Thread: What computer should I buy?

Originally Posted by peterpan

the MD of dell Thailand needs a good one up the rear, and I know the right man to do it, although we might have to buy him a ticket.

Does his name beign with P and end in apillion? If so, I'm willing to contribute to the ticket to get him back, as long as he promises not to attempt to bugger me...

Mr Blaney, I think it pertinent for you to know that MIT scholars and faculty mostly use Apple stuff.

Fortune Plaza is a much nicer place to go shopping for computer stuff than Panthip and has far less cowboys hassling you. If you insist on Windows based stuff make sure you get the real Mcoy and not some pirated copy which they assume you want.

Unless you want to play games, you seem to be older so I guess not but one never knows these days, you would be much better with a MacBook Air. Why you want 8GB RAM is odd given your apparent needs.

A Mac is very easy to use and effortless, and requires absolutely no prior experience to get the thing up and running.

And you will have a product just so super cool and achingly beautiful to look at. Stroking that aluminium case is a real pleasure, from its slightly thicker rear along those svelte flanks to that hard leading edge. Doesn't get hot at all and never makes any noises. Reminds me of a former girlfriend.

You'd be far better off buying a Macbook , rather than that Lenovo budget gaming coimputer you're eyeing up.

If you are not gonna use it to play games then you're basically fitting a Nitro button to your car and never using it

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

And you will have a product just so super cool and achingly beautiful to look at. Stroking that aluminium case is a real pleasure, from its slightly thicker rear along those svelte flanks to that hard leading edge. Doesn't get hot at all and never makes any noises.

You're giving me the horn, can you post pics?



WJ, what are your requirements?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

WJ, what are your requirements?

I've stored a lot of work-base shit from 25 years in IT and 4 teaching English on two old Sony hard drives. I am almost 100% certain I'll never see any of that work again. But it was high tech so I felt the need never to throw them away, basically becoming a pack rat of computer files. Of course, there are a lot of pics/vids/audio files that I currently utilize. So ultra high-def media is my first requirement. That's why I want the fastest and most powerful option out there (I also have 300 CDs I want to rip). Other than that, it's the usual: gmail, FB, Google, skype, forums etc. In other words, I plan on simply copying my hard drive to the extra and keeping in storage until I find there is something I need on it. I'm hoping I'll be able to get along just fine with the new OS as is, without downloading another fuckin' app for the life of me.

I also have 300 CDs I want to rip

just downlaod them

Allo Albert ,, where you been ?

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Allo Albert ,, where you been ?

He was detained my ho land security.
Apparently he proved drunk Falang pederasts were the 7/11 bummers
They took Albert's ring but allowed shagnasty to bring happiness to presumbaly the land of frowns

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

It is your money of course, and your decision how to spend it but I think that with a bit of shopping around and research you'll be able to find a very good laptop that more than meets your needs for under 30K, perhaps even close to around 20K.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Still, I don't think it is value for the money. If ~40K is the budget you can get better than that imho.

I've come completely around around to your logic.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

You can, as Troy said, get a decent machine for between 20,000 and 25,000 baht. An i5 if fine (an i3 is fine actually...). Don't get a touchscreen laptop!!! When I bought my Dells, I went to Pantip, walked around for about 3 hours checking everything out, then went to Burgerking and had a bite to eat, then went back to the best shop that had the best deal for the laptop I wanted (along with a salesperson I liked) then bought it - quite easy. It's good to research first to get an idea, but getting amongst it all and seeing what you like is the way forward...

I found a small shop in Computer Plaza where the owner speaks excellent English. I told him I wanted a computer with a SSHD for 25k and he said no problem. I also learned there are three kinds of SSHD: expensive (2400), more expensive (4800) and most expensive (10,000). Then he asked what else would I like but he wasn't showing me any computers so I said "You mean I can just give you the specs I want and we'll agree on a price and you'll build it for me?" And he said "yeah, np". So I said "I'm a computer dummy but my friends are very smart and I will get the specs from them". Think I should just give him the lenovo specs LENOVO Y5070-59422156 Notebook Laptop review spec promotion price - Notebookspec.com?

BB, I got the salesperson I want to deal with and he doesn't work for a major company, just runs a shop.

^Scarlett Johansson is the model # for me.

sounds like he is going to build you a desktop

^^She's got great tits. Will your new lap top have great tits as well?

Originally Posted by baldrick

sounds like he is going to build you a desktop

A desktop with the shittiest components in the back of the store but boasting a SSHD and a 25K Baht price tag.

Originally Posted by ltnt

She's got great tits

No she doesn't. She has a pretty face, that's it...
(take away the push up bra and corset, and she's not got a great body...)

My take on the sshd .
think they are 3 types of drive .

1.An SSD -solid state drive - advantages :
has no moving parts so is silent (no whirrring sound),
cooler,
more reliable ,
way faster ( in starting up, starting progs, finding data , running scans etc )
totally quiet,
lighter,
longer life ,
use a lot less battery power .

2. A traditional HD - mechanical hard drive- advantages , they are a lot cheap per GB

3 . SSHD ?
a hybred device- it has a big old fashioned mechanical Hard drive , plus a very small ssd - added.

