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Post by JSUSoutherner on Sept 17, 2022 16:16:23 GMT -6
I love my ROG laptop. I got a Zephyrus G15 with the Ryzen 9 and an RTX 3070. That thing is a cruise missile. The discrete gfx card in my ROG went out twice and it took Asus 3 months to repair it. I gave up on it after the ram went bad for the second time. The MSI was more reliable but the battery life was even shorter than the Asus. I do video and photo editing so I don’t need game performance. I bought gaming notebooks for perceived longevity. When did you buy them and did they have AMD GPU/CPU?
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Post by stevo on Sept 17, 2022 16:49:54 GMT -6
I have tried ESPN Minus a couple times and it sucked. Not buying a subscription when I only care about one game a week. frick them. Didn't ask you.
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Post by leeroy on Sept 17, 2022 16:52:13 GMT -6
I have tried ESPN Minus a couple times and it sucked. Not buying a subscription when I only care about one game a week. frick them. Didn't ask you. Personally never had an issue with the ESPN app. I watched our volleyball team at the bar at BWW last night. I think it's worth the money.
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Post by troysux on Sept 17, 2022 16:52:18 GMT -6
I have tried ESPN Minus a couple times and it sucked. Not buying a subscription when I only care about one game a week. frick them. Didn't ask you. Didn't know I needed your permission to comment on the topic.
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Post by JSUSoutherner on Sept 17, 2022 16:55:09 GMT -6
I have tried ESPN Minus a couple times and it sucked. Not buying a subscription when I only care about one game a week. frick them. Didn't ask you. He didn't even quote you. Chill. Also given you started the whole thread, you did ask.
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Post by Cleburneslim on Sept 17, 2022 18:02:33 GMT -6
I have tried ESPN Minus a couple times and it sucked. Not buying a subscription when I only care about one game a week. frick them. Didn't ask you. I concur I’ve paid them a couple years and rarely watched more than half a game at a time. Plus the broadcast production was terrible. I quit online broadcasts are a scam.
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Post by Cleburneslim on Sept 17, 2022 18:04:23 GMT -6
Ps I’m listening to mike right now and believe it or not there’s isn’t any glitches. however, Right now I’m wishing it would go out.
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Post by King_Gamecock on Sept 18, 2022 1:33:08 GMT -6
The discrete gfx card in my ROG went out twice and it took Asus 3 months to repair it. I gave up on it after the ram went bad for the second time. The MSI was more reliable but the battery life was even shorter than the Asus. I do video and photo editing so I don’t need game performance. I bought gaming notebooks for perceived longevity. When did you buy them and did they have AMD GPU/CPU? The ROG was 2012 and it was Intel/Nvidia. No CPU problems but my Nvidia card went out twice and it took Asus 3 months to repair it both times. The MSI was 2016 and it was Nvidia/Intel. No hardware problems but Windows doesn't support (or didn't) triple monitor output even though the hardware was capable. I could boot into Linux and use 2 external displays plus my 17.3" laptop display...but with Windows it wasn't possible. The drivers would dynamically allocate tasks to the Intel GPU or Nvidia, but not both simultaneously. Nouveau in Linux had no issues. All things considered, I would recommend MSI over Asus because of build quality. I tore down both machines to upgrade the SSD, and the MSI was better in terms of construction and materials. These days, battery life and portability are much more important to me. M1 Macbook Air can go a whole day without charging and suffers no performance loss operating on battery. It weighs less than the battery brick for either of the gaming laptops (not an exaggeration), and the specialized hardware in the M1 makes it faster at encoding/decoding video than any Windows laptop within the price range. I paid $900 with education discount. It is easily the best laptop I have ever owned - for everything other than gaming, and it even does the little bit of that I do extremely well. I play a couple of old games (old MMORPG) and it maxes the framerate. I can't tell the difference between it and my PC from Taiwan that was running an RX5700xt. My desktop is a whole other matter. The M1 Max is a beast. It may not have the pure GPU power of an Nvidia RTX3090, but you can't build a PC to keep up with it for what I paid (<2k with education discount). It is blazing fast and dead silent. I have 2x 30" widescreen monitors that I use for productivity. I can't say it is massively faster than my PC I had in Taiwan. That PC was a Ryzen