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mnementh:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 12, 2018, 03:35:07 pm ---yeah probably would have. Didn’t look too hard :)

I don’t buy parts second hand. I usually buy refurb ex corporate business laptop, desktop and workstation class machines and monitors only. New RAM goes in and a new disk, a Samsung SSD, gets chucked in it and bob’s your uncle. Amazing what you can get for bugger all if you can stay slightly behind the curve.

Killers: anything already custom built, no brand shit, consumer grade junk, anything that isn’t HP/Lenovo usually :)

Less I spend on this the more I can spend on things I give a crap about, like knackered old scopes :)

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/123002587449

I just picked up one of these for my son's upcoming birthday; Ex-corporate, US$105 delivered in an original Lenovo carton. Aside from a few shiny spots on the touchpad, it looks like new; nicer than the photo. Got a second 4GB RAM on the way for $28. I figured it was time for a real laptop to replace his aging Aspire netbook; he's proven himself reasonably responsible with it, and has lately been pretty frustrated by its utter weaksauce in today's e-world.

I'll keep that netbook for nuking CISCOs and wardriving site surveys as it's Win7 32-bit. I keep an archive of old-school utilities and hackery tools/hardware that are still useful but really dislike Micro$uck's idiotic Jihad against open-channel serial comms.  |O

Monitors though... they're one thing I prefer to not buy used, at least the cheapies like Acer and Lenovo. They're built to a price point, and reasonable life expectancy is 3-5 years, with the latter half of life typically being barely tolerable brightness and contrast. I don't game, so don't need to get high dynamic contrast or fast refresh; the cheapest on sale from NewEgg or Fry's around the holidays is right for me, which is usually some Acer last-year's model for $79-99.

I usually get one for myself and on for my wife at the same time. The better part of that for me, aside from getting the nice bright crispy screen, is always being somewhat in step with current monitor size at least on my primary display. We've been at 24" for two monitors now; I expect the next replacements to be 27". Of course my "Extended desktop" is always the living room flat-screen for when I want to couch-potato or play my flight sims.  :-+

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So what happened to your Apple Cinema display project? Still no joy on the T-con?

NM; Brain-fart, that was Specmaster.

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mnem
*Currently installing build 1803*

Specmaster:
Hers are just a few of my better photos from the Fly Navy airshow at Old Warden recently If anyone wants a high res version for a wallpaper etc, PM me with your personal email address and I'll gladly send one to you.

bd139:
Nice work. Some good photos there. Professional quality.

@mnementh: can’t go wrong with anything thinkpad on it from experience. Monitors I’ve never had any problems with. I’ve had this thinkvision one for about 3 years and it was 3 years old when I got it. No dead pixels, nice bright panel. Had a duff cap in it a year ago and that was a £0.50 fix.  If you go for LED backlit ones with 1000:1 contrast they seem to live longer. The thinkvision ones are also terribly over engineered compared to most brands. Can’t go bigger than 22 here - not enough room!

Did my full license exam this evening and passed. That means I can have a slightly more legitimately poor excuse to buy lots of RF test gear and play with it. Ho Ho Ho  :-DD

But alas slacking is over as everything is unblocked so I shall return to computerland and slog out these problems for a few days at least. The eBay engine is still hammering away looking for bargains on my behalf though thus TEA is automated while my attention is diverted.. It found a couple of monster HP supplies this evening but they are too damn big and heavy to justify purchasing. I got the tape measure out and checked  :(

Going to bed!  :=\

Specmaster:
Congratulations on passing the exam, I take it that means that you can get on the air start making contacts with some pretty powerful rugs rigs, yes?

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 12, 2018, 10:54:30 pm ---Congratulations on passing the exam, I take it that means that you can get on the air start making contacts with some pretty powerful rugs, yes?

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That's a misnomer. It is not true that all radio hams wear hairpieces, not all of them - some small number of them are women.  :)

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