The "New Toys" Thread

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Wow they're up to 8tb already? Might I inquire about the price? Does it still double in size for about the same money every year?
 
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Had a first gen but it was on sale so I got a another one, feels snappier for local content at least.
 
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Wow they're up to 8tb already? Might I inquire about the price? Does it still double in size for about the same money every year?
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Bought it off Amazon US with free shipping to SG, $227.24 :)

Right after this the price went up.
 
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Awesome! I love this case. Some cable management trickery for my particular situation but it's so easy to work in otherwise. My build:

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HP Spectre X360 15.6" 8GB of memory and 256SSD.

Two reasons, I have tablet-y things I'd like to do but find straight up tablets to be limiting and, while I'm typing this, my Samsung laptop is throwing up artifacts on the screen. Which is bad since my work laptop died 2.5 months ago and I've been using my personal laptop while my boss gets his head out of his ass and decides that maybe buying a laptop isn't as scary as it sounds. Plus, while on a jobsite this thing BSOD as a opened it from standby because I needed to change parameters on a flame safeguard. changing this one parameter was basically between making fire and not so, freaking out because I was fucked for an hour while my laptop shat itself then magically came back to life... My laptop has been on it's way out for about 6 months so for this very reason. Random BSOD codes relating to graphics failures...

Plus, since 80% of my video watching occurs in my bed, I can now flip the laptop around so that the bottom has air flow all around.

Goodbye Samsung series 3, you will be missed because, for $360, you got me 4 years of dicking around and some actual work, and went to Germany and back while providing me with 9 hours of movie/tv show time on the flight home (I had stock battery and an extended life battery). :)
 
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93Flareside said:
HP Spectre X360 15.6" 8GB of memory and 256SSD.
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Congrats. My work has transitioned from a hodge podge of brands of laptop (but mostly lenovo) to HP. In the process, my ThinkPad was replaced with a HP Elite X2 (think enterprise grade Surface Pro 4 competitor) and so far it's proven far more versatile than a conventional laptop - the ability to take the pen and mark up building maps with speed test results and other info is brilliant.

The machines have been also surprisingly reliable - I had been burned by HP way back when so I was kinda nervous.
 
Which so have a lot of friends and coworkers. It'll be fun to explain, "no no, they're different now!"
 
uh, I can play this game as well...

Finally got a usable work laptop on Friday, after being stuck on a bloody BRICK of a machine for the last 10 months.
Now I have a very much awesome Lenovo T460s with an i7 and ridiculous 20GB of RAM nobody needs. I'm not complaining of course... the only thing to complain about: bloody corporate IT stuck on Win7 -.- It's a bit annoying, but still, could be worse :D
 
20GB ram in a laptop? For work? What do you do? My gf does architecture work on multi-floor high-rises, and gets buy seamlessly with 16GB. :p
 
Utterly unnecessary...
I'd get by with 8 just fine, no idea why they did it. I mostly so project management and general management work in an IT environment, nothing that would be taxing on hardware at all really... Sometimes light scripting work and testing our Web services.
 
While not exactly new, it is new to me, I received a pair of GTX 470s from a friend and I upgraded the old PC to get some decent frame rates in Minecraft. The second card will be going into a second PC that my niece is replacing and is similar to my current machine and these two will be used just for when my nephews are over to play MC.
 
I finally got my new rig today! :D

I got it professionally built, tuned and tested by a specialist in CZ but had to wait almost a month before my family brings it to me. The specs:

Case: Fractal Design Define Mini
PSU: Corsair RM550x 550W
Mobo: MSI B150M NIGHT ELF
CPU: Intel Core i5-6500
RAM: 16GB (2x Kingston 8GB 2133MHz DDR4)
GPU: MSI NVIDIA GTX 960 2GD5T OC
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB
HDD: Seagate Momentus 1TB (Samsung SpinPoint M8)
Extras: ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme IV, F9, F12 and Freezer 13 fans + SCYTHE Himuro + various sound deadening bits

It's definitely not high-end as I had a limited budget for HW. The main point was silent operation even under heavy load and while I have yet to play any newer games on it, I've got to say it's really amazingly quiet while running the stress apps and absolutely silent during normal operation.

The guy created a personal build gallery for me, too: https://picasaweb.google.com/113072535665228271499/6296887819973588481

Everything is neat and tidy, unlike the shed-built PC I cobbled together with my buddy nearly 8 years ago. Looking forward to test it properly in the coming weeks :)
 
Just pre-ordered a ZTE Axon 7, my first real Android device...
 
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Really bad timing as far as GPU goes... :( but congratz.
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Yeah I know, a 4G 1060 would be a significant improvement, but it would also be more expensive - the 960 I got was for a special price. IIRC there was also no dependable info about availability and pricing at the time of the build.
 
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