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Happy birthday!

What Bruce said.

if the edge of the cordon you'll forget the raf

Ah, sorry to hear you have such graphic dreams.
If it makes you feel any better, my nightmares aren't in the least bit graphic, so my nightmares generally are where I will look at something until it scares me or a tree turns into a car or something stupid like that.

Makes me feel incredibly silly when I wake up and calm down afterwards, haha.

"More on using it as a netbook, if you want to perhaps swap it with another OS for some sort of specialized usage, you may find yourself locked into the Windows that comes with it. Disabling secure boot is typically a painless process across these tablets, however the 32bit UEFI with no legacy boot option is very much unique to these tablets. Linux will not install without some hacking apart, and android-x86 is likely to have unstable or completely non-functional driver support for these tablets."

These are NOT like installing on a desktop computer. Not to mention even if you did somehow install something else on them, there are no non-windows 8+ drivers available for the hardware.

Happy bi

As much of a novelty item as a windows tablet is, the novelty wears off quickly.

As a tablet, Windows simply hasn't adapted well enough to make it worth using for anything other than the occasional game or web browsing. Navigating the desktop in 10 has been improved incredibly over Windows 8, mind you.
The apps are incredibly scarce compared to Android, and there aren't many (tablet friendly) games comparable to say, Terraria (Which I absolutely loved) on android. There are also considerably more ported games on Android, such as DosBox Turbo (I would kill to have this on my windows tablet), Quake Touch, Half life (Xash3D), Max payne and soforth.
Web browsing is also considerably more frustrating, with no official youtube app, chrome not really working all that great on low end devices, and the lack of ability to move the window up so you can see what you are typing. Awful. But if you can get past the negatives of the experience, the quad core intel Atom is perfectly capable of HD video playback and is generally a very smooth browsing experience in Edge. EDIT: I will give wintabs a big plus that Netflix works great on these tablets, if you don't use subtitles. (Subtitles break very frequently on the windows app)

As a notetaker, you're mainly looking at capacitive styluses, which are not fine enough to draw anything or use beyond simple textual note taking. (Don't be stupid like me and try to use it for math notes)

As a Netbook or portable gaming machine is where they really shine, if you don't mind lugging around a bluetooth keyboard+mouse or bulky but functional gamepad such as an IPEGA, you're looking at a library of games you simply cannot natively play on android without streaming. While the intel atom tablets are not powerhouses, they are certainly capable of playing older games and running software that is not memory intensive, such as half-life and Hammer.

However the biggest downfall of these cheaper tablets is the fact that while Windows has made incredible progress saving battery life on these underpowered devices, it simply cannot keep up with the very poor batteries that you get on these bargain price tablets. If you use your tablet frequently and want to use it as a miniature workstation, you're looking at either lugging around an extra high-capacity battery pack, or 4 hours of battery life. I myself have simply reserved my stream 7 for watching videos in bed or the very occasional web search for things while my computer is busy.
Just to add into the frustration, intel atom audio drivers have an incredibly infuriating glitch where if you don't turn the volume down to minimum before putting the tablet to sleep, the tablet doesn't actually go to sleep and will drain your battery as though it were running.

More on using it as a netbook, if you want to perhaps swap it with another OS for some sort of specialized usage, you may find yourself locked into the Windows that comes with it. Disabling secure boot is typically a painless process across these tablets, however the 32bit UEFI with no legacy boot option is very much unique to these tablets. Linux will not install without some hacking apart, and android-x86 is likely to have unstable or completely non-functional driver support for these tablets.

So at this point, I really cannot find much justification for buying a windows tablet anymore, over a dual boot tablet or simply buying a small netbook. The windows platform has zero benefits over the android platform for a tablet form factor, and the benefits you DO get from using it as a mini netbook are filled with minor to incredibly frustrating issues that keep you from truly enjoying the experience.

Anyways, I don't mean to piss all over your journal with negativity, but I just want to share my experience lest somebody decides to impulse buy as we did without doing a little bit more research into things that may or may not ruin the experience for them.
They're great little devices, but they need quite a bit of work before I could recommend them yet.

Why.

Probably buy a good gaming monitor with shit colour reproduction but all the fancy gaming related quirks, and use\buy a IPS panel for your colour sensitive material, with some sort of a video signal switcher so that you don't have to have some convoluted driver related dual monitor setup that works for both.

Seriously though, get what you want.
Your system there is solid enough and if you wish to make some minor tweaks you can easily simply change a few things, don't feel pressured to conform to other people's personal preferences.

There's problems and faults in both manufacturers. If anything I've found Nvidia to make more major fuckups then AMD, especially in terms of keeping up with technology which is a big nono. (Nvidia FX lineup and NVidia 200 series)

Maybe back in 1990 ATI had drivers problems, but who the fuck is using a Rage II nowadays anyways? But I digress.

