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yeah, it's a little heavy.
I'm just looking for a laptop which can replace my desktop without regret with the added benefit of being more carryable! ^^
Anyhow, now I finally found one, I'll wait 1 or 2 years to see if there are any progress! ^^
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Super Lloyd wrote: I'm just looking for a laptop which can replace my desktop FTFY - 5kg...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Do you use external monitors or do you need fully self-contained?
I used to go for the big laptop screen but found they were never big enough so ended up going the other way: getting the smallest I could to still make it usable (13" until I get some prescription glasses, I guess) and plug 'er into a whopping big monitor at home or the office.
There's always a compromise, right? Good screen but painful to carry around, or a great traveler with a small screen.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's a gaming laptop with a 75W GPU. If they tried shoehorning it into a thinner chassis it would either sound like a fighter jet lighting off the afterburners or overheat and throttle itself stupid.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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What about the Zenbook UX301 or UX302 (dedicated graphics gpu)
I am waiting for it to hit the UK in the next couple of weeks, but think that is going to be my next portable. It is already shipping in some area of the globe.
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It sounds affordable and cool. Cheers !
"If A is a success in life, then A=x+y+z. (Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.)"
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5 Kilos. F-I-V-E K-I-L-O-S!
You might as well carry around your desktop.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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The monitor is 120Hz - completely flicker free, or potentially 3D. Nice!
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Britain's badger population.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Jimmy Hoffa wrapped in a newspaper.
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A penguin run over by a SnowCat[^]
A nun skydiving from a helicopter, in an updraft.
A skunk crossing a rifle range.
O.J. Simpson's last meeting with his ex-wife.
Michael Jackson petting a hungry pit bull.
A black FBI agent discovered - undercover - at a Klan rally.
Will Rogers never met me.
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[obscure reference]
South Africa after a 99.
speramus in juniperus
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A nun playing goalie for a darts team
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Awesome! Where can I get a connection like that?
Will Rogers never met me.
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That was for the first byte. All subsequent ones were much slower.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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kmoorevs wrote: Old DSL on a good day...6MB down/512MB up - $114/mo* Wow, and I dropped my ISP when they raised their rates from $20 to $25.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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That was the first thing my mind paused on too..
Excellent! So I'm not the only tight-arse here then.
I pay $29 for 6.5 weeks of mobile phone and internet. Net is 5GB at 3.79Mbps, phone is good for 4 hours of 1 minute calls.
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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I'd blow that net quota in 2 or 3 days. My monthly usage is 70-100GB down, and IIRC 5 or 10GB up.
I'm paying ~65/mo for 15/1.5 because I'm too lazy to call them up and switch to the 20/2 plan they're offering at the same price but a different name.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Are you mixing up B(ytes) and b(bits)?
I currently get ~75Mbs down and ~16Mbs up on a normal day, well pleased with that. It makes a big difference compared to my old ADSL service at ~9/~1.
Enjoy your new connection.
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See Here[^]
That leaves only John Glenn of the original Mercury Seven.
Sad that we are losing all the real space pioneers, the men whose names will live on forever.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Pardon an insensitive question, but: why is this important to you? You consistently maintain that NASA is a fraud. By that reasoning, Carpenter and Glenn are both frauds as well, and therefore not deserving of notice.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I never maintained that we didn't put men in space, only that we didn't go to the moon.
They were brave that sat atop an intercontinental ballistic missile and hoped for the best.
NASA has done some remarkable things, Voyager for example, but Mercury was the bravest.
Then the Apollo mission that followed showed how unprepared they really were.
That is why after Apollo they had to go for the Gemini missions.
And why were they so concerned about radiation when doing the Hubble repairs if they had previouslly been to the moon safely?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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The Gemini program consisted of ten flights in 1965 and 1966: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_program[^]. The Gemini missions were basically test beds to develop technology used for Apollo.
The Apollo program began in 1961, with first flight in 1968, and ran through 1972: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program[^]. The intent for Apollo was to develop a three-man craft capable of reaching the moon. It did so, several times.
Dalek Dave wrote: And why were they so concerned about radiation when doing the Hubble repairs if they had previouslly been to the moon safely Radiation shielding inside a spacecraft, even a 'tin can' like the Apollo command module, is quite a different thing from shielding in an EVA suit.
Software Zen: delete this;
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