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I much prefer cables over wireless, myself.
My niece sent me this clipping. She saw it on her facebook feed and I warned her not to buy this as it looks like junk.
Well if you'd pay attention you'd probably have realised that it's a Microsoft Surface which are a very good tablet (just my time timing was bad and got mine just before the new model came out earlier this year).
That said it's the actual ad that's dodgy because they're a lot more than $69.90.
Actually It's a Surface Knock off.
https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/review/windows-tablets/chuwi-surbook-review-3670988/
Not really.
Look at the price you pay for even dell laptops that have similar specs (i5, 8GB ram, win 10 pro and similar weight) and the surface are pretty competitive even when you add the cost of the keyboard.
They are even cheaper than the iPad Pro
well you know what they say about 1.0 releases
but yeah it took Microsoft a few goes but they got there in the end except for one thing - the crappy marvel chipset used for the wifi and BT.
probably - also carrying the chipset over has probably meant minimal redesign for each model and it's thermals are known (other than the i7 units the Surface Pros are fanless).
Been cleaning up an old HP Presario for friend who bought it second hand ($50) for 12y.o duaghter for Xmas.
Would have been a lot more than when new back in 2008 given it was marketed as a mobile workstation with a ATI FireGL graphics and Intel Centrino chipset and TPM.
Though I'm not sure what the person who had it before did but I hope they didn't do any online banking. the malware and other crude was bad. Malwarebytes picked up 4000+ nasties.
Would have been a lot more than when new back in 2008 given it was marketed as a mobile workstation with a ATI FireGL graphics and Intel Centrino chipset and TPM.
Though I'm not sure what the person who had it before did but I hope they didn't do any online banking. the malware and other crude was bad. Malwarebytes picked up 4000+ nasties.
I wouldn't even bother cleaning that thing, format and reinstall, I have friends who also have managed to totally kill their machines with gawd knows what kind of crap, cleaning would maybe be possible but at some stage you have to draw the line..
well I'm a nice guy and did think of a wipe and reload but it's being used by a 12y.o and still has a copy of MS Office installed which would have been lost if I'd done the wipe n reload.
Plus I don't have a Vista or Win7 install media anymore.
Oh and the thing runs real hot. Not something you'd want sitting on your lap if you were doing anything more than light work.
Woke up the biggest and one of the oldest beasts I have, BIG tower, Pentium III @ a whole Ghz 512mb RAM 80 Gb HDD, Geforce 4 MX, Adaptec and a really ancient NRC SCSI card, SCSI and IDE CD-ROM /Writer and a DAT tape drive, the thing runs Win2k, just going to let it idle for a bit and then see if everything is still 100% okay. 
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I just had to drag the DX2 66 downstairs, and yep, still working..
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I just had to drag the DX2 66 downstairs, and yep, still working..
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Speaking of HAL, I'm surprised Amazon & Google haven't released modules for their home assistants to give them the HAL voice. 
Speaking of HAL, I'm surprised Amazon & Google haven't released modules for their home assistants to give them the HAL voice.
I'm not sure that copyright and licencing costs would make it worth their while to with the voice (plug Douglas Rain died recently and he was never that keen about his 2001 involvement as it overshadowed all his other work).
However some-one has released an Echo enclosure that resembles a HAL9000 command console.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hal-9000-product-line-from-2001-a-space-odyssey#/