I guess with the SSHD they are trying to give you the best of both worlds , a good idea a while ago when SSD were so very much more expensive , but now you might as well have a laptop with, say, a 500 Gb SSD, and do away with the HD altogether .

If you cannot buy one already installed you can remove the HD or have it done for you , and replace it with an SSD , and then use the removed HD for storage via the usb and a plastic hard drive caddy .

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by baldrick

sounds like he is going to build you a desktop

A desktop with the shittiest components in the back of the store but boasting a SSHD and a 25K Baht price tag.

Utterly bizarre, really.

A MacBook Air at 34000 bt would do him fine. All this tosh about getting some Somchai to knock out a rig for 25,000 from a hole in the wall outfit is just plain silly. Presumably, it is just some displacement activity compensating for some loss or other.

These SSHD are in the main just a bit of glitz and add little (except Apple's Fusion drive which is whizzo), most of them just 64GB of SSD and with an inferior connection widget, thingamajig.

If he was really sensible he would buy a Mac Mini with the upgraded Fusion drive and plenty of storage, adding more RAM if he really wanted it for 28,000t and picking up a nice monitor for 6000 bt.

Originally Posted by blue

An SSD -solid state drive

yes - jsut get a Samsung SSD and use the spinning disk as an external USB 3 drive

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Fusion

is it just my imagination or are genticles' comments becoming decidedly camp ?

i cant understand why he spends so much on a lump of metal that will not only be corroded by the saline humidity it will have to endure but out of date within two or three years.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

No she doesn't. She has a pretty face, that's it...

Wait til you see her tits. There's a photo floating about of them. She's got those pointy type and turned up...all natural...I forgot to even look at the face...who cares with those pair...Ummmmm....

Some styles never go out of fashion but always remain in vogue. Whether it be because of some innate timelessness, lack of any class denotation or simply because it is " just right ", who knows but such things do exist and are to be admired and retained.

A Zippo lighter, a decent Harris tweed jacket, sound brogues, a MacBook Air, an E type Jaguar, a Leica, a Dunhill lighter, an Anglepoise light are all examples of a design style no discerning person with even the merest modicum of good taste could possibly eschew.

A Zippo lighter, a decent Harris tweed jacket, sound brogues, a MacBook Air, an E type Jaguar, a Leica, a Dunhill lighter, an Anglepoise light are all examples of a design style no discerning person with even the merest modicum of good taste could possibly eschew.

well, apart from the macbook, ive had them all and all appreciated in value before i moved them on, apart from the harris tweed jacket which went to a charity shop. doubt if the macbook will be worth half a tusheroon in two months time.

im sure you will enjoy the macbook, its ergonomic and haptic qualities will delight, but like the superficial floozy it is, it will ultimately disappoint. probably due to the rust it will suffer from if it is kept in a coastal location.

i had a very nice sony vaio, looked good, felt good, worked a treat, but it eventually died and could not be revived. curiosity made me open the thing up to dissect it and i was surprised to see nearly all the connections had corroded and rusted, i opened up the hard drive with a hammer and screwdriver and also found serious corrosion had affected its innards.

for use in a brutal climate like thailands, the effects of which are compounded by proximity to the sea, cheapness of replacement and unemotional attachment to the product is king.

wham, bam, thank you mam, and then move on to another.

no use coming over all stephen fry about a fucking machine.

you know it makes sense.

There's no saying what I'll do yet, right? I started out on this thread with basic knowledge of hardware and applications seeking the best advice for a new laptop/notebook and I'm getting that. Blue blew my mind with his rundown on hard drives. WOW. Now this difference between a SSHD and SSD has me reeling. I wonder what the guy at the shop is going to say when I tell him I meant SSD.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

A MacBook Air at 34000 bt would do him fine. All this tosh about getting some Somchai to knock out a rig for 25,000 from a hole in the wall outfit is just plain silly. Presumably, it is just some displacement activity compensating for some loss or other.

These SSHD are in the main just a bit of glitz and add little (except Apple's Fusion drive which is whizzo), most of them just 64GB of SSD and with an inferior connection widget, thingamajig.

If he was really sensible he would buy a Mac Mini with the upgraded Fusion drive and plenty of storage, adding more RAM if he really wanted it for 28,000t and picking up a nice monitor for 6000 bt.

This praise for the Apple. Is it really no sweat for pc users of 20+ years to become Apple lovers just like that? I'm open to change. The only thing I've really liked has been the media center for all your media files. What does Apple have that's comparable? I'd like to make my new laptop my portable media center. I DO NOT want a desk top.

Originally Posted by baldrick

yes - jsut get a Samsung SSD and use the spinning disk as an external USB 3 drive

I'll try to find one. Thanks.

Originally Posted by taxexile

for use in a brutal climate like thailands, the effects of which are compounded by proximity to the sea, cheapness of replacement and unemotional attachment to the product is king.

wham, bam, thank you mam, and then move on to another.

no use coming over all stephen fry about a fucking machine.

you know it makes sense.

It makes excellent sense. So how much would you spend now in LOS for a new machine?