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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    and she sees this play centre of wonderfulness as a work system.
    What even with 4 porn films running simultaneously, she's a keeper.

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    That keyboard is very ugly and totally ruins the aesthetics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    That keyboard is very ugly and totally ruins the aesthetics.
    From one who asked for advice on IT purchases recently, you are not very bright or practical are you duffer?

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    The Mini Mac is working superbly. I added in 32GB of RAM, so it's now even faster:

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    ^ but can it wash your underpants?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    ^ but can it wash your underpants?
    Hmmm, no.

    It is bloody good though - you wanna get yourself one of these, Dil.

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    Extremely fast internal drive too:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Hmmm, no.

    It is bloody good though - you wanna get yourself one of these, Dil.
    I've never needed that much speed to justify spending the equivalent of a laundrettes machinery budget on tbh.
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    The point is, it is a beautiful square of machined aluminium which works efficiently and has fuck all to do with microsoft.

    Apple is for people who can maintain an erection and form a syntactically correct sentence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    Apple is for people who can maintain an erection and form a syntactically correct sentence.


    No, Apple are for poseurs who can't tie their own shoelaces, need everything spoonfed to them and are a risk to themselves outside their secure locked down enviroment.

    A bit like your good self at Budleigh Salterton nursing home

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    I've never needed that much speed to justify spending the equivalent of a laundrettes machinery budget on tbh.
    Wait til I spend $1500 on this baby (eGPU)!



    & this Amazon purchase on it's way, should be here in a few days (just a backup drive):



    Haven't decided how much external space I need yet, or how fast it needs to be, but these raid Glyph Atoms are nice (but what colour?), and at 800mbps are probably fast enough for the stuff I need to do on an external drive:

    Cycling should be banned!!!

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    Boo you need to speak to Simon43 and get advice on extra curricular activities when your and the Gents tastes align, give me B, Give a D, an S and M.

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    ^ it is a bit of a worry, but even Mr Sausage is right from time to time.

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    I've currently got three Mac Minis running in the house, one being almost a decade old. The Mac Mini is a real value in my eyes and they simply work well all the time. I am forced to use Windows 10 in my work environment which feels darn cumbersome, especially when using Sharepoint and Office 365 and sorting through all the messages of why things aren't working.

    I see you got the Mac Mini. You won't regret it.
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    By the way, here are some handy Apple commands:

    Command-Shift-4 Screen capture
    Command-Option-ESC Force quit a single app. (Unlike Windows, the Mac OS will not crash when an application stops responding.)
    Command-Control-F Exit full screen. (This will ultimately happen to you and it will drive you nuts if you don't have an out!)
    Command-Q quit the app you are currently displaying

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    Did you decide to get the BlackMagic eGPU rather than the GIGABYTE Gaming Box?
    If so, why and which one, Radeon Pro 580 or Radeon RX Vega 56?

    The BMs sure look the bees knees, but they are quite a bit more expensive than some of the alternatives.(USD700 & USD 1200 in the US, probably add 20% to get one in Asia)

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    Quote Originally Posted by TizMe View Post
    Did you decide to get the BlackMagic eGPU rather than the GIGABYTE Gaming Box?
    If so, why and which one, Radeon Pro 580 or Radeon RX Vega 56?

    The BMs sure look the bees knees, but they are quite a bit more expensive than some of the alternatives.(USD700 & USD 1200 in the US, probably add 20% to get one in Asia)
    I haven't decided yet, kinda depends on how much research money I get from the uni, as I'll buy it from that.

    The Gigabyte seems to be temperamental and noisy; most other eGPUs seem to be very noisy and large. The BM one is near silent, small and easy - even the 580 would be fine for me, but if I get oodles of research money then I'll go for the BM with Vega. I'm not using anything which I need a GPU for, but I will later on and the internal graphics card is really really poor. The machine can keep up with an iMac at $4000+ easily and even an iMac Pro to some extent - as long as you don't need a GPU! &, this isn't even the i7 model; the i7 2018 Mac mini has hyper threading (this i5 doesn't) and with 32GB/64GB RAM and the BM 56Vega would be an absolute monster...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    The machine can keep up with an iMac at $4000+ easily and even an iMac Pro to some extent - as long as you don't need a GPU! &, this isn't even the i7 model; the i7 2018 Mac mini has hyper threading (this i5 doesn't) and with 32GB/64GB RAM and the BM 56Vega would be an absolute monster.
    That kinda talk is normally reserved for Ferraris, Ducatis, racehorses and supermodels

    Its just a fukkin computer mate and my mobile phone is keeping up with your $2000 beast right now

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    Just when you thought it couldn't get any more exciting:

    1) I got creative and made a Mac Media Centre Stand.
    2) Bought a backup drive; a tiny little Glyph Atom backup drive - only 500mbps or so, not USB-C 3.2/thunderbolt3, but it just backs up...

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    In time I'll get a Blackmagic eGPU to sit behind the Yamaha speaker, and I'll sort out a 1GB fast hard drive like the Samsung X5 when I need more space.

    BTW, if you do get a Glyph Atom then it's very small and light, reasonably fast, well made, pretty tough, comes with USB-C to USBC-C/USB-A adaptors which are sooooooooo short, just about 5cms.
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    ^ apparently, Papillion has a few of those for sale.

    I decided not to go silly on an eGPU and just get the most portable one at a decent price that has good performance, so I ordered one of these:
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1



    I'm a bit worried it's gonna be crap, but for $400 I'll take the risk.

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    what games do you intend to use to benchmark it

    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    ^ apparently, Papillion has a few of those for sale.
    I guess the echo was a problem

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    I'm a bit worried it's gonna be crap, but for $400 I'll take the risk.
    Seems you know the answer already, a good GPU is double or more than double that price.

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    So, all this paraphernalia is simply to play .......games???

    Christ, how fucking puerile. How old are you?

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    Gent, do keep up. Betty said right at the start that it was for Research at his Uni that gave him a grant toward it, its feasible he may use it outside of work......

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