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sony pulled out of the personal computer industry a while ago, they also sold their first corporate headquarters and many of their product lines.
They're in dire straits, sony pictures and sony computer entertainment are literally the only divisions making them any money.

>>60330592
fuck!

so basically, RIP SONY?

>>60330620
It's their own fucking fault, they've dropped the ball so many times I don't even know how they're still open.
In the early 90s they could do no wrong so they kept pushing proprietary formats and losing format wars and sheepishly adopting them when it was too late and other companies had filled the niche they ignored.
They really fucked up when mp3s rolled around and the iPod came out.

>>60330469
Mutt

Outlook

.edu

>>60330461
Maybe.

>>60330461
Probably.

>>60330461
Perhaps.

>>60330361
Because you're a fag that doesn't make backups and doesn't understand the purpose of a warranty.

>>60330361
Buy used
Buy cheap
RAID
Replace as necessary

>>60330361
what kind of shitty harddrives are you buying ?
my hdds usually die somewhere between 30000-50000 hours or arrive defective.

>screenfetches from Linux OSes
>table has a M$ label on the front
>is that an apple logo I see on the 'puters?
Eh?

OP: dunno.

>>60330406
Yesterday they used a Dell AIO, Today they use a Smaller Surface Studio like computer with no logo

>>60330348
POO IN THE LOO

>>60330334
Not a lot of selection. I think Acer has one and there's a Korean company called Pixio that makes one.

1440p is basically a meme stopgap resolution that nobody wants to fully buy in to.

>>60330334
No.

>>60330334
Dude just buy Nvidia

ebin just ebin ;~) i buy the right brand of telephones and labtobs, which makes me superior to the NORMIES REEE who buy the wrong brand lol. i bet there so r*tarded they'll pour water on the headphones, and here's some screencaps from twitter showing that it actually happened

>>60330310
Good job.

>>60330310
Why is everyone involved in making these either
-not proficient in English
-Bad at design
-Terrible with grammar

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>>60330309
*use scissors*
*turn 360º*
*keep walking*

>>60330309
I cut the locking tab off. The connector is tight fitting enough to hold it alone

*uncomfortable mobo flexing occurs*

>>60330282
Of course they'll come with less ST performance, they're clocked lower due to 50% more cores

On the other hand AMD's marketing is completely retarded, instead of pushing the "beating Intel's most powerful $1000 consumer CPU at half the price while using less power", they did nothing.

>>60330282

>Higher core count CPU has less clock speed than a lower core count CPU

STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES

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You are wrong.

>>60330298
>white terminal background

kill me

I've tried gnome and hated it. I just got a new xps13 and wanted to try it out again since I heard it had good support for hidpi screens. It looks nice but I always get super low fps when I press the super key or whatever to show all the apps. Turning the animations off fixes it obviously but I shouldn't have to do that and I'm too lazy to find a fix

>Fedora
Pardon me?

>Rated E by the Entertainment Software Rating Board

>>60330176
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as linux, is in fact, GNU/NT, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus NT. NT is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX...

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HERE IS MY ORIGINAL MENTION OF INTEL VULNERABILITY
Is Intel's Sandy Bridge on a road to nowhere?
Intel's new remote kill switch could be used to end computing under the cover of a fake EMP disaster
Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist, June 4 2011
Within any power structure that has fallen into darkness like America's has, there is a need to control the information recieved by the governed. Widespread knowledge of even one key truth can bring such power structures to an end; they do, after all, need the will and support of their governed to survive.
The internet was an ambush to them. Initially the "elite" intended computers to be a way to gain access to the most intricate information about people's lives. They used popular bulletin boards such as America Online and Prodigy as spy machines, which worked well because they kept an identity of everyone who posted anything on them. The internet changed that. Because the internet was decentralized and allowed anonymity, it became a potent weapon in the hands of the people, and the elite are desperately seeking ways to shut it down and end computing as we know it.
With entire economic communities, vast numbers of casual users, and widespread communication taking place on the web, shutting it down has become politically impossible without the very real chance of sparking an armed rebellion.
But what if such a shutdown could happen, with the blame directed away from those who caused it? Intel's Sandy bridge technology, which allows remote shutdown of a CPU via the cellular phone network could be used to end computing as we know it if such technologies become widespread and a fake EMP disaster is created as an explanation for why all the computers died. Keep that old PC in the closet!

UPDATE, March 12, 2012
I don't have time to work on this subject right now, but I have made a few discoveries to quickly go over - First of all, the AMD A series of processors offer stiff competition to Intel I series processors, including Sandy Bridge, at a better value. The AMD processors also contain the cell link, but when attacked, don't go down as easy. This is because the AMD A series uses a CPU die with 4 totally separate CPU cores, and the Sandy Bridge is a single core that emulates 4 cores. SO when attacked, the 4 discrete core setup from AMD remains more stable, and since it is very power efficient, it's hard to damage. The AMD Cpu's do not have the hardware kill, they use a bios rooted soft kill that pegs the CPU. If you are smart enough to realize the CPU is flaming hot and shut it down before death, it is then just a matter of purging the bios. I learned this first hand! Fourtunately I bought an A6. It's awesome. I have a lot more to say but no time to say it.
For now, here are a few links:

http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/intel-s-sandy-bridge-cpus-to-carry-remote-kill-switch http://www.techspot.com/news/41643-intels-sandy-bridge-processors-have-a-remote-kill-switch.html http://www.bloggerisme.com/intel-sandy-bridge-integrated-anti-theft-3-0-as-alarm.html http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/intels-new-core-vpro-chipset-bakes-in-3g-kill-pill/142499 http://www.eutimes.net/2010/12/remote-kill-switch-added-to-intel-sandy-bridge/

Here is another old report from this web site on the topic of hackable Intel chips
New Intel based PC's PERMANENTLY hackable
Jim Stone, May 23 2012
So you think no one can access your data because your computer is turned off. Heck it's more than turned off, you even took the main hard drive out, and only the backup disk is inside. There is no operating system installed at all. So you KNOW you are safe.
Frank from across the street is an alternative operating systems hobbyist, and he has tons of computers. He has Free BSD on a couple, his own compilation of Linux on another, a Mac for the wife, and even has Solaris on yet another. Frank knows systems security, so he cannot be hacked . . . . . . . or so he thinks.
The government does not like Frank much, because they LOVE to look at everything. Privacy is a crime don't you know, and it looks like Frank's luck with privacy is about to run out.
The new Intel Core vPro processors contain a new remote access feature which allows 100 percent remote acess to a PC 100 percent of the time, even if the computer is TURNED OFF. Core vPro processors contain a second physical processor embedded within the main processor which has it's own operating system embedded on the chip itself. As long as the power supply is available and and in working condition, it can be woken up by the Core vPro processor, which runs on the system's phantom power and is able to quietly turn individual hardware components on and access anything on them.

1990s - perl
2000s - python 2.x
2010s - javascript

>>60329854
please don't post the racist frog

>>60329880

What will the 2020s be? I want to get a headstart. Maybe we could start a coding bootcamp school and charge people 6 thousand dollars to teach them what's in the introductory documentation =^)

>>60329800
>rushabh chheda
dumb phoneposter

>linux is so minimal you can run it inside another operating system without problems
>windows is so bloated not even decades of debugging and backtracing can make it work on linux
rly makes u think...

Some pajeet was sick of hearing "Ubuntu is better" so he made a windows app that runs a live image of Ubuntu. But it's a windows app so it probably doesn't have persistence and crashes a lot.

>>60329691
But why?

>>60329756
why not ?

I have a tendency to avoid excess and feel that slackware alone meets my needs.

I've never tried other distros.