12501

I’m sure he would enjoy having his OS on a SSD, that makes a world of difference to anyone who has waited on a conventional HD to boot.

12502

This is actually kinda a budget build when you look at all the parts here.
I went with the $70 APU instead of a more capable Ryzen 3 or 5 CPU.
$50 MB
$5 Fan
and a single stick of ram

Plus his current HDD is adequate for his purposes

Maybe in the future

12503

@PresidentCamacho

Remember, Darksakul’s not building it for a gamer, he’s rebuilding a machine for someone who probably just browses internet and emails. Kinda like my uncle.
Just needs enough power so that internet browsers aren’t slow as shit when watching videos or looking at PDF files.

In my case, like mentioned, I got an uncle who’s almost same way, except he’s got a 7 year old laptop and he actually does take the thing around with him to do his usual business on. Sucks that in order to get something decent for a laptop that doesn’t have shitty battery life and actually be decent speed-wise, everything in that line’s above $500 unless one is constantly on the lookout for specials. And even then, most of those that do meet most criteria don’t have an SSD in them.
Grr, may have to buy one separate and clone the thing if I ever get an updated one for him.

12504

Yeah my father’s extend for hardcore gaming is restricted to chess, solitare, majonng and looking up the power ball results.

If anything my mother is more of a gamer, she plays Tetris, knock off versions of Busta move and those point and click mystery games aimed at older women. She also own a wii.

12505

if hes not gaming or using any demanding software…and using it just to browse the web, why not build him a chrome book? it’ll save battery life. you can take a old ass computer and install chrome os and remove windows and boom. you have a chrome book that extends battery life.

12506

I like how you assume what he needs and ignores the fact I doing a rebuild of a existing desktop PC. Anyways he already has a laptop.

Also, he already knows Windows and he does not want to learn a new OS.

And He expressly stated he does not want a chrome book

12507

Oh yeah, I get that, just saying everyone can appreciate the fast startup a SSD provides. Powering up a PC without one after getting used to having it feels like it takes forever. Certainly not a necessity though.

12508

Copy/pasted from windows 10 thread -

So, since none of y’all bustas was any help with my windows 10 issues I figured I’d give yous one more shot before I just forget about this thread and hit up dat PC thread.

OK, thanks to dude up in the PC thread my computer is back and running fine. Only thing is that when I open my internet browser (Firefox the top (colored) section is not translucent. How can I get it to be so? Everything else is but the window.

Its every window. It seems with the latest update they did away with some stuff. The Task Bar and Start Menu are transparent, windows aren’t.

Oh, and yes, that top portion of any/all windows was transparent before I updated.

12509

Haydee with mods… Lawd

12510

Have you tried running any kind of Windows repair with your boot disc?

12511

I think transparency in Win 10 is borked.
I can’t get it to work ether.

12512

There are transparency effects with Windows 10 but they do not apply to title bars, from what it looks like. For example, here’s what my Chrome title bar looks like:

Spoiler

https://puu.sh/yPK6N/f8ae045d7f.png

12513

Transparency was controlled by Aero in Windows 7. I don’t think it works the same way in Windows 10. You can toggle transparency in Windows 10 in settings, but all it seems to change is the transparency of the taskbar and the Start button menu. My Windows 7 machine still has the transparency at the top of a firefox browser, while my Windows 10 system doesn’t.

12514

**The Holy of Holies of the Keyboard world **

Symbolics Space Cadet keyboard

12515

In the near future I’ll be building a budget pc for editing. Got some idea on what components I’ll use. Before I start making purchases, I’ll post up the parts and maybe get your guys’ opinions/suggestions. First time doing this!

12516

When you wake up and turn PC on after a SUPER COLD night in the room:

12517

Looks like AMD is still winning.

12518

thank you to everyone for helping me with my tower desktop pc. last summer.
appreciated.

12519

Welp; back to the drawing board I guess.

12520

Funny thing is Meltdown is a Intel CPU issue
As Intel didn’t want to encrypt the kernel memory

Meltdown is a issue on all CPUs makes

Also that Verge article is crap. Nothing there is reported with any sort of accuracy.