Science and Technology thread

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Only now discovering http://thewirecutter.com. What a time saver for choosing every product I will ever buy.

 

[deepdarkblue]

Only now discovering http://thewirecutter.com. What a time saver for choosing every product I will ever buy.

I feel guilty for not sharing this site with you earlier! I’ve been a big fan for years. Pairing wirecutter deal alerts with the Honey browser add on will save you a ton of money.

And the Ibotta app, too.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

For you tech-savvy folks, how easy is it to replace an old fashioned spinning HDD in a laptop with an SSD? Does it make sense to buy a laptop with HDD and immediately replace with a 1 TB SSD that costs about $130? Seems like the extra cost for a 256 GB SSD already built-in rather than a 1 TB HDD is much more than $130.

 

[deepdarkblue]

For you tech-savvy folks, how easy is it to replace an old fashioned spinning HDD in a laptop with an SSD? Does it make sense to buy a laptop with HDD and immediately replace with a 1 TB SSD that costs about $130? Seems like the extra cost for a 256 GB SSD already built-in rather than a 1 TB HDD is much more than $130.

It's easy.
Right now SSDs are the cheapest they've ever been.
This is the best place to check prices: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/
Performance for SDD versus HDD is definitely worth another 15% or so.

 

[torontoduke]

Encouraging, as long as society doesn't burn the coal again:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar...il-fuel-burning-to-save-the-climate-1.5037028

 

[aiw]

This guy is so dumb.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

His entire base agrees with this, though. I mean, that is the basis of MAGA wrapped up in two tweets about airplanes.

 

[aiw]

You are 100% correct

 

[aiw]

I saw this comment right before I read your post, too.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

I want to see him go on a tirade about Albert Einstein and how we would be better off had such a Jew never existed.

 

[rome8180]

Anyone got a new(ish) Macbook? I don't mean the Pro or the Air.

 

[CMon85]

I saw this comment right before I read your post, too.

Grunwald could've just stated :"This is how Trump won: mouth breathing."

 

[Duke Mu]

Encouraging, as long as society doesn't burn the coal again:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar...il-fuel-burning-to-save-the-climate-1.5037028

Prices are improving. I need ideally 2 TB, so will wait a little longer for SSD prices to come down further. Samsung prices are closest to affordable for high storage.

 

[bfactor]

Encouraging, as long as society doesn't burn the coal again:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar...il-fuel-burning-to-save-the-climate-1.5037028

Prices are improving. I need ideally 2 TB, so will wait a little longer for SSD prices to come down further. Samsung prices are closest to affordable for high storage.

Agree completely, cryptocurrency seems to have passed as a fad.

 

[ZackM]

Do all laptop hinges break after ~2 years? Or am I just a dumbass? Literally every laptop I've ever owned has to be replaced prior to obsolescence because the hinges break. I'm on my way to Best Buy now for yet another new laptop.

 

[torontoduke]

Ours broke, but that was after about 4 yrs.

 

[bfactor]

Same, any non-Macbook I've ever used comes apart at the hinges at around two years.

 

[rome8180]

@TS9 do you use a new Macbook to record music? I just got mine today, but I'm extremely bummed because the adapter I got (usb to usb 3) only seems to work with certain devices. I don't think there's anything wrong with the adapter. But it means I can't use my midi keyboard with this laptop, for example.

 

[DukeNukem05]

...new Macbook ... I just got mine today

We get it, you’re a rich MacBook user who spends his days in coffee shops pretending to work.

 

[rome8180]

I can't afford food, but I look cool and that's all that matters.