mozilla|Opera|Chrome.
With Intel scaling back from Moores law, I think you are going to see Nvidia et al also scaling back from Moores law very very soon.
Unlocked Xiaomi phones (@aliexpress) are pretty interesting for their price points ~$400 Xiaomi's compare favorably to major manufacturers $600-$700 flagship devices, and ~$200 matches up to the majors $350-$400 offerings.