For example, the Dell has better coverage of Adobe RGB than this ASUS “Pro Art” display, and the ASUS has only marginally better contrast
Well there is for example this thing: https://www.dell.com/en-us/member/shop/dell-ultrasharp-27-monitor-with-premiercolor-up2716d/apd/210-aggp/monitors-monitor-accessories
Allegedly, Dell UltraSharp + “PremierColor” support is something you want as a photographer. Although on paper, the specs appear to be very similar, plus I’m not entirely sure what exactly PremierColor offers that I can’t do anyways, since it seems to be purely a software thing. So I’m not sure how much of it is just marketing, even on the physical hardware specs side. The most I can deduce so far is that you have the convenience of the software directly “talking” to the monitor, to make the process of calibration and profile switching easier? But I’m not sure, trying to read up on it.
If you’re doing professional color calibration for work you’re beyond what I know in terms of general A/V quality, sorry
to be totally honest if you have to read between the lines of monitor reviews to get colour accuracy you should really just buy a current-gen macbook on craigslist and be done with it, isolating that feature to a universal standard otherwise is too much trouble
Dell is pretty darn good on RGB coverage as a rule, but approximating the macbook pro everyone else takes on faith is eventually pointless
This isn’t at all for work, I’ve just never been in a position before where it was worth even entertaining these options, so I know nothing either about what will actually make a difference to me. I just know I like to do photo editing, as a hobby, and I do take it seriously, but it’s not my paycheck.
But I will take Felix’s word that at that point its pointless to try and discern these things.
Oh, if you aren’t doing it for money or with other people then you don’t need this pro calibration stuff, the 99% sRGB on most IPS screens is totally fine
Like I have an OLED TV that pops in ways my IPS monitor can’t but it looks pretty darn good and there’s no better technology under 48”.
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You were asking about a mechanical keyboard in the last thread. I was looking for almost exactly the same specs as you and got my keyboard 6 months ago. I spent a stupid amount of time reading different mechanical keyboard opinions and questioning if the price tag was worth it. Ultimately it made everything I do on the PC more enjoyable and I wish I had bit the bullet and gotten this same keyboard years ago.
I went with Ducky One 2 RGB TKL with Cherry Black. The same model exists with numpad, but my preference is to have extra mousepad room w/ TKL and a standalone numpad that can be moved out of the way when not in use.
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Yea, I was definitely looking at the Ducky One and Shine series keyboards. I ultimately went with the modular GMMK keyboard Doolittle suggested, which is working very nicely for me! At the time, the Ducky keyboards that fit my specs were out of stock for MX Black switches. But they definitely looked nice.
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getting page fault in non paged area crashes trying to start windows when I try to windows update until it undoes the update again, my dac and monitor and missing from the sound devices, docker failed to launch and the icon is red.
this clapped out piece of shit
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wow
an AMD reference card that doesn’t sound like a leafblower
I’m proud to be the top Fire Strike score for systems with a Ryzen 1700X and an RX 6700XT, beating out one other person
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reinstalled windows and now sb is stuck in bubble mobile mode. the indignities never end
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i think i lived in one of those at college
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God, that UI brings back so many late night comp sci lab memories.
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No one ever wanted to use the Solaris machines in the computer lab, so I could always count on hopping on those if I had to check my email.
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I thought they were a joy to use! That’s all we had in our lab tho. I guess they keyboards were kinda squishy. And the standard mouse had three buttons? It was so user-hostile!
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Those mice were my only beef! Going straight for those let me sneak around the guy who would make me listen to Rush in the Mac section though so it was worth it.
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The OS has been mismatched with their hardware division for five years. I hope this has a decent touch UI.
My Surface Book 2 in tablet mode is good for: OneNote w/ pen. That’s it lol
More interesting rumor: no/minimal royalty store/app distribution with no rules for the purposes of pissing contests with Apple. Winget was DOA but a good GUI package manager would be a huge improvement for non-power users.
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