So I'm in the market for a new laptop and I'm deciding between either the Razer Blade Stealth or the Dell XPS 13
Primarily gonna be using it for basic stuff like writing etc
Wil definitely do some video editing but that won't involve anything intense like 3D rendering or 4K
Don't play games much
Which one should I go for and why?
They're pretty damn similar, but the XPS will give you far longer battery life.
yeah i'm leaning towards the xps
do you know if it has upgradeable ram or is it soldered?
>>57411465
meant for >>57411449 of course
Is older hardware more secure or has potential backdoors always been around?
>>57411226
Security flaws are software only. Yes, older OS's will have more exploits and backdoors. But newer OS's will also have more exploits and backdoors. The best compromise is Windows 7.
>>57411276
>the best among MS Windows
FTFY
https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/18/3092949/security-vulnerability-x86-64-intel-processor
>tfw checking the AM4 section of the CPU store every day
Who else is going to buy AMD Zen on day 0?
>tfw to smart to not wait for sp3 32 core operterons
No because I'm not poor and retarded
>>57411085
>buying anything on day 0
What is the hurry?
Ok /g/, over the past week or so I've been learning about audio stuff since I want really improve my music listening experience.
Right now I'm thinking of getting sennheiser hd 650 headphones, paired with the bottlehead crack + speedball amp, possibly trying out a different tube. I've heard telefunken e82cc's sound great and apparently really cut through this so called "sennheiser viel", but I'm not sure.
I haven't decided on DAC to go with, but I've heard the ODAC on it's own is a good way to go, but I'm not sure and haven't read too much on it.
Anyway, I was wondering if any of you had some advice on this. Am I heading in the right direction? Will this combo sound too smooth and relaxed? Or will it work just right as some people have said? Any other suggestion would be great, and general audio equipment discussion would be good too.
One more thing, would this setup (without the DAC) be acceptable with vinyl? Or would it be overly warm, and a better choice to pick a more neutral headphone and amp, or is it just a better idea to listen to vinyl through speakers.
Thanks.
Sounds like you've been reading a bunch of horseshit about tubes, amplifier "pairing" and the DAC+amp+headphones audiophile dogma.
>Sennheiser veil
A complete joke. In HD 650 this is the result of a specific kind of frequency response, the broad hump in the midbass making the sound warm and "veiled" in some respect. Similar response is found from nearly every HD 5xx -series and HD 600/650 headphones. The response is different from model to model and poor damping can emphasize it. This is a frequency response issue and you fix it with EQ.
>OTL headphone amps
High output impedance is the antithesis of a quality amplifier. It causes uneven voltage division on the load side and wastes power at the output. With Bottlehead Crack the HD 650 will sound increasingly veiled due to the 120 Ohm output impedance resulting in poor damping on the load side and with the impedance swing of the HD 650, that'll just make the midbass even louder.
>tube rolling
Worthless. Most of the time it does absolutely nothing and the only reason to switch tubes is replace worn ones. It's easy to imagine differences however.
>DAC to go with it
Stop worrying about the converter as you have one already and it isn't tied to the headphone response. If there's a problem, replace it.
>Am I heading in the right direction?
No. Find out what you want first. If you truly think getting an amplifier which is nonlinear by design is a good idea that's up to you. If you want best performance for the money, you wont be getting a triode amplifier.
>Will this combo sound too smooth and relaxed?
That's perception and subjective, in general yes that's probably how the HD 650's response sounds like.
>vinyl
Why not? I mean how does the format relate to what kind of equipment you use to listen to your audio?
Also, there's a headphone general.
>>57411018
Order the Sennheiser 6XX from Massdrop when it goes live.
Also, you're reading into too much shit when you don't even own anything. All of those descriptions are extremes, and when you finally get your hand on more than one thing you're going to be extremely underwhelmed.
I have a NuPrime headphone amp ($649) and a NuPrime DAC ($749) which I've used on my Final Audio Heaven VI earbuds ($600), my KEF M500, and my AKG Q701 ($300), and almost everytime I prefer to listen to music on my iPhone 6S because all of the nicest audio gear you can afford isn't worth shit if you can still hear electronic noise. Only the Q701 was worth amplifying because that fucker is power hungry.
Don't waste your money if you can't discern anything.
>>57411237
>>57411280
thank's for the replies guys. I'm pretty new to this, but yeah, I'm sensing a bit bullshit and since I'm a beginner I can't really tell what to make of it.
I've got to find some place to actually try some gear out.
why the fuck do we need so many messaging apps???