R9 with 32Gb ddr5 ram, 2TB NVME, and an RX5700xt running Linux Mint. I moved to the Mac studio after a year with an M1 Mac Mini that I had bought for HTPC. At $650 it is unbeatable for that task and combined with the performance I was getting on my Air, I loved the idea of a small, silent desktop with a ton of power for productivity tasks. My tablet situation serves as a microcosm of my Apple experience. In 2016 I bought an iPad air. Two years ago I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 because I wanted a stylus and didn't want to pay the "Apple Premium" of $100. It was roughly the same price as a new iPad and came with a stylus. Out of the box the speed and responsiveness was identical to my ipad Air... two years later my 2016 iPad air is exactly the same as it was in terms of speed and fluidity, while my Samsung is sluggish and stutters doing anything remotely productive. I tried teaching an online tutoring session using Google Meets a few weeks ago and it was painful. My iPad has no trouble even though it is 4 years older. I should have bought a new iPad and paid for the pencil. Live and learn. This is all very off-topic. If you want to continue the discussion, let's move it to Esom Hill. I am not an Apple fanboy in the sense that I support and promote them because of some strange obsession with turtlenecks. I like their products because of the user experience that I have had personally after using virtually every platform since Sinclair released their first 8-bit. The right-to-repair issues are what they are. If you know upfront that your only avenue for expansion is thunderbolt and you are okay with that, it is a non-issue. I just haven't had maintenance issues with their products - ever. I literally have never needed to send a single Apple product for service. I replaced my iPhone 7 plus with a Huawei P30 Pro because my 7 fell out of my bag when I was chasing a taxi and was run over by a car before I could retrieve it. It still turned on but wouldn't charge. I replaced it with a 12 Pro Max after a few months because while the camera hardware was technically better in the P30, the Google software was straight garbage compared to the iPhone and my photos on the 6-year-old Apple phone were better with less fuss. If I wanted to fiddle with settings before taking every shot, I am sure I could have taken better photos on the P30, but most of the time with your phone you want to grab a quick shot and have it turn out looking good. Apple shutter is instant and the photos almost always look perfect without any manual settings. The experience is good. I know I can get cheaper products in the Android or PC ecosystem and have a moderately good experience, but my experience tells me that their usability is short-lived, while I replace my Apple hardware when I want to. If there were native versions of Microsoft Office apps for Linux, I might be using a Linux Box instead of my studio, though the price of my Taiwan PC was comparable to my Studio, so all things considered, I would probably still have gone to the Studio. I can get the whole !@#$ Apple sentiment for right-to-repair issues. I take care of my stuff and have never needed repair. it isn't an issue for me. My Mac Mini and Studio run 24/7, though I think I am going to start powering off my Studio when not in use. The Mini is my HTPC and replaced a 2015 Mini that had been running 24/7 since 2015 and still working - though painfully slow...my fault for buying a 4Gb ram model. Another lesson learned...but truthfully Apple shouldn't have been selling a 4Gb model in 2015.
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Post by jsualumnus on Sept 18, 2022 9:35:55 GMT -6
I believe the CUSA TV package is up for a new contract in the next few months. How are you guys going to feel if it goes to Apple or Amazon or some other streaming service? I'm so invested in Jax State that I would do whatever I needed to watch the games. I know not everyone would though. Would go to Antarctica and set up a 1,000 ft. antenna, a 15” TV, sip cold beer in a frozen mug, with only your jimmie’s on?
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Post by leeroy on Sept 18, 2022 9:44:53 GMT -6
I'm so invested in Jax State that I would do whatever I needed to watch the games. I know not everyone would though. Would go to Antarctica and set up a 1,000 ft. antenna, a 15” TV, sip cold beer in a frozen mug, with only your jimmie’s on? I have driven to Charleston, Illinois for a game if that tells you anything.
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Post by JSUSoutherner on Sept 18, 2022 9:56:33 GMT -6
Would go to Antarctica and set up a 1,000 ft. antenna, a 15” TV, sip cold beer in a frozen mug, with only your jimmie’s on? I have driven to Charleston, Illinois for a game if that tells you anything. Tells me you're a psychopath. Illinois sucks. It's just an obstacle that's between me and the western US.
