Home Depot downgrading their experience

[Meghan54]

Little late I'm already half freaking blind!

Damn u old.......and I loved that when it was out. LOL! I be old 2.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I popped into Best Buy to ...

Never do that.

Never.

 

[lxskllr]

My last BestBuy experience was pretty decent. Bought a couple ssds. I was in and out, no problem. They don't have all the fun stuff microcenter has, but I can walk to bestbuy faster than I can drive to microcenter.

 

[Kaido]

Never do that.

Never.

I still like walking around in-person to see all of the new stuff, but it's been awhile since I've been inside of an actual Best Buy store haha. Plus technology has been a bit stagnant for a few years...smartphones are kind of maxed out on features, so there really isn't anything new to add (other than like, folding phones, I guess), a 65" 4K Smart TV is like $399 these days (or a ridiculously-sized 86" for $1,200), a decent laptop is like $199 on sale, they have computerized toaster ovens that do everything under the sun, etc. Everything is pretty amazing, feature-rich, stable, and reasonably affordable these days!

Do you remember when the like 40" plasma TV's came out and they were like ten grand? Haha! And laptops were always $1,400 for a two-inch brick of a machine. I think my first laptop was that eMachines Athlon beast back in the day. The Anandtech wayback machine pulled up a thread from 2004, back when I officially joined ATOT - 18 years ago, yikes!

Transcend memory (flash and system) - any good?

I've been saving up for a new laptop (looking at the eMachines m6809) and some mods for it. I want to put a 1gb stick of sodimm in there, because it supposedly maxes out at 1.2gb, and it has 2 x 256mb in there already (and the second stick of 256mb is kind of hard to get at without ripping the...

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On that tangent, it's weird being able to see so much personal history online. I didn't know anything about anything lol:

having trouble with Linksys Speedbooster

I've had my WRT54GS up and running for a week or two now and just got around to installing the first PCI Speedbooster card, model # WMP54GS. However, I'm not getting any Speedbooster action. I installed, connected, and it said I had a low connection speed at 54mbps. None of this 125mbps...

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I think this was the second thread I started to try getting in shape back then:

Kaido's 2012 "Body by Dave" thread

Well, here we go again ;) This is my tracking/accountability thread for my health & fitness program for 2012. I'm actually doing a 2-year program, which I call "Body by Dave". It consists of programs for sleep, diet, and exercise. I have 2 desired outcomes for 2012/2013: 1. High energy 2...

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Now I do macros & meal-prepping and only cook like 10 minutes a day using appliances to divvy up & freeze lol. Still here on ATOT tho hahaha!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

If I could find a decent functional laptop with two drive bays, a 17" screen and capacity for 16Gb or more RAM, for $199, I'd probably jump at it. Most I've seen are over $1,000

 

[Captante]

Never do that.

Never.

Next thing you know you'll be showing up in a Google-search!