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On February 15 2013 19:02 Mondieu wrote:
I hope this belongs here. I just got a new laptop and I'm not sure if I should get Windows 8 or use Windows 7. It's mostly for games.
I'd choose whatever is cheaper. Windows 8, if you don't like what they have done with the desktop, you can mostly work around that, but it'll be annoying on the first day or week or so, until you set up everything. It feels a little bit snappier than Windows 7, though I may be imagining that.
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I'd get windows 8 if it isn't more expensive. You don't need to make much adjustments if you just chose to ignore the metro interface. I basically only use it to search for programs, otherwise I spend like 99 % of my time at the desktop view which is very similar to windows 7.
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I've been having a connection problem lately - last 2 months maybe? - on both games WoL and HotS. Basically I start to search for a game on ladder, the usual waiting time then exactly when I find a match it 'stops'. The countdown to the game doesn't start. And the little thing that shows 'searching 1v1' simply goes off. After that I have to wait a while to search for another game cause it gives me the message "You cannot enter the matchmaking queue because your status has been locked." when I press find match. There is nothing in my match history, but I'm losing ladder positions.
Help?
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On February 12 2013 22:09 Rachnar wrote:
What is the best mobile support for watching videos regarding battery life?
I would like to get one for pretty cheap (no more then 300€ if possible)
little up for my post please :p
i might put a little bit more money into it if a laptop might be the right answer and would support light gaming (sc2 on low, as well as other non very exigeant games on low)
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Tablets and some notebooks can both have pretty long battery life w/ videos.
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Yes but which model in particuliar then would be the best?
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What kind of video content? From where? Local files, disk, streaming, video site?
I would suggest not any notebook in that price range (and up to double the price range), unless screen and video quality are irrelevant, or other factors are overwhelming.
On about 300€ the larger tablets with largest batteries may be out of price range. For example, see at the bottom here, Nexus 7 (which is in budget) as compared to some others:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6528/samsung-ativ-tab-review-qualcomms-first-windows-rt-tablet/3
decent but not nearly the best.
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Local files primarily.
It will mainly be used for flight travels which i'll do more or less every 2 weeks now on so ... Want a way to make them as confortable as possible
I don't mind spending more if it's worth it. I would like at lest 4 hours of batterly life while watching videos, 5-6 would be perfect.
But after looking at that link, it seems tablets have way more battery life then i imagined... But i'd need more then 64gb of space though.
Is there a compromise between netbooks storage capacity and tablets batterly life? :p
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That's what you get when you're driving a smaller display, low-power SoC rather than processor and southbridge and all sorts of accessory chips, no hard drive, can use less RAM, etc.
On February 17 2013 05:05 Rachnar wrote:
Is there a compromise between netbooks storage capacity and tablets batterly life? :p
Tablet with microSD card slot? Swap storage on the fly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_tablet_computers
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Hhhhmmm, then yes that would seem best. Thanks for all the help.
So the Google Nexus 7 would be the best for my needs?
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No, check the above. There's no microSD slot!
They don't even have one on the Nexus 10. I guess Google wants you to put media content in the cloud, which ironically is difficult if you are literally flying through the clouds.
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lol ok
i just checked out some other ones, how does the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 do regarding battery life? Or Acer Iconia Tab A210?
Both are within my price range
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I have 2 gb of RAM will 2 more gb increase my FPS?
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So someone with an IP adress 24.6.87.203 just tried to send me a ping of death (according to my router) VIA port 14496.
Does anyone happen to know what that port is?
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On February 17 2013 09:15 XpNc wrote:
I have 2 gb of RAM will 2 more gb increase my FPS?
You need to give other specs. Is this for starcraft?
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If I were to plug a 4-drive external bay into a WNDR4300, would it be able to recognize all the drives / files and make them usable through ReadySHARE?
On February 17 2013 06:07 Myrmidon wrote:
No, check the above. There's no microSD slot!
They don't even have one on the Nexus 10. I guess Google wants you to put media content in the cloud, which ironically is difficult if you are literally flying through the clouds.
Just plug a USB into a cloud as you fly past.
On February 17 2013 09:15 XpNc wrote:
I have 2 gb of RAM will 2 more gb increase my FPS?
Probably not.
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Can a device with a bad wireless connection lag the router?
I can use Netflix perfectly fine on my PS3 and computers (all wired) without causing the network to lag. However, when I watch Netflix on my smart TV, which is connected wirelessly to the router approx. 25 feet away through one wall, I start experiencing lag spikes on my games.
Using Netgear WNR3500L flashed with DD-WRT.
Edit
Found out that my TX power is too high (at 71, WNR3500l should be running at 41). Not sure if that makes any difference but worth knowing I guess.
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Yeah, too high transmission power can reduce performance, as you're driving the amplifier into saturation (or close), meaning it starts to get nonlinear and mess up the orthogonality of the subcarriers and so on. As for whether that actually affects the network performance, I don't really know.
I'd think these cheaper consumer gear might just actually FIFO or similar and actually only process one packet at a time (?), so if a transaction gets stalled because of requiring retransmissions, maybe it's blocking other traffic from passing through in the meantime? Actually I don't know what their behavior is at all. But it's unusual for a wireless connection to be on the edge of working, where retransmissions are required frequently and yet the thing still works.
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If I have a monitor that natively supports display port and I use a male/male cable to connect to a PC, would it work as a 3rd or 4th monitor without needing any kind of adapter (like how a DVI to DPort needs the active adapter)?
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Having problems with my sc2 patcher. My patcher went to about 70%ish, and then stopped patching. After restarting it, I get the error that I don't have enough disk space. I followed the troubleshooting guild on bnet, and by starting the Secondary Logon service and disabling my antivirus, it worked again. However when I open the launcher it is just stuck at 50%. I tried killing the launcher and then restarting it, didn't work. Any way to clean up the patch and restart it, or do a standalone patch?
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