[Ipg-smz] Apple Lease

[Tom Henderson]

So far, 30Hz and 4K is fine for me, and I'm not a gamer or a video 
editor. Four yr old Samsung

My home video display is a 50" 4K, 120Hz refresh rate, but it's only 
occasionally watched. $277 on sale, a Toshiba.

The Lenovo laptops I use are largely miserable if tenable. They're also 
cheap and have survived having to live with me. No mean feat.

Tom

On 6/1/19 5:02 AM, Richi Jennings wrote:
> *Wait, what?* /FIFTY-FOUR INCHES???/ Wow, how close to you sit to that 
> mofo?
>
> I second the productivity benefits of a 4K monitor (but my Acer is a 
> lowly 28"). I used to hear a lot about how 30 Hz wasn't good enough 
> and I'd need a better graphics card, but I find it perfectly fine 
> running at 29.97 fps from the on-board Intel graphics in my 
> 2014-vintage i5-4690K over a single HDMI. Obviously no good for 
> gaming, but absolutely OK for editing, watching 1080p video, etc.
>
>
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>
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:30 AM Stephen Satchell <ipg at satchell.net 
> <mailto:ipg at satchell.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 5/31/19 9:10 AM, Christine Hall wrote:
>     > I don't have the same needs as you have, but I've only bought one
>     > brand-new-in-the-box computer in my life. For the last ten years
>     or so,
>     > I only purchase factory refurbished desktops and laptops, and
>     have only
>     > had one problem machine, which was promptly returned for a
>     refund from
>     > the vendor.
>
>     I also tend to buy not-used computers.  There is a store here in Reno
>     that sells lease returns, for about 30% of list.  Desktops and
>     laptops.
>
>     I have purchased laptops from the pawn shops here, too.
>
>     But then again...I hit on a huge sale at Costco on a Samsumg 54"
>     curved
>     monitor.  None of the computers at chez Satchell could drive the
>     UHD at
>     any significant frame rate.  So my option was to build a computer, or
>     something else.
>
>     So I did the unthinkable, bought a mid-range gaming computer from Best
>     Buy.  It came with an AMD video card, which is excellent for CentOS.
>     When I got the 1 TB SSD, it worked better than expected.  I'm still
>     tweaking it so I won't go blind, but it's really nice to have the
>     screen
>     real estate of four 27" monitors, and without the ugly bezels.
>
>     Overkill?  You bet.  The thing is, I'm in the process of refactoring
>     about 12,000 lines of Python code, and being able to have six editing
>     sessions on screen at a time is really speeding things up. Not to
>     mention the LibreWriter screen so I can document as I go.
>
>     Happy birthday to me...
>
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