Anyone else notice how cheap technology things have become?

[Coronita]

[quote=patientlywaiting]Why build your own PC when you can buy a Notebook for next to nothing?

I just buy the cheap Notebook when they have a sale, then I buy another one 1 or 2 years hence. Granted, I only do MS Office stuff and surf the Net.

I predict that Dell will have to shutter their build-to-order operations in USA. Their business model is outdated as customers don’t build to order anymore.

Just buy online and get the DHL shipment directly from China.
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Desktops are great if you need to hookup lots of av devices, media servers, and need expandability. It’s a declining markets. But some non-significant number of people still use desktops. I don’t like the laptops used as a desktop, due to lack of expandibility.

I personally use

1) two desktops actively on the network

2) 1 desktop never connected to the network (stores financial data/personal data etc)

3) two laptops: websurfing while in bed or in sitting on the throne…

4) 1 palmtop computer that is 7″x5″x0.5″ made by Asus that I take on trips and use as a backup to pictures I take.

[peterb]

I got a decent Dell laptop three years ago and I am using it right now. Cost my $550. I keep looking and have not found it any cheaper. What’s up with that?

[peterb]

I got a decent Dell laptop three years ago and I am using it right now. Cost my $550. I keep looking and have not found it any cheaper. What’s up with that?

[peterb]

I got a decent Dell laptop three years ago and I am using it right now. Cost my $550. I keep looking and have not found it any cheaper. What’s up with that?

[peterb]

I got a decent Dell laptop three years ago and I am using it right now. Cost my $550. I keep looking and have not found it any cheaper. What’s up with that?

[peterb]

I got a decent Dell laptop three years ago and I am using it right now. Cost my $550. I keep looking and have not found it any cheaper. What’s up with that?

[Anonymous]

Desmond,

CDMA Engineer is right, get a USGS 7.5′ topo map for the area. It shows mine locations, both shafts and adits, as well as roads and trails. Here’s a link for free downloads:

http://www.klofas.com/topo/7.5/m.html

The maps are listed alphabetically by quad name. If you don’t know the name of the quad, an index map is not hard to find online. The maps are deliberately skewed a little which makes them a little difficult to correctly print to scale, but if you open them with photoshop (tiff files) and adjust the width to 21.6 inches, it will be pretty close.

One other thing, mines are dangerous. I don’t recommend it if you don’t know what you are doing, but if you do choose to go into a mine (adit) here are a few rules to live by:
# Wear a hard hat with a headlamp.
# Carry and use an additional strong flashlight.
# Do not touch the ceiling or try to extend the mine a little deeper (no digging, pounding, etc.).
# ALWAYS WATCH WHERE YOU ARE STEPPING! The greatest danger is finding out the definition of a winze the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Desmond,

CDMA Engineer is right, get a USGS 7.5′ topo map for the area. It shows mine locations, both shafts and adits, as well as roads and trails. Here’s a link for free downloads:

http://www.klofas.com/topo/7.5/m.html

The maps are listed alphabetically by quad name. If you don’t know the name of the quad, an index map is not hard to find online. The maps are deliberately skewed a little which makes them a little difficult to correctly print to scale, but if you open them with photoshop (tiff files) and adjust the width to 21.6 inches, it will be pretty close.

One other thing, mines are dangerous. I don’t recommend it if you don’t know what you are doing, but if you do choose to go into a mine (adit) here are a few rules to live by:
# Wear a hard hat with a headlamp.
# Carry and use an additional strong flashlight.
# Do not touch the ceiling or try to extend the mine a little deeper (no digging, pounding, etc.).
# ALWAYS WATCH WHERE YOU ARE STEPPING! The greatest danger is finding out the definition of a winze the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Desmond,

CDMA Engineer is right, get a USGS 7.5′ topo map for the area. It shows mine locations, both shafts and adits, as well as roads and trails. Here’s a link for free downloads:

http://www.klofas.com/topo/7.5/m.html

The maps are listed alphabetically by quad name. If you don’t know the name of the quad, an index map is not hard to find online. The maps are deliberately skewed a little which makes them a little difficult to correctly print to scale, but if you open them with photoshop (tiff files) and adjust the width to 21.6 inches, it will be pretty close.

