What's your latest tech purchase?

[de.das.dude]

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Its old and pre-owned I know but I honestly dont require something more expensive for what i want to do... Emails, youtube/movies while away from the house. Ive been running this super old and slow Clevo W310-CZ for a decade now and this thing is just super slow. A pre-owned T480 was considered but id have to do some fettling and add money on top to get a better screen and this HP is just better and good right out of the box. Dont care too much about battery life as it will be hooked up to the mains 99% of the time when in use.

Ram will be upgraded to 16GB but i want to see how HP have configured it first. - Wifi card might be upgraded but it will probably be more than fine. 256GB SSD is also plenty. I have a 256GB in this W310 aswell.


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And it also has all the ports.

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thats a really good deal. i was looking for used elite books/ probooks just yday lol. But they are all overpriced.

 

[Dr. Dro]

1 DNF since 2022? For me that's not bad luck at all, unfortunately...

But it was sooo unfair for his car to break and catch fire on lap 2!

 

[faye]

thats a really good deal. i was looking for used elite books/ probooks just yday lol. But they are all overpriced.

Assuming this XPS 13 shows up in good shape I'd say I got a hell of a deal -

I7 7560U
8GB RAM
256GB SSD
Windows 11 Pro
13" 3200x1800 touchscreen
New Dell battery a year ago
A scratch on the outside of the lid.

$200 shipped.

Don't care about the lid, it'll probably end up covered in stickers anyway.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Decided to hell with it and also bought a wifi card for the soon to arrive laptop.

Its a weird model number but its an HP or Dell specific model number to avoid any sort of blacklist. Otherwise its the Intel AX200 (or should be!)

 

[Fokker]

Decided to hell with it and also bought a wifi card for the soon to arrive laptop.

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Its a weird model number but its an HP or Dell specific model number to avoid any sort of blacklist. Otherwise its the Intel AX200 (or should be!)

Nice. I picked up an Intel AX211 to upgrade my laptop to keep up with the new router.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Nice. I picked up an Intel AX211 to upgrade my laptop to keep up with the new router.

This will officially be the second device in this house that supports Wifi 6 since picking up the new router last month. I probably didnt need to upgrade the Wifi but I want BT 5.0

 

[faye]

Remembered there were pics of the XPS 13 on the forum I bought it from.

Updated delivery now shows Friday - I'm so excited!

 

[phill]

I kinda did something stupid, so I thought I'd best share it.....



I said it was silly....
Well that makes two Kingpin cards now... Wonder if I should try and find the rest of the set.....

I don't think there's anything else I've got recently, nothing of anything much worth anyways Maybe a few Steam games on offer, but there we go, will find those a little later I guess

 

[faye]

That's really cool, can't blame you.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I kinda did something stupid, so I thought I'd best share it.....

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I said it was silly....
Well that makes two Kingpin cards now... Wonder if I should try and find the rest of the set.....

I don't think there's anything else I've got recently, nothing of anything much worth anyways Maybe a few Steam games on offer, but there we go, will find those a little later I guess

Nothing stupid about buying this marvel of engineering. Wonderful GPU! I had the GTX 980 Kingpin. That was a legendary card. No power limit. Triple BIOS. All the sexyness... man, the Maxwell and Pascal era was truly EVGA at their prime.

I still want to get an EVGA RTX 3080 Ti or 3090 Ti as a side card. One last hurrah and all that. Just waiting for the opportunity to show up to grab one at a reasonable price.

 

[avidgamer121]

got this hdmi to vga adapter for my ps4, the console needs active adapter with usb power otherwise it won't display so i had to return the previous one though i already had one but it doesn't have power input so it only work with my pc, for most part this one is fine, i mainly got it because i wanted audio out from my speakers (it has 3.5mm jack) otherwise i would have used vga for my pc and hdmi for ps4, yeah it sucks to use vga in 2024 or even since last 1 and a half decade, the one i returned had really blurry picture but with this adapter picture seems sharp but when there's motion text doesn't looks as sharp. I might have to test it on my pc to verify it's the adapter but im pretty sure it is because vga is fine with my original adapter i have lying around.

 

[Icon Charlie]

Just bought a Crucial 2TB SSD SATA and a 4TB WB Black HDD for $150.00 Since my rig has the Icy Dock Setup and my have drive bays, everything is Hot Swappable. The lastest version Zorin OS is going the SSD and later Gnome Box. That's the goal, but I'm concenrtrating on producing a comic before the old man dies on the vine. I'll be picking up a Display Arts Tablet and with my ham fisted, monkey hands will be trying to learn Krita.

 

[faye]

got this hdmi to vga adapter for my ps4, the console needs active adapter with usb power otherwise it won't display so i had to return the previous one though i already had one but it doesn't have power input so it only work with my pc, for most part this one is fine, i mainly got it because i wanted audio out from my speakers (it has 3.5mm jack) otherwise i would have used vga for my pc and hdmi for ps4, yeah it sucks to use vga in 2024 or even since last 1 and a half decade, the one i returned had really blurry picture but with this adapter picture seems sharp but when there's motion text doesn't looks as sharp. I might have to test it on my pc to verify it's the adapter but im pretty sure it is because vga is fine with my original adapter i have lying around.View attachment 341947

Guessing this is for a CRT monitor? I used to have all this stuff - HDMI to VGA adapters, even had a thing that ran various odd timings to make the CRT happier and another little box to strip HDCP and tell the connected device it was still supported. I do not miss dealing with analogue video.

