[inconspicious]

Dr. Deeps posted:

I'm trying to find an old Thinkpad or something on craigslist that I can buy and put Linux on. I'd love to be able to bring that thing to C++ with me and do my work on there.

I'm after a cheapy P3 laptop to run linux on too, a thinkpad would be the icing on the cake.

[Dr. Deeps]

inconspicious posted:

I'm after a cheapy P3 laptop to run linux on too, a thinkpad would be the icing on the cake.

I'm hoping that my parents will just end up buying my mom a new one. She's starting to complain it's getting old. I'll just through Debian or Xubuntu on it.

[TheGunnerGuy]

I know, I'm just saying, that the price war has begun.

(User was permabanned for this post ("Alt of permabanned user" - Swebonny))

[1solidsnake2]

Why specifically a ThinkPad? Why not a business class laptop from the likes of HP etc?

[Makol]

TheGunnerGuy posted:

I know, I'm just saying, that the price war has begun.

you're whoops

so I kinda doubt that

Edited:

1solidsnake2 posted:

Why specifically a ThinkPad? Why not a business class laptop from the likes of HP etc?

because they're good laptop?

derp is in love with them and even made a power point on why they're so amazing for me.. for a project that I was too lazy to do myself

[superstepa]

I am using CleverOmegle and it's hilarious, but really creepy
It's talking to some girl from texas and it already got photos of her
Now it's just mocking her and calls her stupid

[Makol]

what's cleveromegle

[TheGunnerGuy]

They need to. Even if the card is better, we are in the middle of the rescission.
And considering the non stock cards are REALLY expensive, I would expect it to drop, to maybe £400.

[superstepa]

Makol posted:

what's cleveromegle

It lets you chat on omegle using cleverbot

[TheGunnerGuy]

Makol posted:

what's cleveromegle

http://facepunch.com/threads/1149600

[Makol]

superstepa posted:

I am using CleverOmegle and it's hilarious, but really creepy
It's talking to some girl from texas and it already got photos of her
Now it's just mocking her and calls her stupid

I don't even know what I just read.

Edited:

TheGunnerGuy posted:

They need to. Even if the card is better, we are in the middle of the rescission.
And considering the non stock cards are REALLY expensive, I would expect it to drop, to maybe £400.

who needs to?

it's more than likely that AMD lowered the prices because it them who needed to, no Nvidia, they were charging too much for a high-end card that was evenly matched with a mid-range card which isn't really a good thing

[TheGunnerGuy]

Makol, I was hardly late.
Superstepa said what it was, I gave the link.

Edited:

You evidently don't understand a recession, or business.

[Makol]

are you a pro business man

Edited:

also read an article or two, you may learn something as to why the price was dropped

[TheGunnerGuy]

Makol posted:

are a pro business man

Quickedit™

[Makol]

you should go

[TheGunnerGuy]

Makol posted:

are you a pro business man

Edited:

also read an article or two, you may learn something as to why the price was dropped

It.
Doesn't.
Matter.

Money isn't infinite. People buying computers have a limited budget.
Nvidia will need to drop as well, otherwise, their sales will drop a fair amount.
A non reference AMD card is 380.
A non reference Nvidia card is about 480.

Edited:

And speaking from benchmarks, the difference isn't worth £100.

[1solidsnake2]

TheGunnerGuy posted:

Quickedit™

Jesus Christ you're like the little annoying brat at school who tries (and fails) to fit in with the older 'cool' guys.

[Makol]

TheGunnerGuy posted:

It.
Doesn't.
Matter.

Money isn't infinite. People buying computers have a limited budget.
Nvidia will need to drop as well, otherwise, their sales will drop a fair amount.
A non reference AMD card is 380.
A non reference Nvidia card is about 480.

Edited:

And speaking from benchmarks, the difference isn't worth £100.

you should stop

like right about now

and by stop I mean stop being such a problem and a ninny

[nikomo]

He's a business grown-up who makes business profits!
Networking!
Earlier he photocopied a burrito!
His company is agile and lean with a focus on the long tail.

