I definitely agree on the overpriced label, but we do have to figure in inflation as well. Prices should be probably 40% more than they were 4 years ago, adjusted for inflation.......
Ok, I see that some are out there at this point. I guess I was expecting the tech to proliferate and become the standard about $100 to $120 by now. (just like SVGA overtook VGA at some point) It seems like 4k is still treated as more of a specialty item.
I have 4 thin clients that I'd like to add an SSD to each, plus a couple of desktop PC's that I'd like to upgrade. I looked the market over recently, and saw that prices were roughly about TWICE as high as they were the last time I looked.
Is this scenario likely to continue for a while, or...
I saw a news article about AMD yesterday, and looked up the full public market value of both Intel and AMD. I thought that if AMD was doing really well, it might have a valuation of about 80% of Intel.
Imagine my surprise when some quick math showed that AMD had a public market value of...
Is it correct to say thunderbolt 4 and 5 are types of USB 4, but USB 4 is not necessarily thunderbolt? I saw some boards with thunderbolt 5 at Micro Center....
Ended up pulling the m.2 SSD, and it got into BIOS. I used an extra sata SSD, reinstalled Windows 11, and we were back up and running. I'm amazed that we only got 1 year out of the 1TB m.2 SSD, given that it was supposed to have a very high Terabytes written rating. It was less than 10% of...
We had some issues about 10 days ago, where we got a strange message when I tried to open jpeg photos on our spinny SATA hard drive. Also, we could not click on the start button on the screen. My son booted from a Linux USB drive and ran some sort of low level drive error checker, and the...
I was browsing a number of monitors recently, and noticed that the resolution is basically unchanged from 15+ years ago.
I would have thought that 4K resolution on computer monitors would have been getting common by now. Since it isn't, will it ever?
I've started seeing Lightning5, but have yet to see USB 4 on the AM5 boards when I browse at Micro Center. Is it likely to be on most boards by the end of the year?
Well, I mean, I usually do order a couple of burgers each for our family. I figured that was pretty common. Ever since I was young, adults always reinforced that in lines "no cutting, and first come, first served". I can see the other side of it for people with just one or two items, getting...
Interesting - I hadn't previously heard of MXM, so I have some reading to do. I've never upgraded graphics on a laptop before, and didn't realize it might be possible until I saw this photo.
Over the last few years, I have noticed more and more fast food places asking me to get out of line after I have paid for food, and driven up to the window where you typically get the food you have ordered.
I've found this request to be rather rude, since I believe that folks in a line should...
I've been trying to figure out a cheap and inexpensive graphics upgrade for my Wyse 5070 thin client, which has Intel HD 600 video. From my research, it looks like this ~$25 laptop MX350 video card would increase performance by a factor of 5, and only use about 10 watts.
Trouble is, I'm not...
I was able to upgrade the RAM on an old thin client to 16GB using 2 8GB sodimms for only about 23 bucks about a year ago.
I found myself thinking about upgrading to 32GB (2 16 GB sodimms) when I read that it had been verified that the thin client would work with that much.
However, the...
Wow, that seems a lot simpler than I had thought. I'm pretty sure we have about 8 cell phones lying around that are all 3 years old or less. One of those, along with the USB cable, should be all he needs, along with a sim card with data plan.
Yep, like I said, a law is in place to supposedly stop landlords that don't fix things up. However, that wouldn't necessarily stop them from doing petty things to make life really annoying for a while. I'm going to encourage him to write up a notice, and take a photo of it posted to her door...
>> The only thing I miss is remote ventilation during the hot summer months.
You can always get one of those auto ventshade type things made of polycarbonate, then roll down your window a little bit on the days that are going to get hot. I've done that on 2 of my vehicles, but can't find one...
One of my son's friends is renting an apartment out in the 'boonies'. He recently told me that when it rains, water drips all over the place. He says that he asked the landlord to fix the roof, but was told that she 'couldn't afford it right now'. She threatened to kick him out if he 'causes...
One of my son's friends has no internet, because he is living in a remote rural area with no wired internet.
I found myself thinking about cellular data, but he is really on a budget. I wish someone offered unlimited 500k or 1mbps data for $10 or so a month, but I haven't been able to find...
I wish there were a "cold" way to solder them. Does anyone make a cold soldering type of wet paste, or something like that? If they made something like JB Weld water putty, with extremely tiny metallic bits distributed throughout, it might work to just put dabs on the motherboard in the...
Yes, I had thought about doing that with white cables that would sort of blend in, up at the edges of the ceiling, since we have our 3 computers in the same room as the router.
However, I have the wifi turn off from 10pm to 6am, to help keep the kids from doing things during the night, and to...
I was looking at this Nvidia MX350 internal laptop video card/chip, and I can't seem to find info on the actual cable hookup anywhere. Not sure if this is an industrywide standard for popping in/out different laptop video chips,
or if this is some sort of proprietary HP thing.
If anyone...
I was thinking that 5GHz might be a help, but one of my PC's is hooked up using that, and it still has the problem, so I thought I would go with 6e.
My kids are convinced that they are actually getting "microwaved" by leaks. I keep telling them that it is just RF interference. (hopefully!)
Hmm, G3Dmark score of 3,630 for those 30 Watts. Yowch - about $130! I don't think I can justify spending about 5X as much on the video as I did for the entire thin client. If I were going to spend $100, I'd probably get an Arc A380. It also uses 30 Watts, but gives about 5,115 G3Dmark...
My problem is microwaves - on existing bands, our 3 PC's are about 12 feet from our 2 microwaves, and internet slows to a crawl whenever someone microwaves anything. I've talked to a number of other folks, and this does not seem to be rare. I have read that the new, third bandwidth that 6e...
Does it require "2 factor authentication"? I ask because I work at a school, and would likely do this after activating my year of Disney+. However, I don't have an active cell phone on me when I am at work.
Atom processor? The Wyse 5070 has an Intel Celeron J4105. It is a big upgrade from my current thin client.
Current: AMD GX-415GA cpu marks 1,413
New: Celeron J4105 cpu marks 2,902
Unfortunately, the Intel HD 600 video on the Celeron is about 30% less powerful than the AMD...
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