Ontopic Random Computer-Electronics Thread

[Valve1138]

Doesn't matter. I didn't buy seven year old technology.

Just a processor for and old shitbox

 

[gee]

I finally found something the T410 laptop I use for everything can't do: OpenGL 2.0. And the latest SketchUp and Inventor both suddenly require it.

I can get a T430 locally for 300-350 bucks, or maybe I'll just set up the desktop again.

 

[gee]

Oh for fucks sake.

Told the person to get a used business-class HP for $150 because it's good enough to run facebook and puzzle games and e-mails and shit, can take a bit more of a beating than their Gateway, and if they do break it, they're only out $150. Now they're offended at me for implying they break shit. Really?

 

[Amstel]

Someone needs to find a new doggie daycare.

 

[plot]

they have a gateway? is this 1997?

 

[Valve1138]

I think Gateway still existed. Owned by Acer?

 

[Ledboots]

Oh for fucks sake.

Told the person to get a used business-class HP for $150 because it's good enough to run facebook and puzzle games and e-mails and shit, can take a bit more of a beating than their Gateway, and if they do break it, they're only out $150. Now they're offended at me for implying they break shit. Really?

Did you say "puzzle games"?

 

[APRIL]

Wow so old.

I meant the computer.

It's a home built PC, sooooooo pieces change all the time. It's just been four years of the concept sitting next to my desk.

 

[APRIL]

Just a processor for and old shitbox

Ya, no, there isn't an age on this sucker as it has a bunch of different parts that are upgraded here and there.

 

[Jehannum]

then again.... i googled it, and there is a lot of results claiming the same.

Never saw the logic in chasing vidja game requirements with a PC. It's a never-ending circle of misery - upgrade, solve issues, rinse, repeat.

 

[plot]

For the most part hardware had outpaced software for quite awhile. It's not the two year cycle it used to be, most games you could play perfectly fine on a five year old pc, probably older.

Ea can't code for shit though.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

For the most part hardware had outpaced software for quite awhile. It's not the two year cycle it used to be, most games you could play perfectly fine on a five year old pc, probably older.

Ea can't code for shit though.

Shit, I can play FO4 on Medium quality on my laptop.

 

[fly]

then again.... i googled it, and there is a lot of results claiming the same.

Yep. It's a thing.

 

[fly]

For the most part hardware had outpaced software for quite awhile. It's not the two year cycle it used to be, most games you could play perfectly fine on a five year old pc, probably older.

Ea can't code for shit though.

Pedantic: EA doesn't code anything.

 

[plot]

Pedantic: EA doesn't code anything.

they own dice, so...

 

[Valve1138]

Ya, no, there isn't an age on this sucker as it has a bunch of different parts that are upgraded here and there.

Right, right, right.

 

[fly]

they own dice, so...

Owning stock in a mining company doesn't make you a miner. That said, I'd like to spend the next seven pages discussing it, preferably with more and more obscure analogies.

 

[plot]

Owning stock in a mining company doesn't make you a miner. That said, I'd like to spend the next seven pages discussing it, preferably with more and more obscure analogies.

It's even called ea dice. You're really nitpicking the publisher/developer relationship on this one, especially since the publisher owns the dev.

 

[fly]

It's even called ea dice. You're really nitpicking the publisher/developer relationship on this one, especially since the publisher owns the dev.

Notice the terms you used? What does a publisher do?

 

[plot]

Notice the terms you used? What does a publisher do?

In this case they develop shitty code.