Why is there always Geek Talk at 2am! #0.6x5 (Enter at your own risk!)

midnight_rider wrote in post #12047894
See you get a road bike r a hybrid and you could make that dog run for it

Probably wouldn't get a road bike. Too much work to get past the gravel roads to get to a paved road to ride on. I need something that I can hit gravel/mud/grass whatever I feel like riding on. And when I'm city riding I tend to get into rough stuff there too.

midnight_rider wrote in post #12047854
I know that I will see some battery drain. I would love to go all SSD but it is still a little rich for my blood at the moment.
i am hoping that I can get a good 5.5 to 6 hours out of it though

Oh you'll be well over that. On battery my 17" does 9h26m with wireless enabled, mild browsing and 10% brightness. 8h is pretty easily obtainable these days with MBP's

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #12047901
Probably wouldn't get a road bike. Too much work to get past the gravel roads to get to a paved road to ride on. I need something that I can hit gravel/mud/grass whatever I feel like riding on. And when I'm city riding I tend to get into rough stuff there too.

http://www.trekbikes.c​om/ca/en/bikes/road/fx​/75fxwsd/

Look at the FX series that has WSD ( womens specific design) on them. See what you think. Mine ( not a WSD) goes anywhere tat I done need suspension.

smcclelland wrote in post #12047902
Oh you'll be well over that. On battery my 17" does 9h26m with wireless enabled, mild browsing and 10% brightness. 8h is pretty easily obtainable these days with MBP's

Great. I am not normally to far away from a power supple ( bless inverters) but that is good to know. a Lot better that my current 3 hours I get from my Toshiba

An example of how flat it is here. I climbed part way up a grain bin and took some pictures. In the black circle is a barn. That barn is 2 miles away.

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midnight_rider wrote in post #12047921
http://www.trekbikes.c​om/ca/en/bikes/road/fx​/75fxwsd/

Look at the FX series that has WSD ( womens specific design) on them. See what you think. Mine ( not a WSD) goes anywhere tat I done need suspension.


Great. I am not normally to far away from a power supple ( bless inverters) but that is good to know. a Lot better that my current 3 hours I get from my Toshiba

Plus the nrw sandy bridge chips in there are very power efficient. So that will help as well.

vipergts831 wrote in post #12048090
Plus the nrw sandy bridge chips in there are very power efficient. So that will help as well.

Indeed, Even for desktops its nice...

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #12047828
I think speed has something to do with it. When I'm trail riding I use the first 5 gears, maybe up to 7. On the road I'm at 21 the whole time. In the city it would probably be different than it is out here. When riding on the roads out here all you see is fields, trees, and farm houses. Gets boring so a person just goes flat out.

Would probably take it easier in the city, more to see, more obstacles to navigate around.

I have to admit to being a speed deeming in the city with a bike. Love to go hard we get a good amount of hills and turns which helps make the riding intresting. Of course this doesn't include dodging crazy yellow cabs if your riding in the streets

midnight_rider wrote in post #12047453
okay geeks here is a question for you.

What advantages do the quad core processors hold over a dual core.
in everyday use and photo processing?

I'm still catching up, so forgive me if this was covered already.

But...

It depends on the quad core you are talking about versus the dual core you are talking about.

It also depends on what program you are running.

Certain programs can only utilize so many cores, so you could have some 100 core behemoth, but if your program that you are running is only utilized for a dual core machine than you will only be able to use 2 of your 100 cores for that program. Now, there are some advantages to this still, as you could free up 2 cores entirely to ONLY work on that program, and have the other two deal with everything else that is running, but that's more of a pain than anything.

Now, if you are running a program that can only utilize two cores, than a dual core may actually be faster (Games were a great example of this for a long time), while there were plenty of great Intel Core 2 Duo quads out there a lot of gamers still opted for chips like the E8400, despite being similar in price to a quad, it offered higher clock speeds, so since only two cores were being utilized, it basically crippled the quad core into a dual core, and since they were based off of the same architecture, the higher clocked dual core chip was faster than the crippled quad core.

Quads are typically fast enough now for games, but offer advantages when doing really intense stuff that can utilize all the cores, or when running numerous programs at once as the load can be split over the cores.

OS'es like Windows 7 really helped distribute the load better than say XP did, so that is also why more people are now moving from dual cores to quads.

(I just spent 17 hours in the car, so if some of this doesn't make sense, which it probably doesn't, let me know.)

KenjiS wrote in post #12048094
Indeed, Even for desktops its nice...

Yup the whole line is optimized.

What's Kenji! How is everything going?

Hello... the wait is killing me

for the record, I just wanna sleep the whole day and wakeup to drive to get the processor ahahahaa

monk3y wrote in post #12048108
Hello... the wait is killing me

for the record, I just wanna sleep the whole day and wakeup to drive to get the processor ahahahaa

The wait is the worst!!!

monk3y wrote in post #12048108
Hello... the wait is killing me

for the record, I just wanna sleep the whole day and wakeup to drive to get the processor ahahahaa

Steven i'm going to be done before you

vipergts831 wrote in post #12048100
Yup the whole line is optimized.

What's Kenji! How is everything going?

I'm alright, just editing some of the photos i took before bed

I got a lot to work through, I'm also pondering on other lenses to get lol

Woot came home from my trip to find out that my Logitech Harmony 1100 arrived!

Wow, people suddenly show up.