One other thing, mines are dangerous. I don’t recommend it if you don’t know what you are doing, but if you do choose to go into a mine (adit) here are a few rules to live by:
# Wear a hard hat with a headlamp.
# Carry and use an additional strong flashlight.
# Do not touch the ceiling or try to extend the mine a little deeper (no digging, pounding, etc.).
# ALWAYS WATCH WHERE YOU ARE STEPPING! The greatest danger is finding out the definition of a winze the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Desmond,

CDMA Engineer is right, get a USGS 7.5′ topo map for the area. It shows mine locations, both shafts and adits, as well as roads and trails. Here’s a link for free downloads:

http://www.klofas.com/topo/7.5/m.html

The maps are listed alphabetically by quad name. If you don’t know the name of the quad, an index map is not hard to find online. The maps are deliberately skewed a little which makes them a little difficult to correctly print to scale, but if you open them with photoshop (tiff files) and adjust the width to 21.6 inches, it will be pretty close.

One other thing, mines are dangerous. I don’t recommend it if you don’t know what you are doing, but if you do choose to go into a mine (adit) here are a few rules to live by:
# Wear a hard hat with a headlamp.
# Carry and use an additional strong flashlight.
# Do not touch the ceiling or try to extend the mine a little deeper (no digging, pounding, etc.).
# ALWAYS WATCH WHERE YOU ARE STEPPING! The greatest danger is finding out the definition of a winze the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Desmond,

CDMA Engineer is right, get a USGS 7.5′ topo map for the area. It shows mine locations, both shafts and adits, as well as roads and trails. Here’s a link for free downloads:

http://www.klofas.com/topo/7.5/m.html

The maps are listed alphabetically by quad name. If you don’t know the name of the quad, an index map is not hard to find online. The maps are deliberately skewed a little which makes them a little difficult to correctly print to scale, but if you open them with photoshop (tiff files) and adjust the width to 21.6 inches, it will be pretty close.

One other thing, mines are dangerous. I don’t recommend it if you don’t know what you are doing, but if you do choose to go into a mine (adit) here are a few rules to live by:
# Wear a hard hat with a headlamp.
# Carry and use an additional strong flashlight.
# Do not touch the ceiling or try to extend the mine a little deeper (no digging, pounding, etc.).
# ALWAYS WATCH WHERE YOU ARE STEPPING! The greatest danger is finding out the definition of a winze the hard way.

[mixxalot]

My new Toshiba laptop cost less than 2 years ago

Bought me one with
-4Gb RAM
-320Gb Hard Drive
– webcamera
– 15 inch screen
– DVD combo drive

For under $900. My last Toshiba has 2Gb of RAM and 160Gb drive and I paid twice that 2 years ago. Amazing how much hardware has dropped in price. I also bought a new 32Gb flash thumb drive for under $90. Now I am waiting for 64Gb and 128Gb thumb flash drives to become cheap so that I can run a bootable server with Linux and Oracle database on it. That would rock to have portable servers on the fly!

[mixxalot]

My new Toshiba laptop cost less than 2 years ago

Bought me one with
-4Gb RAM
-320Gb Hard Drive
– webcamera
– 15 inch screen
– DVD combo drive

For under $900. My last Toshiba has 2Gb of RAM and 160Gb drive and I paid twice that 2 years ago. Amazing how much hardware has dropped in price. I also bought a new 32Gb flash thumb drive for under $90. Now I am waiting for 64Gb and 128Gb thumb flash drives to become cheap so that I can run a bootable server with Linux and Oracle database on it. That would rock to have portable servers on the fly!

[mixxalot]

My new Toshiba laptop cost less than 2 years ago

Bought me one with
-4Gb RAM
-320Gb Hard Drive
– webcamera
– 15 inch screen
– DVD combo drive

For under $900. My last Toshiba has 2Gb of RAM and 160Gb drive and I paid twice that 2 years ago. Amazing how much hardware has dropped in price. I also bought a new 32Gb flash thumb drive for under $90. Now I am waiting for 64Gb and 128Gb thumb flash drives to become cheap so that I can run a bootable server with Linux and Oracle database on it. That would rock to have portable servers on the fly!

[mixxalot]

My new Toshiba laptop cost less than 2 years ago

Bought me one with
-4Gb RAM
-320Gb Hard Drive
– webcamera
– 15 inch screen
– DVD combo drive

For under $900. My last Toshiba has 2Gb of RAM and 160Gb drive and I paid twice that 2 years ago. Amazing how much hardware has dropped in price. I also bought a new 32Gb flash thumb drive for under $90. Now I am waiting for 64Gb and 128Gb thumb flash drives to become cheap so that I can run a bootable server with Linux and Oracle database on it. That would rock to have portable servers on the fly!

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