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Post by Cleburneslim on Sept 18, 2022 12:06:49 GMT -6
When did you buy them and did they have AMD GPU/CPU? The ROG was 2012 and it was Intel/Nvidia. No CPU problems but my Nvidia card went out twice and it took Asus 3 months to repair it both times. The MSI was 2016 and it was Nvidia/Intel. No hardware problems but Windows doesn't support (or didn't) triple monitor output even though the hardware was capable. I could boot into Linux and use 2 external displays plus my 17.3" laptop display...but with Windows it wasn't possible. The drivers would dynamically allocate tasks to the Intel GPU or Nvidia, but not both simultaneously. Nouveau in Linux had no issues. All things considered, I would recommend MSI over Asus because of build quality. I tore down both machines to upgrade the SSD, and the MSI was better in terms of construction and materials. These days, battery life and portability are much more important to me. M1 Macbook Air can go a whole day without charging and suffers no performance loss operating on battery. It weighs less than the battery brick for either of the gaming laptops (not an exaggeration), and the specialized hardware in the M1 makes it faster at encoding/decoding video than any Windows laptop within the price range. I paid $900 with education discount. It is easily the best laptop I have ever owned - for everything other than gaming, and it even does the little bit of that I do extremely well. I play a couple of old games (old MMORPG) and it maxes the framerate. I can't tell the difference between it and my PC from Taiwan that was running an RX5700xt. My desktop is a whole other matter. The M1 Max is a beast. It may not have the pure GPU power of an Nvidia RTX3090, but you can't build a PC to keep up with it for what I paid (<2k with education discount). It is blazing fast and dead silent. I have 2x 30" widescreen monitors that I use for productivity. I can't say it is massively faster than my PC I had in Taiwan. That PC was a Ryzen R9 with 32Gb ddr5 ram, 2TB NVME, and an RX5700xt running Linux Mint. I moved to the Mac studio after a year with an M1 Mac Mini that I had bought for HTPC. At $650 it is unbeatable for that task and combined with the performance I was getting on my Air, I loved the idea of a small, silent desktop with a ton of power for productivity tasks. My tablet situation serves as a microcosm of my Apple experience. In 2016 I bought an iPad air. Two years ago I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 because I wanted a stylus and didn't want to pay the "Apple Premium" of $100. It was roughly the same price as a new iPad and came with a stylus. Out of the box the speed and responsiveness was identical to my ipad Air... two years later my 2016 iPad air is exactly the same as it was in terms of speed and fluidity, while my Samsung is sluggish and stutters doing anything remotely productive. I tried teaching an online tutoring session using Google Meets a few weeks ago and it was painful. My iPad has no trouble even though it is 4 years older. I should have bought a new iPad and paid for the pencil. Live and learn. This is all very off-topic. If you want to continue the discussion, let's move it to Esom Hill. I am not an Apple fanboy in the sense that I support and promote them because of some strange obsession with turtlenecks. I like their products because of the user experience that I have had personally after using virtually every platform since Sinclair released their first 8-bit. The right-to-repair issues are what they are. If you know upfront that your only avenue for expansion is thunderbolt and you are okay with that, it is a non-issue. I just haven't had maintenance issues with their products - ever. I literally have never needed to send a single Apple product for service. I replaced my iPhone 7 plus with a Huawei P30 Pro because my 7 fell out of my bag when I was chasing a taxi and was run over by a car before I could retrieve it. It still turned on but wouldn't charge. I replaced it with a 12 Pro Max after a few months because while the camera hardware was technically better in the P30, the Google software was straight garbage compared to the iPhone and my photos on the 6-year-old Apple phone were better with less fuss. If I wanted to fiddle with settings before taking every shot, I am sure I could have taken better photos on the P30, but most of the time with your phone you want to grab a quick shot and have it turn out looking good. Apple shutter is instant and the photos almost always look perfect without any manual settings. The experience is good. I know I can get cheaper products in the Android or PC ecosystem and have a moderately good experience, but my experience tells me that their usability is short-lived, while I replace my Apple hardware when I want to. If there were native versions of Microsoft Office apps for Linux, I might be using a Linux Box instead of my studio, though the price of my Taiwan PC was comparable to my Studio, so all things considered, I would probably still have gone to the Studio. I can get the whole !@#$ Apple sentiment for right-to-repair issues. I take care of my stuff and have never needed repair. it isn't an issue for me. My Mac Mini and Studio run 24/7, though I think I am going to start powering off my Studio when not in use. The Mini is my HTPC and replaced a 2015 Mini that had been running 24/7 since 2015 and still working - though painfully slow...my fault for buying a 4Gb ram model. Another lesson learned...but truthfully Apple shouldn't have been selling a 4Gb model in 2015. Is this what it sounds like when people speak Taiwanese?
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Post by King_Gamecock on Sept 18, 2022 13:29:29 GMT -6
Is this what it sounds like when people speak Taiwanese? 只有當他們喝了過量的啤酒
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Post by Cleburneslim on Sept 18, 2022 19:24:48 GMT -6
So yes then.
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Post by Cleburneslim on Sept 19, 2022 3:04:55 GMT -6
啤酒
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