Think this has everything I want but anything amiss that y’all notice?
15.6" screen, numpad (hopefully on the JP model), rtx3070
Asus keyboards seem like the best from trying them at the eletronics store at the station. No where local has MSi on display. Dell keyboards are surprisingly bad.
Now to try and find pictures of whwre the ports are on this thing.
so my friend really wants to play sable, but doesn’t have a gaming pc. we’re trying to get him the cheapest possible gaming laptop that can run it. we can’t really spend more than $300. Is that possible? It doesn’t look like it’s very demanding at all, but I have no idea how to translate recommended system to specs to laptop hardware. is that possible, and what should I look for in terms of specs?
(also, an xbone isn’t an option because he doesn’t have or want a TV)
The cheapest way to ‘gaming PC’ is buying a used $100 business computer, adding a $100 gt1030, and a $100 monitor. The next upgrade is an SSD.
yeah, it just has to be a laptop in this case unfortunately
Sable was incredibly unstable when i played it last year with constant frame drops for no apparent reason. Seems to be cpu bound so i would get something fairly recent.
from what I hear, its been heavily patched since
$300 windows laptop is going to be gnarly for a 3D game
I’d instead recommend getting a one month trial of Game Pass for $1 (plus a controller, if necessary) and playing it through XCloud on whatever device they have now
I just booted this up on my 5yo midrange laptop yesterday. It ran pretty bad. I then also tried it through xbox cloud gaming and it ran pretty well. So seconding Doolittle’s idea.
Also a good recommendation because almost everyone bounces off Sable
Going to have to get a freakishly long ethernet cable strung from one end of my apartment all the way to the other where my room is, but I’m not really sure how measure this out. Any advice, either on measuring for a cable to wrap up and all around the ceilings of my place, or for how to get a nicely fitting ethernet cable in general? I wish I could just make these my self… seems so simple to do but the buy in of the tools is a bit more steep than I’d like to splurge on right now.
If anyone’s got a seattle hook up for such cable solutions, I’m all ears!!
Yarn?
or pacing. or do what I do, buy way too much solid-core cat6 and never think about it until you’re down to your last 8m
I’m guessing you don’t have easy access to under your floors, so you probably want nail-in round clips to hold it against your walls/skirting board/wainscotting
rather than terminate the cable with RJ45 (which you shouldn’t for solid), grab a couple of surface-mount boxes and a punch-down tool. then use regular patch cables from the boxes to the hosts.
My laptop’s battery will only charge to 94%. This basically doesn’t matter (in theory) because I unplug this laptop maybe once a quarter. Up until this morning the battery indicator has shown 100% consistently for as long as I can remember.
After a reboot the battery indicator briefly animated as if the battery was charging, but after about 30 seconds it stopped. FWIW when I hovered over it the hover text said “Plugged in” but not “Charging”
Any ideas, mates? (Windows 10, if that’s helpful).
There’s a new software feature on some laptops that if they’re plugged in 99% of the time, they won’t charge to full to prolong battery life / avoid swelling. They charge to like 80% instead. It might be that.
she installed it on her old integrated gpu windows laptop and it ran fine, so we just found something with better specs than that which wasn’t hard to do.
well I’ll be damned
I recently did this using wall mountable cable channels from lowe’s. I just got 100ft of ethernet and coiled the excess when it reached it’s destination. the channels were kind of expensive, I think I used 3 packs so the whole project ran about $120 or something. probably could have done it cheaper if I were to measure out the exact amount that I’d need but it didn’t seem worth it.
when I ~do~ need measurements like that I like using tailor’s tape because it’s flexible enough to run like cable and has measurements right on it, but it gets really cumbersome/imprecise to measure extremely long, complex runs with it, since they rarely go longer than 10 feet. taping yarn or string from source to destination would prob be easier, though if your run is any longer than like 30 feet that’s still gonna be a pain in the ass to rig up, and then another pain to measure accurately.
for my money just buying a 100 ft spool wasn’t that much more expensive than getting the 75-or-so odd feet I needed custom cut, and I didn’t mind having a little cable coil sitting behind my PC
I wish I had seen the xcloud solution sooner. is that really a viable option? does it work well on mac’s? I honestly stopped paying attention to cloud gaming since stadia bombed and I assumed it never was reliable enough to be worth anyone’s time.
works on anything with a browser, basically, even iOS
well shit… I wonder if it’s too late to cancel the order