That and vacuuming are ok if you hold the fans still. Otherwise they can spin too fast and get damaged.
That and vacuuming are ok if you hold the fans still. Otherwise they can spin too fast and get damaged.
As I said. i keep it for the old engineering programs. One in particular is well set out and very flexible. It was designed in Australia rather than europe, so its defaults are set to more realistic high ambient heat loads and it gives a well set out print out that is easier for non technical people to read without all the tech mumbo jumbo. Also I have checked it against hand calculated heat loads and found it accurate.
I do not use compressed air , only brushes
if I am going to replace the heat transfer compound , then I will wash the heat sink and let it dry when I take it off the chip
Late 2013 Macbook Pro. Works like the day I bought it although I did change the battery this year.
When it dies, the next one will be a mac.
I had this massive Compaq "Luggable" back in the day that I accidentally left in the back of the car in Sandpit summer heat. By the time I remembered, it looked like Salvador Dali's watch.
Powered it on, worked like a charm. Worked fine until it was superseded and disposed of. Looked as funny as fuck.
If it was a Compaq 386 Portable then I'm not surprised, they could take a lot of beating and still function.
There was a time when every IT consultant had one of those heavy clumsy boxes. It was THE portable for a couple of years.
^ known as towable or the sewing machine
Lang may yer lum reek...
^ Nice . . . nothing to do with 'fanboy' or not. Quality speaks.
A workmate is still running his 2012. He said the Catalina update is the last one available for his system. Not sure if that's true or not. If mine gets a 'final upgrade' notice I'll probably start thinking about my next one.
If anyone is like me and a bit unsure of making the switch, the macbook air and it's price would be a great place to start.
Like Ford vs Chevy, they each have their own problems. Apple's faux minimalism is lame and gay. I'll never get an Apple laptop
when was the last time you opened and cleaned the dust from your apple laptop ?
^ I never said that Apple was a bad company. I am just not a fan of their styling.
Asian brand laptops and electronics in general just have a more manly look. You wouldn't see Bond with an Apple
You have a problem with your sexuality/masculinity, Skidmark. Whether it's your being an apologist for rape, your all-out adoration for hookers, your fear of a 'feminine-looking' piece of electronics . . . Jaysus, dude . . . you need to get over it.
James Bond isn't real. Sony has paid for product placement for years already, as ao already pointed out.
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
unless you want a gaming laptop the discrete GPU is more drama than it is worth - heat and battery - and really to play games you will probably plug it to an external monitor
raid 0 is a striped array used for storage speed and the nvme x4 drives are more than fast enough on their own to saturate the CPU with data
LG is just releasing a 16 inch - LG Gram 16 is a 2.6 pound laptop with a big, high-res display - Liliputing
and I think we will see other manufacturers in 2021 releasing similar , but maybe with new AMD apu's which might be better - though I am not sure if they will still lack thunderbolt connectors - but USB3.2 gen 2 does 10 gig bits now which is probably more than enough to drive external 4k displays etc
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