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Yup. I'd be sorely tempted if I didn't only need my phone to do, like, six things. Heck, a cheap Windows Phone could accomplish everything I need. That's going to be my next phone, by the way. Why spend the extra money on a decent Android handset when a cheaper Windows Phone works just as well...

Aye. That's admittedly most of the appeal. It will accomplish the job I have in mind for it very nicely, a 'retro' machine that I can use and play around with outside of my cave. My i3 laptop doesn't like to play my older games very well for compatibility issues that I don't care to resolve, or...

Got a Latitude C-series laptop from another friend of mine. Lacks an AC adapter, other than that, the lack of a pad on the Trackpoint, and some cosmetic blemishes it's almost mint. Pentium III, unsure of clock speed but it has to be at least 700MHz, Rage Mobility with 8MB (or was it 16? Either...

Am I weird for not using the touchpad, ever? I ALWAYS have a mouse with ANY laptop that doesn't have a good ol' tracknipple.

Positively adorable.

I currently have no insurance. The state keeps sending my "Passport" applications back for no reason other than they can. Passport in this instance is the name of a state insurance plan for minors.

Given some time to really use it I've come to appreciate its rock-solid stability. The photos app still takes forever to start and run, but once it runs, it's running perfectly fine now, although I continue to use IrfanView for personal preference and speed reasons. I don't like the spying that...

CPU-Z reports nothing strange. Linux reported that it remained within spec ALL of the time. Not sure where it's getting the values.

I'm hoping TWC does come out this far but that my aunt just never investigated it. Doesn't matter too awful much though, I will start to spend most of my time out of the house and away from my cave as I use the laptop I'm getting soon. School blocks almost anything worth going to. My old high...

Probably, but these days 30,000 times your first experience just doesn't cut it.

Yesterday HWMonitor caught my processor dipping as low as 257 and then 20 MHz. That's twenty, as in two with one zero. Not a typo. Task Manager has been reporting similar fluctuations, it's almost never exactly within spec. It seems rock solid so I'm not going to bother myself about it.

I haven't been paying close attention to Task Manager, which in Windows 8 and up does report current clock speed, but I would imagine they'd say the same thing. My motherboard is cheap incarnate, a micro-ATX job from Foxconn that came in a low-end (Athlon II x2 in 2011 low-end) HP slimline...

As someone with a 3.3mbps internet connection... I envy you all. Often I end up not being able to do much at all for fear of bogging down the internet for everyone else in the house. Still, better than having the raw speed required but having a data cap as well. Excuse me while I unplug my...

I for one can't tell much of a difference between 1080p and 4K. I just want more workable space in my monitors, that's the only reason I'd care enough to upgrade to 1080p even. Noticed an interesting comment though: As someone with a very weak GPU (a GT730 to refresh your memory, supposedly...

Accidental double post, sorry.

Officially my processor's lowest clock speed is 800MHz, but with HWMonitor I've caught it dipping as low as 450MHz. Similarly, the rated max is 3GHz, but I've caught it scaling as high as 3.88. These incidents are very rare, though, since it mostly remains within the rated specs. As far as I'm...

Windows 10 is already annoying me with its non-functional Photos application. IrfanView to the rescue, I guess. Also, nVidia's Windows 10-specific driver sucks. If I'm folding the driver constantly stops responding and 'recovers'. For being a hard drive-based machine it's actually very snappy...

Seriously, how do I not have the self control to pick something and stick with it?

You know, these scripts and things tempt me back to versions of Windows newer than XP. Especially these tools that claim to stop the tracking snd stuff even in Windows 10. Still not sure what I want to do. Linux runs great, with some tinkering it does whatever I want it to, but Windows runs...

According to a recent review, apparently said laptop is locked at the bootloader level. Maybe it can be unlocked but I'm not buying one to find out.

Can't be any worse than the dual-core 1.3GHz APU (if I had to rate it I would put it somewhere between an old Atom and a Celeron M) I'm using in my current laptop. In fact I imagine the new laptop will handily run rings around even my Phenom II. As for battery life, with me that's kind of the...

Actually, I found an Acer Aspire E E5-573G-52G3 on Newegg for about $520. Has an i5 5200U, GeForce 940M (2GB VRAM, more than I need, though there is a 4GB VRAM option as well for more money) w/ 1080p display, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB hard drive. As a matter of fact it's a shell shocker deal for me...

Dude, don't worry so much about it. I'd love to have 96k PPD. I average about 18k per day if I leave the Phenom II on 24/7 (which I do now, using the laptop for web browsing and being able to leave my cave).

The plan right now is, once I get a job and money with which to buy a new computer, I will get a mid-range laptop with GOOD (but not so good that they're overly power-hungry) specs (something like a 15.6" A10, or i5 with discrete graphics, >=8GB RAM, [probably aftermarket] 512GB SSD, hoping for...

