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Posted August 29, 2019
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Mr.Mumbles: I don't get this trend of making super-thin gaming laptops. In fact, I gave one a trial run for a few days a couple of weeks ago, but (fortunately) ended up returning it for a full refund. It was nice and speedy, but after a short while it got uncomfortably hot just resting my left hand on it, and anything halfway demanding made it sound like a mini-vac. That's a problem all these thin ones seem to suffer from.

My old '13 lappie may not be all that portable and slightly unwieldy, but it never even comes close to feeling it's about to burn me or sound like a jet trying to take off. I'll take function over (compromised) form any day of the week.
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Joakingdom: Thermal solutions are one of the most important aspects of a gaming laptop and sometimes companies don't do very well. Thin laptops use to have that issue. But trust me, they are getting better & better in that matter
Very true with some Laptops they try to use 1 fan to exhaust heat from both the CPU and GPU and my mind that is not very efficient because you are asking too much out of a cooling system and also have separate heat pipes for the CPU and GPU as well. My MSI gaming laptop with i7 7700HQ and a GTX 1060 6gb I never had any thermal issues because I use a cooling pad on top of the good thermals the 2 exhaust fans (1 for CPU and 1 for GPU). If you look at Apple's laptops they have thermal issues up the ass with their messed up fan curves where they have the fan or fans kick on at like 80C. Lucky there is a 3rd party program where you can set a fan curve to where you can make the fan or fans kick on much sooner.
Posted September 02, 2019
Following my rant about laptop market here is a thing of beauty!
Spotted this one a few days ago on a "big" mall store, not only are selling this one with a low end dual core (made for tablets and other passive cooled devices), it is coupled with a dedicated GPU?
(not even mention the 100Mb Ethernet port O.o )

This make laugh and crying at the same time

And also following my previous post, there are a lot of laptops selling without operating system. Actually, since this is illegal on EU, it is shipped with Free Dos.
Found a lot of exemples on dedicated computer shops, even with some nice AMD Ryzen CPU's.

Lenovo IdeiaPad 330s with Ryzen 3 2200u with Vega3 and 4Gb ram for 329 Euros, seem a little weak but there is the same model with the Ryzen 5 2500u/Vega 8, 512Gb NVME and 8 Gb of Ram for 500 Euros wich seems a OK laptop for the price, performance wise, although the screen may not be the best. Both ship with FreeDos!
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Posted September 02, 2019
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Themken: They even seem to sell fairly well. I am so sad for all those disappointed people who find out their mobiles are much more powerful. No wonder really as they buy €700 mobiles but are only willing to pay €250 for a laptop. That is how you end up crying. Maybe they should buy a keyboard for their mobile instead... but the screen stays small then.
No need with a deck station. Check the one for the Samsung 8. The product is called Dex.

The operating system recognizes the smartphone is docked and adapts the interface to be used with a large screen and a mouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBTjgUliEws
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Posted September 02, 2019
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Carradice:
Yes, seems smarter to me to dock a powerful mobile than to have one of those ad-books or whatever they call them unless all you really need is a typewriter.


FreeDOS can easily be replaced with your favourite Linux/GNU.
Posted September 07, 2019
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yonazzan73: Will an i5 7300, 8 gb ram, 128 + 1tb, nvidia 1050 4 gb, be good enough for current games? I mostly play old games but I'd love to be able to play new games too, something like gears 5 with my xbox friends.
I just bought this exact configuration. Whilst I won't be playing Cyberpunk at 4K resolution (and I don't have the screen for it anyway), it plays every game I have bought from Gog, and so far I have them all at maximum resolution or 1920×1080, of it's available.
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