PC Tech Thread

Interesting. SHowing the opposite though:

Firefox:

visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0
colo=LHR
sliver=none
http=http/3

Chrome:

visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
colo=LHR
sliver=none
http=http/2

OK, now I am confused.

I still think it's antivirus, but now I have less confidence as to why it's Firefox and not Chrome.

I might be going abroad for a while and will need to buy a laptop.
After I finished university, I gifted my ThinkPad to my sister who is about to start her university studies.
I now only have a desktop. In my opinion, it is superior to a laptop in many ways. Better cooling, better modularity, more powerful for less money...
But now that I plan to be on the road for a while, I will kind of need a laptop.
I game occatioanlly, playing things like League of legends, Minecraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Pubg, Fortnite...
Other things I use my computer for is mostly coding, so compilation of programs.

There are two laptops I had my eye on.
Asus Zephyrus M16
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen5

Both because they have 16 inch displays. Frankly, I think the best display to have is a 27 inch 1440p display. But again, being on the road this is not possible. I want as large a display as possible without the laptop being unweildy and not fitting into a standard backpack.

I like the huge trackpad on the Zephyrus but dislike all the rest of the styling (for sure that AnimeHentai crap on the back, like that's cool and all, but give me the option to have a plain backpanel).

I like the Lenovo for all other things. 16 inch, 2560x1600 display, good build quality (I've had a ThinkPad in the past, and from what the internet tells me, these things seem to have a cult following).
Upgradable storage, upgradable RAM.
I would spec it with an RTX 3060, but I wonder how good a 3050Ti performs? Does anyone have any idea?
The keyboard on Thinkpads are also awesome. Big plus from me.
In general, it also has a business easthetic.

I guess what I'm looking for is a 16 inch laptop, Windows, durable (so not plastic body), powerfull laptop. Max budget is 3000 euros, but less is of course nicer.
Are there some interesting laptops I'm missing?

I know Razer has the 16 inch thing, but it's too expensive IMO. Same thing with the Dell XPS15, crazy expensive for what you get.

Adding a remark; I wonder if there is no AMD offering with the same specs I describe. This would help on battery life

Help!
I’ve just cloned (using Macrium Reflect) my c:/ from one SSD (256gb) to a bigger one, asking the software to expand the main partition to suit (so i don’t end up with another partition).
Afterwards my PC wouldn’t shut down, just restarted repeatedly….
I did all this cloning business using a standalone usb hdd/ssd mount thing for the destination disk.
Anyway i shut it down manually, swapped the SSDs and it wouldn’t boot using the new one.
I went into the boot order and checked it all, no joy. Removed the other drive (d:/) just to be sure, still no joy.
So i put the original ssd back in… and that doesn’t boot either!!!
What can i do? This PC is pretty important.

If you have the data in the cloud or on another drive then I’d just install Windows from scratch. It’s very quick to get Windows 10 or 11 up and running from a USB stick installer

Thanks, that’s what I’ve had to do - unfortunately. It means i have to download loads of software, set up user accounts etc. and many other tedious processes. Boo

Asus rog flow x16 has an AMD cpu, 3070ti and within your price range. Less rowdy lid as well
Have you also considered a lenovo legion?

Before I get to pics and a sales thread - selling a NUC if anyone interested

Intel NUC8i5BEH

Intel Core i5-8259U Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)
16GB DDR4 RAM and a 256GB NVME.
Will wipe and do a clean Windows 11 install

Tiny thing, and silent - 11.7cm x 11.2cm x 5.1cm tall
Pristine still, have had it sat connected to the TV to stream or browse.

£250 delivered

What do you nerds use to sync your files across laptop and PC?

Used to use a bit of dropbox but that's shite. There's presumably a much nicer, not-been-hacked, secure, cheap/free solution?

Damn, wish that were fanless as it's exactly what I'm looking for. But going to be running it 24/7/365 and fans in small forms always end up noisy in those conditions.

I've not noticed the fan, but then it's not on 24/7...
there are fanless cases, but they bump up the footprint a bit, and it seems a bit OTT perfectly in the spirit of LFGSS to recommend a £100 case on a £250 PC...
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/akasa-turing-a-nuc45-m1b-compact-fanless-case-aluminium-8th-generation-intel-bean-canyon-nuc-ucff-4x

We own close to 100 of these exact units, some running 24/7 in tough environments, and the default fan/power profile keeps them almost silent unless you’re pegging the CPU & GPU all day.

there are fanless cases, but they bump up the footprint

We have an Asus fanless NUC from the PN series attached to the TV for streaming and browsing, 115×115×49 mm. Obviously fanless in that form factor limits the amount of power you can have, but it works for the purpose described

We own close to 100 of these exact units, some running 24/7 in tough environments, and the default fan/power profile keeps them almost silent unless you’re pegging the CPU & GPU all day.

^ @Velocio enough of a recommendation to persuade?

One drive yo

Yeah nah

OneDrive for me too mainly. I need Office anyway so £40 a year for Office for multiple PCs and 1TB each of cloud for me and a few others is pretty good value.

Otherwise keep stuff on my main PC and access over network/tailscale.

I was doing that with Tailscale but then my PC got updates or something while I was away and I could no longer connect so it was a bit annoying.

I don't use installed Office stuff (only OWA and their web versions for work). Maybe OneDrive is a good idea but I find that bastard quite invasive so out of habit turn it off on every machine. Plus it's MS and the less stuff they have the better.

You have just reminded me that I can use Tailscale to copy stuff though. :)

I think Tailscale had some critical update so it logged out the machines which weren't updated which was a bit annoying (although I guess secure).

If it was this: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16771231/

I think that happened before I lost access. I came back to that stupid Windows screen asking you to setup an account and choose Edge browser settings so I assume it was a bigger Win update that killed it

You said sync not copy!

Yeah, if they were synced, I wouldn't have to copy.

I have an AMD 3600 and a Nvidea GTX 1080 spare if anyone would like them for a good price?

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