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Posted by Anonymous
 - April 12, 2020, 01:46:42 AM
In my case, both the Dell and the Acer laptops were Windows 7 machines. Of the two, the Dell Precision is the newer and more rugged of the two, purchased at around the time Windows 8 was shipping. I had the option of Haswell architecture, but rumours that Intel were skimping on build quality in the absence of any real competition from AMD at the time convinced me to choose Sandy Bridge instead. As I understand, it was the last generation of CPUs which shipped with soldered heat spreaders and considering how hard I tend to run my machines, I wasn't prepared to risk a setup that might well brick itself due to the poor heat transference of substandard thermal compound on the CPU die and unwilling to try my hand at a de-lidding to replace it with anything better.



Acer and Dell are both still performing well enough on Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Pro respectively and with minimal servicing. In the Dell's case I replaced the screen a couple of years ago, the keyboard last year and at some point I swapped the original drive out for a Samsug SSD and replaced the optical drive with a hard drive caddy and Seagate Firecuda. I'm amazed the damn thing is still spinning up to be honest, I've managed to utterly fry lesser machines in the space of two years, but this beast just keeps on trucking no matter how hard I thrash it.



I think I'll donate it to a good cause. A mate of mine recently had his recording equipment stolen and I don't see any point in letting it gather dust on the shelf.
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 11, 2020, 03:28:15 AM
I'm still running Windows 7 Pro...  I actually built my current system myself with the last chip that would run 7 properly, on purpose.  In my case, that was an i7-6700K I utilized.



I will run my current tower as long as I need to...



So far, so good.
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 10, 2020, 10:57:37 PM
Two Asus, one Dell, one Acer (in order of newest to oldest). The Dell was the only one not to ship with bloatware, I reformatted and reinstalled Windows on the other laptops immediately after purchase. Not for any reason other than I didn't see any need to be wasting CPU cycles on background processes for any software I had no intention of using. Not a fan of Lenovo (due to their chonkiness), even less of a fan of HP (due to their history of proprietary hardware and unwillingness to provide anything past the most basic of hardware specs). Toshiba... had an AMD quad core from them a few years ago, reliable but pricey and I sold it on for $200 more than what I paid for it in the first six months after I'd bought the Dell as a replacement.





Consumer machines invariably ship with a ton of software (usually trials) from companies who offset the cost of production to entice the end user into after sales service. No matter what you purchase, there is no reason whatsoever for you to not clear all that crap out. As for stuff that gets hardcoded into the firmware... well, you'll be stuck with that if you make an ill-advised choice at the point of sale. There's only one or two Stink Pads I'd consider getting and only if I wanted a laptop capable of playing old DOS games. Lenovo blows almost as much dick as HP does. Would not recommend.
Posted by Odinson
 - April 10, 2020, 09:01:31 PM
My PC is like the Millenium Falcon..



Looks like a piece of junk but its fast.
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 10, 2020, 08:50:14 PM
Quote from: "cc"
Quote from: "iron horse jockey"My wife and I are trying to buy products not made in China.

Good stuff!! .. Yes. I have all my life gone to pains to make sure purchases were no made there ... initially based  on quality .. now mainly on "principle"



It's our nature to buy only what we need so we do our homework and good quality & good  value non-China items

have from Day 1

It's my goal too cc, but it's not easy to boycott China made.
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 10, 2020, 08:26:59 PM
Quote from: "Yer Pal Joe".....since you asked....



I'm not a Windows user as I use Mac OS X, Linux & UNIX.



I've always found Windows was too invasive.



Anything thT runs on Windows will automatically spy on you. Guaranteed.



There's beginning to be so many mainstream applications found on Windows or Mac that work on  for Linux &  its free.



So why bother with Windows? Who needs it?



Shity operating system anyways


What kinda Linux using
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 10, 2020, 08:08:34 PM
.....since you asked....



I'm not a Windows user as I use Mac OS X, Linux & UNIX.



I've always found Windows was too invasive.



Anything thT runs on Windows will automatically spy on you. Guaranteed.



There's beginning to be so many mainstream applications found on Windows or Mac that work on  for Linux &  its free.



So why bother with Windows? Who needs it?



Shity operating system anyways
Posted by Odinson
 - April 10, 2020, 07:52:26 PM
My laptop is an old Toshiba.. 6 years old..



The chassis is almost completely plastic and it has broken in many places.





Its cooler fan malfunctioned over a year ago.





I took it apart, cleaned the fan and put new lubricant in it... Works like a charm..





Btw.. The multipurpose vaseline is the best lubricant for the fan...



Other lubricants dont last a month.
Posted by cc
 - April 10, 2020, 07:21:11 PM
Quote from: "iron horse jockey"My wife and I are trying to buy products not made in China.

Good stuff!! .. Yes. I have all my life gone to pains to make sure purchases were no made there ... initially based  on quality .. now mainly on "principle"



It's our nature to buy only what we need so we do our homework and good quality & good  value non-China items

have from Day 1
Posted by cc
 - April 10, 2020, 07:16:52 PM
Dell is reliable .. had a great experimental Dell Laptop for a few years ... very reliable, very fast



Hey VG, I've had a Asus i7 desktop for many years  .. . still running like a dream



Mind you, I bought it just after SSD's came out  .. They were new,  so played safe and had an Intel (to stay on safe side) 250 installed when I bought it



With the cheap speed of SSD, & good components  it still flies faster than most new machines

I'd do Asus again
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 10, 2020, 06:54:22 PM
My wife and I are trying to buy products not made in China.
Posted by Vancouver
 - April 10, 2020, 06:47:57 PM
I use Asus laptop. Supposed to be made in Taiwan but they have manufacturing facilities in China which probably have nothing to do with software.
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 10, 2020, 06:45:54 PM
I was tempted to buy one because it cheap but decided on dell instead, acer and Asus are prolly OK because they're made in Taiwan
Posted by cc
 - April 10, 2020, 06:37:37 PM
Ya, I'll buy that



I'm surprised it took so long to discover



We need boatloads of counter spies desperately
Posted by Anonymous
 - April 10, 2020, 06:33:44 PM
Quote from: "cc"You are correct .. at least on data collection .. not sure what they would gain with backdoor for hacking and don't see much about that



3 million fine and govt monitoring for next 20 yrs + forced to show clients how to remove spyware



A LOT of businesses use that machine - They compete with HP for corporate sales



Company was selling data collected .. the fkrs


To spy on individuals in case users might be in the goverment or military, stop buying think pads or idea pads, what do you expect from a Chinese company