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Burgi

23:00

she's pretty, funny and can burp like a a trooper

Anna duh

Bleh. Totally unimportant, non-critical user-space service manages to become completely unstoppable

@Burgi Eww

Burgi

i am astonished he hasn't married her yet

according to him she also puts out serious style

he has been in the army so i'm not sure if that is army slang

allquicatic

@Burgi those who have a good woman, don't realize what they have; those who have no one or a shitty partner, appreciate and long for what could be

Burgi

i think he knows

i'm not sure if he is too embrassed to asked or too shy.....

idk

Anna duh

Oh god no... it is bright pink

Burgi

23:08

oh man, my friend's missus could end him

Michael Frank

@Annaduh Uhh... was the picture of the definition of defenestrate a mistake?

Burgi

@Annaduh bad photoshop is bad

Anna duh

@MichaelFrank Nah, still had that in my clipboard from earlier, Greenshot hadn't finished uploading by the time I hit psate

@Burgi Not a photoshop?

Burgi

MSPAINT

Anna duh

Alienware 13 R3 Review (GTX 1060) - They Finally Did It.

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@Burgi Err, screenshot of a video...

Michael Frank

23:10

@Annaduh oh okay, I totally didn't know about that first definition though. o.O

Anna duh

Not edited in any way

@MichaelFrank Hah, that's the only one I knew :-P

Burgi

although i'm not sure why anyone would press P, K and SPACE together....

Anna duh

Oh thank fuck, you can change it and turn it off

Alienware 13 R3 Review (GTX 1060) - They Finally Did It.

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Michael Frank

Isn't it part of the 8 changeable colour zones?

Anna duh

Watch the video before making nonsensical comments mkay? He's clearly just pushing on the keyboard to demonstrate its solidity

@MichaelFrank Probably, i was just worried because it's bright pink in all of Dell's marketing shots and some reviews

Journeyman Geek

23:14

@Rahul2001 it not about popularity. TPTB feel it's not a good fit + it's a pain to maintain.

Anna duh

Oh god just watching that review has made me desperately want one again

Blaaarrrggh

Burgi

@Annaduh i just watch that

Anna duh

Blargh, need to reboot to watch it properly. Laptop can't decode 4K while also having 100% CPU being hogged by a stuck process

Burgi

loooks like an ok machine

Anna duh

@Burgi Just "OK"? :-o

For me it's got literally everything I've wanted for the past two years except a 360' hinge

Burgi

23:18

still unsure on the trackpad nonsense

Anna duh

@Burgi Even for non-gaming 95% of the time I use a mouse with my laptop anyway

Burgi

i've never been a laptop gamer

so alienware is super overpriced to me

its up against the MacBook Pro

Michael Frank

@Annaduh Did you see the new 4k from Netflix will only work in MS Edge?

Anna duh

That was a quick restart

Guess that happens when you have a high-end SSD :-o

@Burgi tbh I wouldn't be a laptop gamer if I could avoid it, but being homeless limits your options when it comes to desktop setups :-P

Burgi

fair point

Anna duh

23:21

The alienware is a bit overpriced anyway, though part of that is because it has a combination of features literally no other laptop has. You (or I am) are paying a premium for that alone.

Burgi

my 2009 macbook holds its own still

Anna duh

If it weren't for gaming chops (or lack thereof) my current 2011 Fujitsu would still be fine. Heck, if it had a Thunderbolt port for external graphics it would still be fine for a few more years.

Burgi

i slammed in an extra 2GB of RAM

Anna duh

No other laptop I know of is capable of holding 110Wh of battery capacity internally, with no bulging or sticking out "extended battery" parts

Burgi

it probably would benefit massively from an SSD

Anna duh

23:23

It's not a particularly efficient processor but by sheer brute force manages a good 5-10 hours of use.

@Burgi Lol I could mail you one for free >_>

Or a less shitty one at cost

Burgi

i need a legal OSX disk first ;)

Anna duh

I literally have a pile of spare SSDs

Burgi

2.5"?

Anna duh

@Burgi Can't you just download that from Apple or something? :-o

Michael Frank

@Annaduh Hey cool. I'm glad you enjoy our products ;)

Anna duh

23:24

@Burgi Yeah

Burgi

no

Anna duh

@MichaelFrank Heh :-D

It's a superbly robust machine, although I've managed to break nearly every part of it >_>

Burgi

yeah have to buy OSX with a legitimate laptop

Anna duh

But being a professional business machine it's also superbly serviceable

Burgi

the upgrades from that point are "free"

@MichaelFrank you work for alienware/dell?

