I went against my better judgment
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
honey the codewitch wrote:
this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat
I found that a few years ago, ordering some photographic equipment. Why should the site work at all if they simply don't allow ordering? Bizarre.
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
That is quite steep. I get it, an i9 with a 4090. Surprised they can cool it satisfactorily. Do the fans start to scream when you're playing doom or something like that?
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honey the codewitch wrote:
this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat
I found that a few years ago, ordering some photographic equipment. Why should the site work at all if they simply don't allow ordering? Bizarre.
I am guessing that when you look at the site, you're only 'looking' which is allowed on shabbat. Taking an order constitutes a financial transaction and is probably regarded differently.
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
Let's hope its not as demonic as this movie: Legion (2010) - IMDb[^] :-\
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
Wonderful. I was going to say that I was Jealous, but I am not really. Gee why would I be. Most people who say this use it as a way of saying "Wow I would love that." Just enjoy it and have fun. Now comes the hard part though. Deciding what you are going to install on it. What it shares with the other PCs. I always have issue with this. Enjoy it...........
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
honey the codewitch wrote:
I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice
Wow, you must live in a bad neighborhood :wtf:
honey the codewitch wrote:
I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat.
Speaking of bad neighborhoods, I live in what's called the "bible belt" and some local businesses put a black overlay on their website on Sunday :laugh: Have fun with your new laptop. With such a beast you should be able to type and run single-line if-statements even faster! :D
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
honey the codewitch wrote:
I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat.
You may be amused even more: Warranty void if used on Saturday.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat
I found that a few years ago, ordering some photographic equipment. Why should the site work at all if they simply don't allow ordering? Bizarre.
I'm guessing it's the "Writing" prohibition:
The Thirty-Nine Categories of Sabbath Work Prohibited By Law[^]
This includes all forms of writing and drawing. Typing, printing, and using a rubber stamp all come under this heading. The main objective of writing is the keeping of records, and therefore, the spirit of the law forbids any activity normally requiring a written record. Thus, the Sanhedrin forbade all sorts of business activity, as well as marriage and divorce on the Sabbath. (Note 20) Calculations and measurements are also included, since they also normally involve writing.
Since taking an order would involve making a record, a strict interpretation would allow the site to remain, but ordering to be forbidden as you'd have to update a database. I'm not Jewish though, so I could be well wrong! :laugh:
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
Bought a surveillance hard drive there Saturday. I could order but not checkout. Had them email me when I could (2130). Should be here Wed. I have bought a lot of surveillance stuff there.
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That is quite steep. I get it, an i9 with a 4090. Surprised they can cool it satisfactorily. Do the fans start to scream when you're playing doom or something like that?
It doesn't arrive until Wednesday. I've heard it can get loud.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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honey the codewitch wrote:
I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice
Wow, you must live in a bad neighborhood :wtf:
honey the codewitch wrote:
I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat.
Speaking of bad neighborhoods, I live in what's called the "bible belt" and some local businesses put a black overlay on their website on Sunday :laugh: Have fun with your new laptop. With such a beast you should be able to type and run single-line if-statements even faster! :D
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Sander Rossel wrote:
Wow, you must live in a bad neighborhood
Kind of. At that point. Combination of living on the ground floor of a very busy city street but with easy access in from the side of the building out of view of others (someone broke in), and once being forgetful and leaving it in a cafe.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Laptops are for RDP. You use a real computer.
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I'll use whatever does the job. :) My desktop simply isn't portable enough, even as desktop's go. It's really heavy, and very fragile being all glass, as I said. I got this laptop because it was the closest thing I could get to my desktop. Sure, my desktop's i5 sleeper chip spanks the mobile i9HX in the laptop in most categories, but really only by about 30%, and with workstation loads, like SQL server, my laptop in theory is better, having more cores. The big difference is my GPU. Even a laptop 4090 only benches between a 3090 and 3090 TI desktop GPU, but I also run at 4k on the desktop and only 1600p (@ 16:10) on the laptop, so I'm hoping the GPU differences are mitigated quite a bit by the smaller screen/lower resolution.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Wonderful. I was going to say that I was Jealous, but I am not really. Gee why would I be. Most people who say this use it as a way of saying "Wow I would love that." Just enjoy it and have fun. Now comes the hard part though. Deciding what you are going to install on it. What it shares with the other PCs. I always have issue with this. Enjoy it...........
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I've got a pretty good idea of what I will install. I just need to make sure I can partition the 2nd NVMe slot into two parts and run linux on one of them in a dual boot config for when the machine is at my desk.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
How does one find themselves the victim of laptop theft on multiple occasions? Just curious as I have never had my laptop stolen, ever, and I have been working from a laptop for over 10 years now.
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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it. I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together. I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up. And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically. But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport. So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^] As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
My laptop was stolen once by ... my chef! He did it while I was working in a factory on location, just to teach me a lesson. Well, lesson learned I guess :-\
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How does one find themselves the victim of laptop theft on multiple occasions? Just curious as I have never had my laptop stolen, ever, and I have been working from a laptop for over 10 years now.
Living on the first floor of a busy street in one on north broadway in seattle back when the neighborhood was kinda sketchy. Wouldn't have mattered but anyone could see in my window during the day, and there was hidden access to my side windows off the street, so someone broke in. The other time it got stolen I left it at someone's place, and came back for it once I realized and it was gone. Both times I figured out out who did it.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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My laptop was stolen once by ... my chef! He did it while I was working in a factory on location, just to teach me a lesson. Well, lesson learned I guess :-\
I'm assuming he gave it back. :laugh:
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Sweet buy. Jealous. Interesting coincidence as I am going through the same buying search. Had Lenova many moons ago and it lasted and lasted.
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Keep in mind Lenovo was IBM back then. A few years back it was acquired by a Chenese company(only the Lenovo brand, not the IBM) so don't count on the "lasted" part.
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It doesn't arrive until Wednesday. I've heard it can get loud.
There's smoke in my iris But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids So I'm ready now (What you ready for?) I'm ready for life in this city And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
You'll hear the delivery two stops away?
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