I do it just to feel like I'm doing something productive. Moved the Phenom II from the SFF case to an ATX mid-tower, manually wiring the power switch and front-panel LEDs as this case's headers were meant for a specific mobo and the mobo's header looked like an inverted USB header. Cut max...

All together, mateys! Yar har, fiddle dee dee, Bein' a pirate is alright with me, Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, You are a pirate!

Just upgraded the 350MHz Pentium II to a 500MHz Pentium III. Absolutely NOTHING subtle about the extra snap the machine has now. Funny thing about it is that I had to take the retention mechanism out of the machine to get the processor to fit, but now the power supply (which is mounted directly...

I'm on Verizon's prepaid $45/mo plan, gets me unltd talk, text and 1GB of LTE which when exceeded shuts off. I wish Dad would listen to me and move us over to Straight Talk, but he's paying the bill so I can't say I have too many complaints. Certainly when I finally get my license and a job I'm...

I personally run an M310 because it's bigger than the M315's and M325's that litter the house so they fit my hands properly, but aren't covered in buttons I'll never find a use for. Battery life is as superb as any other Logitech wireless mouse of this day and age.

Because it's on the Pentium II with Windows 98SE and 11.50 seems to be the latest version KernelEx can run reliably. That being as it is, Tea, wouldn't you agree that for a stock build of the browser running no addons that it's a darn sight better than Chrome or FF at it?

Is SMP a theme with you, Merc? Did you, for instance, have SMP in all your pre-dual-core machines?

Santilli, these days Opera is nothing more than a slightly reskinned Chrome clone. Uses the same engine and everything. Vivaldi uses the same rendering engine and extension capability, but the UI is much closer to Presto Opera levels of customization. If you guys see anyone using Opera 11.50 on...

I thought true 50MHz 486s had issues with VL-bus. Not that much of an issue if your system was ISA all the way, but then you were bottlenecking your video and IO and might as well have gone with a clock-doubling 486DX2-66. Couple that with the fact that motherboard speeds of 50MHz were barely on...

I'm just waiting for Vivaldi to come out in earnest. I wish they'd go with more Firefox-like addons in lieu of Chrome-like extensions, but seeing as FF is moving that way too it isn't surprising. At least Vivaldi is capable of using extensions meant for Chrome instead of requiring the extensions...

This sort of thing is why I wish Cyrix was still in business, and AMD wasn't being run by idiots.

Oh, this is a special kind of effed up. Microsoft seems to have seriously screwed the pooch this time. Initial instability can be fixed, but rebuilding trust after fiascos like this is going to take a long time. I think they're banking on most people not even noticing what's going on, and that's...

The earliest tech I've had hands on was a 486DX2-66 with 20 MB of RAM. I realize most had around 4 to 8, but the one I had ahold of had been dramatically upgraded.

Sorry, I haven't been paying enough attention to the roster. It doesn't much matter to me how much I'm contributing at the end of the day, just that I AM, in fact, contributing. The numbers are just fun to look at.

Great, you should pass me up in no time. But it's only a matter of time until I pass up the other defunct members of the team...

And thanks to the EULA, you can't join a class action lawsuit against Microsoft. Great. So they'll just get away with all of this, then?

I would think the operative phrase here is 'used to'. Hopefully they realized how off-putting it was to consumers and stopped that stuff right in it's tracks.

Okay, there's something seriously wrong there. Having to have your mobile number for billing is complete bullcrap, no other store in existence that I know of does that.

I'm managing anywhere from 14-20k per day. Whenever I'm off the computer or doing something that won't stress it out, it's folding. Have to turn it off when I'm watching YouTube on here or the playback suffers :grin:. Thankfully I don't watch YouTube much on here, that's what my phone is for.

By 'rough' I meant approximate.

Yup. That's the best thing to do, rip the band-aid off now. Especially since I have heard tell that MS is backporting these spying 'features' to Windows 7 and 8.x with a recent update.

Am I insane or something? I've decided to test this by using Opera 11.50 and seeing how many tabs I can open before it falls all over itself. Right now I've got the RAM usage at 33% with some 11 tabs open. Honestly it's a bit more light than I anticipated. Posting from it now. Running Windows...

These sorts of discussions are why I keep coming back. Stay classy, my friends.

I'm not sure, exactly. Doing my most rigorous testing only got it up to 256 MB used. Maybe I can start making RAMDrives or something.

Every diagnostic tool I can find points to it being a regular 440BX. And now I have it running 768MB RAM right now with no issues... because reasons. I mostly just wanted to see if I could pull it off. I don't know how I'm doing it given those specs you just rattled off. It's 3x256MB DIMMs. I...

I am actually very sure. I traced my issues back to some special driver I installed in the hopes of giving my VDMs sound as DOSBOX chugs on the PII. Repairing the install fixed the issue. We'll see as to the new RAM... :shake2: That's actually a very interesting point. That's probably exactly...