ironically timed due to the 5% lowering of the prices across the board... and the introduction of the std range $35,000 model.... and the announcment of closure of all showrooms.... and then walking a lot of this back with "only" a 3% drop with that 2% moved into not closing all showrooms. No one ev...

I was about to jump on you to say that the "world problem" is not the donkey vs the elephant or the evil relationship between Israel the US and Saudi Arabia... but yet... it IS a world problem. These entities are responsible for millions of deaths trillions of dollars wasted and the continued suffer...

Are we still talking desktop monitors like the title says or TV displays? That's why I didnt mention 4k60 or HDR or anything that is actually interesting...

I would love to see a 24-27" LCD w/ 4k 60 HDR but these really arent moving on PCs.

Except for stuff like Gsync and Freesync and super high res., monitors have kind of stagnated given that demand for desktop PCs hasnt really grown?

One of the first expensive monitors I bought was the Dell 2405... funny story... the first LCD monitor I ever paid for was a HP 15" back in 2002 or 03? This was when these were several hundred. They were excess merchandise... ie. buy 5 x HP rack servers get a free monitor. Anyway... I wasnt too impr...

Trump is the manifestation of the golden parachute that exists when you're a billionaire. Always falling up. However I wonder how long this charade will last past January. Its this generations' Nixon and possibly Clinton if you're after a media spectacle. 2019 will be the year he's escorted out of t...

I consulted at many businesses that kept even T61s T400s as test bench machines and the like... Many businesses didnt even buy desktops any more... older laptops worked fine as desktops with an lcd kbd mouse. However even so, a 1st gen machine is basically worthless. I think 3 or 4yrs ago I bought a...

I say that as someone who doesnt mind the Dell and HP Elite keyboards going back to 2005 etc. Hell I still have a single core HP Elite 14" 4:3 Dothan whatever laptop that I keep around for the Com1 port. I feel like becuase HP and Dell have 'ok layouts' and they never gave us anything really great l...

I moved onto a Dell e6430 over my old T420/420s... the architecture is a major move up in speed power reduction etc. Saying that I feel like the T430 is still a tad more expensive on the 2nd hand market than the 420 family. I can never accept the new chiclet layout and I'm ok with Dell's kbd format....

I work for a few places that use this.... basically a few of the staff members hook their own laptops up to the network and use that to verify the LTSB copy.... so no candy crush, no minecraft etc. Its great however I just use Win7 lol... I believe its the same KMS key server stuff the same as Win7 ...

There's always going to be alleged professionals who hurt themselves or their fellow employees or their family with their guns.

Who remembers the DEA agent who was in a classroom and stated he was the only one 'professional' enough to handle a Glock 22.

Then promptly shot himself in the leg.

He'll need it up quick... the caravan is coming... any day now... I suspect it'll be a pressing issue once more when the subpoenas start coming.

Its such a useful tool like just before the mid terms. After?

We'll keep that in our back pocket for now...

I think many people look at the question of gun control thru their own lense. I'm a reasonably competant person with no criminal record, no mental issues and generally stable life. So I feel like I should be ok to own a gun. But the flip side is that there's a lot of people a lot less responsible th...

I'm slightly ok with countries having compulsory military service, say for a short time, 6 months to a year. Saying that as someone who never has to do that. I also put it to you that in times of a national emergency most countries will devolve into a police state and that they wont hesistate to con...

You cant blame news for covering when 11 people get shot in a church vs. what *may* have been prevented when someone kills an assailant. But even given that its impossible to do gun restrictions in the US given theres no registration. You can take away guns from the British and Australians since the...

Muslims arent a monolithic group.

Granted they havent accepted their clergy molesting children on the degree of certain other mainstream religions.

1st thing everyone should be doing is reading the HMM for you model.

This is good for 99% of issues.

But I know few people want to go to this trouble.

I feel like the best thing about Microsoft is that they are incompetant in many arenas. Would you use Bing? How safe is Edge? We know Google and Facebook are the devil and you can handily ignore Twit and Amazon. With 3 alternate big name browsers its not like as if you are tied. Do you guys like duc...

I think its easy to sit back and say "hold steady".

If you're an employee at Panasonic in the UK and you lost your job because they're moving to the Netherlands....

The response to that is that countries shouldnt put economic performance as the main goal.

Sometimes you have die standing up rather than begging on your knees.

Not much of a life if you existence relies on the vagaries of some bureacrats in Brussels...

I think its very easy to sit on a forum and tell people to 'fight'.... people 'fought' in Charlottesville and got ran over and killed by loonie in a Dodge Charger. Let's be realistic... if you're here you're likely to be in a middle class westernised family with all your usual things... children, a ...

The Russians get a free pass as there's many who would rather be on the side of the Russians than say a blue candidate. If they're helping me win then who cares. Further the Russians like to hack election nodes dont they? As I said before, the Chinese are the least of your worries... they are after ...

Out of the units I have, I have only see brittle plastics on my x300 and my t400s, especially bezels or wherever is thin.

Everything else is solid. Maybe they used a different composition on the lightweight units.

Someone hacked his account... or 'hacked' as in he left himself logged in and a spammer took over.

Most of us here are middle class educated folks in the western world. I'm guessing we have reasonable jobs and have reasonable expectations in western society of adequate housing food resources etc. Our kids are educated and although many of us are unhappy with our lot, we have a lot to be thankful ...

Yeah there's two different mindsets... eg. I love the T40-43 series however a single core laptop with say 2gb and whatever ancient Intel GFX is not a usable machine to me in any o/s given today's workload. HOwever if you want to put a machine on a pedestal and run a 'period' o/s as a collector then ...

LOL that article.

It says that some countries havent banned Lenovo per se, rather they were either not up for contention or they wouldnt pass qualifications anyway... a soft ban.


Anyhow they were mainly using Dell or HPs when I was in.

Is this because 'S440' would be a controversial name in CN? 4 = dead (roughly) So the Clunkpad S-dead-ded-zero wouldnt go down well. 3 is good number in china though. Yeah this isnt any laptop that many would aspire to here although the T440p is supposed to be a diamond in the rought althought that ...

The irony is that MS got rid of most of their QA for this and the middle managers are probably going to upper management... this is a consequence of that decison and there will be no blowback and they dont care about bad press at this point because... what other o/s are you going to switch to? The v...

The A31 is slightly before my time... I feel that being a P4M machine it'll be overlooked by many and further, with the reputation at the time, many would have ended up in landfill in China. I went from the T20/23 straight to the T40/43. I'm quite fond of the T40 class but I also have a HP Business ...