Yeah don’t use a magic eraser on anything that isn’t like a hard tile. Magic erasers are basically one step below sand paper. They will destroy the texture of plastic if you put any pressure on them. Soap and a towel go a long way. You could also use windex of any other light window cleaner. DO NOT use anything that contains ammonia.

Don’t use alcohol on the screen either. 70% or less is typically fine, but I’d stick to a very diluted mix. Like 50% or less. Google says store bought screen cleaners use Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or Cocamidopropyl Betaine. Idk how to buy those for myself, so I just stick with a teeny tiny touch of dish soap on a lightly damp towel or microfiber. Then follow it up with a dry micro fiber. The store bought stuff works wonders for cleaning the smudges that soap left behind.

Did you go to their parts website? They sell parts for even their shitty(er) laptops.

https://www.hp.com/us-en/parts-store/

And yet still not as serviceable/durable as older ThinkPads.

Uh, have you ever replaced the motherboard on older ThinkPads? You have to tear the entire machine apart and it’s a 30+ minute job. Around the time they removed the water spouts they switched to the bottom opening instead of top opening and replacing the main board went down to a 10 minute job. Even just replacing the thermal paste on some older machines required full disassembly.

They may not have water spouts that let you pour a gallon of water through the keyboard, but they do have plenty of plastic shields that prevent water from going further into the computer. If you knock over your soda your computer will probably be fine.

New low end laptops have always sucked. I hope more people become open to used and refurbished devices. A 3 year old used business machine kicks the shit out of a new similarly priced POS. New low end laptops are born e waste.

You’re lucky if it’s a 5600g. They still make systems with CPUs based on zen 2. (insert AMDs CPU decoder)

And sometimes even 10/100 ethernet cards assuming they still have an ethernet port.

I can’t imagine how many 1/10ths of a penny Dell was saving on those POS.

What in the world is “sluggish” on that computer that woouldn’t be on 10? The new bloated notepad? That doesn’t even take a quarter of a second to load on my current laptop?

I love how any time there’s bugs in software people just assume it’s AI.

Trust me, they’re perfectly capable of being incompetent au natural.

Even if they were handed the info on a golden platter it would take years for them to actually build up production. And by the time they’ve built it up it will be old tech.

Define “best on the market work station”. I’ve used 11 on a 10th gen ulv i5 laptop and it ran just fine, no worse than with 10 on it.

From the minor direct X improvements, all the way to actually supporting hybrid CPU architectures and 6ghz there’s a lot of ways 11 performs better.

11 uses barely more resources than end of the run windows 10.

Hell half the reason I upgraded for certain games and programs.

Yes, yes they are.

I’m not qualified to explain this well. But there’s the concept of velocity of money. The higher velocity that’s supposed to mean the economy is doing good. Generally it’s between lots of people so it’s spread out. In this case it’s only between a small handful of companies, and as soon as it starts drying up then bad things can happen really quickly.

Yes, yes they do. And many are considering that they’re doing this.

Apple causes most of the shortages of new process nodes because they almost always buy them LONG before they’re ready. Any time TSMC has a new node they buy out their entire supply for months.

I played games for years at 30 fps. Yeah more is better. But a GT 310m can only do so much and I wanted to play Battlefield 3.

I mean realistically there’s only one choice. And they’re going me too! to everything Nvidia does, but 10% less.

Intel cards are alright (on windows at least). But I don’t think they have anything that would be an upgrade from your 3080.

It’s been trending the opposite for a while. Intel has mostly stolen AMD’s market share. And AMD has largely gone “me too!” to Nvidia raking customers over the coal.

It’s a security thing to have that warning. You’re not supposed to be able to bypass it for a reason.

If you don’t have the warning you can just relock the bootloader, but updates probably won’t work.

Only one affected AMD, forget which. But Intel knew about the vulnerabilities, but chose not to fix the hardware ahead of their release.

Relock the bootloader.

Nvidia has almost never given a shit about the low end market. They haven’t made a good low end GPU in like 20 years.

The phone shouldn’t be “heating up in your pocket doing nothing”. Something is running in the background that’s destroying it. Check battery usage and see what it is.

The 865 is 6 years old. That is very much old phone in a drawer category.

I’ve pretty much only ever used headphones when playing games. Never been much of a console gamer, always PC. At this point I almost exclusively use my HD 800s. They’re absolutely amazing headphones and the sound stage is incredible for gaming. Far better than any “gaming” headset I’ve used in the past.

30 series undervolt pretty well. You could lose like no performance and save like 20% on power/however that scales noise wise.

Almost all pcie versions are backwards and forwards compatible. You could put a pcie 5 video card in a pentium 4 machine and it should work.

https://youtu.be/9EHqoLSUl1M

Touchpads are hard. Well good touchpads are hard. Especially small ones. Just look at laptops. Besides Apple it took like 20 years for them to get good. And even then they still suck randomly.

5 has long overstayed its welcome.

Their passwordless login system is annoying as hell. I think I’d rather an actual paywall for all articles and a normal password over that system.

They’ll somehow make the client 32 bit but still need a 64 bit computer.

In your recovery there should be a backup option. Pick that and back up everything.

Then make sure you copy that backup off the phone in case you really hose things and have to start completely fresh.

I’m guessing they’re all just behind an internal hub.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/chipsets/am5.html

The x870e chipset only provides 2 20gbit ports (type c only) 12 10gbit and 2 5gbit ports. No idea how the USB 4 ports fit into the equation, but I think the 2 are mandatory.

That article is a year old and is missing the latest generation of cards. Neither AMD nor Nvidia produce those GPUs anymore. AMDs best GPU from their 9000 series competes with Nvidias 5070/5070ti. The 5090 and 5080 are unmatched.

Nvidia is the only real option for AI work. Before Trump lifted the really restrictive ban on GPUs to china they had to smuggle in GPUs from the US, and if you’re Joe Schmo the only GPUs you can really buy are gaming ones. That’s why the 5090 has been selling so well despite it being 2k and not all that much better than the 4090 in gaming.

Also AMD has no high end GPUs, and Intel barely has a mid range GPU.

Those 200gb games take a while to download, even on a gigabit internet connection.

A chance? It 100% doesn’t.

A surprising number of websites still work with these old devices though. I have an OG HTC Dream and it will go to more websites than I’d think it should.

Why would you read the article when you could just complain in the comments?

I loved the servers that were 24/7 metro, no drags etc. some of those were (and still are) my favorite. Or pistols only, no Glock 18. When you get rid of custom servers you get rid of that custom experience.

Anyone know if CP2077 runs better on Linux than Windows?

That’s entire dependent on a whole host of things. CPU, GPU, distro (mostly kernel version), open source vs proprietary drivers, proton version etc. Also some numbers can artificially look better if the feature is just straight up ignored by proton, or just broken. If you’re looking for some bleeding edge features then probably not.