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honey the codewitch wrote: I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat.
You may be amused even more: Warranty void if used on Saturday.
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Bought a surveillance hard drive there Saturday. I could order but not checkout. Had them email me when I could (2130).
Should be here Wed. I have bought a lot of surveillance stuff there.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Laptops are for RDP.
You use a real computer.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I'll use whatever does the job.  My desktop simply isn't portable enough, even as desktop's go. It's really heavy, and very fragile being all glass, as I said.
I got this laptop because it was the closest thing I could get to my desktop. Sure, my desktop's i5 sleeper chip spanks the mobile i9HX in the laptop in most categories, but really only by about 30%, and with workstation loads, like SQL server, my laptop in theory is better, having more cores.
The big difference is my GPU. Even a laptop 4090 only benches between a 3090 and 3090 TI desktop GPU, but I also run at 4k on the desktop and only 1600p (@ 16:10) on the laptop, so I'm hoping the GPU differences are mitigated quite a bit by the smaller screen/lower resolution.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Remote Desktop?
I mean, a laptop is just that. Its only use is to remote into a real PC.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Not in this case. If I only needed it for RDP I'd just get a phone with an embedded keyboard and use SSH instead.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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How does one find themselves the victim of laptop theft on multiple occasions?
Just curious as I have never had my laptop stolen, ever, and I have been working from a laptop for over 10 years now.
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Living on the first floor of a busy street in one on north broadway in seattle back when the neighborhood was kinda sketchy. Wouldn't have mattered but anyone could see in my window during the day, and there was hidden access to my side windows off the street, so someone broke in.
The other time it got stolen I left it at someone's place, and came back for it once I realized and it was gone.
Both times I figured out out who did it.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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honey the codewitch wrote: Both times I figured out out who did it.
Impressive! Maybe you should be called Kojak the codewitch.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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My laptop was stolen once by ... my chef!
He did it while I was working in a factory on location, just to teach me a lesson.
Well, lesson learned I guess 
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I'm assuming he gave it back. 
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Yes eventually, but only after letting me sweat for several hours
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I've bought from B&H several times over the years. Great company! Very orthodox though, hence the Saturday thing.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen.
Unlucky?
I have friends that have used laptops for decades. Pretty sure right now it is about 20 years for them. One travels extensively all over the world with it.
None of them have ever been stolen.
You can buy hardware that makes it difficult for anyone to walk off with it as long as you remember to lock it up.
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Absent minded, and lived on the first floor in a building where it was easy to break in, you could see in my windows, and some of the neighborhood was sketchy.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Looking at the picture of the ventilation, I would recommend you to make a frame of thin wood or plexiglas that allows you to place the laptop in a stable way, but allows the circulation of the air.
Like 3 cm high where there are holes (in form of rectangle) of 2x5 cm with 1 or 2 cm "wall" separation between them.
M.D.V. 
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I bought a cooler tray for it.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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If it works... then is good.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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It should.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I have googled it... I hadn't seen any yet.
Looks pretty "cool" 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm actually considering a mini/micro pc with a mobile monitor. I hate laptop keyboards and mousepads with a hot passion, so they are just a waste of space for me. I am willing to box up my keyboard and mouse for travel, so this seems like a nice alternative, especially since I almost never need to work on battery power. The only downside is that the only mobile monitors I've seen are all 15.6" and no bigger. Of course, when home, I would connect my extra-wide monitor, but I would really like to have something bigger to travel with than 15.6" diagonal.
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I almost got one of those, but the GPUs were lackluster, and the good performers were all AMD, and I'm more about Intel these days. I think the Intels running at higher wattages don't lend themselves to mini PCs, although I may end up getting one eventually to leave at my sister's place. They have plenty of monitors there for when I come over.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Well, I'd only use it for coding, word processing, and MineCraft, so it's likely plenty for my needs. My laptop is so old and I'm concerned about losing stuff in the near future as well as eos on apps.
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I'm disturbed that you had laptops stolen 3 times and you dropped one.  
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