(All my posts are XKCD comics that have been repurposed into post-form, go through my post history if you don't believe me.)

[inconspicious]

1solidsnake2 posted:

Why specifically a ThinkPad? Why not a business class laptop from the likes of HP etc?

Because the thinkpads are incredible, and I'd rather not carry a portable fusion reactor with a keyboard + screen around with me.

[Dr. Deeps]

I just want a T40 because I saw one get put in between two tesla coils, get zapped, and still work.

[Pbox]

thinkpads excite me sexually

[Makol]

Dr. Deeps posted:

I just want a T40 because I saw one get put in between two tesla coils, get zapped, and still work.

whoa

is it on youtube?

[Dr. Deeps]

Makol posted:

whoa

is it on youtube?

Yeah. I'll look around, give me a bit.

Edit: that was fast:

[MC3craze]

I like thinkpads, but don't like the newer trackpads.

[Makol]

It can survive two tesla coils but can it survive a Makol?

[Dr. Deeps]

Makol posted:

It can survive two tesla coils but can it survive a Makol?

Oh well it died after a while. But still.

[[EG] Pepper]

inconspicious posted:

Because the thinkpads are incredible, and I'd rather not carry a portable fusion reactor with a keyboard + screen around with me.

My HP business laptop turned out to not be a nuclear missle bomb but instead turned out to be a rather nice laptop.

:colbert:

Edited:

Also, that t40 survived because that metal cage inside took all the voltage

[Dr. Deeps]

My parents just saw that T40 video. They think a thinkpad would be perfect for me for college now.

[1solidsnake2]

inconspicious posted:

Because the thinkpads are incredible, and I'd rather not carry a portable fusion reactor with a keyboard + screen around with me.

I said business class.

[Shadaez]

Dr. Deeps posted:

Yeah. I'll look around, give me a bit.

Edit: that was fast:

god dang that was loud

[wingless]

Pbox posted:

thinkpads excite me sexually

I'm at a Thinkcenter right now at school.
It sucks.
Fucking Lenovo. Ruin everything.
Thinkpads fo lyfe (She says as she types on a Dell laptop)

[Dr. Deeps]

Thinkcenters are fucking horrible. It seems like the power buttons always break on the older P4 models so the only way to re-boot them is to un-plug the power supply and plug it back in and then wait 5 seconds for it to boot by itself.

[Makol]

apple can die

they wiped my entire itunes account without notice

easily $1000 down the freaking drain

die apple

die

[:smugspike:]

guys I was browsing a wholesale site for shitsngiggles and I found this
http://www.cpu4u.com/product_info.ph...79a4fd0e639ce4
ancient overstock from 1995?

[ButtsexV3]

:smugspike: posted:

guys I was browsing a wholesale site for shitsngiggles and I found this
http://www.cpu4u.com/product_info.ph...79a4fd0e639ce4
ancient overstock from 1995?

more like 2002

[Political Gamer]

Makol posted:

apple can die

they wiped my entire itunes account without notice

easily $1000 down the freaking drain

die apple

die

Have you tried contacting them or restoring from a backup?

[Makol]

Political Gamer posted:

Have you tried contacting them or restoring from a backup?

I did back up but I can't even access anything.

By wiped I mean it's literally deleted. I no longer have an Apple ID or iTunes account.

I did email support but I'm not expecting much

[Political Gamer]

Makol posted:

I did back up but I can't even access anything.

By wiped I mean it's literally deleted. I no longer have an Apple ID or iTunes account.

I did email support but I'm not expecting much

Are your sure its not iTunes being iTunes? Try: https://appleid.apple.com/

[Makol]

I did. I wasn't even trying to access iTunes when I found out that my account was dead.

It claims my account didn't exist. I was able to make a new one under the exact same ID but cancelled before completing it since I didn't want to fuck something up in case they can recover it.