And yes, that is my cpu but I have more memory, a better graphics card and hard drive. The only games that do not run well on high settings 1680x1050 are terribly coded console ports. Even when I was running my older GTX 280 (therefore my knowledge of aforementioned technology issues), metro 2033 ran fine on high.

You need a dual core 2.5-3GHZ cpu, with 1-2GB ram and an 8800GTX or GTS 250 to run modern games. You would literally have to be trying to make a system that couldn't run games well.

I don't have any money and I still buy things I want. You're so conservative and rigid, relax.

To be fair, this system is not a work system, it is his personal system. He's allowed to waste money for something that suits his style better than some rigid, purpose built office peripherals, even if it doesn't have perfect price to performance ratio like you guys calculate with your super sophisticated math. You can't calculate personal enjoyment or style with a calculator.

You'd be better off trying to explain to the kids that buy $300 hoodies and $600 shoes (then complain about being poor) why their choices aren't practical and waste a lot of money.
([u][b]And since I'm going to get 30 responses about those two prices, they're exaggerations, hyperbole (the number 30 was as well). Use some common sense.[/u][/b])

I meant a high quality LCD\LED panel, not just any random 'gaming' one.

Any workstation system you could build would double as a more than enough gaming system anyways.
If you really care about using your system for workstation work, don't skimp on the CPU, graphics card or monitor. LCD\LED monitors may seem super awesome compared to whatever you may compare them to, but they could end up having terrible color reproduction and fucking up everything you make. Your memory seems fine, though.
If perhaps you want to go a more hybrid route, GPU raytracing can yield ridiculous performance increase for very good quality, but you would need to get a graphics card with more memory.

Last I heard, he was with Will.

i'm a girl

guys... i have something to tell you

You know how sometimes your brain goes really really retarded and mixes two completely unrelated topics together and you make a response based on that and you end up sounding and looking like a complete fucking moron?

Well, for some reason I thought there was a bunch of other shit posted other than "lol got spam in my mail" and now I look like a fucking idiot now that I've reread it and all that extra information is not at all there. I could have sworn there was other information posted that I was responding to, but of course it has since conveniently evaporated from my mind.

I've been working full time on top of going to school full time so I think this is the point of my exhaustion that I must excuse myself from the internet before I really do something embarrassing.

It's funny because none of you actually use physical lighting and are ridiculing the shit out of this, but if this thing was powerful enough at a reasonable price it could very well be a great deal--Lighting is fucking expensive and you learn to appreciate good deals on things like this.

I had the displeasure of using what must have been around a $100 LED panel (like the ones you see on ebay for $30 but because it's brand name it's 50x more expensive) and I couldn't light anything with it. It had an effective range of about 2 feet.
Useless for anything but giving a faint blacklight on my subject.

Yet somebody donated to me a vintage "Movie light for super 8 cameras" and it's nearly as powerful as the professional stage lights we use on production.
And it cost $11 brand new back when it was produced.
Too bad you can't buy a light that powerful nowadays without shelling out at least $100.

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Merry Christmas.

It's a little reassuring that 1996 was NOT before I was born.

But... Old is gold.

Yes, you understand the naming scheme correctly. A x60 will kick the ass of a x30 generations ahead of it.

If money is tight, I'd suggest an older high end card.

Nvidia 8800GTX, 9800GX2, GTX 260\GTX 295. All of those are solid cards, but the 8800gtx is the lowest end of the selection, and really only if you're truly hurting for money.

An impulse buy is okay so long as you realize it's an impulse buy.
I initially thought a x30 card would be complete shit, but a second look on youtube shows it's actually a pretty solid card for gaming. Easily enough to hold you over until you upgrade to a faster card.

I believe they made a few exceptions for the 1.6 tournament, didn't they?

I'd be down to help with whatever.

60% off. Jesus.

I know the feeling skals. Unfortunately [or maybe not unfortunately?] I picked up severe anxiety as a result of drug usage so partying is now destroyed for me.

Valve... Why.

DLC for counter-strike...

I don't really see how it can be a scam, or what the harm is in responding to it. All it's asking is if this website is or is not associated with the company in question, because they share the name... Simple misunderstanding.

Steve Jobs has a cult hating from anybody who doesn't like him, so I think Rim saw one hate comment (all it takes) and assumed they were going to come flooding in.

Some earphone designers are retarded and put holes on the outside part that let all the audio leak out. I don't know why.

The textures are too reflective\self-illuminative, especially in the first picture. Compare first picture to the last picture for comparison.

Tom Cruise isn't a good actor? Have you seen Collateral?

And what if you certainly couldn't secure a stable position to make a living where you are NOW?
I would think that's why most people move to 'seek opportunity'...