Anna duh

23:25

@Burgi Huh. I swear I reinstalled a ton of iMacs back in my last job without ever having a disk (mostly using an old OS X USB I found and/or built in internet recovery)

Michael Frank

Yea, we don't have the latest models here in NZ. But we had a couple guys come over from Japan to train us on some of our imaging products, his laptop had this insane "palm sensor" that unlocked his computer just by waving his hand over it.

Burgi

its certainly not available to d/l like win10

Michael Frank

@Burgi No.

Burgi

toshiba?

i'm confused....

Michael Frank

ha, follow the breadcrumbs.

Burgi

23:27

fujitsu?

Michael Frank

Yes!

Anna duh

@MichaelFrank It's kinda hard to get hold of a lot of stuff in the UK too, especially accessories. Every part I've had has been imported from the US. The model with dGPU was also US only, but I couldn't get it :-(

Burgi

my mum's best friend's husband used to work for fujitsu that somehow worked for xerox?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi they merged

Burgi

ah!

makes sense now

Anna duh

23:29

Yay there's no messages of mine on the star wall

Burgi

he had one of the first mobiles

Anna duh

Oh wait, yes there is.

Burgi

the huge fucking ENORMOUS motorola rabbit things

Anna duh

I think I should go get my desktop PC to see how (im)practical it is before spending 2k on a new laptop that's epically fucking cool but I might not need

Burgi

he was sent across the UK and europe fixing photocopiers

i used to think he was the ultimate uber nerd with tonnes of kit

then at my sisters wedding he was asking me to fix his laptop

i honestly felt like a padawan beating their master for the first time

Michael Frank

23:33

They're completely different fields though. Fixing photocopiers, scanners, etc are mostly mechanical repairs.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank and the latest gen intel chips....

Burgi

i interviewed for fujitsu.... badly

Anna duh

@Burgi lol

@MichaelFrank :-o

@JourneymanGeek Double :-o

Burgi

they asked the weirrdest questions

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek Oh, didn't catch that part.

Anna duh

23:34

Kaby Lake has the new HEVC-10 hardware decoder, I know that much

But er... so does NVidia Pascal

So I should be good with the Alienware. Unless they specifically lock it to the Intel iGPU decoders, which would be stupid because then what about AMD users?

Holy crap, my 5-year-old Sandy Bridge i5-2520M can play Youtube 4K...

... my flatmate's new Broadwell Core M can't...

Burgi

@Annaduh i'm not even joking, this guys first son was my best friend

he was a genius

leukaemia killed him at the age of 12...

their 2nd son (3rd child) is really clever, but there is something....

i don't know how to describe it

he wipes the floor with me on an intellectual level but his "older brother" would have annihilated him

not sure if that makes sense

Anna duh

@Burgi Fuck genetics

I should get sent around the world fixing servers

I'm far better at it than half these jokers Dell send out :-|

Actually no I'm not. They know their stuff fairly well.

Burgi

the sister, the middle child was cleverer than my dumbass sister (same age) but was nowhere near as clever as her two brothers

Anna duh

Battlefield 1 at 80fps on ultra settings, gee even my desktop can't manage that

Burgi

aww man, my sister is as thick as two extremely short planks

but anyway

she is a good nurse...

if you have cancer in the NW of england, she has probably treated you

welp i've made myself feel morose and depressed at what a shitty human being i am...

i'll see you all tomorrow for my crazy ass hsit

Anna duh

23:48

There's also that new mass effect game coming out next year

@Burgi -_-

@Burgi I wonder if I've paid her too

Burgi

nn

Anna duh

I've had a regular donation going to Macmillan Cancer Support for a while now

@Burgi Not as bad as me! I'm such a shitty human being that I pretend to be a cat

Wow, I want this, but this is such a retarded website

Not only does it constantly scroll you to some random point in the page every few seconds, if you do manage to scroll to the bottom somehow that comes up

Oh wow, nice to know there's multiple companies working on external laptop displays now

Journeyman Geek

@Annaduh I'm somewhat suprised actually

@Annaduh they have

Anna duh

@JourneymanGeek facepalm

Journeyman Geek

with edp, they pretty much have to slap on a pretty simple converter

Anna duh

23:58

Well I don't use Netflix so bleh

@JourneymanGeek Same

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, but they could do so much better.

Slide'n'joy uses single USB-C connector for example, whereas the one in that picture requires one displayport/thunderbolt 1/2 and one USB port for each display

Journeyman Geek

or USB (which would do for power anyway)

or DP + Power over USB C

@Annaduh Tbolt should do power too no?

Anna duh

However the slide'n'joy uses USB over USB-C as in, it's a USB display adapter not native displayport

Journeyman Geek

ewww

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