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Old 05-12-2020, 12:44 PM   #71 (permalink)
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that's more amusing if it defaults to that
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 01-10-2021, 08:58 PM   #72 (permalink)
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What I did with my last laptop was to buy a gaming PC, then I maxed out the RAM. I paid $800 for a Dell G3 (on sale at the time) and then another $120 for 32 Gigabytes of RAM (Random Access Memory) and installed it myself. I paid under $1k for a $2k comparable laptop because tech companies and resellers know the ignorance of the average consumer. RAM is what your system needs in order to function properly, and the more of it, the better. It's system memory and different from the memory on a hard drive, which stores files. Once RAM gets used up, it's gone until you reboot. It's the same with on-board graphics memory, but that's another avenue all together and you won't need to worry about that unless you start gaming. Companies will put out low-cost products with low-end RAM and then jack up the price on units with basically the same specs but more RAM, and the markup for just having more RAM preinstalled is ridiculous. It's capitalism in it's finest form.
That's what I'm finding in my laptop search. Geez, 3 and 4 hundred extra dollars for 6 to 12 more gbs of RAM? Ridiculous.

I'm looking for a laptop with very good resolution (doesn't have to be optimal, necessarily), a backlit keyboard, a DVD-RW drive, great sound and at least 16 gb. But your installation of 32 gbs of RAM sounds like a great idea.
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Old 01-10-2021, 09:02 PM   #73 (permalink)
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Do laptops even have CD/DVD drives anymore? I think that might be extinct.
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Old 01-10-2021, 09:38 PM   #74 (permalink)
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Do laptops even have CD/DVD drives anymore? I think that might be extinct.
Few and far between (as they say) but they do. Man is this a hunt.
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Old 01-10-2021, 10:21 PM   #75 (permalink)
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Think I'm going with the Lenovo ThinkPad W530. Refurb. Comes with 32 gb RAM. 1920 x 1080 Screen Res. Backlit Keyboard. Hard Drive: 500GB 7200rp Windows 10 Pro. Under $600. Course it is 8 years old tech but from what I've researched it's a beast of a machine. This may be it. Don't think I'll find better unless I upgrade myself.
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Old 01-11-2021, 12:01 AM   #76 (permalink)
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Back to work. Trump bux. And presumably more unemployment back pay coming. Minus a cable bill. Can I get a new laptop for 2-3 hundred bucks that I could download movies tv shows and sports if they ever come back and watch Hulu or Netflix maybe. If so which one?
I don't even download **** anymore cause streaming is so prevalent

You can get an ap on android called cinema hd which would stream almost anything you want to watch for free. You can cast that **** to your tv too. My phone cost 50 bucks and it does all that... Plus I could easily torrent **** if I wanted but can't be bothered. Dunno why it has to be a laptop but I'm sure you can find one for 300 that can do that ****. You could spend a bit more and build/but a decent pc for 3-4 hundred and then get a decent tv for like 200 to hook it up to.
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Preciate it

I’ve solved all my problems just using my phone since then

Right now I don’t see any reason to buy a computer and I haven’t turned on my tv in months
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I don't even download **** anymore cause streaming is so prevalent

You can get an ap on android called cinema hd which would stream almost anything you want to watch for free. You can cast that **** to your tv too. My phone cost 50 bucks and it does all that... Plus I could easily torrent **** if I wanted but can't be bothered. Dunno why it has to be a laptop but I'm sure you can find one for 300 that can do that ****. You could spend a bit more and build/but a decent pc for 3-4 hundred and then get a decent tv for like 200 to hook it up to.
What's the exact name of the app? I typed Cinema HD into play store but there are several.
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I’ve solved all my problems just using my phone since then

If your phone is Android then I recommend Cinema HD. Anyone who pays for movies/music/etc is a sucker imo.

**** netflix **** hulu **** blu rays **** cds **** itunes **** paying for spotify

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What's the exact name of the app? I typed Cinema HD into play store but there are several.
the ones on play store are ****. go on your browser and type in cinema hd free download. there's a million variations of the same ap on the play store but half of them are lacking some of the content. i had to go on my browser to find the proper apk that has pretty much any and everything that i am looking for.
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