YES I AM FUCKING MAD
Because multiple people and companies want a share of that market, then each of them offer yet another goddamn messaging app with "super special features"
Because there's lot of data to sold and I would imagine that it's easier to break trough with messaging app than trying to compete with facebook.
>>57410982
Here in europe we only use whatsapp.
Enough! I've had it firefox. It's shit, it's soc-just shit, and I need a new browser.
I'm ready to abandon FIREFOX immediately.
WHAT IS A GOOD ALTERNATIVE?
Google Chrome
>your 0.99€ has been added to your balance. You can withdraw you balance as soon as you reach a minimum credit of 50€
What's wrong with it? What problems are you having?
Opera
Thoughts on this PC case?
>>57410775
too few leds to even be relevant.
>>57410786
it creates the feeling of a deep void approaching an abyss
>>57410792
like when hillary is elected?
Gibioctet is the most precise unit to measure 2^30 * 8 bits.
>>57410755
>>57410755
It sounds like a faggy way to spell gigabyte.
>>57410784
Gigabyte does not measure 2^30 Bytes.
Arch removes the beginner's guide. All of a sudden there's a rush to EZ-Arch 101 implementations like Antergos, Manjaro, and Arch Anywhere to avoid "wasting time installing Arch." Thank you Arch devs!
Anybody with half a brain stem was already using Antergos et al. Installing Arch is indeed a waste of time, and wasting time doesn't make you intelligent. If anything it makes you the opposite.
The whole "you learn more installing Arch" thing has to die. The only thing you learn is how to copy commands like a monkey. Even if something breaks, guess what you do? Look it up, then copy more commands like a monkey. Want nice font rendering? Look it up copy commands like a monkey.
In short: vanilla Arch users are monkeys.
>>57410752
I hope that their next step is to trash the wiki entirely. also they should find a way to break all those lame installers and piggyback distros.
>>57410752
Ofcourse. This is how market works.
There was a demand for Arch 101 stuff for beginner. When it was removed, other imputed their way. As long as there's demand, there will will be sellers.
'morning /g/. No guts thread?
let's fix that.
>>57410741
>'morning /g/. No "I need to show off and approval from others for my hardware" thread?
>let's fix that.
FTFY
>>57410876
you forgot to add "with an image i repost every time the previous thread dies"
Why does /g/ create and dumb OSes so often?
Could we finish this one and maintain it?
Source code:
https://github.com/install-logos/logos
Lastest iso (build it yourself if you don't trust that shaddy link wtih MD5, you'll just have to remove some outdated dependencies mannually):
https://mega.nz/#!vocnTSDR!I4dpkby6Dew3O0ur3BUJEX1ULJDFMX2tLjFfX3-BWKw
Any though ? Should we try to create a server to run ricecb ? Will this meme ever die ? Why is /g/ official OS not based on Gentoo ?
>>57410723
Create OS? That is just a distribution and it is based on archlinux:
> Lo/g/os, is a customizable Archlinux that can be installed like Ubuntu.
Amusingly:
>I have studied why the other OS developed by /g/ failed.
Last update 2 years ago.
>>57410780
A fork is already kinda hard for this kind of community. Do you really expect /g/ to create a brand new OS?
Let it die.
R8/H8
#4ut15m
>>57410697
>rgb scale
pleb, I can see a color range you can't even imagine
>>57410734
Why does /g/ have not love for OpenSUSE? Why when someone asks for distro recommendations no one ever mentions OpenSUSE, even though it has been around for a long time?
>>57410690
because RPM sucks.
>>57410703
In what ways?
>>57410690
yast is pretty cool.
openSUSE has one of the best german localizations I have seen in linux distros.
was the first distro I used but I moved on, still one I would recommend.
Could someone make this for newer macbook?
Why don't you make it?
All you need is some pictures and their measurements.
You lazy piece of phoneposting shit
When jobs removed the DVD drive from the air it was the right time. There was very little resistance. This one port macfag shit makes no sense.
Naah, it makes sense. You're just a bunch of mentally bloated idiots. You don't need your USB sticks filled with degenerate porn.
The only wrong choice they made was to keep lightning on the iPhone.
Still, burn yourself faggggggot
>nvidiacucks will defend this
http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/nvidia_adds_telemetry_to_latest_drivers_heres_how_to_disable_it.html
Yeah, shit sucks, I uninstalled gforce experience as soon as it started doing dumb shit on my network.
It was only good for reminding me to update drivers anyways.
>>57410610
>windows
you asked for this
linux does not have this problem