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

As I Elite & Star Citizen a lot, a "lifetime pass" for Gameglass

 

[FoulOnWhite]

here is a extra pic of the orange E8, showing the lovely custom cut orange logo disc(rear is the same), wonder how much it cost in 200x when he had it done.

 

[faye]

As I Elite & Star Citizen a lot, a "lifetime pass" for Gameglass

This is intriguing... But I'd never subscribe to it or pay them the asking rate for a lifetime sub. $20 for a one time thing, ok. $50 with lifetime updates. Not $200.

 

[tabascosauz]

Remembered there were pics of the XPS 13 on the forum I bought it from.

Updated delivery now shows Friday - I'm so excited!

Nice find, 9360? I had the 9370 with the 8550U before the G14. Twas very sleek with a great screen (mine the FHD not 4K), also 8GB/256GB. Should do fine for daily stuff with a bit of tweaking in Throttlestop, assuming it's still on an older pre-Plundervolt BIOS. I do hear that the high PPI screen isn't great for battery life compared to the FHD option though.

 

[faye]

Nice find, 9360? I had the 9370 with the 8550U before the G14. Twas very sleek with a great screen (mine the FHD not 4K), also 8GB/256GB. Should do fine for daily stuff with a bit of tweaking in Throttlestop, assuming it's still on an older pre-Plundervolt BIOS. I do hear that the high PPI screen isn't great for battery life compared to the FHD option though.

Yes, 9360 (I think). I have the desktops for heavy workloads, honestly don't really need this thing, but the Lenovo X1 has all kinds of weird hardware quirks - battery is on its last legs, keyboard cover only works half the time, integrated audio devices disappear if you flex the display, sometimes the light on the back (the big bright white one meant as a flash for the back camera I guess?) just turns on and stays on till you literally beat on the shell. It has had a good run, but is being demoted to tethered music source for my main DAC.

The XPS will mostly live in a backpack and be forgotten about. Probably. Or maybe I'll start using it around the house instead of my phone - I do type a lot quicker on a real keyboard, but actively avoid sitting down in front of the computer outside of work.

Wish the RAM were upgradeable - scummy move soldering it, Dell - but the first thing I'll do is pull the drive it comes with and swap in a 1TB Intel 670p M.2 NVME I've been using as a file transfer drive in a little enclosure.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Yes, 9360 (I think). I have the desktops for heavy workloads, honestly don't really need this thing, but the Lenovo X1 has all kinds of weird hardware quirks - battery is on its last legs, keyboard cover only works half the time, integrated audio devices disappear if you flex the display, sometimes the light on the back (the big bright white one meant as a flash for the back camera I guess?) just turns on and stays on till you literally beat on the shell. It has had a good run, but is being demoted to tethered music source for my main DAC.

The XPS will mostly live in a backpack and be forgotten about. Probably. Or maybe I'll start using it around the house instead of my phone - I do type a lot quicker on a real keyboard, but actively avoid sitting down in front of the computer outside of work.

Wish the RAM were upgradeable - scummy move soldering it, Dell - but the first thing I'll do is pull the drive it comes with and swap in a 1TB Intel 670p M.2 NVME I've been using as a file transfer drive in a little enclosure.

Soldering the ram is a bit of a Apple move, or could it be because of space?

 

[tabascosauz]

Wish the RAM were upgradeable - scummy move soldering it, Dell - but the first thing I'll do is pull the drive it comes with and swap in a 1TB Intel 670p M.2 NVME I've been using as a file transfer drive in a little enclosure.

Soldering the ram is a bit of a Apple move, or could it be because of space?

I'm pretty sure SO-DIMMs in the XPS' thickness are just plain impossible. You either choose slimness or RAM slots. Once you open it up you'll see. Forget X1, even the chunkier T14 and X13 ThinkPad have long since lost their SO-DIMMs.

8GB is fine, it's the dual core 7560U that's more likely to drag you down. 8550U was barely cutting it after a few years, and that's a 4C/8T. Fast SSD should still help a bit.

 

[avidgamer121]

Guessing this is for a CRT monitor? I used to have all this stuff - HDMI to VGA adapters, even had a thing that ran various odd timings to make the CRT happier and another little box to strip HDCP and tell the connected device it was still supported. I do not miss dealing with analogue video.

no, it's for my LED monitor. We don't have any CRT lying around in our house. My monitor also has an hdmi which i would rather use for my pc.

 

[faye]

no, it's for my LED monitor. We don't have any CRT lying around in our house. My monitor also has an hdmi which i would rather use for my pc.

Easier way to do this is a $15 HDMI switch.

 

[avidgamer121]

Easier way to do this is a $15 HDMI switch.

that seems like a good option, i don't remember kvm switches to be this cheap when i looked up a while ago. I guess these switches are just a different thing altogether which i had no idea about. But then again need an audio port too which they don't seem to have. Though im ok with using my earbuds with controller but i prefer speakers.

 

[faye]

A cheap HDMI switch and a cheap audio selector are going to give you a much better experience than anything involving VGA.

So basically you want an HDMI KVM? That should be like $50.

 

[avidgamer121]

A cheap HDMI switch and a cheap audio selector are going to give you a much better experience than anything involving VGA.

So basically you want an HDMI KVM? That should be like $50.

yes, i looked them up. Kinda expensive for me.