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Planning to buy an Apple or Apple-like laptop for a Christmas gift. Wondering if there's any Windows machines out there that are compatible with the latest Mac OSs. The gift recipient is smart but tech averse, wants older Macbook functionality (sockets, drives, cooling). Not sure I can do...

I just asked this question of an Apple rep yesterday. She said that Macbook 2013 was the oldest Macbook that could run Apple's latest OS.

Not sure where to put this question but can one simply plug Logitech's key/mouse USB wireless dongle in a smart TV and thereby have their full function on a large screen TV?

Pretty much the title. Friend of mine is going to buy a laptop for her son. He's building a home music studio, likes to play games. I'm not sure exactly what her price point is.... so: 1,000 750 500 TIA

For the past week or two my 7/64 Enterprise OS has been requesting updates every night. Sometimes just 1 or 2, sometimes 70 or more. I've been running them, generally without problem. The next day there's more. I don't think the world is experiencing the same thing or there would have been...

Recently I purchased a Ryzen 7 (1700X) - cost $300 on sale. Haven't installed it yet. Starting to have second thoughts. Read that article about the showdown between the OC'd Ryzen and the OC'd I7. Made it sound like an OC'd Pentium would still win a gaming contest. Single threading and...

Well, yes, he's a runaway coke head. The hookers just kind of come with the money and the coke. Doesn't mean he has nothing valuable to add. Specially since his personality is oriented to hacking and protection from hacking. Seems a rich vein to mine even today. Though since he's rich, and...

Your first line seems to be a parody of the thread starter. Is your second line a parody of all the subsequent posts - or is that what you really think?

Thanks Mike. Lots of good info in that post. I actually have the student version of ProTools sitting in a box, came with the Rights USB stick (whatever that's called). Problem is that it insists on the name of your music school during installation and other than occasional guitar lessons -...

Pretty much the title. I'm looking to buy some studio/production software for a windows-based machine. Right now it looks like it's a runoff between Image Line FL Studio 12, Ableton Live 9, Cakewalk Sonar, Cubase 8.... I'm thinking about getting a ZxR but I also have dedicated home studio...

The charts confused me. I get the concept of {delta temp}/cost but it seems like the next highest delta was the Scythe Fuma, which costs about 1/3rd of the Kraken's price. Am I missing something?

At least two I'd imagine.

I'm guessing M.2 is the fastest format for data transmission. Any recommendations on which motherboards do that best?

Thanks for all your insights. I've begun using them.

I've been collecting parts for a home studio for years. Haven't built it. Mostly I've been purchasing stuff for the outside - microphones, electric guitars, amps, stands, cables, keyboards, a beatbox. But not for the inside. My PC is a gaming box, 24 G Ram, multiple SSD drives, a big old...

I was surprised when reading an HP laptop's reviews to see relative ease at modification. It was a "Dell Inspiron i7559-763BLK 15.6" Full-HD Gaming Laptop (Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX960M) with Windows 10"; saw it on Amazon. Second review has photos of what appears to be a...

I was just poking around some laptops and saw something that I've noticed a few times recently - Pentiums for sale. In 2015 Pentiums?! There must be some magic to this. Some deeper story. How is it possible to have Pentiums - outdated since 1998 or something - showing up again as modern cpus?

I'm interested in the possibility of buying a laptop with no hard disk so I can put my own SSDD in. Anyone know of a good laptop for that sort of thing - either where the manufacturer sells laptops without components or where the laptop is designed in a way that doesn't prevent doing your own...

Alright. I wonder if the label 'libraries' is automatically created when you copy over profile-like folders.

Recently I had to piecemeal relocate files from my c drive to a backup. The C drive was overflowing, my choices were a bit hasty but I figured the re-assembly of the files would be self-evident. There's one part that isn't. Libraries. It's subfolders are Documents, Music, Pictures and...

That was quick. Thanks!

Recently saw a peculiar entry in the hosts file: ::1 Any clue what that means?

The nays have it. Thanks for the feedback.

I have an old account with a fixed IP address. I've upgraded to FIOS but still have the old account active. I'm wondering if it might be so valuable that it would be worth paying the 45-some bucks a month to retain. What do network geeks with RL experience think?

Why are SSDs better off in mirrors? Seems kind of like a speed and materials sacrifice.

Near as I recall the answer used to be 'no' but I suspect it may have changed recently. Can one have the windows boot partition in an SSD raid array, specifically a Raid 5 array?

I have the option to select which card runs which session of Eve, regardless of which monitor I put it on. Is that option meaningless in windowed mode?

At the end of the latest Windows update I saw a flashed message that said something about drives being updated with generic drivers. Anyone else seeing this?

I have two GeForce GTX 460's in an SLI config. I play a lot of EVE online. Eve gives you the option to pick either card 1 or 2 in preferences. Frequently I run two sessions of the game at the same time... usually on the same monitor (the BBY, which is larger). One card is dedicated to a...

Or you could quote the relevant section if there is one.

Been done. Doesn't bypass the cooling system's design for occasional, low-load, not constant high load.

Fun read, I appreciate the laboratory-like methodology this site has adopted since I last visited. That said the difference between high and low fan speed performance - significant with no/low load - diminished at high load, at least percentage wise. It's something like 4 out of 41 C at low, 6...

Used to be you could view all your bookmarks on the left hand side in Firefox. The most recent downloadable version doesn't seem to possess that capacity. Least no way I've found yet. Has anyone else figured out a fix for this?

I've got a laptop that needs OS updating. It has pointsec on it. My impression is that pointsec is both hard and software level encryption so it would have to be unencrypted before itsOS can be updated. Others are telling me it's just software level, I can format and proceed. Anyone have...

Hercules Graphics chip in my father's PC XT, about 1983 through something like 1990. Only game I can recall playing on that one was the old dungeon crawl, the grandfather of all of them, started on Berkeley Unix (I think). Dog was a d, dragon was a D, wand was a w. You walked around rooms...

What's wrong with the stock Remote Desktop Connection?

Turns out the correct answer was "Opera". Runs Hulu like a charm. And 1channel appears to try to imbed something nasty when you go to the site so it's probably best not to go there.

Hahahahahahah. Yah, only I was asking for intelligent human analysis, experience, and insight.

1channel - splain please.

I use a variety of script jammers to keep busybody websites and adman out of my stuff. However, that's causing problems in viewing shows (hulu and comedycentral most notably). I'm not going to nerf my scriptjammers, my opinion of those who like to snoop on others is salted with too much...