Recent content by Pinecallado

You should of tried out a linux distro with Gnome, Unity, or Cinnamon as a desktop enviroment. I run Ubuntu most of the time because most programs (GTK and QT based) scale wonderfully with high resolution. They look just as good as OSX programs in hidpi mode. I think windows scaling in fine...

It's sad how it seems itunes doesn't have hidpi support when the osx version does.

Retroarch is kind of the best "emulator" for PS1 and under emulation. Even though the interface can be a little difficult, it's so convenient to have controls already configured for whatever emulator you're using and you can use these cool filters. I know the android version of retroarch...

I wish OLED would trickle down to 27 inch screens :(

I think it will still look pretty good at 27 inch. I'm using a 1440p 27 inch monitor and I think things look pretty sharp. Oh and the reason I recommended 200% because hidpi scaling is the best when it's done by whole integers like 2(200%). If you do it by fractions like for example 175%...

You should set it to 200%.

That's in Canada. Canadian prices are always rough. :(

I have an 2014 Acer Aspire with an i5-4210U. Despite the fact that my laptop has an i5, it runs very slow and Acer has made it a headache to replace the HDD. Many Atom computers seem to come with an SSD now. An atom laptop with an SSD will feel faster than an haswell/broadwell laptop with an HDD.

Now it feels that RAM prices are finally lowering again. I remember when 8GB of ram used to be around $80 a year ago. Now the average price for it on Amazon and Newegg is around $60! It still isn't at the $40 price point from 2011 but it's starting to get there. I managed to get a 8gb stick of...

I'm talking about this port: This port always seems so easy to break. Yesterday I accidentally pulled off the plastic blue protector that covers the pins when I tried to pull the 3.0 connector wire out of the port. When I tried the put the plastic cover back in the port I bent one of the pins...

Sorry for the slow response! The computer doesn't even go into a boot screen when I have the old 2x 2GB ram in there. The computer turns on but the monitor stays black. And when I put the 2x 4GB the computer still booted really slow. For some reason when I put the single 8Gb stick of...

My first problem is that a few days ago after I installed a new stick of 8GB ram, my computer takes a long time to boot. My computer takes around 2 minutes to boot past the "bios" screen then another 2 minutes to boot past the windows loading screen. Before I installed the new ram it took less...

That's exactly what I'm planning to use this SSD for! As a OS drive. I'm not planing on transferring large file to this computer since I can just stream multimedia from my desktop and I'm going to be using this for mostly internet browsing. What is 4k read and write? I guess I should just...

Is latency how long the SSD/HDD takes to access data? Great! That's good to know. That's good. I think I will install the SDD in the Sata III HDD caddy when a proper service manual for this laptop is released so I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm disassembling the laptop :) Unrelated...

I'm planning on installing a SSD into my laptop by putting it into the laptop's optical bay drive using this. But I found out the optical drive only supports Sata II. I would install the SSD in the regular HDD bay but the way my laptop is designed is that you need to disassemble it to access...